Google Home

Google LLC

About this app

Set up, manage, and control your Google Nest, Google Wifi, Google Home, and Chromecast devices, plus thousands of compatible connected home products like lights, cameras, thermostats, and more – all from the Google Home app.

Turn on the lights, adjust the thermostat, or get an alert when there’s a person or package at your front door. Google Home on WearOS will be available as a preview as we continue to add controls and improvements.

One view of your home.
The Home tab gives you shortcuts for the things you do most, like playing music or dimming the lights when you want to start a movie. Control it all with just a tap or two – and get to the good stuff faster. The Feed tab highlights important events in your home in one place. Here, you’ll also find ways to get more out of your devices and improve your home setup.

Create Routines that allow you to turn on compatible lights, check the weather, play the news, and more with one simple command.

See all the active audio and video streams on your compatible home devices in one place, change the volume, skip to the next track, or quickly change which speakers they’re playing from.

Understand what’s going on at home with a glance.
The Google Home app is designed to show you the status of your home and keep you up to date with what you may have missed. Check in on your home anytime and see a recap of recent events. You can also get a notification if something important happens while you’re away.

Set up your Nest Wifi and Google Wifi in minutes using the Google Home app. Run speed tests, set up a guest network, and easily share your Wi-Fi password with family and friends. Use parental controls like Wi-Fi pause to manage online time for the kids. Automatically prioritize video conferencing and gaming traffic on all devices, or decide which devices to prioritize for all traffic types. Get more insights on your network, whether it’s a notification when a new device joins your network or detailed insights for troubleshooting a poor internet connection.

A helpful home is a private home.
Protecting your privacy starts with one of the world’s most advanced security infrastructures, which we build directly into Google products so that they’re secure by default. The built-in security in your Google Account automatically detects and blocks threats before they reach you, so that your personal information is secure.

We build privacy tools that keep you in control.
Control your Google Assistant activity, privacy settings, information, and personal preferences. See your activity, delete it manually, or choose to delete it automatically. Control your privacy on Google Assistant with your voice. Ask questions like “Where can I change my privacy settings?” to get answers to the most common privacy and security questions.

Visit the Google Nest Safety Center at safety.google/nest to learn more about how we protect your information and respect your privacy.

* Some products and features may not be available in all regions. Compatible devices required.

Ratings and reviews

When it works, it's great. Creating groups among your speakers is quite a task. Also, it seems that most times I go to use a speaker group, one or all say "not playing" in the app. I have to turn wifi off and back on to get them to connect to Google Home. Also seems to be no way to get the same voice out of all of my speakers (4). Google needs to stop worrying about aesthetics and fix the technical problems on this app. It is really frustrating and annoying.

Frustrating, and kind of functional. The app allows you to control things, sort of. I use it for a 2nd home, and it requires a great deal more interaction than i feel it should need. Changing a thermostat setting is simple, getting it to stay that way is challenging and complicated. Want to turn the heat up cause its a cold windy day, sure, until the app turn it back to eco more an hour later and you are left wondering why you are cold. Its a semi functional app, but by no means easy to use.

Works almost perfect with my smart-home set up. Only downsides are that there aren't as many options for certain devices within the home app as there is within the specific apps for the devices themselves. Also, I feel that Google should incorporate Bluetooth into their home hardware to control Bluetooth devices that aren't audio devices. Aside from that, the assistant is definitely the best out of the "big three" in my own opinion.

What's new

Over the next few days we’ll be rolling out the following:
Use the Home app to control on/off, volume, playback, inputs, and more for your connected streaming and media devices.
Users who have opted into presence sensing will receive helpful alerts if their phone location is incorrect.
Camera users can now choose to include video clips when submitting feedback on camera events.