{"id":6037,"date":"2026-04-15T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/6037\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:41:11","slug":"google-launches-a-gemini-ai-app-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/6037\/","title":{"rendered":"Google launches a Gemini AI app on Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google is <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/innovation-and-ai\/products\/gemini-app\/gemini-app-now-on-mac-os\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launching a new Gemini app<\/a> on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant without switching windows on your desktop. With the app, you can use the Option + Space shortcut to pull up a floating chat bubble, where you can ask Gemini questions and share your window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Before sharing your window, you\u2019ll need to give Gemini permission to access your system\u2019s information before sharing your window. From there, the AI assistant will pull information from what you\u2019re looking at to help answer your question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It looks a bit like Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/apple\/682950\/apple-spotlight-mac-shortcuts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upgraded version of Spotlight<\/a>, which you can now use to perform actions on your device, as well as access AI models like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT. The new app puts Google in the running to compete with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/31\/24284742\/claude-ai-macos-windows-desktop-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/5\/13\/24155573\/chatgpt-app-desktop-mac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>, and Perplexity, all of which want their chatbots to become the go-to AI model on desktop devices. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/709158\/openai-new-release-chatgpt-agent-operator-deep-research\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/899430\/anthropic-claude-code-cowork-ai-control-computer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic\u2019s Claude<\/a> app for Mac takes things a step further than Gemini, as they come with features that allow their AI assistants to perform tasks on your behalf on your computer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Just like Gemini on the web and mobile, the Mac app also allows you to upload files, photos, or documents from your Google Drive, and use Gemini to generate images, videos, or music. You can use the app to revisit previous Gemini conversations linked with your Google account, too. The launch comes just one day after Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/911741\/google-windows-app-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made its Spotlight-like app widely available on Windows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google\/mac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemini app<\/a> is available to download for free in all languages and countries where Gemini is supported. It supports macOS Sequoia (15.0) and up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is launching a new Gemini app on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,132,66,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-6037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}