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I spend a lot of time querying artificial intelligence Chat botsa test image and video Generators and playing with them Dynamic coding tools. But it’s this new app from Google Labs that got me thinking, for the first time in a long time, that AI could be useful and Hazar.
Dream Beans It’s one of the latest creations from Google Labs, the experimental AI branch that’s also behind it LM notebook. Dreambeans is an AI-generated media feed — but it’s nothing like the AI stream that fills your Instagram and YouTube feeds. It’s designed for you. It’s a reminder, shopping assistant, and journal app. It creates a feed of visually pleasing tiles, called Stories, by pulling from your Google apps. It’s an all-over pastel wrap.
The goal is not to socialize with others; Don’t post or follow other people. It aims to motivate you to accomplish tasks and spark your creativity. You can swipe through your Stories, grab the day’s most pressing reminders and spark inspiration, then sign out of the app to get back to your day. It’s a deliberately short schedule, containing only the top 10 or so stories each day.
“Dreambeans is the morning coffee for your digital life in a way,” Gozde Oznur, a product manager who helped create the app, told me when explaining the app’s name and purpose. “It cures everything overnight and gives you a concentrated drop of inspiration.”
My Dreambeans feed pulled up news stories it thought I’d be interested in, as well as nearby events and restaurants to try.
Google AI models create the feed. Nano Banana creates AI-powered, watercolor-inspired portraits featuring you and your loved ones. Google Personal intelligence Shows the topics and events that matter most to you, from reminders to upcoming upcoming events and news based on your interests and hobbies.
As I’ve been using the app over the past month, I’ve kept coming back to one ideal: Dreambeans offers a glimpse into what the good life could be like with Google’s AI.
How it works: Interpersonal intelligence
The first thing I thought of when seeing my Dreambeans was that it was visually stunning. The app takes a minimalist approach to design but prioritizes images. Each story has a custom image that dominates the feed. You can click on each story to get more information, with AI-generated suggestions for further searches that will lead you to a Google search.
My second thought is that this is seriously alarming. To get the full experience, I gave Dreambeans access to all my Google apps: Workspace (which includes Gmail, Docs, and Calendar), Photos, YouTube, and my Google search history. Even though I knew what was coming, there was still a kind of trepidation opening the app and seeing an eerily accurate version of myself in almost every story box.
During my month-long test, I got rid of this initial fear within two days. I knew the AI was creating these images based on my selfies and photos because I gave it access to my Google Photos. If I turned this access off, I would likely get fewer stories featuring me. But Dreambeans comes in very handy when you opt into sharing information in your Google apps. It’s the fundamental trade-off of any custom AI – you have to collect your digital data to get the best experience.
When you set up Dreambeans, you can control how much information it contains about you.
I expect this to be a turn-off for many potential users, and understandably so. For me, the level of control I had made me feel comfortable with it. You can stop accessing any Google app at any time, and you can delete your data from Dreambeans if you decide it’s not right for you. Dreambeans is subject to Google Privacy Policyso that your information can be used to maintain and improve its products. Dreambeans is available on iOS and Android For subscribers to Google Ultra’s $100 per month plan, but you can sign up to join waiting list For free access in the future.
Oznur says building the app to understand what matters most to each user was key. The most important part of the app is the hardest part to build, Oznur said, which is taking a person’s digital footprint and turning it into a “quiet, non-repetitive everyday experience that is actually interesting and useful.”
The tech suite works to find the most pressing stories for you every day, like deadlines and upcoming events, not just the ones you might find interesting. This has been mostly true in my experience.
Adding Dreambeans to my daily life
Dreambeans quickly became part of my morning phone routine. After checking texts, reminders, and emails, I opened my Dreambeans feed. Since it’s a limited schedule, only 10-14 stories per day, it only adds a few extra minutes to the daily digital download. But it pulled information I didn’t get anywhere else.
“Our goal is to give you that perspective and inspiration,” Oznur said. “You don’t have to scroll endlessly. Just tap it, and you’re good to go.”
My disparate interests were well reflected – stories about Apple’s WWDC conference and the latest updates to Claude Code were combined with information about spin class playlists, making a cold foam for my Nespresso, a local food festival and a new library nearby to explore.
Dreambeans stories are tailored to my diverse interests, from technology to exercise to seasonal cooking.
It gave me reminders and news alerts that I would otherwise have missed, so it wasn’t a completely repetitive or merely entertaining experience. My timeline was a good mix of fun and serious, but your feed will inevitably look different from mine, depending on the information you provide to Google. You can also give feedback on the app with likes and dislikes. For example, I didn’t like the story of a nut loaf recipe and I used the chat feature to ask the app to stop sending me that type of recipe because I have a nut allergy.
Personal intelligence was always on display. Take this story for example. My watercolor photo is fairly accurate, thanks to the selfies in my Google Images. The story revolves around the design of a pair of new white Adidas sneakers, perhaps inspired by shopping searches and a Gmail receipt. But I’m also wearing a blue jacket I recently bought, a gold necklace I always wear and a side part in my hair – a ridiculously small but subtle detail.
My story involves several new pieces of clothing I recently purchased, thanks to receipts in my Gmail account.
I’ve gotten some stories about events that happened months later, like a concert I had tickets to in October. It included helpful tips about the arena’s clear bag policy and the best entrance to use, but that wasn’t the information I needed on an early June morning.
These stories were helpful, but a bit out of my calendar.
Free will in the age of personal artificial intelligence?
The personal intelligence that Google offers is, for better or worse, very effective. But there’s a key difference with this app: you get to choose.
You can choose which apps you want to connect to, and you can change your mind at any time. You decide how much you want this AI app to know about you. In return, it gives you a short, entertaining summary that contains actually useful information.
It is not a historical achievement. But in this age of AI, where you can’t turn off Google AI search summaries or escape Gemini, this little assignment of agency, choice, matters. The optimistic side of me hopes this is a positive sign for future Google AI tools.
At the very least, Google has finally built a product that makes me He wants To give her my information, rather than just accepting that I would have to in order to use it. Dreambeans is a rare combination of useful and fun – and it’s what keeps me coming back to the app again.
