Google opens Gemini and Search to more of your apps, from Adobe to Peloton
More than 50 Connected Apps now work inside Search and the Gemini app, and a new platform lets more app makers join.
Google wants you to get more done without leaving its apps. On October 28, it launched a new way for outside apps to work inside Search and the Gemini app. Google calls them Connected Apps.
These apps let you finish everyday tasks right in Gemini or Search. Google gives simple examples, like ordering groceries and making playlists. You ask, and the connected app does the work.
Google says it has now launched more than 50 Connected Apps across Search and Gemini. They cover areas from work tools and event tickets to health and fitness. Apps from partners like Adobe, Experian, Localiza and Peloton are already live in Gemini. Google says they will come to Search in the coming weeks. A new app from Calm is also on the way for both.
The bigger news is for the people who make apps. Google opened a preview of a new Connected Apps Platform. It is one place to build an app once and offer it in both Search and Gemini. App makers sign up, test and send in their app through a Google tool. Before review, they pick where it goes live: Search, Gemini, or both.
There is a catch. The platform is only a preview for now. Google is opening access in phases. It says it will add more app makers, more markets and more Google products over the coming months. So the list of apps you can use will keep changing.
Open it and check the claim yourself. That is the point.