Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was not initially interested but received it after buying the Pixel 2 XL. And by my surprise, I am enjoying it. Its easy to set up and use. Speaking of which, this small speaker had many uses. It's mostly capable. Sound is decent. Works flawlessly with other Google products. My parents also fell in love with it. Try it!

This speaker is awesome!! I bought 2 of them for my house and I gotta say these are very helpful. Plus when you play music you can have them play at the same time which is nice since you can’t really add an outside audio source. Overall this speaker is nice to have in your home it takes a little getting use to but cool.

I mainly use my google home mini as a speaker and to check weather in the morning. It is so compatible with my everyday life since my emails and android are all set up using google applications. It has great sound quality as a speaker and it even links up to my Spotify l. Overall great produce for an even better price!

This is a great product from my standpoint. I love that it is easy to set up and ready to go. the Speaker sound for such a small product is great!!! I have bought more than one for my home so I can control different sections of my house. As of right now I have about 6 of them in my 4200 Square foot house, I have also turned off the mic in different sections of my home in order to use it as a speaker. Cant beat the $30 price tag.

I'm a huge fan of Android, and have been using Google Assistant on my phone for years, so I felt it was time to branch out to using their speaker. Since getting this up and running I love it, great sound and the assistant is awesome, in fact I've already started looking at smart home extensions. Highly recommend this

I might be a little prejudice, but I would rather base a smart home on Google over Amazon. Great for asking questions or hooking up to smart lights and can ask to turn off lights etc. Haven't used voice control much to see ease of streaming videos on Chromecast, but that will be next. Works great with Philips Hue.

Super compact and decent sound. If you have membership to some of the music subscriptions that are built in, makes a great speaker. You can also cast music from your phone as well. Great value all around, especially if you are in the Google Nest/Aware ecosystem (allows you to lock your doors with a command). One great feature is that you can make calls through the Home Mini without needing a cell phone. I have one in just about all the rooms of my house. This allows me to broadcast messages to my family locally or remotely. Definitely a must-have!

I picked up two Home Mini's on Black Friday when I had no intentions of buying one. But since they were at the very front when I walked by and saw them on sale for $30 plus w/$10 gift card, I said what the heck and bought two. I'm using one side-by-side my Echo Dot in the living room, and another one in my bedroom. I'd say that the Google units work equally as well if not better than the Amazon products. I do like that the Google Assistance on the Mini's will work in conjunction with my Pixel 2XL. So I can get more usage out of it because of that. I also use it with my Harmony Hub. It works and completes commands as good as my Echo Dot; however I do tend to have to be more specific on my commands for them to work. I have to include "Hey Google, tell Harmony..." before my command. With my Echo Dot, I only have to say "Alexa,....".

With google home speech recognition is excellent. you can speak very naturally, clear sound and good voice definition, picking commands from a distance. I strongly preferred the Google Home Mini than Echo Dot. I'm able to make calls for free through the Minis using just my voice. And I love broadcast feature.

The Google Home Mini is very easy to set up and very easy to use. It is handy for playing music, answering questions, setting timers and alarms and for performing many other search, alert, calling and remote operation tasks all by voice command. I will eventually have a home network of these Google devices.

This is the perfect addition to our kitchen. It is easy to use and is so helpful to have when my hands are busy working. It is convenient to get a quick answer to questions. I also love that it ties to all my Google accounts. I can ask for calendar reminders and play music. I like that the size isn't bulky.

I have a full Google Home and now a few of the minis. If you are familiar with Google Home - it's a small version of that. Very small - smaller than expected! And that's probably good in terms of taking up space, and the sound is good for the size. The one HUGE flaw with the Google Home products is that you cannot fully link to your Google account if you have a Google G Suite account. Which is absolutely ridiculous.

I needed a couple of Google Home in the house to serve as another voice control for my Smart switches on different floors of the house, but did not want to spend the money. The Google mini was perfect. The sound is just as good as the large Google Home with the benefit of the compact size. I was impressed

We read reviews about Amazon Alexa and Google Home Mini before purchasing. We ended up getting the Google Home Mini since it recognizes multiple voices and can connect to that persons apps, calendars and routines where Alexa cannot. It's been so easy for both of us to use voice commands that we bought a second one for the bedroom. There is also a group functions where the music can play from both devices at the same time or not. It was difficult trying to set us both up for the first one we purchased since one has an Android phone and the other an Apple. We had to contact google to walk us through the correct order of steps to get us both set up with our voices and synced to our separate brand of phones, but they were available quickly to help and patient. Setting up the second Google Home Mini took less than a minute.

I love google products so much, i first got the bigger sized google home then got the mini for my sister but theyre pretty much the same thing and it's cheaper than amazons stuff and BETTER. I use it to help me study (I'm in nursing school) and the google home helps me with my medications unlike the echo.

I primarily use Siri/Homekit for my home automation needs, but my wife wanted something I could put in the kitchen to easily turn on/off lights with her voice (without resorting to using her phone/watch which she wouldn't have on her at all times). The google home mini is quite versatile and augments my setup nicely. It connects to most of my home automation devices without interfering with that setup (as all my devices are paired with homekit). This includes Lifx, and iDevices bulbs/switches. It's also nice I can stream music to this easily, but this device is quite small so the sound quality isn't the greatest for music. They can be paired with Chromecast Audio devices to fix this naturally. I've been using airport express devices for streaming sound throughout the home, but I might switch to Google Chromecast Audio devices in the future (there are pros and cons to each so I'm not rushing to make that switch). The voice recognition is great (better than Siri by far). I think it also provides better results from questions asked.

We have Google Home and these Google Minis are absolutely perfect for other rooms in the house where we want something a little smaller! We use it so often to check the weather and ask it other random questions that we didn't want to constantly have to be near the main unit to use it. We placed a Mini in our master bedroom upstairs and we use it every morning and every night at the very least. We also use it frequently to play music while we sort laundry on our bed with our 5 kids (that takes a while and the music makes it seem like a little less of a chore.) The sound quality has been excellent and we have had zero issues with it since we bought them. We even bought another one to give one of our daughters for her basement bedroom. She chooses her school clothes each day based on the weather forecast and we don't allow smartphone or tablets in bedrooms (for social media purposes and because our kids would probably hide away in their rooms), so this is the only way she can check the weather without having to come upstairs to ask the main Google Home about the weather forecast. I have the one in our bedroom set up to my own voice so that when I say "Good Morning" to it, it tells me the current temperature, the forecast for the day, and what's on my calendar. I can also opt (through the app) to have it tell me about news stories, my work commute and traffic, the stock market, and other options that I can't remember because I don't use them. (I work from home so I have no traffic commute but I bet that would be a helpful feature for those that do!) I prefer Google Home over Amazon's Alexa, but do hope Google will start coming out with more products that are compatible with Google Home. I see a LOT of products as being compatible with Alexa but Google seems to be falling a little short in that category. It's not importatn enough to me to warrant buying an Alexa as we really love playing games on our Google Home and enjoy the many features, but something to consider if you're wanting a lot of add-ons that are compatible with your smarthome product.

We purchased a Google Home Mini for a blind friend. I help her with her tech and can attest to her frustration at trying to use Web sites with a screen reader. (Imagine something reading every link and ad and heading on a Web page when you are trying to get to certain content!) She was wary of getting yet another device at first, and I made sure she knew we were happy to return this product if she didn't like it. But she has really taken to it. The Google Home Mini is the size of a donut and is really a speaker with smart capabilities when set up with your home Wi-Fi network. It has a microphone on/off switch and a USB cord output that connects to a power plug because it needs to be powered from a wall outlet. My friend put her Google Home Mini on her dining room table. It has great sound for such a small device, and can give her the time, weather, and look up local businesses' operating hours and telephone numbers (and make calls over Wi-Fi -- although the call quality isn't that great when I tested it with her). She can have it set a timer or search for a recipe from the Internet, for say, a cake or something and then read her the directions one by one when she is ready. You can say, Hey Google, play KCBS-AM San Francisco or WBBM-AM Chicago or WCBS-AM New York, or many other stations nationwide, and it will do it! It will play podcasts, such as cooking podcasts or Spanish podcasts. We are still finding out all that it can do! Two complaints: 1) You cannot setup the Google Home Mini out of the box using a computer. You need a tablet or smart phone and have to download the Google Home App to that first in order to set up the Google Home Mini. My friend doesn't have a smart phone or tablet. As a work around, I downloaded the Google Home App to my smart phone, added her Google account to my phone, and set up her Google Home Mini and chose her default news outlets and other settings. After a week or two, I deleted the app and her account from my smart phone so that her contacts and information would not be on my phone. But I really wish you could set up Google Home Mini without doing this. 2) As of this writing, Google Home Mini would not simply play audio from a YouTube clip over its speaker. It can send a YouTube clip to a TV that has a Chromecast device attached, but it'd be better if it could also just play the audio portion on the Google Home Mini speaker without having to connect to another device. But overall, I think the Google Home Mini (and the Amazon Echo) have great potential for blind and visually impaired people. Any of the features I mentioned can also be helpful to a sighted person, of course, but for a blind person or a busy parent in a house with children (little time to sit and type on a keyboard), I can really see the Google Home Mini being extra useful.

If you’re looking to up your smart home game but you’re on a budget, this is a great entry level device. Despite its size, the volume is plenty loud. It’s also has a very modern and stylish look the blends in to any room in your house. It was easy to set up and works very smoothly with my chromecast.

I have had echo dots for a while and wanted to try the home mini. The home mini sounds better than the echo dot and can answer a lot of questions. Downside is that a Bluetooth speaker without chrome cast can not be connected. Another feature we like about echo dot that is not featured on the home mini is the ability to use as an intercom. Overall, home mini is a good product, but could use some improvement.