Customer Ratings & Reviews

Best buy rewards suck. Hard to actually redeem and it's only 1% so don't waste your time. It's sad that Office Depot has a better rewards system. Oh ya my roommates and I love the home mini it works great and we can now control our hue lights and chromecast with voice

I bought this in conjunction with a Chromecast. I've been using it with apple products (iphone 6s, ipad mini 2, and macbook pro). Overall, it works really well and haven't noticed compatibility issues. However, I wish that other music apps could connect, particularly Tidal. If you have a Spotify premium membership, then it would be a lot more fun for music control.

I bought this because I have the regular Google home and I wanted to have one in my room. I love having it, cuz my Google home is in the living room and sometimes after I'm in bed I need an answer to something, or need to add a reminder and don't have to leave my bed.

Hey Google give it a review a good review. You can ask it anything like the weather or time or whatever you want. It gives you allot of information on anything you need or want to ask. You can ask for news or what’s traffic like? Question after question it does it all

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.

I have an Echo Dot and love it so I figured I would buy this to compare and see which one I liked more. I really love the Google because it can play music from a wide variety of places like YouTube /Pandora or other without enabling skills as required by the Echo Dot.

This is a great product. The uses are endless. The mini's sounds leaves a bit to be desired, compared to the Original Home, but for a Bedroom or Kitchen, it's perfect. Not to over powering, but very audible.

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.

"Please ask google to play Mickey Mouse". That`s what I hear throughout the day. Fun thing to play with. Playing news in the morning and acts as a timer. Although when I asked it to spell sixty it said "Sixty is spelled six zero"... - good sense of humor I guess.. :)

This only took about 10 minutes to setup and that included linking it to my Hue Lights and Honeywell Thermostat. I was able to turn the lights on and off and turn the heat up without any issues. Very easy to use with lots of useful information and also a lot of fun!

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.

For a speaker for 30 bucks how can you go wrong ask it pretty much anything such as the weather, sports, how to spell words and you can have it call contacts from your phone. with Iphone user you have to extract your contacts from icloud into google hard to explain.

This is well worth the money! I have never owned an Amazon product, but this is a very cost-effective solution to help automate your home. In my opinion, this is a better option than the normal google home as it has the same functionality at a fraction of the price!

This is my second home mini, and a perfect fit for small rooms where you don't need excellent sound quality to travel far. Easily sits out of the way for blending in, and allows for easy control of my hue lights, setting alarms, and piping some music in the bedroom.

This is my first ever purchase of Google home or any other similar items. Small size is convenient for various locations inside the home/room. The speakers of this unit are not the best. I wish they had an option for me to connect this to my other wireless speakers.

Great item for short money. I use this to play music, listen to the radio, set timers and alarms. I often ask it off the wall questions, like "How long before eggs go bad?" or "Teach me some French." or "What movies did So and So play in?" "What's the weather today?" I also speak to my google in English and Spanish and it will respond in either. (I had to set up for both languages prior.) I also have it connected to my smart plugs and bulbs so I only have it ask to turn something on or off.

Google Home Mini performs the same functions as Google Home and more. The addition of voice recognition of two family members makes it more useful, especially for locating misplaced cell phones. Good value.

Great version of Google home especially for those who want to use a real stereo to listen to music. Gives you the weather, traffic, puzzle answers, etc. Perfect for getting the answers you need. I only would like to know when they will support other devices like Sonos1 like Alexa, Yamaha MusicCast, etc. It would be nice to know Google's timeframe for support.

I wasn't sure how well this would work or if I needed the larger Google Home unit to run this. It works great. You need to download the Google Assistant app on your phone or tablet to set it up, and then you're off on your way. It's easy, responsive, and kinda fun!

Price is good, but this might be too much for the house. Everytime a tv commerical for Google comes up my chrome mini starts talking. Gets annoying after awhile. It's more intuitive than Echo.. and I can control my lights, temperatures, and other smart home with this, even though they are also set up with Echo. This might be good in the car. Will be trying it