Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Google Home Mini is as good as you would expect for its price. It is exactly as advertised - a great little speaker with decent sound and the perfect beginner item for someone interested in making their home smart. If you have an Iphone as I do, it is still a good product and works best if you prefer Spotify over Apple Music.

I bought the Google Home because I wanted to be more hands free. I have a 5yo and a 10mo old and always have my hands full doing something or another. The Home has been great for playing music and asking very simple questions, but I really thought that it would allow me to ask things I would ask Google on my phone. I was wrong. So often the response is, "Sorry, I am not yet able to do that" or something along those lines. Even for relatively simple questions. I managed to get it to give me some news updates and NPR top news, but I had to be specific in how I asked for these things. It can tell me the weather as well. I will like the Google Home more when they expand its capabilities some more. We don't have any other smart appliances here, no smart thermostat, lights, security....so I know I am not using the device to its full potential, but even for the little I ask of it I would hope it could deliver.

We've had a couple of Google Home's for a while now and got this Mini to extend our coverage. Maybe the Google Home has a little bit better sound, but this one does everything like it's big brother and costs a lot less. Definitely a win!

We've had a couple of Google Home's for a while now and got this Mini to extend our coverage. Maybe the Google Home has a little bit better sound, but this one does everything like it's big brother and costs a lot less. Definitely a win!

Setup was very easy. The sound is pretty good considering the small size. We use it as an alarm clock/radio in the bedroom. The same features as the bigger Google Home, just smaller.

Use this as a primary interface with my Samsung SmartThings hub - which controls all sorts of lights/dimmers an smart plugs. Does a decent job pulling up programming that you would access on your mobile once you figure out the best ways to phrase the commands... like saying the name of the radio station as it appears on TuneIn

Easy setup and if you have an android phone, you will have more custom options. It seems to sync better with android than with Apple products. Love the trivia game and that it has the ability to keep a conversation going unlike Alexa.

If you're looking for a secondary Google Home to go into a smaller room like a bathroom you're in luck. The speaker is good but not great. It gets loud but almost too loud to the point where saying Hey Google might not work on first go. I suggest buying the normal sized Google Home as the main one and the mini as secondary.

These little speaker donuts are great. You can talk to them and they answer your questions. This donut does not taste good but lets me turn off my lights like other donuts do not.

We have been thinking about switching some items in the house into smart features. To start out though, we needed to understand what they could do. This was bought at the same time we bought some lights. Nothing too over the top. And it was a great way of learning what they could do. It didn't long for me to get use to having one in the house. Granted it didn't stay where it began. After some other products, we moved this into the master bedroom to see if we would use it there. That was one of the best moves we did with the mini. Here are things we found that we like with just one; Control movies, play music, tell stories, play whitesound or sleep sounds, crate - edit - read back lists from Keeps, answer random questions, and controlling lights. If you have more then two, we found these things that we liked; broadcast messages to other speakers, calling other speakers, and being link to one household so we can get information anywhere. I personally went with Google for a few reasons. I've been playing with the Google AI with my phone for a few years. So I had some idea what they were doing. I also like the look and profile of their speakers more the Alexa. I also felt that Alexa needed to be link straight with your Amazon account and I can easily see us ordering things we shouldn't by voice. Before you get into smart home, research which you want as the based of your smart home. If you know other to create a smart home without these, do it. But if you are thinking about what you might want in a smart home and can do programming, get one of these with some lights.

Actually got this along with my Nest thermostat. Already have a Home in the kitchen. It's kinda nice having the same functions available upstairs, too. Sounds decent musically, for it's size and is very unobtrusive on a nightstand.

I control my Phillips hue lights, play my music, set my schedules all with my Google home setup. I had Amazon product and just not nearly as good. The Google Home has a better speaker than the mini but for 50 bucks this is a steal.

Great for a bedroom or medium sized kitchen sound is room filling but not sound pounding google Assistant is easy to use and great just fair warning the reminders don’t remind you lol but if you don’t mind that part then it’s great

Just as expected, a mini version of Google Home. It does everything you'd expect but smaller. Also a great sounding speaker for how small it is. Very surprised and impressed. I have 2 of them, as well as a full sized Google Home.

I use this in my bedroom. Great to converse with Google directly from my bed. It's low profile and even smaller size (I have a regular G Home for my living room) makes it almost disappear. So it is a great space saver as well. I would highly recommend this, and can't wait for further add-ons with it. Great product !!

OK, so I already have the Alexa, so didn't want to spend the big bucks on the Google Home.... However... getting this mini for $30 was a great choice... so much so, I now have 3 of them for different rooms. Very easy to set up, and it understands everything! I definitely prefer this over the Alexa now. Worth the buy!

This item was my first venture into voice controls for my house. I did a lot of reading on different options and decided with the lower holiday price I couldn't go wrong giving the Home Mini a shot. I was not disappointed at all. The mic picks up commands really well from anywhere in the room. The speaker is better than I expected. It isn't going to be a super crazy loud high fidelity music player but for voice, basic music, podcasts, etc. it is actually much cleared and louder than I expected. I have all the lights in my house able to be controlled via the Home Mini. I rarely use the switches or apps to control lights any more. The entire family has actually adopted the use to control the lights. I was so pleased that I have purchased 3 of these to go through out my house now.

... but not having to deal with their quirks. This thing is great at answering your questions in a surprisingly quick time. Add in the ability to help control home items like your TV and lights, and this is a complete winner.

We have multiple around the house and love them! We use them for timers, music, and to control our smart lights. We also will ask Google questions often, and with multiple young kids in the house, it comes in handy for facts!

Loving my Google Home Mini so far, surprised at how loud it is, even at 40% volume, sound quality is not the best, but it is loud. Also surprised how well it can hear my voice. Looking forward to using it more and more.