“Google worst decision yet. to lock everything behind a paywall just like what ChatGPT did. In oct, 9: they will lock everything except a useless flash-lite that barely anyone uses and always hallucinate. i thought Google cares about…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 8,165 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.6 ★50,272,406 ratings
1B+Downloads
12+Age rating
380 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
From your morning commute to late-night deep dives, Google Gemini is your personal, proactive and powerful AI assistant.
WHY USERS LOVE GEMINI • Our latest models, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini Omni, unlock a new world of productivity and creativity. • Gemini Spark 24/7 personal AI agent proactively manages tasks and helps you navigate your digital life, all under your direction. • Daily Brief agent gives you a personalized morning brief and organizes exactly what you need to know to start your day. • Talk things out with Gemini Live: Brainstorm in real time or share your screen/camera to discuss exactly what you see. • Instead of a wall of text, you get carefully crafted responses with interleaved images, timelines, and interactive visuals. • Get more personalized help by connecting your favorite Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, Google Photos, YouTube, and Search. • Upload documents, sp…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 1.2026.3870402 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.2026.3870402, updated 2026-10-02.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 1.0.971139365 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.0.971139365, updated 2026-08-31.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 1.0.971139365, scanned 2026-09-28.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
No advertising SDKs
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK found in the package
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (0.1% of 5727 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Users describe the free version as usable
Reviewers repeatedly say the free version is worth using on its own. Nothing we can measure corroborates that — a free listing with in-app purchases looks identical whether the free tier is generous or a demo — so this is published as what reviewers say, not as a measured credit.
What we saw: Reviewers describe the free version as usable: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.1% of 5727 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“BYE — I’m honestly so disappointed. So now the Flash and Pro versions are being locked behind a paid subscription, while free users are basically left with only the Lite version? Seriously? I was actually considering paying for a Gemini…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.2026.3870402.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.