Now you can connect even more of your favorite apps and services to Gemini.

Source: Google Date: 2026-08-12 URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/new-connected-apps-services-gemini-august-2026/

Summary

Gemini adds a new batch of third-party app connections across four categories: productivity/creativity (Granola, Otter.ai, Wix), local/entertainment booking (Fever, GetYourGuide, Localiza, OpenTable UK, Ticketmaster), music (iHeartRadio, Pandora), and home/health/lifestyle (Angi, Thumbtack, Zocdoc). The framing is consolidation — plan, book, and act on tasks from inside the Gemini app rather than switching between each service.

Implications

This is the agent-commerce thread’s clearest instance this week: Gemini isn’t just answering questions about restaurants or doctors, it’s wired to actually book the table (OpenTable), buy the ticket (Ticketmaster), or schedule the appointment (Zocdoc) through connected-app execution. That’s the consumer-facing mirror of the enterprise “assistance to execution” framing OpenAI is running the same week — both labs are moving from answering to acting, just in different markets. Worth tracking failure/dispute handling as these integrations mature (who’s liable for a bad booking made autonomously) and whether Anthropic or OpenAI ship comparable consumer-app connector surfaces, since right now this is a Google-specific distribution advantage riding the Android/Gemini install base.