Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have played around a lot with the Alexa echo dot at my friend's house, and when it came time to choose which I would like for myself, I definitely chose the Google Home Mini because it could do more for me. It is a great smart home device that makes life just easier. I love that you can personalize the results, and it actually feels like integrating this into my life is natural. I love it!

I got the "original" Google Home just about one year ago. It has proven to be very functional for me and quite entertaining for my family. I can operate a number of light bulbs and outlet switches with the Google Home. We also use the Google Home to play the music of our choosing. Now, with two in the house, they can work together, playing the same music into separate rooms as well work one at a time. I am sometimes frustrated with Google for not teaming up with more products and manufacturers more quickly. Overall, a definite thumbs up.

It is so great I now have 3. I use it also to turn on and off most of my lights.

I've seen and heard about these and saw them in Best Buy. I talked to an Associate and wanted to know more about them and how they worked and setup. I was convinced and the price was great so I got the Google Home Mini. It is fantastic....easy setup, and love to ask it any questions and get answers. Sometimes the answers are humorous. I'd recommend to anyone...a great Christmas gift too.

I finally standardized on google home for our VA in our home. These guys are amazing, especially once you get the wall mounts! They go anywhere, have amazing voice recognition, super easy to use as whole home speaker system (even with as many zones as you want), low price point, and work with almost everything these days. Overall, the whole family is happy with them, and prefer the VA to Alexia which we were using for about a year. The family had very limited adoption of Alexia due to the voice recognition, it was good but just not good enough to make it quick and easy to use. However, now with Google Home the whole family is using them for everything from Turing lights on and off, to music & speakers, to playing games. It's been a great change and great utility for our a home.

Nice and small with good functionality. priced just right. very easy to setup.

Google home is super easy to set up and can hear you well. My only problem was putting it next to the tv when I first set it up. That was the only problem I had, the home mini couldn't hear over the tv. Since I've moved it, I've had no problems. I thought it was overblown with how much better google assistant is compared to Siri, but man was I wrong. Google assistants great.

The speaker quality is pretty amazing. It's not great, but was surprising considering I was thinking it would be the quality of the Echo Dot. It's clear when it's loud and has a good bass in the Google Assistant's voice. The Google mini is perfect for just placing around the house where you need it. I love using it to be extra lazy in turning multiple devices on in the room.

We put this in our kitchen. It it helpful to be able to add things to a shopping list as we run out of them. it also helps to answer kitchen question when cooking and having it read recipes step by step is fun and helpful. It is nice that it can play music with out other Google Home for a whole house sound experience. The sound quality is pretty good for a small speaker.

Love it, easy to use & easy to set up & the sound quality is excellent

Works great and its well worth for the price. It became my best friend for weather forecasting ,scheduling, morning alarms, turning on/off the lights. Sometimes i seek its help for the receipes while cooking. Its fun playing games when i m bored. Great for Hands-Free calling and listening music. Its very helpful to overcome my loneliness when i m at home. Love it

Set up was very easy. It's Sleek it's small it's very loud I love it.

The Google Mini was a great addition to the Home family. For being as small as it is the speaker is pretty good. I have the Google Home as well and the thing the mini is lacking when playing music is bass. If you are looking for this to be your main music speaker in the room you are putting it in I would definitely consider getting the Google Home instead. However if you already have one of those this is a great extension to expand in to other rooms of your house at a reasonable cost. Also if you have multiple you can use them to broadcast messages throughout your home similar to a intercom. For example you can say "Hey Google, broadcast It is time for dinner" It will then play that message on all your Google Home / mini devices. To note the functionality of the Google mini is identical to the Google Home. They both use the same app on your phone and both can process all of the same commands. The major difference is the speaker.

I've owned several Amazon Echo devices and a Google Home and can say they're both useful additions to the home - having access to information and utilities like setting timers is incredibly useful in everyday life, in the kitchen, etc. I like the Home mini's aesthetics more than the Echo Dot - the fabric cover looks and feels nice, and the four LEDs to display status are nice and subdued. The speaker on the device is decent, but not great. You'll want one of the full-size versions (Google Home or Amazon Echo gen. 2) if you'd like to listen to any music on the speaker with any real fidelity. However, for listening to voice responses, podcasts, or audiobooks, the Home Mini's speaker works just fine. The size is convenient and lets you install it just about anywhere in the home. You can even get some command strips and hang it on a wall easily. That said, it's pretty stylish and you'll probably want to display it somewhere openly to add to a room. The Home Mini is backed by Google's AI technology, so it's superior to the Echo (and, likely, the upcoming Apple HomePod speaker using Siri) for answering questions and queries, but currently, the Echo has a wider range of third-party services it supports through its "Skills" system. Google will probably catch up eventually, but for now, its main use is answering simple questions, starting timers and setting reminders, and helping you with connected google services like Google Calendar. You can also use the speaker as a Google Cast device to cast audio to its speaker, and even connect it with other Google Cast-compatible speakers to set up a multi-room audio solution. Again, the speaker isn't great, but it'll get the job done. Overall this is a nice showing from Google, and it's good to see these smart assistant devices starting to become more affordable than ever.

great product very easy setup , loud speaker and easy to use

I use this home mini as my alarm, also to control my Phillips hue bulbs, vizio tv, and it's a good sounding speaker. Sometimes you have to repeat the command multiple times and sometimes it's not accurate but it does evolve over time. Overall it's a great price point at $29 it's a fully functional speaker and Google Home assistant. The only thing is that it's a stationary station. Meaning it does not have a portable battery feature, it has to be plugged in at all times.

This is a fantastic item, especially for the price. Much louder and clearer then the Echo Dot with more helpful responses thanks to the google artificial intelligence. We already owned a regular Google home and this works exactly the same with a smaller speaker, We now have one in each bedroom in the house. Very happy with the purchase.

We love it for search! We have had Alexa (echo dot) for about a year and use this to control are home and integrate a lot of skills, but let's face it she is terrible at search. We love just to be able to ask what we normally would google and for the price you can't go wrong. A couple of other real nice things are the fact the weather is simple unless you ask for more detail and when asking for detailed information like recipes it will walk you through allowing you to say next or go back. Alexa just sends it to your app. If your serious about a smart home you need both, if you want home automation go with alexa (also she has a better sense of humor) but if you want information and a better speaker and a small profile you must have google mini.

I love this little guy. It's a lot cheaper than the original Google Home or even the original Amazon Echo and it has no trouble understanding me or my grandfather for the most part. I mostly use it to plan out my day such as asking it for the weather, but it can even tell me what Pokemon evolve into and silly things like that. The speaker isn't the greatest and I wish it could aux out to a better speaker or at least bluetooth to one. Overall, a great purchase!

great price knows what your asking small easy to setup