Customer Ratings & Reviews

LOVE MY HOME MINI! It can be used as a speaker pretty much anywhere. You can ask it just about anything. It's very minimalistic, and it makes me life a lot more easier and enjoyable! LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

Have used Bluetooth Speakers for a couple of years, but this is my first attempt for Smart Speaker. I got this mini with my pixel 2 pre-order and as a Chromecast user and Youtube TV subscriber. The continuity between these devices is really fluent. For the speaker point of view, it is decent for its size. And I'm happy with its audio quality for casual podcast and music listening.

I'm a gadget person but I'm also very pragmatic. I was trying to decide which was better Alexa or Google home . Google home is kind of fun to play with but if you want it to do anything really useful, like set up reminders for appointments for work, it's pretty useless unless you're company uses Google. As an IT director I moved from Gmail 2 years ago in favor of Office 365 for compliance reasons. Google's making the same mistakes Microsoft did years ago. They're doing everything they can to ignore Microsoft products. Childish. You can't use Google home for anything Microsoft related such as email, calendaring, Etc. Sure there are few workarounds, but they're clunky and don't really work well. Google is doing all the things that made people hate Microsoft 20 years ago. If I hadn't recieved this product free with the purchase of something else, I'd send it back. For anything useful I will use Amazon Alexa.

Look, the sound is better than my Dots for sure, and Google is better for voice search. I have a Google Home and it largely addresses the sound issue and I was excited to expand my collection with 3 Minis. I also have 4 Chromecast Audios, so I could do some cool stuff. Why am I returning mine? The back breaker for me is that Google disabled the top button, which is functionality that I love on the Google Home. It takes extraordinary arrogance to say we're just going to permanently disable this functionality instead of fixing it. Can you imagine Apple doing it on something so central? No. The other frustration that I'd have dealt with if not for the top button issue is that Google Home apparently has not appreciation for device proximity like the Echos do. So when I ask a question, say, of my phone, if my Home devices hear me one or more of them try to handle the same request. This is most irritating when I ask Google to make a call that I want to handle from my phone and it comes out of the Home instead, with no way to take it back on my handset. Hopefully they'll get there in Gen 3. For now I'll stick to my single Home device and my Dots.

I love my Google Home mini for many reasons! First off, for $30 you are getting access to the google home platform without having to purchase a $100 speaker or any other equipment. Just this lone mini can handle the functionality of it all (I actually have 2 of these bad boys). Second, I believe Google Home is superior to Amazon Alexa solely in the fact that Google is a database driven search company, vs Amazon being a primary retail shopping company that is starting to diverge into software and electronics. As far as “future-proofing goes” if I had to bet, I’d say Goohle’s software will eventually pull away from Amazon. And the fact that your kid can’t accidentally purchase something through Amazon with this is kind of nice. I recommend this product 100%.

I love this tiny gadget with limitless capability. The value is less in the hardware and more in the software framework put up by google. The setup of the device is super easy. You can get multiple of these and set them up in different rooms. I recently automated a bunch of smart lighting and smart electronics in the home and adding them to the google network only took me 3 min each. The user interface is super minimalist and simple, yet so much more powerful. The hardware is almost flawless. Really love the fact that its a USB cable for power and not some special connector. The assistant is fun and is great gift for people of all ages. If you have a chromecast or a chromecast enabled TV its a breeze to watch stuff on TV and control it using the assistant.

If you are looking to start your smart home with a voice assistant and don't want to fork over too much money, then this is a great option. The price point makes this an easy first step and allows for you to start utilizing a smart assistant throughout your home. This unit is also perfect for smaller rooms or rooms where you probably won't be listening to music in, but would like the ability to call out to Google. The sound quality is acceptable, but not stellar. It is a small unit that is meant really just for you to interact with Google, not blast jams out of it. If you're looking for something with decent audio, go for the bigger Home, the Max, or even some of the third party ones. But if you're looking for a cheap voice assistant, this is a good option.

Easy to set up, can respond to a variety of questions and it's quite fun and useful for hands-free help but if you want to have a little more control it's a pain to use. I use it with my TV and Chromecast, useful to turn on TV or put on a show on Netflix or Youtube but to change volume or choose specific Youtube videos it's annoying to ask google every time, or to unlock your phone (and drain its battery) to use it as a remote control. A lot of times it wont listen to its call (Hey google) while music is playing, and it gets confused if there's other people talking in the background (even if it's the TV or similar). I thought I would be using it a lot but ended up deciding to set up tasks manually because of those issues, it takes the same amount of time and I dont have to struggle over the device not understanding what I want to do.

I bought a Google Home Mini as a gift for a family member, thinking it would be a fun gadget, if nothing else, but I really underestimated just how useful it is. After setting it up (easy) for him and trying it out, I was impressed enough to buy another for myself. I don't even have any of the accessories or subscriptions that can be used with it, and I use it multiple times every day. Timers and alarms, reminders, checking my calendar or adding events to it, playing podcasts and radio broadcasts, playing music from my phone, getting wether and traffic reports, getting it to spell words or do math conversions, you name it. Mini is one of those things I didn't know I needed or wanted, but now I can't do without it!

Sounds great, works even with a slight stutter in voice.

Amazing product, still using it 6 years laters. No problems.

Was looking at the dot and the home mini and decided on the mini. The design is great and this has tons of potential because of the backbone being google.

Having a smart speaker is one of the best things you can get if you have compatible smart devices in your house. You might not think of it, but being able to say "Hey Google, turn on the lights", "Hey Google, set a timer for 2 minutes", or a wide variety of other questions like "Hey Google, how many cups are in 16 tablespoons?" is an amazing convenience. If you're concerned about privacy, it also has a physical switch to turn off the microphone. The answers to questions might not always be what you want though, if you ask it too complex of a question, many times it will just give you the summary of a Wikipedia article or just say that it can't help you with that yet. For listening to music, this speaker has surprisingly good audio quality considering the size and price.

My mom bought this google home for me for Christmas, and I was thrilled. At first I was mad that I couldn’t automatically connect Apple Music through it, until I learned you could use Bluetooth with it. I thoroughly enjoy this product and I think it is super good.

Small sound, but great search engine and below average speaker. Best in a corner for resonance.

I can't say enough GOOD about my new Google Mini! I just Love it. It is also a little company to me. When I wake up I say good morning to her & she just rambles on with weather & the news. Thank you Google for a wonderful product!

I have both a google mini and a first gen echo, and dare I say that I like the google device more! This is a mini, so the speaker sound is not as strong as a larger device would be, but being able to ask questions and get Google responses is great... much better than echo responses. Also, the Bluetooth connectivity allows you to play your own music from your own device, and my daughter LOVES that! If Google releases the next generation of the home hub with a camera, I will get one of those as well.

Decided to finally get in on the smart home life you can say once I saw this bad boy on sale for Black Friday for only $25. I've been wanting it for a while but wanted to wait for a sale like this. I can honestly say I wish I purchased this sooner. It's such a smart little gadget and yet so simple to use. You don't know what you're missing until you finally have it. I would definitely recommend this to the rest of my family and friends. Definitely even worth it's full retail price.

Excellent quality. Nice model and size. Easy to install.

If I had to pick between Alexa and Google, I would pick Google. Google understands you a whole lot more then Alexa and is always learning and has a lot more support with 3rd party applications. If you ask a question and follow up again with another question about the same topic, Google knows you just asked something similar. One thing I love is I use it as my alarm clock in the morning and have it set to different times and I don't have that annoying clock light on all night.