Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Google Home mini is an easy - inexpensive way to make your home “smarter.” We purchased 4 WiFi outlet adapters at the same time. Now, with a simple voice command, we can turn on all of our Christmas decorations at once or individually. And for the price? Can’t beat it.

I got this back around Christmas when the sales were on and it was for $29.99. I honestly wish I would have bought more now that I come to think of it. This speaker is great to use because it can be placed anywhere and it has a solid sounding speaker for the price and when you add in the google assistant it knocks other speakers out of the water. I had an amazon echo dot and this is much better. The assistant is more helpful and it can connect to google assistant on your phone. It can also be used to pair with other google speakers to give you sound in all the rooms of your house that you place one.

This was my first ever smart speaker, and while I wouldn't say it totally lives up to Google's hype commercials, I can't deny that the device is useful for certain things. I primarily use the speaker as a way to play Spotify, and in that it excels. For such a compact item, the speaker is powerful and the sound quality is good. My only complaint is that, if the volume is sufficiently loud, it's hard for the voice recognition to pick up your "Ok Google!" or "Hey Google!" commands. Google loves to hype their smart speakers as a planning tool, where you can just command the device to add things to a list or calendar or schedule without needing to whip out your phone. This can DO that, however it requires that you are using the relevant Google apps on your smart phone. Replace your phone's Calendar app with Google Calendar, for example, and you can set up future dates with the Smart Speaker. The drawback is, this device LOVES to tell you what it can't do. There are apparently "routines" you can set up with Google Assistant, such as a "going to bed" routine that silences your phone, reduces speaker volume, and prompts it to start playing the sound of ocean waves. Trouble is, the smart speaker can't ACTUALLY silence your phone, and so when you tell it "Ok Google I'm going to sleep," it reminds you to just pull out your phone and do it that way anyways. Every. Single. Time. It gets annoying. Finally, the speaker is great for quick hands-free Google searches. If I'm debating a point with someone and need to check something, I can say "Hey Google, how to I calculate Celsius from Fahrenheit?" However, you do need to be careful with how this is phrased, because this is a literal Google search: the device types your words verbatim into a virtual browser and reads you the top result. To use the example above, it may, instead of giving me the equation I'm looking for, just read a quick blurb about the history of Celsius. Interesting, certainly, but not what I'm looking for. Or, more likely, the Speaker will simply respond "I don't have any information about that," though this seems to happen more with complex subjects that aren't explained in the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. In all, I like the Google Home for the simple things, music and quick searches, but that's pretty much it. The other bells and whistles are pretty hit-or-miss for me, but I imagine somebody more plugged into Google's whole ecosystem may appreciate them.

Works well. Won't access Amazon or Pandora. Wish I had one in every room.

She speaks Spanish and English. I have a bit of an issue communicating with her in the language I choose though. She recognizes my mother and I. My phone doesn’t need to be unlocked to play pandora which is awesome. She also tells me the weather, how long my public transit commute will take, I can ask her to remind me in 15minutes to take a pill, pretty much anything I can think of. The sound quality is not bad at all for what it is. Not a lot of bass but the volume is high. She does not hear me too well over loud music though. Overall, great accessory!

Easy to use, Easy to set up and even easier for my FBI agent to listen to me.

Great piece of technology! at first kind of hard to talk to it, but give it some time and it will learn your voice and your daily activities, my little daughter even ask for some recipes and I was surprised with the step by step recipe given to my daughter by Google Home.

Really like the google home mini. Loud and clear and can answer all most anything...When testing the unit I asked a question that the other competitor could not answer but google did. They both are good. I tell it to set an alarm for morning every night.,,works very well.

I bought this for my boyfriend, and we both love it. We have 2 standard size home devices already, and this one is a great color and size to blend in wherever you put it. We put this one in the bedroom. Great product at a fair price... I'm very satisfied with my purchase.

I have four of them and they really help make my life easier. They can control almost everything, lights, locks TV, music, thermostat. It hears you almost all of the time and I've run into very few issues with it overall. I really couldn't ask for a more helpful device. It's even more handy when I found that I could get a battery base for it. I love that I can take it into the bathroom with me and listen to music while I shower or take it outside and listen to music. That's really the only thing I think it was missing.

We have Google Home so for black Friday when these went to $29 we said why not buy one for our bedroom, so glad we did! I love we can put relaxing thunderstorms or ocean sounds on for bedtime! I highly recommend it! This is coming from someone who also owns Amazon Echo ;)

The Google home mini is a great bargain at this price point and functions just like the larger Google home. It can be linked together with other smart speakers and that is how I use it. Also to tell me about my day, the weather, and traffic so it's incredibly functional.

I was one of the early adopters of Alexa when Amazon first launched their smart product line. I used it religiously for about 2 years... until I tried Google's smart products. I started out just adding this in our bathroom so I could voice-activate some music in the shower, hoping the sound quality was good enough to carry over the glass. This thing packs a punch for the price and was a cinch to set up. Now I've fully migrated from Alexa/Ring products to Google/Nest because of how intuitive everything is and how well-supported the products are.

Got one of these on sale during Black Friday to try out and was pleasantly surprised to see how loud the speaker can get. Wasn't expecting much, but this works as well as the regular Google Homes and probably can get up to 70% as loud for way cheaper than the base model.

I bought the Google mini with hesitation after I kept on hearing about the smart home craze. I ended up loving it because it is Google and also the fact that it can play my music as well is awesome. The only issue i have with the mini is that it sometimes doesn't understand my command to turn off Phillips hue lights in some rooms. Other than that, it is a great product!

Speaker is convenient for small areas. I like how you can ask questions.

I own Echo (Alexa), iPhone (Siri) and the Google Home mini. This is by far the best assistant out of the three. The voice is natural and the response is instant. I love this device! If you don't want to spend money for the bigger speaker this mini goes pretty loud also.

Easy set-up, looks clean on my bookshelf and cheap price for all that it does. Works with my Spotify and smart lights

I have the google home downstairs and placed this one in my bedroom. It's a great addition to a smaller room. I mainly use it in this room to turn on/off lights when I am in bed or to play music while I am upstairs working. So, far I am very satisfied with this product.

Google home is not only the better of the 2 now, it's only going to get better. This little device has made my life simpler, not more complicated and that's what happens most of the time when we introduce technology into our life-flow. Google home is the rare exception.