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Google Chat
Team messaging for Google Workspace users, with spaces, huddles and Gemini-generated conversation summaries.
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- Developer
- Google LLC
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 100K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 1.0.494
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Messaging for organisations already living in Gmail, Drive and Calendar, Google Chat is the chat side of Workspace. It handles one-to-one conversations, group chats and spaces for whole teams, with audio and video messages for longer updates and huddles for quick real-time calls. Gemini features are now woven in: conversation summaries, automatic translation across more than 120 languages, AI search, and capture of action items. Smart chips link files, people and spaces inline, and third-party apps such as PagerDuty, Jira, GitHub and Workday can be installed into chats. The Google Drive app for Chat surfaces requests, comments and approvals, and there are APIs for building custom apps. Chat comes with Workspace accounts for consumers, schools and businesses, though some premium features need a paid plan. Data lives in Google's cloud rather than on the device.
Google Chat: the full guide
What the app is
Google Chat is the messaging layer of Workspace, which is to say it's the chat app for organisations that already run on Gmail, Drive and Calendar. Direct messages, group threads and team-wide spaces are the basic units, with voice and video clips for longer thoughts and huddles for quick live calls.
Gemini is now built in: summaries of long threads, translation across 120-plus languages, AI search and action-item capture. Smart chips embed files and people inline, and third-party tools such as Jira, GitHub and PagerDuty can be added to a space. Consumer, school and business accounts all get it, with some features gated to paid plans.
How it works day to day
Morning starts with the spaces you follow, where overnight threads have a Gemini summary if you don't want to read them all. A colleague drops a Doc as a chip, you comment from inside the chat, and a two-minute question becomes a huddle instead of a scheduled meeting.
Most of the day is reactive: notifications, quick replies, approvals surfaced by the Drive app. Action items get captured automatically, which is useful or unnerving depending on your view of AI note-takers. Everything lives in Google's cloud.
Why people look for it
Nobody picks it on its own merits; people install it because their employer or school uses Workspace and this is where the team talks. Searches spike when organisations move off Slack or Teams. Individuals with a Gmail account sometimes try it for family or club groups, since it comes with the account at no cost.
Look and feel
Five screenshots are attached, and they'll show Google's standard Material design: white backgrounds, rounded chips, the coloured avatars from Gmail. The spaces list, a thread with a summary banner and a huddle are probable subjects. If you've used any Google app, the look holds no surprises. The input doesn't detail it further.
