Google Assistant

Google LLC

About this app

Google Assistant is an easy way to use your phone and apps, hands-free
Get Google Assistant for hands-free help. It can help you set reminders and alarms, manage your schedule, look up answers, navigate and control smart home devices while away from home*, and much more.

*Compatible devices required

An easy way to use your phone and apps
Quickly open your favourite app, navigate your phone and manage your phone settings easily – turn on Do Not Disturb, adjust your Bluetooth and aeroplane mode settings, and turn the flashlight on, all using just your voice.

"Open YouTube"
"Show me my photos from Shimla"
"Turn on flashlight"

Stay in touch with hands-free calls, texts and emails
Stay connected to those who matter most. Make calls, send text messages and look up emails to your contacts.

"Call Sanjay"
"Text Rupa 'On my way'"

Stay productive while on the go
Get things done using just your voice while on the go – set reminders and alarms, manage your schedule and tasks. Look up answers and get help with directions and local information.

"Remind me to buy groceries at 7.00 p.m."
"Set an alarm for 7.00 a.m."
"Set a timer for 5 minutes"
"Add oats to my shopping list"
"What’s my first meeting tomorrow?"
"Petrol pump near me"
"Navigate home"

Helps you stay one step ahead
Get proactive information and contextual reminders to help with just what you need, right when you need it. And for the things that you do regularly, you can create automatic routines to streamline your day even more.

"Good morning"
"Good night"
"Let’s go home"

Control your smart home even when away from home
Your phone is the remote control to your smart home. Adjust the temperature and lighting, and control your smart appliances, even when you’re not at home.*

"Turn the lights off"
"Turn on the TV"

*Compatible devices required

Ratings and reviews

Dumb technology on "smart" devices. It's honestly very frustrating to use. It works well in narrow use cases like setting a reminder or navigating somewhere. It can feel very unpleasant to use as it frequently makes mistakes and offers erroneous responses. I wish Google would stop integrating it into so many of their services as it frustrates my experience as an end user.

Amazing assistant honestly, it rivals every single other assistant ever. But it's not 100% perfect, because there is ONE bug I have, which is where the voice will, for some reason, change back to the original voice (which is not the one I use). It is kind of annoying, but it doesn't happen very often, but it still doesn't make me call this assistant "perfect." If it was fixed, this would be perfect. But this is still an incredible assistant that can do soooo many things. 9.5/10, best assistant.

⭐Update: After my complaint, Google technicians fixed the app and she's amazing again. Thank you for being so helpful! ⭐ Last night she stopped working. Nothing was changed, no settings changed. She no longer recognizes my home devices, she no longer can text, she lost her British accent, can't make calls or look info up. It's totally useless now. She also turns off voice recognition on her own so while trying to sort this out I have to keep going back and turning on voice recognition.

What's new

We've added shortcuts to make it easy to launch Assistant actions. Long press on the Assistant launcher icon to try them out.

• Expanded support to Android L and Android tablets
• Bug fixes and improvements