The Gemini app is now on Mac

(blog.google)

58 points | by thm 6 hours ago

13 comments

  • originalvichy 2 hours ago
    I wonder if they will finally let you use past chats without having to turn on the data sharing, since it’s possible to store chat context on disk. (No chance).
    • anon373839 22 minutes ago
      It was always possible to store it in the browser’s localStorage, so…
      • tekacs 9 minutes ago
        It wasn't even the local-ness so much. Even if they stored at remotely it would be okay like ChatGPT or Claude but unlike the others for a long time the only way to let it store history on their servers was also allowing them to train on it. I haven't checked if it's changed.
  • syntaxing 14 minutes ago
    Any way to run this on Gemma 4 only? If there was a “local” mode, I would seriously think about installing this.
  • shrx 1 hour ago
    Meanwhile, I still can't use Gemini as my Android Auto assistant.
    • phamilton 1 minute ago
      I just got it last week. Still a few quirks, but positive so far.
    • BakeInBeens 2 minutes ago
      It is widely rolled out now and not just in the US.
    • VectorLock 8 minutes ago
      Can you use it as your CarPlay assistant?
    • fg137 1 hour ago
      This.

      Android feels like more of a liability than an asset to Google these days.

  • maz1b 34 minutes ago
    Heard it's written in Swift for this native adaptation. That's a good sign.
  • xnx 2 hours ago
    The amount of products and updates shipping from the AI-invigorated Google is mind-boggling.

    They are leading or highly competitive in every AI segment: foundation model, open-weights model, video model, image model, world model, AI IDE, AI CLI, text-to-music, text-to-speech, etc. etc. etc.

    • comboy 1 hour ago
      Tried antigravity and cli a few times. I'm unable to handle that prodigious toddler. Are you guys able to make use of it?
      • operatingthetan 1 hour ago
        CLI is great, probably 90% as good as CC.
        • girvo 1 hour ago
          Antigravity CLI or the Gemini one? When I tried the latter about 2 months ago it was shockingly bad, though I was a free user. I assume its better if you're a paying customer?
          • operatingthetan 1 hour ago
            It doesn't appear that there is an Antigravity CLI, so the ladder. I'm using a paid account though.

            For the last few months I was using paid versions of CC, Codex and Gemini CLI, and found them more or less equivalent for my uses. I'm just building web apps though.

      • nimchimpsky 1 hour ago
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    • straydusk 1 hour ago
      I'm about as AI-pilled as anyone. Stitch is the only Google powered AI product I use. How are they winning?
      • jsmo 1 hour ago
        Never heard of it, seems like a Wix / Canva knock-off?
    • verdverm 2 hours ago
      Their "ai-invigorated" GCP UI has been degrading substantially. It's becoming unusable and slower than Jira (which has actually vastly improved over the last several years). It currently has an expanding state problem (we suspect) because a change in one part of the UI is not reflected in the validation of other fields. Even clearing browser cache does not fix the issues. At least the CLI still works, but that is largely trad machine generated from schemas.
    • khuey 1 hour ago
      Really? Right now both Claude Code and Codex seem substantially more capable than Gemini CLI to me.
    • andrewmcwatters 1 hour ago
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  • antipaul 2 hours ago
    Seems like the most basic thing ever.

    Can’t even use the new Gemma on device model… no model selection besides fast/normal/thinking.

    Also requires Google login

  • 1Ecz3 1 hour ago
    still on the latest pixel phone - gemini can't read basic things.
  • Flux159 2 hours ago
    I'm going to be honest - this is over a year late. I still use ChatGPT on Mac because it actually had a Mac App from May of 2024, whereas I had to go to the Gemini website to use Gemini. It was even worse because of the fragmented experience - there's been an iOS Gemini app for a while now. Integrating Gemini into Chrome is not the same experience as having a standalone app.

    Now that it's at least here, hopefully Google can continue updating it instead of giving up on it if their metrics don't show as fast growth as iOS or Chrome usage.

  • sayYayToLife 1 hour ago
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  • Apreche 1 hour ago
    How about making something we actually want, like a GMail app for mac.
    • 46493168 1 hour ago
      What would that get you over just the chrome version?
  • egorfine 1 hour ago
    Excellent. Now the Project Manager of this app gets a promotion at Google, the team gets disbanded to other projects and this app gets abandoned. Congratulations!
  • qwertyuiop_ 27 minutes ago
    Could we start the count down clock on when Google will deprecate this app ?
  • exabrial 2 hours ago
    > The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience

    Ok Google, this is well-earned. This is enough to make me try Gemini over Claude.

    I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps. One day it's working, next day its not. I'd rather just have releases once it's confirmed working, and something I can roll back if it breaks. I have work to get done, and it's like rolling the dice right now every day.

    • nozzlegear 1 hour ago
      I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps.

      Logging into Discord once a day and it opens and closes itself 3 times while that stupid logo spins and says it's fetching 1 out of 8 updates. What the hell. I actually hate Discord, I would migrate in a heartbeat if I didn't think it'd kill my WoW guild.