The Gemini app is now on Mac

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 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).

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

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

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

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.

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

> 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.

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

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.

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

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!

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