Gemini for Home
Everything you
need for a
smarter home
Everything you need for a smarter home
A home app that’s
built around you
Create your ideal home dashboard. Pin favorite devices to a streamlined home screen and access everything instantly, from lights and cameras to thermostats.6
The Activity tab is your single destination for tracking everything that happens in your home. Review camera feeds and alerts with events from all your connected first-party and third-party devices.6,7 Get quick daily summaries from Gemini with Home Brief.2,4
The Automations tab is where you’ll find your automations you’ve created and a carousel showing the ones coming up next.5 Get help from Gemini by typing in what you need.2,5 For those who want to go deeper, use the editor to build more customized automations with flexible conditions and device traits to match your creativity.
Tying this all together is Ask Home, accessible from the top of any tab. Simply type in any device, room, or app setting - even search your video history by just describing what you’re looking for. Getting what you want has never been easier.2,4
One home for all your devices
Easily set up, control, and automate your home all in a single app. Enjoy seamless compatibility with all your favorite devices from Google together with your favorite partner brand devices built with Matter or with the Works with Google Home logo.7
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Entertainment
Take fun to the next level with smart TVs, speakers, and more.
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Climate and Energy
Save energy and increase comfort with smart thermostats, fans, & air conditioners.
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Lighting and Plugs
Make lighting more helpful with colored smart bulbs, switches, plugs, and more.
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Appliances and more
From smart ovens to vacuums, find appliances that do the work for you.
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Security and Awareness
Make lighting more helpful with colored smart bulbs, switches, plugs, and more.
Intuitive control that matches every moment
Control your home with your voice
- Talk naturally with Gemini on your speakers and displays, from quick commands to helpful, back-and-forth conversations.2,3
- Control devices, get answers, and manage your home without lifting a finger.2
Control your home with your displays
- Swipe to see your lights, locks, and thermostats and adjust the volume of music or brightness of lights with a slider.6,7
- Instantly view live video from your Nest Doorbell automatically when someone rings and conveniently tap the microphone button to talk.7
Control your home with your TV
- Access the Google Home panel using your compatible streamer or TV without interrupting your favorite show.7
- Check cameras, answer the door, and adjust devices from the comfort of your couch.7
Control your home with your smartwatch
- Manage your home from your Wear OS watch, wherever you are.7
- Adjust lights, locks, and temperature without reaching for your phone.7
Control your home with your browser
- Conveniently monitor all your cameras and doorbells side by side from your desktop or laptop.7
- Adjust your devices, run automations, or create more powerful ones with the script editor.2,5
Control your home with your widgets
- Get quick, one tap controls for your most-used devices with the Favorites widget.
- Your favorite lights, cameras, Matter-enabled devices, and other devices are conveniently synced with your Favorites that you set up in the Home app.6
Automation made easy
Choose the style that’s right for you
It’s never been easier to let Google Home take care of everyday household tasks for you. From opening blinds and turning off porch lights to making coffee and locking your doors, explore some of the ways to easily automate - your way.2,5,6
Google Home Premium
See what a smarter home can do
Google Home Premium unlocks our most capable Gemini-powered features for home: upgrading your cameras, speakers, and displays to make your home smarter, safer, and more effortless.
You’re in control
Safer with Google
Google uses your compatible devices and data to make your home more helpful - and in the ways that you prefer. So you can rest easy knowing that you’re in control of your personal information, and that you’re backed by world-class security.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the benefits of using Google Home to organize and control my smart home over other smart home platforms?
Google Home unites all of your compatible smart devices to work together in harmony, in a single app. This means you no longer need to constantly switch between apps to get things done or tweak minor settings.
Help is always within reach across all of your compatible smart devices from your phone, Wear OS watch, tablet, laptop or desktop, smart display, Google TV, and even just using your voice by saying "Hey Google" to get help from Gemini for Home voice assistant.2
Set up helpful routines to automate your home to get automatic help from your home.5
Google Home supports the latest smart home device categories and technologies to ensure your smart home is always ready to help.
Intelligent alerts from Google Home Premium subscriptions make your smart home even more helpful through premium features that ensure you are getting the most out of your smart home.
It's easy to get started, and as your needs grow, so does the help from Google Home.
Do all smart devices work with Google Home?
Google Home works with all of your favorite devices made by Google, as well as over 80,000 compatible Works with Google Home devices from your other favorite brands.
Additionally, the new standard for smart home devices, Matter, was designed around the vision of making all Matter-enabled devices compatible with one another.
Because Google Home supports Matter, as more smart home device makers adopt this technology, your smart home will automatically be compatible with them as they become available.
Can I use my iPhone to control my devices with Google Home?
Yes. The Google Home app is compatible with and available for download on both Android and iOS devices alike.7
If one person sets up their smart home, can other people in their home still control it without the help of the person who set it up?
Yes. No matter which family member sets up Google Home, all members of the family will be able to control your smart devices via the app, personalized routines, or even simply by using their voice.2,5
Additionally, if you would like to limit access for certain household members or guests, the Limited Access feature in the Google Home app lets you customize how much access to allow for different members of your household or guests, and what level of information Google Home should share.
What are smart home automations; are they the same as smart home routines?
Smart home automations and smart home routines both involve automating tasks and actions within your smart home system. So they are basically the same. But there are some key differences.2,5
Routines are typically initiated by a voice command (eg "Hey Google, good morning") or a manual action (eg tapping in the app).
Automations are triggered by events or certain household conditions like specific events occurring within your home. This could be a sensor detecting motion, a door opening, or the time of day.
Automations are more flexible and customizable because they offer more granular control and customization options, allowing you to set scenarios for automating that are as simple or as complex as you like (eg "if motion is detected after sunset, turn on the porch light").
Routines in the Google Home app are automations for your home devices that can help you and your household automate tasks throughout the day.
What are Matter devices, and how are they different from devices based on other smart home technologies?
Smart home industry leaders (from platforms like Google Home, Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings to smart device makers like Philips Hue, August Home, Nanoleaf, TP-Link, and hundreds more), have all partnered together to create a new, single technology for smart home devices. This ensures they can all easily speak to one another and can be controlled from any Matter-certified smart home platform.
To add Matter to Google Home, or any other smart home platform, simply add a device that acts as a Matter hub with the smart home platform you are using.6 After adding a device that works as a hub for Matter, you will be able to easily set up Matter devices, and control them remotely when away from home.7
Why do I need a hub to get started with Matter devices? I don’t need a hub to use my Google and Works with Google Home devices, why do I need a hub for my Matter-enabled devices?
Matter was created by smart home industry leaders working together with the vision of solving smart home device compatibility issues across ecosystems.6 Before this, smart home devices were built and designed to work with specific smart home platforms. Additionally, they were only controllable over certain smart home connectivity technologies like Wi-Fi, Zigbee, or Z-Wave.
As a result, many smart home consumers were frustrated by the lack of compatibility from one device to another. This made it difficult to choose which devices would work in their home, or with their smart home platform app of choice.
Matter, the new, universal standard for smart home devices, was created to make smart devices more compatible, easier to set up, and more reliable. And for connecting devices together, Matter devices use either your home Wi-Fi network, or Thread, the latest connectivity technology for faster smart devices that reach further than ever before in your home.
A hub device for Matter is required for every smart home platform that you want to control your Matter smart devices with. This enables you to set up your Matter devices, and to control them remotely when you are away from home.7 Once you have a Matter hub added to your Google Home, all of your favorite Google, Works with Google Home, and Matter devices will work together seamlessly and smoothly.
What is Thread, and how is it different from other smart home connectivity protocols like Wi-Fi?
Thread is the latest wireless technology like Wi-Fi, but designed specifically for smart home devices.
Smart devices that use Thread to connect with one another, work faster and reach further than smart devices that only use Wi-Fi to connect.
Thread also uses less power than Wi-Fi, so certain smart devices that use batteries (eg. sensors, door locks, and more) can last much longer between battery changes.
Thread devices create a mesh network to make your smart device connections stronger.
Thread devices require a Thread border router to connect them together and acts as a bridge between your Thread network of smart devices and your existing home Wi-Fi network. This allows Thread-enabled devices to communicate with other non-Thread smart devices and also access the internet. Additionally this expands the reach of your smart home and enables communication between devices that might be too far away from to work over Wi-Fi alone.
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Compared to Google Assistant.
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Requires Google Home app, Wi-Fi, and internet connection. Features subject to change; available in select countries and languages. Gemini features work independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy; results may vary.
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Requires a Google Home Premium subscription (sold separately).
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Requires Google Home Premium Advanced plan (sold separately).
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Home Automations may require additional enrollment and setup, and depend on working internet, Wi-Fi and service availability for compatible smart home devices (sold separately) included in the automations.
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Requires compatible smart devices (sold separately).
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Some features, including mobile and browser notifications, remote control, and sound detection, require the Google Home app and working internet and Wi-Fi.
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Only available on Nest Cam (outdoor or indoor, battery), Nest Cam with floodlight, Nest Cam (indoor, wired, 2nd gen), Nest Doorbell (battery), Nest Doorbell (wired, 2nd gen). Nest camera sold separately.