Google has made Dreambeans, an experimental Google Labs app that generates personalised daily stories from a user’s own Google data, available to adults in India, its first market outside the US. The company announced the expansion in a post on its India blog dated 3 November 2026, after TechCrunch reported the launch on 2 November. The app runs on Android and iOS for people aged 18 and over and supports English plus 13 Indian languages.
Google has not disclosed pricing for India, and its India announcement does not mention a fee or subscription. When the app opened to all US users in September, Google Labs said it was free of charge, according to Digit. Google has also not published user numbers for the app.
What the app does
Dreambeans produces a limited set of illustrated stories each day rather than an endless feed. With the user’s permission, it draws on connected Google services, which Google lists as Calendar, Gemini, Gmail, Photos, Search and YouTube. Stories can cover local places to explore, arts and crafts ideas, things to try and reminders about upcoming events. Users can open a story for more detail, bookmark it, share it or send feedback to shape future collections. At least one connected app is required, and users choose which services to link.
In its original announcement in June, Google said the app uses its Personal Intelligence technology and the Nano Banana 2 image model to create the stories and their illustrations. Gozde Oznur, Labs Product Manager at Google, wrote that the app was “designed to connect you with what matters, without the endless scroll.” TechCrunch reported that Google has since added its Veo video generation model to animate images in select stories.
According to the India blog post, the app is available in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Assamese and Nepali, with Google putting the total at 14 languages. TechCrunch reported that users can select only one language at a time and that the app cannot yet generate stories that mix languages. It is limited to personal Google accounts, and users can disconnect services or delete their Dreambeans data in the app.
A slow start in the US
Google Labs first introduced Dreambeans on 3 June 2026, initially for eligible Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US, with a waitlist for others. It expanded to all US accounts aged 18 and over on 10 September 2026. The Android version is listed on Google Play as “Dreambeans by Google Labs”, where it shows more than 10,000 downloads.
Uptake so far has been modest. Sensor Tower estimates shared with TechCrunch put US downloads at nearly 55,000 since the June debut, with about 63% arriving in September. Downloads then fell 84% month on month to about 5,500 in October. In the first 30 days after it opened to all eligible US users, the app recorded an estimated 29,000 downloads.
Oznur told reporters at a press briefing that India stood out because of the high overlap of users across Gemini, Gmail and Google Photos, according to TechCrunch.
The Indian market
The language support reflects how Indians use the internet. The Internet in India Report 2024 from the Internet and Mobile Association of India and Kantar found that 870 million internet users, or 98% of the total, accessed the internet in Indic languages in 2024, Business Standard reported. The same report projected that India would exceed 900 million internet users by 2025.
India is a large test for a product that depends on people already using several Google services. The key measures to watch are whether downloads in India hold up better than the US figures after launch, whether Google adds support for mixing languages within a story, and whether it attaches a price or subscription tier to the app as it moves beyond the experimental stage. TechCrunch reported that Oznur said Google is also exploring ways to make the app more actionable beyond stories and recommendations. Google has not said which market it will expand to next.
