Google launched a new Android app! It features Gemini and will delight finance enthusiasts

Google has a reputation for canceling its services with the same ease with which others delete unread emails. This time, however, it is resurrecting one of them. Google Finance, which disappeared as an Android app eleven years ago, is returning — and it’s returning thoroughly rebuilt. The question is whether there’s more behind the new facade than just another layer of artificial intelligence.

Return after eleven years

The redesign of Google Finance started back in 2025, with public testing running since last August. Now the service is leaving beta, and with it comes a brand new Android app. Google itself discontinued the app in 2015, so after years of a purely web-based solution, Finance is returning to where many users believe it belongs — the phone’s home screen.

The app will fundamentally offer access to a watchlist, real-time data, and live news feeds. So-called AI key moments are intended to be an attraction, attempting to explain, why a particular stock has just surged or plummeted. Visually, the app relies on a floating bar with a search button in the corner and a generous portion of the new Material 3 Expressive design.

Portfolios, briefings, and Gemini at the helm

Among the new features, portfolios, which are launching globally, are the most striking. The idea is to bring all investments into a single overview, where you can see performance and asset allocation. Creating such a portfolio is also convenient — simply upload a screenshot or a PDF or CSV file with an overview of your positions, and the service will handle the rest.

A research tool built on Gemini models then delves into the data. You can ask it in plain language, for example, “which sectors are least represented in my portfolio?”. The second new feature is custom briefings — you can conversationally have a regular overview prepared, say, a daily pre-market summary of cryptocurrency market movements. Once it’s ready, the Google app on Android and iOS will notify you.

It also runs in Czech, but caution is advised

Good news for domestic interested parties: from the attached interface, it is evident that the redesigned Google Finance also works in Czech, including the Research section and offered queries like “What’s happening in the markets today?”. Furthermore, the website still retains a toggle between the classic and new interface, so no one is forcibly pushed into the AI vision.

That Google will integrate artificial intelligence into the service wherever possible is no surprise today — the question is whether conversational briefings and explanations of stock movements will genuinely replace common sense, or merely add a nice-sounding extra layer. Only longer use will tell. In the coming months, however, the streaming of live earnings calls is set to be added, and the iOS app will arrive sometime by the end of the year.

Do you follow stock market events, or is a similar app on your phone useless to you?

Source: 9to5Google