Reviews for Google Gemini

I'm surprised that the 4x1 or 5x1 sizes of the Gemini widget doesn't have a search bar like the regular Google Search widget does, and honestly, I think it'd be even better if the Google Search app itself had an option to opt-in to use Gemini instead of the standard search or just blend the two completely. Using the 4x2 or 5x2 sizing isn't feasible, especially for anyone with a smaller phone.

EDIT. Now working perfectly again. Thank you................ was working perfectly. used multiple time. a day with no problems. such a great app but since the latest update 90% of the responses I receive are 'Sorry I encountered an error. please try again later' or 'sorry something went wrong please try your request again" or ' I encountered an error doing what you asked, could you please try again'. Sometimes re-wording my request helps but mostly just repeatedly receive the errors.

the image generation is awful. regardless of what you ask for, it churns out the images it wants to. and then, lol, despite the fact that it didn't get anything correct you get cut off and still didn't get anything close to what you asked for. I've been able to use other apps with prompt tuning to get exactly what I wanted. gemini just... doesn't listen whatsoever. and you pay for it. it's insanity. and no, it's nothing adult or forbidden. that's the worst part.

Not very good at hearing the correct word. Terrible for hands free Spotify operation white driving. Often gives completely unrelated results, says it can't find things, or gives a link to buy songs that I just wanted to listen to. Have to be creative with searches, often spelling some words verbally. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Even when searching for a song that it has found before using the same exact search phrase. Very unreliable. Also the screen was not locked. Not a factor.

The AI writing function was very helpful and super easy, if that had been my only experience with the app it would be getting more stars. The image generator and editor were the complete opposite and it was a very very aggravating experience. it would make changes to the image that I gave it instructions not to alter. Or it would say its doing as requested, but just gave me back the photo I was trying to edit. a few times one of the feet had been turned backwards for no reason

Gemini sucks. I've spent a few hours using it on my phone, Google Drive, and Spreadsheets. It doesn't do anything useful and when it actually does your request, it is nearly every time inaccurate or incomplete. It's bad to not be able to do something fairly basic, but it is much much worse when it provides inaccurate or incomplete information. Stay away from it for now.

The free experience is fine, as long as your AI needs are slim, and mine happen to be. Helps you keep track of stuff you gotta do with Google integration, if you happen to use Google tools. I recommend leveraging personalized instructions to have the model verify its information online or otherwise label when it's guessing, it's helped me a ton. EDIT: No longer functions at all. Every query attempt leads to an error

Kept coming up with "error". At first I thought I may be that I used it too much, but it appeared for two days straight. Ended up clearing cache, restarted, tried updating, but nothing seemed to work. I finally did a force restart and my phone completely shut down and would not turn back on until I had to do a factory reset and had to replug in all my passwords and apps and settings that I had originally. Still working on my phone but Gemini still does not work.

could be better, my biggest issue with it, is it's limited recall ability within the conversation. it can only go back so far before it's starts making mistakes. A feature I'd love to see added is a profile for the app to use as a way to better personalize responses from the app. information it could use is would be things like age, gender, religious beliefs, political leanings, family life, hobbies, to name a few.

I have never had issues before upgrading from Google Assistant to Gemini. I don't ask questions too often, almost not at all, but the one time I ask a simple question, I get "too many queries, try again later". I would understand if I was asking for generating images, or writing a complicated thesis, but the unavailability for simple questions makes the service pointless.

Gemini is absolutely amazing! It can do it all. From answering questions and elenorating each time you provide more data to assisting you with creating a workout routine. And I absolutely love the positive encouragement such as saying, "That's an excellent question!" Also, manners don't go unnoticed. Lots of voices to choose from. Even helped with grammar. What helped most was the phone plan comparison, resume writing tips, and interview practice. I could go on all day, but there's a limit.

I like it but could be better. For one, I like the functions. An "assistant" that can get me the answers fast on a wide range of topics. The cons: I would like to see more, and better (female) voice options (so far the best is the English voice, the others are weird/old and boring). Other issue is that too many mistakes in the findings. I ask about a stock and it gives the wrong price info, until I tell it's off, then finds the correct data. Same for price targets.

Overall extremely useful and also fun with the image and video generation. being able to have a conversation about an item in front of you using the camera on your phone is absolutely amazing. Took one star away because currently screen sharing with Gemini seems to have a lot of bugs. the app will crash every time when trying to open Outlook mobile.

it's alright for adding stars and stickers to your photos or antlers...but what annoys me most is the opposite of others...even thought I have added my voice recognition, every other voice on the TV, car stereo, general public voice triggers it to begin a search or ask for me to repeat because it didn't understand. If I turn it off then I need to manually open it to use it. if I leave it active it is going off every 5 minutes. no middle ground. learning to just let it do what it wants.

Something went wrong. I've tried Uninstalling and reinstalling, I've restarted my phone multiple times. Works fine on my PC. I have seen people say it's potentially a usage issue, but I never use it! I just wanted to set a timer and it's worthless. Edit: I had to completely remove my Google account from my phone and re-add it to get Gemini to work again. This is the kind of stuff that makes people switch platforms. Really annoying.

Repeatedly says something went wrong. Tried everything and it won't generate a thing. Will be canceling subscription. I found out it will kick people out of the server at random if you hit a "fake" set limit. They usually won't let you generate for an hour or so but tonight it's been close to 3 hours. Paying $20 a month to be "limited" based on what the servers could handle. I don't recommend at all!

Update as of 12/25/24. You still can't seem to use the Gemini app without switching your assistant. So I tried it out for a bit and reminders don't work. I was using Gemini just a few months ago and now I can't open the app unless I switch from Google Assistant. This is a huge detractor. Gemini is not a good assistant yet, it doesn't easily set reminders for example. But I did want to use it for queries. Can't seem to open the app to do that. Disappointing because it worked a few weeks ago.

It's a coin toss to see if your requests are even acknowledged, let alone followed through on. Ever since I've switched from Assistant to Gemini, I've had days where I need to actually yell at my phone to get it to recognize a command, and then it's constantly forgetting alarms I've set, so I can't rely on it for cooking or anything else like that. This is an actually less-than-useless app for anyone who isn't trying to integrate their entire life into the Google ecosystem. Absolute garbage.

The app itself is glitching lately; it's been skipping to a new chat and forgetting everything. Sometimes I can tell it to remember what we were just talking about, and it will get back to the subject. Other times, the chat is completely gone, and there is no memory of the chat left in the list. Reaction times have gone from normal response times to wondering if my phone is frozen in the last few weeks. There are times I almost reached a conclusion, but I can't get any further due to glitches.

since the latest update I keep getting errors to update my app to a newer version to continue the conversation. I have the newest version and can't get it to work as well as it had before the update. Image editing sucks now, it just crashes with the error. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, restarted my phone, cleared the cache. Nothing is working. Makes me sad, because it worked so well before.