The Gemini app is now on Mac

originalvichy

I wonder if they will finally let you use past chats without having to turn on the data sharing, since it’s possible to store chat context on disk. (No chance).

exabrial

> The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience Ok Google, this is well-earned. This is enough to make me try Gemini over Claude. I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps. One day it's working, next day its not. I'd rather just have releases once it's confirmed working, and something I can roll back if it breaks. I have work to get done, and it's like rolling the dice right now every day.

antipaul

Seems like the most basic thing ever. Can’t even use the new Gemma on device model… no model selection besides fast/normal/thinking. Also requires Google login

xnx

The amount of products and updates shipping from the AI-invigorated Google is mind-boggling. They are leading or highly competitive in every AI segment: foundation model, open-weights model, video model, image model, world model, AI IDE, AI CLI, text-to-music, text-to-speech, etc. etc. etc.

Flux159

I'm going to be honest - this is over a year late. I still use ChatGPT on Mac because it actually had a Mac App from May of 2024, whereas I had to go to the Gemini website to use Gemini. It was even worse because of the fragmented experience - there's been an iOS Gemini app for a while now. Integrating Gemini into Chrome is not the same experience as having a standalone app. Now that it's at least here, hopefully Google can continue updating it instead of giving up on it if their metrics don't show as fast growth as iOS or Chrome usage.

shrx

Meanwhile, I still can't use Gemini as my Android Auto assistant.

1Ecz3

still on the latest pixel phone - gemini can't read basic things.

egorfine

Excellent. Now the Project Manager of this app gets a promotion at Google, the team gets disbanded to other projects and this app gets abandoned. Congratulations!

Apreche

How about making something we actually want, like a GMail app for mac.

maz1b

Heard it's written in Swift for this native adaptation. That's a good sign.

qwertyuiop_

Could we start the count down clock on when Google will deprecate this app ?

syntaxing

Any way to run this on Gemma 4 only? If there was a “local” mode, I would seriously think about installing this.

hk1337

Man, I’ve spent so many years now without google, I want to try it because I want to try different agents but I don’t really want to setup google on my MacBook. Does this have console like Claude and codex? --- I was able to install and use Gemini on macOS fine authentication worked. I had some issues authenticating with the cli app, some certificate issues. Once I got past the certificate issues, now it will not let me use the cli code assist without verifying that I am 18+ but I can use the UI app just fine without the verification. To verify, seems to require submitting a government issued ID or credit card. No thanks. This kind of stuff is why I dropped google long ago.

hn_throw2025

Apple Silicon only. Thanks for nothing.

decancode

Really hoping this will not strip off messages as it happens in iOS apps with long conversations over days. Have been seeing that happen consistently where older chats have some messages missing in between