Customer Ratings & Reviews

This this is amazing. It has so many practical uses, but the best of all is FREE PHONECALLS. This is major for me, as I live in an area with a terrible cell reception. All of these awesome things, only for $50!!

It appears that the "Google Home Mini" is not powerful enough to perform daily task swiftly. It is only as good as the Siri (iPhone) and "OK Google" on Samsung phone. When I used it to turn on/off lights, it took between 2 to 4 seconds. The later happened 60+% of the time (slow). This is in comparison to Alexa which was 98% of the time took 1 second to turn on/off the light. My partner got so frustrated entering a room w/o a light and have to wait about 3-4 seconds. I eventually put everything back to manual switch. Since I always carry my iPhone (Siri), my two Google home mini just sit there w/ minimum use. Until perhaps the 3rd generations (or perhaps they have a better algorithm or faster processor), I would not recommend to this product to a friend.

This is by far the best product by Google this year. It helps in assisting in many day to day work life. I know I am a lazy person, and with the connectivity to philips hue, I am able to control the intensity and the color of the lights by just my speech. In addition, every morning once I wake up, I get to hear the news, weather and a fun fact. this might be a mini, but has a plethora of functionalities that I am still exploring everyday.

I swear it doesn't listen to you, lol (It's always listening)

I love it! I’m able to control the lights with my voice! I can turn them on, turn them off, brighten, and dim the lights! This is great for when I have my hands full! It can also play music, check the weather, set reminders, has up to date traffic, schedule, news, make phone calls, ask questions, and get answers! Hey Google! I am impressed!

Works great. Would recommend it to a friend of mine.

First one I got wouldn't let me turn on or off my Christmas lights, everything else works fine tho, after much troubleshooting, determined it's the google home mini itself, went back to store for exchange. Second one worked flawlessly so far.

Very easy to use, understands most questions. Affordable price.

I had high expectations to start using the power of Google Search instead of Bing (Amazon Echo) but I am unimpressed with the Home Mini. I 'asked' the Mini to recite my upcoming calendar events and it only responds with those events that have a set time! It cannot find the 'all day' events! Are you kidding me?? The most powerful software company in the world (sorry Microsoft) and it doesn't 'see' those events on my Google Calendar! My Echo Dot has no problem reciting my Google Calendar events!! I checked the Google Forum and people reported this a year ago!! Holy Smokes, the world is surely ending!

How can this thing NOT connect to my Bluetooth speaker or have a the means to connect by 3.5mm plug? My Amazon Echo Dot can (by bluetooth or by 3.5mm). I purchased three, two for our home and one as a gift. The gift one will be the only one not returned (maybe) but the other two were returned today (Dec 26, 2017, less than one day of use). I replaced them with Amazon Echo Dots which I know will connect to bluetooth (or by 3.5mm) without having to buy additional junk as the Google Home Mini requires AND for the same price as the Minis. To top it off it requires two apps to manage one's smart home and it has no options for Scenes or Groups. Typical Google. Selling beta imitations. Thank you, Google, for pointing me in the right direction.

Our family is obsessed with Google Mini. Highly recommend! Super helpful and entertaining too - Being woke up with your favorite song then told weather, traffic, and calendar events and to dos for the day to simply putting on a timer or answering almost any question; trust me when I say you will love Google Mini too!

I have a regular Google Home, and several minis, as well as an Echo Dot and an Alexa enabled lamp. My Google Home works ok although it seems like Google pushes a lot of updates which can cause issues quite often. Voice control commands will sometimes stop working and then start again several days later. Also my smart devices will sometimes randomly disconnect causing me to have to factory reset my Google Home to reconnect them. The sound quality is not as great as I was hoping. After getting my Google Home, I decided to try out the Echo Dot and was actually quite impressed by the quality of it, the lights, and the sound quality. It seems to hear me a lot better, and Alexa voice controls are a lot better. Also, my devices never disconnect. I've since then started using my Echo Dot for my smart home controls and my Google Home for just listening to Spotify. I love the Alexa app. It is far more intuitive, looks better, and I love the Alexa skills. If you want just simple smart home control, go with Google Home. If you want sound quality, games, and a device to have fun with, go with Alexa.

If all you want is something that can look up things for you or to set a cooking timer, it works well. If you want to use it to play music that is loaded on your phone, forget it. I have a vast music library on my Samsung Galaxy s7 phone, but when I say "OK Google, play "Over the Rainbow" (that's loaded on my phone) it says I must subscribe to Google Play and might choose another song to play. One of the reasons I got the Mini was to be able to play music hands free. Apparently the issue is with the Google Assistant itself, not the Mini so perhaps giving the Mini a bad review is not accurate. I've noticed others online complaining of the same thing and apparently Google is "working on" finding a fix. If you make a playlist on Google Play you can play it manually but NOT hands free. Apparently some people work around this by tapping the microphone symbol then saying what they want to play, but this makes it NOT hands free. If you manually choose the music, it doesn't sound too bad and it is somewhat useful for looking up answers to questions, but if you only want it to play music hands free you're out of luck.

This device does so much if you need a quick question answered but I bought it strictly for the baby room for playing pandora, spotify, and lullabys. I was shocked how easy it was to connect and control via phonecasting. The voice commands are also conversational in most cases.

What an amazing little speaker! It gets pretty loud without sounding distorted. Voice recognition is responsive and usually accurate. Also, if you get a few of these, you can link them all together and stream music like Spotify through all of them at the same time. Well worth the money.

I have loved this device since I got it it really is my new favorite thing it tells me the weather and etc I really would recommend the Google home mini speaker it is a pretty good speaker I might add

i am an amazon guy and we have our home surrounded by echo and echo dots. Thought of adding 1 google to compare features. I must say, while Alexa is good with home automation, google mini is better with answering questions and is more responsive.

Google Home has disabled Bluetooth transmit (it is capable) so it won't connect to Bluetooth speakers. Go here, vote up the topic and leave feedback to Google to enable this basic function: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/googlehome/obIZiej5L3w

The sound quality from this little speaker is excellent I was actually surprised at how loud and clear it is. We have had the amazon family of products and this guy is much louder and more aesthetically pleasing than the amazon version.

We have 4 of these. The sound quality is way better than the Amazon Echo Dot. Google's Search capability is way more advanced than Amazon. Pair these bad boys up with SmartThings and there are so many options to automate your home.