I found an easier way to transfer my chats between ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini — here's how - Tom's Guide

Retaining AI conversations and getting varied responses

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I’ve been exploring the AI tool market and have a better understanding of the biggest strengths and weaknesses of the big three.

ChatGPT’s response time is amazingly fast, and it's great for creative brainstorming, but it's more prone to hallucinations. Claude is great for lengthy document analysis, and its writing reads more human-like, but its usage limits are pretty tight for free users and cap out pretty quickly. As for Google’s signature chatbot, Gemini’s reliance on real-time web research that cites the most up-to-date information and its Google Workspace integration are top-notch. But it’s also prone to hallucinations and isn’t all that great at handling complex prompts.

With all those pros and cons in mind, I’ve been engaging in the practice of starting my research-themed chats in ChatGPT, moving them over to Claude and then doing a final transfer of them over to Gemini. I’ve done a whole lot of copying and pasting text to make that happen, just so I can get a second and third opinion on what Claude and Gemini’s interpretation of my initial questions and each preceding chatbot’s responses.

Thankfully, my editor made me aware of a Chrome extension that makes my whole “chat transfer” practice a whole lot simpler. And it’s given me a better way to retain context between chats and stronger follow-up responses to my research queries.

The Chrome extension that’s now a central part of my chatbot research sessions is ThreadPort, which goes beyond just summarizing a conversation from another AI tool in a separate one.

After attaching it to my Chrome browser, I made it more easily accessible by clicking on the extension icon at the top right of my screen next to my Google profile pic and clicking on the pin icon to make the ThreadPort extension visible as a purple icon that’s visible in the same area.

ThreadPort actually moves the full transcript of a conversation, makes sure the subsequent AI that gets access to that information reads everything that was previously said and picks up exactly where I left off when trying to move the conversation forward. You can move your chats from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, plus you can do that in reverse order at the start of a new chat if need be.

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It truly doesn’t matter how long your initial conversation may end up being—ThreadPort is capable of handling the transcript transcription action with ease, as it does a good job of retaining a chat’s defined task. On the digital safety front, the developer of this Chrome extension eased my fears by stating that my transferred chats will never be contained with their servers (they’re nonexistent, after all).

During one of my recent research sessions, I ended up using ThreadPort to get a wider range of opinions on the subject at hand. I started with ChatGPT by asking about the biggest development in the video game industry that will have a major impact on the next generation of home consoles.

The chatbot gave me its take on the eight major developments I need to pay attention to and the bigger-picture statement surrounding the next generation of gaming (The really interesting story isn't “PS6 vs. next Xbox.” It's whether Sony and Microsoft can convince people that buying a dedicated console still makes sense in a world where gaming is increasingly available on PCs, handhelds, phones, and the cloud).

With all that in mind, I clicked on the ThreadPort icon to take all of the information ChatGPT laid out, move it over to Claude and continue my conversation over there by asking for its thoughts on the current most positive gaming trends it foresees becoming the norm for the future of the industry itself.

To make its intention clear, ThreadPort pasted the transcript from ChatGPT into Claude by stating the following: You are continuing a conversation that started on ChatGPT. Below is the transcript so far. Absorb it as context and continue the conversation naturally — do not summarize it back to me, just pick up where it left off. If the transcript ends with a question from me, answer it.

Claude read through the entire transcript it was given and acknowledged it with this statement: Good context to draw from. Now let me continue the conversation naturally, focusing on the genuinely positive side rather than just repeating the same industry-shift framing.

Once I was finished reading through Claude’s optimistic take on the conversation I started with ChatGPT, I decided to transfer both chatbots’ combined bits of dialogue from Claude to Gemini. Google’s chatbot took the hint as to what I was talking about beforehand and used it to answer my follow-up-question about the negative trends in the gaming industry that it predicts will happen during the next console cycle.

Gemini initially responded to me in the same manner that Claude did, as it pointed out what was already said in my previous conversation: The structural cracks in the business model point to a console cycle that could be harsher on developers and consumers alike. While the previous points highlight shifts in technology and ecosystems, these are the negative, high-impact developments heading into the next hardware generation.

Putting ThreadPort through its paces with my gaming industry-focused research session became a lot more comprehensive with all that chatbot switching and info-retaining transcripts that helped ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini pick up where the other one left off.

Utilizing ChatGPT’s fast response time, getting the most out of Claude’s ability to analyze longer text threads and tapping into Gemini’s use of Google’s real-time information across the internet came together to paint a clear picture of what I was looking for. I’ll be sure to use ThreadPort for my future chatbot research sessions to get as much complete data and predictive takeaways on the topic at hand.

Here’s hoping Perplexity and Kimi become a part of ThreadPort’s chat-switching chatbot family at some point.

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Elton Jones covers AI for Tom’s Guide, and tests all the latest models, from ChatGPT to Gemini to Claude to see which tools perform best — and how they can improve everyday productivity.

He is also an experienced tech writer who has covered video games, mobile devices, headsets, and now artificial intelligence for over a decade. Since 2011, his work has appeared in publications including The Christian Post, Complex, TechRadar, Heavy, and ONE37pm, with a focus on clear, practical analysis.

Today, Elton focuses on making AI more accessible by breaking down complex topics into useful, easy-to-understand insights for a wide range of readers.