Google Messages + Gemini integration
Connect Google Messages to Gemini
ConnectChats brings your Google Messages chats into Gemini. Ask Gemini to catch you up, find any message and draft replies. Nothing gets sent until you approve it.
Free to start. No app to install. Every send needs your OK.
What Gemini can do with your Google Messages
ConnectChats gives Gemini a small set of tools. Gemini calls them when you ask about your Google Messages chats, and only for the chats you share.
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Catch you up
Ask what you missed and Gemini reads your unread Google Messages chats, then gives you the short version: who needs an answer, what was decided, what can wait.
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Find any message
The address someone sent last month, the price a client agreed to, the link from a group chat. Gemini searches your Google Messages history and quotes the message.
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Draft replies
Gemini writes the reply in your tone, in the chat's language, with the context of the whole thread. You read it, edit it, and send it.
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Send with your OK
When you approve a draft, ConnectChats sends it from your own Google Messages account and confirms delivery. Auto-send only runs in chats where you switch it on.
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Things to ask Gemini
Type these in Gemini once Google Messages is linked.
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What did I miss in my Google Messages chats today?
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Summarize the family group on Google Messages since Friday.
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Who asked me a question on Google Messages that I haven't answered?
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Find the address my sister sent me on Google Messages.
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Draft a reply to Alex on Google Messages saying I can make it Saturday.
How to connect Google Messages to Gemini
It takes about two minutes. You do it once, and the same account then works in every AI app you add.
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Add ConnectChats to Gemini
- In the Gemini web app, open Settings, then Connected Apps, and add ConnectChats with https://api.connectchats.com/mcp as the server URL.
- Gemini opens the ConnectChats sign-in page, where you sign in with your passkey.
- In a prompt, type @ and pick ConnectChats to use your linked chats.
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Link your Google Messages account
- Open https://connectchats.com/app and choose Link a chat app, then Google Messages.
- On your Android phone, open Google Messages, tap your profile picture, then Device pairing, then QR code scanner.
- Scan the QR code shown in ConnectChats. You can also pair with your Google account instead.
- Your chats appear in the dashboard, where you choose which ones your AI app can see.
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Pick the chats Gemini can see
Every chat is listed in your ConnectChats dashboard. Share all of them or only the ones you choose. Gemini never sees the rest.
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Ask Gemini about your Google Messages
Open a new conversation in Gemini and ask about your chats. Gemini calls ConnectChats when it needs your messages.
How Google Messages and Gemini work together
ConnectChats pairs with your Android phone the same way Google Messages for web does, so your texts and RCS chats reach your AI app. You choose which conversations it can see.
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Google Messages in ConnectChats
SMS, MMS and RCS chats, including group chats, are supported. Your phone sends and receives the texts, so it needs to stay on and connected to the internet. Each linked chat starts with its last 200 messages, then every new message arrives as it is sent. This is for Android phones. On iPhone, texts go through iMessage, which needs a Mac.
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ConnectChats in Gemini
The Gemini web app can add custom apps from an MCP server URL on eligible accounts. Add ConnectChats once, sign in with your passkey, and pick it with @ in any prompt where you want Gemini to see your chats. Google limits custom apps in Gemini to people 18 or older in the US, signed in with a personal Google account, in English, with Keep Activity on. Work and school accounts are not supported. Custom apps are connected in the Gemini web app, then also work in the Gemini mobile app. The same ConnectChats account works in every AI app, so the chats you already linked are available in Gemini without linking them again. ConnectChats only sees the chats you choose to share, and it asks for your approval before any reply is sent.
Your Google Messages stays under your control
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You pick the chats
Gemini only sees the Google Messages chats you share. Unshare a chat and it disappears from every AI app at once.
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Drafts by default
Gemini prepares replies. You approve each one before it reaches Google Messages, unless you turn on auto-send for that chat.
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Stored messages are encrypted
Stored messages are encrypted with a key that only your passkey can unlock. We never train models on your messages.
Questions
Can Gemini read my Google Messages messages?
Yes, once you link Google Messages in ConnectChats and add ConnectChats to Gemini. Gemini reads only the chats you share, and only when you ask it something that needs them.
Can Gemini send Google Messages messages for me?
Gemini can draft a reply and send it after you approve it. Messages go out from your own Google Messages account. You can allow automatic sending for specific chats, and it stays off everywhere else.
Is the Google Messages to Gemini integration free?
Yes. The free plan links two chat apps and works in every supported AI app, with no limit on what you ask. No card needed.
Do I need to install anything?
No. You add ConnectChats inside Gemini and link Google Messages from your browser. There is no app to download and nothing runs on your computer.
Does it work with other AI apps too?
Yes. The same ConnectChats account works in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Manus, Muse and any AI app that supports remote MCP servers. Link Google Messages once and use it everywhere.
Does my phone need to stay on?
Yes. Google Messages works through your phone, so texts only come through while it is on and online, just like Google Messages for web.
Does it work on iPhone?
No. Google Messages is an Android app. iPhone texts come through the iMessage connection, which needs a Mac.
Can I use ConnectChats with Gemini today?
Yes, on accounts where Gemini offers custom apps. Add ConnectChats with https://api.connectchats.com/mcp in the Gemini web app under Settings, Connected Apps, then sign in with your passkey.
Will it work with a Google Workspace account?
No. Google does not offer custom apps in Gemini for work or school accounts, so use ConnectChats with a personal Google account.
Related pages
Google Messages with other AI apps
Other chat apps in Gemini
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