Restore a focused native macOS Codex app - the combined super app has broken basic chat organization

Open 💬 1 comment Opened Jul 30, 2026 by mikeryan-mjr
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Build: 26.727.40816 on macOS

The combined ChatGPT/Codex desktop app has made basic chat and project organization confusing, unreliable, and unnecessarily difficult.

Problems encountered:

  • Ordinary new chats can unexpectedly inherit the currently selected local project.
  • The ChatGPT sidebar displays local Codex chats inside projects but provides no visible move or remove action.
  • Moving a misplaced chat requires discovering that you must switch from ChatGPT view to Codex view and then drag it into a separate Chats section.
  • ChatGPT projects, local Codex projects, ChatGPT chats, and local Codex chats are mixed together without clear distinctions.
  • Controls documented for ChatGPT, such as a chat overflow menu with Remove, do not exist for the local Codex chats displayed in this interface.

This is hostile to basic navigation and destroys confidence that a new conversation will be created in the intended place.

Please provide:

  • A focused, native macOS Codex application instead of forcing Codex into a “super app.”
  • An obvious “New standalone chat” default.
  • A clearly visible project assignment on every chat.
  • A one-step “Move out of project” action wherever the chat appears.
  • Consistent controls across sidebar modes.
  • An option to use Codex without the combined ChatGPT/Work interface.

I am losing patience with the product direction and am seriously considering moving to a competitor.

Feedback reference: 019fb4d3-4401-7c40-8d76-4dedb2dde74f

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github-actions[bot] contributor · 28 days ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #35367
  • #35749

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