Google has brought its experimental AI app Dreambeans to India, making the country its first international market outside the U.S. The application, which is available on both Android and iOS, now supports 13 local languages alongside English. These include Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali. This expansion follows the app's wider U.S. rollout for eligible users aged 18 and older.
Dreambeans functions by utilizing information from connected Google services such as Calendar, Gmail, Photos, Search, YouTube, and Gemini. Without requiring a manual text prompt, the app proactively generates personalized, illustrated stories detailing users' everyday lives and interests. Google recently integrated its Veo video-generation model into the app, allowing it to animate static illustrations for select stories. According to Google product manager Gozde Oznur, India was selected as the first international market due to high user overlap across Gemini, Gmail, and Google Photos, alongside significant local interest.
Despite supporting multiple regional languages, users are currently restricted to selecting one language at a time for their generated stories, meaning the app cannot natively process mixed languages like Hinglish. The reliance on deep personal data from Google accounts also introduces privacy considerations. Users retain the ability to select or disconnect specific Google services, delete data, and instruct the app to avoid certain topics like business-related information. Google confirmed that Dreambeans is restricted to personal Gmail accounts and excludes enterprise users.
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