Claude is moving deeper into everyday life. Anthropic has expanded the Claude connected-services directory so it can link with apps such as Spotify, Instacart, AllTrails, Uber, Uber Eats, Booking.com, Resy, and a long list of others, turning a tool that was mostly useful for work and school into one that can help with dinner, rides, travel, and the occasional hike.
The pitch is simple: the more apps Claude can reach, the more it can do without forcing users to jump between tabs and apps. That is the same playbook every AI company is chasing right now, because chatbots are far more persuasive when they can actually finish tasks instead of just talking about them. Anthropic is also changing how those apps surface in chat, so the right service should appear dynamically based on what you ask for rather than being hidden behind a manual hunt.
Which apps Claude can now connect to
Anthropic’s expanded lineup now includes AllTrails, Audible, Booking.com, Instacart, Intuit Credit Karma, Intuit TurboTax, Resy, Spotify, StubHub, Taskrabbit, Thumbtack, TripAdvisor, Uber, Uber Eats, and Viator. Anthropic says more services will be added later, which is the standard AI-era promise: start broad, then keep widening the funnel until people forget which app does what.
- Trip planning: Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Viator
- Food and errands: Instacart, Uber Eats, Resy
- Transport and local tasks: Uber, Taskrabbit, Thumbtack
- Entertainment and leisure: Spotify, Audible, AllTrails, StubHub
Claude still has to ask before acting
Anthropic says Claude is supposed to check with the user before making purchases or locking in reservations, which is exactly the sort of guardrail these systems need if they are going to touch money or bookings. The real question is less about whether the chatbot can connect to these services and more about whether people will trust it enough to let it go beyond recommendations and into action.
That tension is now the whole competition. OpenAI, Google, and others are all trying to make their assistants feel less like search boxes with personality and more like operators that can actually get things done. Anthropic’s move pushes Claude into that race a little further, and the next test is whether those app suggestions feel genuinely helpful or just like a nicer way of being upsold by software.
Claude app links aim to cut down on app hopping
If Anthropic gets the routing right, Claude could become a practical hub for planning a trip, finding a playlist for the drive, ordering groceries, and booking dinner without the usual app-hop chaos. If it gets it wrong, users will just be watching a very smart assistant suggest things they could have opened themselves in 10 seconds. The company is betting that convenience wins.