Customer Ratings & Reviews

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

The Google Home devices have become an integral part of my home and family. I started out with the Amazon Echo devices, but replaced them all with the Google Home devices. Now I have Google Home devices in almost every room of our house. We primarily use them to control our home automation and entertainment systems, listen to music, and make calls. The Google Assistant AI is vastly superior to Alexa for answering questions. It's seamless integration with Android and other Google products makes it very easy and productive to manage so many things throughout the busy day whether I'm at home or away.

My expectation was that this device would play music that I have uploaded to Google Play Music. I can play all of the uploaded music from any Android phone. But Google requires a subscription to play even the uploaded music. For reasons that tech support can't explain, I can tell the mini to play some of my uploaded songs, but not most. (The choices seem random.) It seems ridiculous that Google encourages people to upload up to 50,000 songs to its service, and then won't allow those songs to be played by its devices. It's a shame because the device is useful in other ways.

Awesome smart speaker, It does everything I wanted it to do. Music quality isn't the best at high volume, I listen to mostly chill/jazz/instrumentals at medium to low volume so it doesn't bother me. When Google talks to you, she is pretty decent, sharp, & clear enough to hear. I set up an alarm for 7:30 AM, & the alarm was loud enough for me to wake up. The "Tell me about my day" is great, covers everything I need to know like weather, global news, & the time. Btw, this is my very FIRST smart speaker, & I gotta say it was a great purchase!

Just as great at the regular Google home just at a very affordable price, was honestly surprised

I recommend the product for purchase. Easy to use.