Google Allo Review: Messaging and AI, With Limitations!!

 WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts: There’s a good chance you’re already using two or three different messaging apps just to keep up with friends and family. Alphabet Inc. ’s Google wants you to try one more, Allo. And it is worth a look, even if you never text with another human: Do it to strike up a conversation with the Google Assistant, the search giant’s artificial-intelligence helper.



Like Apple Inc. ’s iMessage and Facebook Inc.’s Messenger—and nearly every other messaging app out there—Allo has plenty of fun stickers, both static and animated. Hold down on the text bubble you’re about to send, and you can make text really big or really small to get your point across.

While Allo does have a special end-to-end encryption mode called Incognito—which even lets you set a timer for automatically deleting messages—Google does take a look at the standard chat messages on its servers. Why? To enable the Google Assistant.



While that may be a privacy concern for you, this is where Allo, which is available on both Androids and iPhones, breaks new ground. You can chat with the Google Assistant to translate a phrase, solve a math problem or even kill time playing a game. This is the same voice assistant that you have probably encountered in the search app, but now it can carry on conversations, and understand context. Well, some context.

While Facebook does offer some rather rudimentary chat bots in its Messenger app, you can’t yet send a text to Apple’s Siri or Amazon.com Inc. ’s Alexa.

Not only that, but the Google Assistant also chimes in when you’re talking to friends. It can suggest what to say next—though it is only accurate about half the time.

Google says these suggestions will improve the more people use Allo, and that it’ll even be able to learn and suggest phrases commonly used by each individual user.

So, share your thoughts about the new app with us in the comments down below.

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