Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this for my daughter and she absolutely loves it. She uses it every day to check the weather, set alarms, and play music. For us, it was a better investment than the regular sized Google Home seeing as the main differences are microphone sensitivity and speaker quality. The speaker quality on the mini is still great. Overall the product is easy to use and super convenient.

I already had the full size Google Home speaker as well as the Amazon Echo Dot. I was expecting a product very similar to the Dot, but I was pleasantly surprised. The Google Mini beats the Echo Dot by a mile in both sound quality and in appearance. It was very easy to set up in the Google Home app. Bought it at BestBuy on Black Friday and will add more when they go back on sale.

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.

I have a google home device and the google mini just adds to home control. Easy set up. Use in the bedroom to control lights and get the time and weather report while still in bed. The sound is better than any alarm clock radio and setting an alarm is easier than with an alarm clock. Many more uses that include a chromecast and bluetooth. Will get more for other rooms.

In December 2019 one of our children received an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas. After plugging it in and setting it up which was easy enough we realize there’s not very much kid friendly content that actually works. There’s lots of glitches in their content which is 90% third-party applications with some sketchy policies. The Eco is not able to understand anyone in our family on the first go no matter what we say. Being a military family we all have different accents. One adult from New York City, one adult from West Virginia and, one child who grew up in Washington state. We are constantly repeating ourselves to Alexa and she is constantly opening the wrong app, Music, or order. Nothing is more frustrating than asking Alexa to open a book and the only book she opens over and over is peter rabbit even the most patient child or adult will become quickly annoyed. When it came time to buy smart speakers for the rest of our home I was convinced they must all be this bad but thought I would give Google home mini a chance since it’s conversational speech recognition and AI have good ratings. I could not be more pleased with the devices we purchased. The sound quality is excellent and they only phrase you have to learn is “Hey Google” as opposed Alexa’s many commands that even she doesn’t recognize. Well Amazon does both being able to place your orders I can do that from my phone in a few seconds which is usually faster than Alexa is able to recognize what it is I’m ordering anyway. Amazon is linked to audible obviously but Alexa frequently open the wrong box so it’s easier to broadcast over my Google home mini. Well Amazon does both being able to place your orders I can do that from my phone in a few seconds which is usually faster than Alexa is able to recognize what it is I’m ordering anyway. Amazon is linked to audible obviously but Alexa frequently open the wrong box so it’s easier to broadcast over my Google home mini. Google Home mini is also better able to help my grade schooler look things up or spell them. It was a breeze thinking with our smart TV and I’m assuming just as easy to connect other smart devices. We will very likely be adding to the two that we currently have. Well Google home mini has volume that can be controlled using your voice you can also touch the sides of the device itself to turn the volume up and down there are no visible buttons but it is sensitive to touch. I find the sound quality in general to be much better than Alexa on the Echo Dot. Alexa sounds muffled a lot of the time and the Google home mini is clear enough that we are able to use them as speakers throughout our home during parties/relaxed with quality sound. Google home mini also allows you to customize alarm sounds and set up morning/bedtime routines. Example: My morning routine starts with my alarm which I’ve sent to the sound of relaxing music a few minutes later google will play the news for me from my selective news stations and tell me about traffic on the way to work. At night Google will confirm what time I’d like my alarm set for, play meditation for me, and any other task I program it to do. Privacy: Both Amazon Echo Dot and Google home mini have options to physically turn off the microphone. Echo Dot will glow red when the microphone is turned off and Google mini will show 4 orange dots. With Google Mini you can unplug it if you don’t trust the button. Once you plug it back in it picks up right where it left off with no need to setup. Amazon Echo Dot can do the same thing but takes longer to load. Overall if you’re looking for something that you use every day for more than just weather the google home mini is the better option.

This little speaker is great. It has a clear crisp sound and a good volume for the speaker size. You can set up different voices for it to recognize and even play games with it. We played a trivia game and it's pretty fun! The voice of the google mini is great too, it doesn't sound mechanical and it just a great purchase for the price. I would recommend it for sure!

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.

I love the way Google Assistant will integrate with all of my other home automation devices. Having a Google Play Music subscription is also great for music, and the YouTube Red along with it is just a cherry on top. With the price of the Mini being so much lower, it's easier to justify having one in every room of the house, so you're never out of voice range.

Got this mainly to play my Spotify in my room. I also like setting a morning alarm with this, even though the first time turning it off was quite hilarious. (I kept yelling at it to turn off, forgetting to say "Hey Google, TURN OFF.") It's also nice to ask random questions to, especially the weather. Works better than Siri on my iPhone. Speaker is very good for a room. I'd recommend it.

Is it worth the retail price of $49. Probably. Is it worth the $29 holiday season sale price. Definitely. My son and I have spent countless hours playing the embedded trivia games that Google assistant allows. Overall it's great little device---so much that we now have three of them. The Google home effectively turns on the lights, plays our respective Spotify Playlists, entertains us to no end and finds answers to our many asanine world inquiries. What's not to love for $30?

I think the Google Home Mini is one of the best smart home devices. It offers the smartest Assistant at an amazing price. I use it for everything from work commute to controlling the lights and tv in my home. I went and bought another Google Home for another room as well so that could play music around the house. Great device. I recommend the purchase.

At first I was not going to jump onto the voice assistant speaker bandwagon. I though it was a gimmick. But I wanted to buy a replacement for a small bluetooth speaker that I had. I saw this at black friday at a very good price, said ... meh lets do it. Wife and I immediately fall in love with it, way more practical than a bluetooth speaker and cheaper.

Perfect size, speaker, and functionality for the price. Can't wait for them to expand the google assistant even more.

This is the Google Home most people will buy on a whim. At $50 it's in the impulse buy price range, and when it goes on sale for $30 this black Friday, it's a stocking stuff. I have the standard Google Home and honestly the sound quality on the larger device is far superior. But..... This Home Mini is less than half the price. Absolutely worth the cost, I use mine almost every day.

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.

I love my new toy. It seems to do all the things that "ok google" does on my phone like tell the weather or set up an appointment on my Google calendar. But I discovered that it also interacts with my Sony TV which has built in Android. I can ask it to show a particular YouTube video or Netflix show "on my TV" - and it does. Great gadget for $30!!