The Gemini app is now on Mac • Hacker News Board

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by Apreche » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

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

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by sayYayToLife » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

1Ecz3 wrote: post #12

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

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Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by girvo » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC

operatingthetan wrote: post #18

comboy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried antigravity and cli a few times. I'm unable to handle that prodigious toddler. Are you guys able to make use of it?

CLI is great, probably 90% as good as CC.

Antigravity CLI or the Gemini one? When I tried the latter about 2 months ago it was shockingly bad, though I was a free user. I assume its better if you're a paying customer?

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by sayYayToLife » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

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Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by 46493168 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

Apreche wrote: post #21

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

What would that get you over just the chrome version?

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by tomhow » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

egorfine wrote: post #20

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Please don't post snarky dismissals like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by operatingthetan » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

girvo wrote: post #23

operatingthetan wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CLI is great, probably 90% as good as CC.

Antigravity CLI or the Gemini one? When I tried the latter about 2 months ago it was shockingly bad, though I was a free user. I assume its better if you're a paying customer?

It doesn't appear that there is an Antigravity CLI, so the ladder. I'm using a paid account though.

For the last few months I was using paid versions of CC, Codex and Gemini CLI, and found them more or less equivalent for my uses. I'm just building web apps though.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by jsmo » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

straydusk wrote: post #10

xnx wrote: post #5

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.

I'm about as AI-pilled as anyone. Stitch is the only Google powered AI product I use. How are they winning?

Never heard of it, seems like a Wix / Canva knock-off?

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by maz1b » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

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

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by qwertyuiop_ » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:26 PM UTC

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