Guides · 2026-10-14

Hop Gemini to ChatGPT

Chat Transfer hops the open Gemini thread to ChatGPT in Chrome by pasting a wrapped handoff into ChatGPT’s composer locally — Full, Last N, or last assistant — so you can transfer that Gemini chat to ChatGPT, or move a Gemini conversation to ChatGPT in Chrome, without account migration and without silent-send.

Version 0.4.0 is live on the Chrome Web Store. Soft Auto-Send stays opt-in and default off. Preferences live in chrome.storage.local. Add to Chrome

What “hop Gemini to ChatGPT” means here

People search “hop Gemini to ChatGPT,” “transfer Gemini chat to ChatGPT,” or “move Gemini conversation to ChatGPT Chrome” for two different jobs. Chat Transfer only does the first:

The reverse walkthrough is Hop a ChatGPT chat to Gemini. Same extension, same local paste; this page starts on Gemini and lands in ChatGPT. Gemini into Grok: Hop Gemini to Grok. File archive instead of a composer paste: Export ChatGPT chat to another AI (Copy / Export also work on an open Gemini thread).

Steps: Gemini → ChatGPT in Chrome

1. Add Chat Transfer from the Chrome Web Store (0.4.0).
2. Open the Gemini chat you want to continue in ChatGPT (a thread on gemini.google.com, not an empty new chat). The adapter also detects the legacy bard.google.com host; the hop still lands on ChatGPT, not Bard.
3. Open the popup or side panel → pick a hop payload (Full, Last N, or last assistant) → choose Open target / hop toward ChatGPT (or the hop-to-last-used shortcut if you bound ChatGPT last).
4. ChatGPT’s new-chat page (https://chatgpt.com/) gets a best-effort paste into the composer. If the box is empty, paste the hop backup yourself — Soft Auto-Send does not run on a failed land.
5. You click Send on ChatGPT — unless Soft Auto-Send is on (see below). Destination Send is ChatGPT’s control, not Gemini’s.

Extract runs only when you hop, Copy, or Export. Chat Transfer does not scrape Gemini in the background. The wrapped hop names Gemini as the source (“The following is a transcript from Gemini…”) and, when the tab URL is http(s), adds a Source: line with query, hash, and credentials stripped. Copy and Export stay unwrapped — no hop wrapper and no Source: line. Longer install walkthrough: How to use.

What the Gemini extract actually keeps

Gemini’s page mixes turns with chrome, thoughts, and optional Gem panels. Chat Transfer reads the open thread from public hooks (user-query / model-response and related text), then filters:

• Cheap Gemini chrome is not a turn. Copy, Good / Bad response, Regenerate, Show more / Show less, Thoughts / Thinking, Google it, Sources, Export to Docs, Modify response, Double-check, Listen, and Share stay out of the hop.
• Thought containers stay out. Nodes such as model-thoughts and thoughts-container are skipped, so Gemini “thinking” is not pasted into ChatGPT as assistant text.
• Gems / custom instructions are panel-only. A system turn is read only when those instruction panels are currently in the DOM. A usual plain Gemini chat returns no system prompt. Checking Keep system prompt does not invent a Gem. The Gem itself is not rebuilt inside ChatGPT.
• Empty assistant honesty. If a Gemini assistant turn is in the extract list but its trimmed body is empty (the model-response slot is there; the paragraphs did not land), the hop status says to check the page before hopping — it does not invent reply text.
• Visible attachments become [attachment not exported: …] — file bytes are not invented, and Gemini canvases / uploaded images are not re-attached in ChatGPT.

Code blocks use Gemini’s ordered DOM fences when those <pre> nodes are present. Chat Transfer does not mint fences from guessed live markup when the extract missed them.

Payload choices for a ChatGPT hop

• Full — the turns read from the open Gemini page, wrapped with a short continue line for ChatGPT (“Absorb it as context and continue from the last turn…”).
• Last N — the last N turns. N starts at 10. Presets set 4, 8, or 16. Useful when the Gemini thread is long and you only need recent context in ChatGPT.
• Last assistant — only the last assistant reply from Gemini, when you want ChatGPT to react to that answer alone.

Overflow: over about 12k characters, ChatGPT’s composer gets a short Last N (or compact) paste and the full Markdown downloads as a .md so a cut is not silent. Copy and Export stay the full unwrapped transcript — no hop wrapper. See Overflow paste.

Soft Auto-Send stays opt-in (default off)

A hop paste into ChatGPT does not silent-send. Soft Auto-Send is opt-in (hopSoftAutoSend in chrome.storage.local, default off). After a successful paste it asks once: “Send this hop now?” Confirm presses ChatGPT Send once; Cancel leaves the paste; a failed paste never asks. There is no upgrade path that turns the box on for existing installs. Full walkthrough: Soft Auto-Send. Same facts as the privacy policy (2026-10-09).

When the setting is on, Confirm is one best-effort press — not a retry loop. If Send is not pressable on the first look, Chat Transfer polls briefly (about two seconds) before one click; if that still misses, it may dispatch one plain Enter on the composer. That is the whole press budget for that hop. Try attach full.md can put a file in the box; that path still never clicks Send.

Local only — chrome.storage, no backend

Chat Transfer is a local-only Chrome extension. Settings (Demo mode, Keep system prompt, hop payload, last-used target, Soft Auto-Send) stay in on-device chrome.storage.local. There is no Chat Transfer backend; the marketing site does not receive hop text. Host access is only Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok domains. Soft Auto-Send adds no host_permissions and no downloads permission.

This is still “this thread,” not a full-account move. Gemini Gems, custom instructions, and Google-account memories stay on Gemini. ChatGPT history folders, memories, and custom GPTs stay on ChatGPT. A Gemini→ChatGPT hop only continues the open chat you asked to transfer.

When not to use a hop

• You need images, files, or Gemini canvases re-attached inside ChatGPT — hop notes them; it does not rebuild binaries.
• You want a Gem, custom instruction, or Gemini memory copied as a ChatGPT custom GPT — hop does not migrate those objects.
• You want background scraping while you browse — Chat Transfer only reads when you act.
• You need an ongoing sync between Gemini and ChatGPT accounts — that is not what hop does. See Hop vs migration.

FAQ

Can I hop Gemini to ChatGPT without migrating my account?

Yes. Chat Transfer hops the open Gemini thread into ChatGPT’s composer on this device. It does not move accounts, Gems, memories, or later messages.

Does hopping Gemini to ChatGPT silent-send?

No. Paste never silent-sends. Soft Auto-Send is opt-in, default off, and asks once after a successful paste. It may press ChatGPT Send only after you confirm — never Gemini Send on the source tab.

Is this different from hopping ChatGPT to Gemini?

Same extension and local paste model. Source is Gemini and destination is ChatGPT; Soft Auto-Send and payload choices (Full / Last N / last assistant) are shared. See the reverse guide for ChatGPT → Gemini.

Where does the ChatGPT hop land?

Open target opens ChatGPT’s new-chat URL (https://chatgpt.com/) and pastes there. It does not append into an existing ChatGPT conversation, and it does not keep the two threads in sync after you send.

What if Gemini’s last reply looks empty in the hop?

Do not assume the hop invented it. Empty-assistant honesty surfaces when an assistant turn is already in the extract list but its trimmed body is empty. Check the Gemini page (thoughts-only chrome, still-streaming reply, or a missed model-response body) before you send on ChatGPT.

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