The best Google app with artificial intelligence.
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Google Gemini is the official app of the eponymous service, previously known as Bard. With the platform, available of course on mobile as well as on computer, you will have the possibility to interact directly with the Alphabet assistant. This will be able, in turn, to carry out web searches, answer math problems or even suggest good ideas for titles for a press article.
With Google Gemini, you will also have the opportunity to benefit from choice integration with the other services of the Mountain View firm. For example, the American artificial intelligence can suggest routes to take by car, when you are planning a vacation, by displaying the result on a Google Maps map. The result is particularly satisfactory and even if errors can occur, the answers are generally quite reliable.
Google Gemini also offers the possibility, as with Google Lens (see below), to recognize an element in a photo: furniture, animal, plant… In addition, with Gemini, you can also replace the Google Assistant from A to Z. And of course, voice control is also part of it, so you can communicate with the AI directly orally. To save time, professionals looking for a fast solution to compete with ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot will appreciate.
The best Google app to manage your calendar like a pro.
Who doesn't know Google Calendar ? Installed by default on many smartphones, this online calendar is synchronized with all your devices and clearly has nothing to envy to the eponymous alternative from Apple, for its part available natively on iPhones. What's more, Google Calendar has recently benefited from an integration with Google Tasks: your tasks then appear in your weekly planner. It's much more practical than using both apps simultaneously.
Google Calendar has recently also allowed free users to deploy an appointment scheduling tool similar to Calendly. Previously, it was essential to have a subscription to Google One or Google Workspace in order to be eligible for it. It should also be noted that those who subscribe also benefit from intelligent categorization of events, through customizable color codes within Google Calendar.
With the tool, you can also set up reminders according to a well-defined time frame. When the desired time arrives, you will then receive a notification directly on your smartphone. Google Calendar is also available on both iOS and Android, so no discrimination here. Finally, be aware that the app also includes alerts to warn you before an event begins. Several schedules are offered: from several minutes before to several days before.
The best Google app to save your photos online.
Google Photos is perhaps THE best photo storage app in 2024. And for good reason: here, the developer offers us everything we can expect from this type of service. So, of course, you can also use alternative cloud offers like those of Box or OneDrive. But you will clearly not benefit from such a practical interface, and even less from visual recognition features as with Google Photos.
The app allows you to detect the faces of your friends or the faces of your favorite pets, when it is not the integration with Lens that saves the day. With Google Photos, you also benefit from no less than fifteen gigabytes of free online storage. The images that you save in this way are then available at any time and from all your devices, whether on tablet, mobile or computer.
Google Photos also has a powerful search function, for example to find text or images captured in a particular location. There are certainly concerns about privacy, but the same is true with the competition these days. Finally, be aware that Google Photos also offers the creation of printed albums to personalize, which you then receive at home for a small additional fee.
Google Photos is available on Android, but also on iOS. The desktop version is also very intuitive.
The best Google app to find your lost devices.
Google Find My Device, as its name suggests ;indicates, allows you to quickly identify the location of a device that you may have forgotten, lost or stolen. Connected to your Google account, the platform arrives thus to identify the geolocation of other smart devices that run with the same identifier. So, if tomorrow you no longer find the smartwatch associated with your smartphone, then the Google Find My Device app could find it for you.
Google Find My Device works thanks to the wireless sensors of our wearables and mobiles, so it is still necessary that these are activated to take full advantage of the value proposition of the platform. But in everyday life, the tool proves very useful, for example when you have dropped your wireless headphones under the cushions of the sofa. You can then choose to make your pair of earphones ring, remotely.
Other benefits of Google Find My Device include the ability to remotely erase all of the content on your smartphone, after carefully locking it. This prevents your personal data from falling into the wrong hands, a welcome solution if you haven't taken proper precautions beforehand. Finally, be aware that Google Find My Device also works with trackers like those from the Pebblebee and Chipolo brands. A good alternative to Apple's Find My app, in short.
The best Google app to enable two-factor authentication with your third-party services.
Google Authenticator is an app which, like Auhty, offers you the possibility of generating two-factor authentication codes very easily. All you have to do is quickly scan the QR code generated by the secure service of your choice, via your mobile camera, to link the account in question to Google Authenticator. The procedure is very simple and the minimalist design of the app fits with the guidelines we are used to at Alphabet, so it's a 20/20 for the app. appearance.
For many, two-factor authentication is essential today. Professionals use it in particular to secure their various teleworking tools, or even their bank accounts. We also know that many social networks can be hacked very easily these days, without two-factor authentication. With it, it's much more complicated, because hackers would then have to have physical access to the smartphone equipped with Google Authenticator to compromise you.
On the Google Play Store, Google Authenticator also benefits from a fairly satisfactory overall rating with all the same 4.1/5 for almost half a million opinions. Some regret however that the synchronization of the app is not the most effective with different devices, which remains one of the major drawbacks of the platform, for us. Moreover, know that Google Authenticator works even when you do not have access to a stable internet connection. This way you can continue to get your two-factor authentication codes, even in a dead zone.
The best Google app for visual search.
Google Lens, as we do as seen above, gives pride of place to features that are also found on Google Photos and Google Gemini. Except that here, as its name suggests, the app is brilliantly dedicated to visual search via the rear camera of your smartphone. With Google Lens, you don't You can also take out your mobile to scan the surroundings to find out more about them. For example, by approaching your target to a store, you could find out its opening hours. #8217;opening. Smart!
At the same time, Lens will also replace your usual QR code reader thanks to its equally powerful detection. When you want to access the link present in this way on a business card, or to access Wi-Fi without typing the WEP key, it is a must-have that cannot be refused. What is more, Google Lens is even capable of translating signs in real time – in the same way as you would with Google Translate. As a bonus, Lens can also recognize characters, regardless of the font, and then allow you to copy them with a simple click.
Among the other assets of Google Lens that have won us over after several years of use, we will also highlight its ability to suggest actions based on the text read by the camera. For example, by approaching your photo block to a concert ticket printed on paper, the app can immediately display a shortcut to create the associated event in your Google Calendar. This is also the strength of Google Lens in the face of competition from Claude (Anthropic) and others: its integration with the rest of the Google ecosystem.
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