The Gemini app is now available for Windows

(blog.google)

30 points | by quysala12 2 hours ago

9 comments

  • hahn-kev 4 minutes ago
    It's crazy to me that there's no screenshots on the blog post. And when you click through to download it there's a bunch of aspirational pictures, but only one short clip showing what it actually looks like. Why? Is it too hard to show a screenshot?
  • valdrinNereth 19 minutes ago
    About time, I've been having resource usage and stuttering issues on browser from time to time (both on Firefox and Chromium). It seems a little bit better on desktop. I still don't understand why aren't they merging Antigravity - Gemini - Spark under one app though. Antigravity is still looks confusing to me.
  • pverghese 36 minutes ago
    Doesn't work on windows arm machines.
    • vardump 31 minutes ago
      Did Google do something special to block Windows on ARM?
  • dboreham 1 hour ago
    And will be EoL'ed in...one, two years?
    • Superbowl5889 36 minutes ago
      i was looking for this comment. raises question how managements work at big tech. why didn't they release in first hand along with androud and ios apps, only long-standing apps are the one that started before generative ai stepped. whats the vision here?
  • backrun 2 hours ago
    Interesting. I wonder if this will evolve into something closer to Codex or Claude Code, where it can actually work across files and tasks on your computer, not just act as a desktop chatbot.
    • esperent 1 hour ago
      Google apps don't evolve, they fragment and then die. I'd give this one a year or two at most.
    • LikelySupernova 1 hour ago
      They already have antigravity for that, I can see these two getting merged sometime in the future.
      • happymellon 2 minutes ago
        There will be a new replacement app to combine them, but it will only handle around 60% of the functionality of both.

        All three will receive no further updates.

  • jdw64 1 hour ago
    To be honest, I have no idea what kind of user the Gemini app was built for. It's just too frustrating to use
    • valdrinNereth 15 minutes ago
      Not "that" bad, but I get frustrated as well since I've got used to GUI for Claude Desktop. In comparison all of the AI stuff for Google looks a little bit confusing and frustrating imo.
    • Mashimo 1 hour ago
      I have not used the windows app, but the android one works just fine. Same as chatgpt.

      You enter prompts and images and get a respond back.

      What issues are you experiencing?

      • jdw64 35 minutes ago
        The Spark feature's UI isn't as good as the others.

        For example, I'm not sure if it should prominently show recent workload, and unless I use MCP to manipulate files on my computer, local file manipulation isn't possible. Personally, I don't think it's going to be that useful.

    • atraac 22 minutes ago
      Why is it frustrating? I use it on MacOS every day, it's quite fine for me.
  • MathewDebugs 2 hours ago
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