You can use the Gemini web app, gemini.google.com, to supercharge your ideas. With a little help from the Gemini web app, you can do things like:
- Brainstorm ideas, develop a plan or find different ways to get things done
- Get a quick, easy-to-understand summary of more complex topics
- Create first drafts of outlines, emails, blog posts, poems and much more
Tip: You can also use the Gemini mobile app on some phones. Learn where the Gemini mobile app is available and how to set up the Gemini mobile app.
What you need
To use the Gemini web app at gemini.google.com, you need one of the following:
- A personal Google Account that you manage on your own. You still can't access the Gemini web app with a Google Account managed by Family Link. You must also be 13 (or the applicable age in your country) or over.
- A work Google Account with a qualifying Workspace edition. You must also be 18 or over.
- A school Google Account. You must also be 13 (or the applicable age in your country) or over and the service must be enabled by your institution's administrator.
- A supported browser: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera or Edgium.
Tips:
Before you use Gemini Apps
- Don't rely on responses from Gemini Apps as medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
- Responses from Gemini Apps don't represent Google's views and should not be attributed to Google.
- You are responsible for your use of code, which may be subject to an open-source licence. Learn more about code and citations.
- Gemini Apps may provide inaccurate or inappropriate responses about people, so double-check its responses. Your feedback makes Gemini Apps more helpful and safe. Learn how to give feedback.
Start a conversation in chat
- On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
- If you're not already signed in, sign in to your Google Account. Learn how to sign in.
- In the text box at the bottom, enter your question or prompt.
- Optionally, to add a file to your prompt, click Upload image
or Add files
.
- The ability to upload files is only available in Gemini Advanced.
- Click Submit
.
.Tip: To start a new chat, at the top left, click New chat . If the option isn't there, first click Menu
. Learn how to find and manage your recent chats.
Add an image or file to your prompt
Add a photo- Next to the prompt, click Upload image
- If you don't find Upload image
Upload image
- If you don't find Upload image
- Select the photo.
Upload image Tip: Learn how to review and control your uploaded files.
Users with Gemini Advanced can upload and analyse their files in the Gemini web app. Learn how to add a file to your prompt.
Choose the model you want to use
You can choose the model that you want to use for a chat.
How to switch between Gemini modelsImportant:
- A chat can only use one model. If you switch between models in an existing chat, it automatically starts a new chat.
- In the Gemini mobile app, you can only switch between Gemini and Gemini Advanced. To switch between models, use the Gemini web app.
- If you’re using Gemini Apps with a work or school Google Account, you can’t switch between models. Learn more about using Gemini Apps with a work or school account.
To switch between models:
- Go to gemini.google.com.
- At the top, select Gemini or Gemini Advanced.
- Select what model you want to use for the chat.
Tip: You can check what model a chat uses at the top.
There are several Gemini models available in Gemini and Gemini Advanced.
Available with Gemini and Gemini Advanced
- 1.5 Flash: Get everyday help. Chat with Gemini to get new ideas, draft content, study and more.
- 2.0 Flash Experimental: Preview gemini-2.0-flash-exp. Get an early preview of our latest experimental model and share feedback to help us improve these models over time.
Available with Gemini Advanced only
- 1.5 Pro: Tackle complex tasks. Explore, analyse and understand large data sets and documents up to 1,500 pages.
- 1.5 Pro with Deep Research: Get in-depth answers. Conduct in-depth and real-time research with Deep Research. Learn how to use Deep Research.
Examples
- Outline my blog post about summer mocktail recipes.
- Debug this error message: "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data.csv'"
- I want to learn how to code in Python. How should I start? Create a learning plan for me, and recommend some videos.
- I love video games and drawing. What are some jobs that I might like when I grow up?
- Show my monthly expenses in a pie chart: Rent 1200, Groceries 300, Gas 60, Electricity 80, and Internet 50.
- Help me finish my art studio tagline: craft, create, and ...
- Draft a packing list for my weekend fishing and camping trip.
- I want to write a novel. How can I get started?
- Help me understand if lightning can strike the same place twice.
- Tell me about the code within the google/jax GitHub repo.
- Summarize the key themes of the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald in five bullet points. Bonus points if you can style them in an old-timey style in the voice of Nick Carraway.
- Write a caption for a pic I took on a camping trip with my family. Make it creative and witty.
- I’m graduating from high school soon. What should I do to get ready for life at my university?
- I got a bad result on my genetics exam. Help me create a study plan to improve in this subject.
- What is a thesis and how do I write one?
- I love video games and drawing. What are some jobs that I might like when I grow up?
- How does the internet work in tennis metaphors?
- Explain the Roman Empire trend on social media.
- I'm finishing school soon. What should I do to get ready for life at university?
- Help me come up with a creative witty social media caption about our [camping trip].
- Help me brainstorm short story ideas for creative writing class.
- Describe a new fashion trend that's inspired by retro styles.
- Draft a guide on how to set up the perfect film night with friends.
- You are Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. Stay true to the character from the novel; embody the character as much as possible. Have their personality come across in your words. Be conversational and brief, converse with me the way this character would. Be friendly and engaging; keep the conversation going; be curious about me. Start by commenting on today's weather in my location.
- Give me ideas for what I could do with what's in this image.
- Help me plan an event. I want to host 30 people for a local short-film festival, with the goal of showcasing independent artists in the community. You are a professional event planner. You're skilled at breaking problems down, creating a plan, and overcoming logistics hurdles. You're an active listener and conversational. You're friendly, encouraging, and warm; a trusted advisor for my needs. Take it one step at a time and make sure your responses are bite-sized.
Edit your prompt
If you want to revise your prompt, you can edit it and the Gemini web app will regenerate the response.
- To the right of your prompt, select Edit text
.
- Edit your prompt.
- Click Update.
Check other responses to your prompt
Important: This feature isn't available for responses that the Gemini web app generates with extensions.
For some prompts, you can review other drafts that the Gemini web app creates. This option is only available for the latest response.
- Above the response, click View other drafts or Show drafts.
- Select the draft that you want to review.
Access educational resources
Important:
- For now, these features are only available in English and in the United States.
- For now, these features are not available to users under the age of 18.
Use Gemini Apps to learn with interactive study tools and tailored guidance:
- Ask Gemini Apps to give you practice questions with feedback and hints. You can ask for specific quiz types like multiple choice or open-ended questions.
- Prompt Gemini Apps to use reputable educational sources, including OpenStax textbooks, to respond.
You can prompt Gemini Apps to use reputable educational sources, including OpenStax textbooks, to respond.
- In the text box, enter
@and type the source that you would like to use.- Currently, you can use OpenStax.
- Enter your prompt or question.
- Click Submit
Examples
- @OpenStax explain the concept of supply and demand
- Quiz me on the rise of industrialisation
Do more with responses
- To copy code from a response: Below the block of code, click Copy
.
- To generate a chart based on data in a Gemini web app response, like a table: In a follow-up question, ask the Gemini web app to create a chart with that information.
- Example: Make a bar chart showing the amount per category
Learn how to modify responses, export responses and share your chats from Gemini Apps.
Gemini Apps and your location
Gemini Apps may use your location to provide more relevant responses to your prompts. Gemini Apps will use your general location or, if you allow it, your device's precise location. Learn how to manage your location.
Check or update the location that the Gemini web app uses for you
In the Gemini web app, your location is shown at the bottom of the menu.
You can select 'Update location' to allow the Gemini web app to use your device's precise location.
Tip: If you're using the Gemini mobile app, learn how to manage your Gemini mobile app location.
Learn about responses from Gemini Apps
- Gemini Apps are an experimental technology and may sometimes give inaccurate or inappropriate responses. When this happens, you can report a response.
- Gemini Apps' ability to hold context is purposefully limited for now. As Gemini Apps continues to learn, its ability to hold context during longer conversations will improve.