Key facts
- Google launched the app in India on Monday, its first market outside the U.S.
- Dreambeans supports 13 local languages alongside English, including Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali.
- Sensor Tower estimated about 55,000 US downloads since June, with an 84% monthly drop to about 5,500 in October.
- Product manager Gozde Oznur said users can only pick one language per story and cannot mix languages.
- Oznur said users can disconnect Google services, delete Dreambeans data and block subjects such as business information.
- Sensor Tower put first-30-day US downloads at about 29,000 for Dreambeans versus 2.8 million for ChatGPT.
Google expanded Dreambeans, its experimental AI app that turns a user's Google activity into illustrated personal stories, to India on Monday with support for 13 local languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali, alongside English.
In a briefing, Google product manager Gozde Oznur said India stood out for its high overlap of users across Gemini, Gmail and Google Photos and was chosen as the first market outside the U.S. because of strong Indian interest.
The app arrived in the U.S. in June and was opened to all eligible users aged 18 and older less than two months before the India launch.
Sensor Tower estimates put U.S. downloads at nearly 55,000 since June, with about 63% in September and a monthly drop of 84% to about 5,500 in October. In the first 30 days after the U.S. rollout, Dreambeans drew about 29,000 downloads, against 7.4 million for Meta's Muse, 2.8 million for ChatGPT, 362,000 for Grok Bot and 155,000 for Claude in their respective first 30 days.
Oznur said the app draws on connected Google services including Calendar, Gemini, Gmail, Photos, Search and YouTube, and that users can disconnect services and delete their Dreambeans data. She said data deleted from connected services is also removed from the personalization system.
She also said users can ask the app to avoid certain subjects, that only personal Gmail accounts can use it and that generated stories are visible only to the account holder.
Oznur said the app can read information across services in several languages but cannot yet mix languages in one story, a limit in a market where speakers often combine Hindi and English.