After the great success of OpenAI’s video editing app Sora, now ranked first on the United States’ App Store, Google seems to be redesigning its Gemini AI app to be more visually oriented. The company seems to be reworking the UI so that the app, instead of a conversational chatbot, would display a scrollable window with recommended actions to take. The proposed actions will be supported with enticing and visually appealing photographs.
These changes were described but are not live to the public, and for that reason, the digital news service Android Authority conducted a preview of the Gemini Android app and its UI. The reverse engineer accessed the app’s new home page and described how buttons for “Image Creation” and “Deep Research” were moved from the top of the page. Below those buttons, a new scrollable feed appeared.
Reached for comment, a Google representative said there’s no information to be made “just yet.”
The suggestions shown gave prompts for Gemini for fun activities involving your saved images, such as “Teleport me to deep space”, “Give me a vintage or grunge look”, or “Turn my drawing into a storybook”. Other colorful background prompts showcased various suggestions for interacting with Gemini and possible use cases. One such suggestion was “Brainstorm out loud with Live”, while another was “Send me a daily news roundup”.
The purpose was clearly to inspire users by distilling more concrete ways to interact with Gemini’s AI, rather than allowing users to interact with the AI chatbot and assess its abilities with no direction. However, this was also designed to improve the Gemini application’s user interface and user experience.
If valuable to the public, it remains an opportunity for Google to more effectively compete with OpenAI. One assumes this is the reason Google is offering a more recent version of its advertising Gemini AI app to users who have shown a willingness to pay for it. Gemini’s ranking in the App Store suggests consumer demand; it was the No. 1 app for several days in September, only to be displaced by Sora.
