Google has launched Dreambeans, its experimental AI app that creates personalized illustrated stories from users' digital activity, in India, its first market outside the U.S. The app now supports 13 local languages, including Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali, alongside English. Google expanded the app on Monday, according to TechCrunch.
Dreambeans uses information from connected Google services, including Calendar, Gemini, Gmail, Photos, Search and YouTube, to generate stories without a user prompt. Google recently added a feature that uses its Veo video model to animate images in some stories.
Google product manager Gozde Oznur said India was chosen because of strong user interest and high overlap of users across Gemini, Gmail and Google Photos.
Users can select only one language at a time for their stories. Oznur said the app cannot currently generate stories that mix languages. TechCrunch notes that this could limit appeal in India, where many people mix Hindi and English.
According to Sensor Tower estimates shared with TechCrunch, Dreambeans recorded nearly 55,000 U.S. downloads since its June debut. Downloads fell 84 percent month over month to about 5,500 in October, after a September spike when the app opened to all eligible U.S. users aged 18 and older.
Oznur said users can choose which Google services to connect, disconnect them at any time, and delete their Dreambeans data within the app. She said information deleted from connected services is also removed from Dreambeans' personalization system. Users can ask the app to avoid certain subjects, including business topics. Oznur said the app is available only to personal Gmail accounts, not enterprise users, and that stories are visible only to the account holder.
Oznur acknowledged that the app could generate stories involving people who have died. She said users can tell the app to stop showing certain subjects.