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 parcel at your front door. Google Home on Wear OS 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 that 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 at any time 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 children. Automatically prioritise video conferencing and gaming traffic on all devices, or decide which devices to prioritise 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 Centre at safety.google/nest to find out 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

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.

Unreliable & lacking features. Often things that were working, stop & then you have to disconnect the service, which often causes you to lose more than just the one item that was having the problem. You then have to re setup all the items on that service. The routines are equally hit and miss. Sometimes the routine works, other times they won't. You can't mute or change the verbal feedback, you can't order or organize routines. It also tries to make calls from my Google home instead of my phone.

Well, I eventually figured out the old problem and things were working well. Now, for the last month or so, Home reports devices as unavailable or offline. Voice control still works but ends with a message that the device is unavailable, please try again later. I have tried everything. Clearing cache, reboots, remove and reinstall devices, none of which works. Each time, after a short period the devices are reported offline.

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.