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ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot

2025-12-22T17:15:04-05:00

ChatGPT is joining the flood of apps offering yearly recaps for users. It's rolling out a "Year in Review" feature that will show you a bunch of stats - like how many messages you sent to the chatbot in 2025 - as well as give you an AI-generated pixel art-style image that encompasses some of the topics you talked about this year.

The image I received showed an aquarium beside a game cartridge, an Instant Pot, and a computer screen, reflecting some of the questions I had related to retro game consoles, cooking, and my fish tank setup.

There are other personalized summaries, too, like a rundown of the themes most prevalent in your chats, a …

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Google Photos Recap will tell you how many selfies you took this year

2025-12-03T11:36:29-05:00

Google has added some new features to its end-of-year Photos app throwback experience, including a selfie count, CapCut integration, and photo curation capabilities. The Google Photos Recap includes insights and graphics that summarize what users have been snapping over the year, and follows the updated presentation format Google introduced in 2024, which looks like a closer riff on Spotify Wrapped to me.

The Recap is available starting today. It will appear in the Google Photos Memories carousel and then be pinned in the Collections tab throughout December.

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A new insight for the 2025 Recap is a selfie count that presumably uses facial rec …

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Spotify Wrapped 2025 turns listening into a competition

2025-12-03T09:24:10-05:00

Wait, is 78,432 minutes supposed to be a lot?

It's time for year-end lists, annual roundups, and, of course, Spotify Wrapped. The usual suspects are here, like your most listened to song, your total time listened, and your favorite artist. You also get your 2025 Wrapped playlist, which now shows how many times you listened to each of your top 100 tracks this year. But, as usual, Spotify is also adding a ton of new stuff to its annual tradition, including Wrapped Party, which pits you against your friends to see who is the bigger (or weirder) music fan.

Wrapped Party is an interactive feature that you "play" with friends. Granted, there isn't much to actually do, since it's mostly about …

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Apple Music Replay 2025 is back with new listening stats

2025-12-02T11:48:11-05:00

Apple Music is getting ahead of Spotify Wrapped with the launch of its yearly recaps. This year's Apple Music Replay is available natively within the app and comes packed with even more listening stats, allowing you to review all the new artists you listened to, which ones you kept returning to, and who made a comeback in your playlist.

It also highlights your most-listened-to songs, how many artists you listened to, your favorite genres, and how much time you spent listening to music on the app. There's a shareable highlight reel as well, which you can post to apps like Instagram and TikTok. Apple already offers monthly music recaps and th …

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YouTube introduces its own version of Spotify Wrapped for videos

2025-12-03T09:24:27-05:00

YouTube is rolling out a new roundup experience that lets you quickly review your most notable video habits over the last year. The Recap feature "uniquely highlights interests, deep dives, and moments" based on your watch history, according to YouTube's announcement, providing up to 12 cards that spotlight top channels, interests, and how your taste in videos has changed over time.

It appears similar to Spotify's end-of-year Wrapped experience, which other services like Apple Music and Amazon Music have also riffed on in recent years. YouTube's Recap feature will even assign users a "personality type" based on viewing habits, such as Adven …

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