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The updated Microsoft 365 Copilot app completed rollout in June 2025. Availability may still vary by organization.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is an everyday AI productivity app for work or school. It helps Microsoft 365 users be more productive by providing a single place to access Microsoft 365 Copilot features and capabilities, including search, chat, agents, and more.
You can use the app as a website (M365Copilot.com), as a desktop app that you can install on Windows, and as a mobile app for Android and iOS devices.
This article lists the app's features and benefits, and compares the features available with a Microsoft 365 subscription and a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
This article is intended for IT admins and decision makers evaluating the Microsoft 365 Copilot app experience for their organization.
This article applies to:
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
Tip
Microsoft 365 subscribers in your organization might get the Copilot app automatically.
You can also use a mobile device management (MDM) service like Microsoft Intune to deploy apps to devices in your organization. To learn more, see add apps to Intune and assign apps using Intune.
App features and benefits
When you sign in to the app, you get a personalized experience:
Use the app to:
- Search for information, like finding emails and files.
- Chat with AI to help you prepare for a meeting or get answers to questions using work-based chat and web-grounded chat.
- Use Agents to get help with tasks, including agents your organization creates.
- Create Notebooks to organize information and get insights.
- Create and edit content, like images, videos, and brand kits.
- Access your Apps, including Microsoft 365 apps like Teams, Excel, and SharePoint.
End users can learn more about the Copilot app at Get started with the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
Microsoft 365 Copilot license vs. Microsoft 365 subscription
Microsoft Entra work or school accounts and personal Microsoft user accounts can access the Copilot app with a:
- Microsoft 365 Copilot license
- Microsoft 365 subscription
The available app features depend on the license. Users with a Copilot license get the full Microsoft 365 Copilot app experience.
The following table shows the feature differences between a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and a Microsoft 365 subscription.
| Feature | Copilot license | Microsoft 365 subscription |
|---|---|---|
| Search | ✅ | ✅ |
| Chat | ✅ Work-based and web-grounded chat Automatically enabled in the Copilot app and is the Copilot app's default landing page |
✅ Web-grounded chat only; No work-based chat Can pin the Chat app to the Copilot app. |
| Agents | ✅ | ✅ Agents are metered. |
| Pages | ✅ | ✅ |
| Notebooks | ✅ | ❌ |
| Create | ✅ Use AI and templates to create and edit images, posters, banners, videos, and more. |
✅ Use templates to create and edit images, posters, banners, videos, and more. |
| Apps | ✅ Users can get and pin apps. |
✅ Users can get and pin apps. |
When users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license open and sign in to the Copilot app, the app looks similar to the following image:
When users with only a Microsoft 365 subscription (no Copilot license) open and sign in to the Copilot app, the app looks similar to the following image:
Customizable app settings for IT admins
IT admins can configure some settings and features in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. To learn more, see Microsoft 365 Copilot app features that admins can control.