Comparison

Google Gemini vs BLACKBOXAI

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Google Gemini

This AI assistant helps you brainstorm, create content, and simplify complex topics. It integrates with your Google apps to provide personalized assistance, plan trips, and study smarter. Upgrade for advanced features like video generation and deeper research capabilities.

Highlights
  • Unlimited prompting with Gemini 3 Flash
  • Live interaction via camera/screen sharing
  • Content creation (mockups, posters, diagrams)
  • App/game/web page prototyping
  • Integration with Google apps
  • Study tools (quizzes, flashcards)
  • File-to-podcast conversion
  • Image creation and editing
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From your morning commute to late-night deep dives, Google Gemini is your personal, proactive and powerful AI assistant. WHY USERS LOVE GEMINI • Our latest models, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini Omni, unlock a new world of productivity and creativity. • Gemini Spark 24/7 personal AI agent proactively manages tasks and helps you navigate your digital life, all under your direction. • Daily Brief agent gives you a personalized morning brief and organizes exactly what you need to know to start your day. • Talk things out with Gemini Live: Brainstorm in real time or share your screen/camera to discuss exactly what you see. • Instead of a wall of text, you get carefully crafted responses with interleaved images, timelines, and interactive visuals. • Get more personalized help by connecting your favorite Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, Google Photos, YouTube, and Search. • Upload documents, spreadsheets, photos, videos, and more to get answers, summaries, and insights about your content. BRING YOUR CREATIVE IDEAS TO LIFE • Generate and edit photos with Nano Banana 2: Apply camera and lighting controls, create mockups by blending multiple images, design posters with sharp text, and effortlessly build diagrams. Then, resize as needed. • Turn your ideas into cinematic videos with Gemini Omni for Google AI Plus, Pro, Ultra, and Workspace users. • Create custom soundtracks for any moment with Lyria 3. BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY • Research with NotebookLM: Get deeper, more relevant responses that are grounded in the sources in your notebook • Study help and exam prep made easy: Upload your class notes to generate custom practice quizzes and interactive visuals. • Turn a simple prompt into a prototype: Build web pages, games, or dashboards. You can even convert your files into a podcast-style overview to listen to while you're on the move. UNLOCK MORE WHEN YOU UPGRADE Level up your Gemini app experience by upgrading to the Google AI Plus, Pro, or Ultra plans, helping you tackle more complex tasks and projects. Review the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice: g.co/gemini/privacynotice. Note: While Gemini is a powerful productivity partner, it does not currently support iOS device actions like setting alarms or sending SMS directly. Gemini for Business is available via qualifying Google Workspace plans.

About

BLACKBOXAI

This AI-powered coding assistant helps developers write and release software faster. It translates natural language into code, offers real-time knowledge, and provides intelligent code completion. Analyze screenshots, generate comments, and create commit messages with ease.

Highlights
  • Natural language to code generation
  • Real-time world knowledge
  • Intelligent code completion
  • Image input analysis (VISION)
  • Automated code commenting
  • Commit message generation
  • Chat with code files
Features
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BLACKBOX.AI is a coding LLM designed to transform the way we build software. By building BLACKBOX.AI, our goal is to: Accelerate the pace of innovation within companies by making engineers 10X faster in building and releasing products Accelerate the growth in software engineers around the world and 10X the number of engineers from ~100M to 1B BLACKBOX.AI’s coding capabilities over the past 12 months have expanded significantly. 1. Natural Language to Code BLACKBOX is built to answer coding questions and assist you write code faster. Whether you are fixing a bug, building a new feature or refactoring your code, ask BLACKBOX to help. 2. Real-Time Knowledge BLACKBOX has real-time knowledge of the world, making it able to answer questions about recent events, technological breakthroughs, product releases, API documentations & more 3. Code Completion BLACKBOX integrates directly with VSCode to automatically suggests the next lines of code based on your repo context. 4. VISION BLACKBOX Vision enables users to instruct BLACKBOX to analyze image inputs, for example, screenshot of code or product sketches. 5. Code Commenting BLACKBOX will properly write the commenting for your code files, wether it contains a few lines of code of 100s of lines of code. BLACKBOX Code Commenting works for all programming languages. 6. Commit Message Generation Blackbox will properly write a commit message for the changes you made in your repo files. 7. Chat with your Code Files BLACKBOX enables users to upload large code files (100s of lines of code) and chat with

Screenshots

Google Gemini4 screens
BLACKBOXAI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Google Gemini at 67% against BLACKBOXAI's 24%. Google Gemini also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.6) and ratings volume (2.3M vs 47). BLACKBOXAI's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 27) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.4). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Google Gemini sells 18 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. BLACKBOXAI asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Google Gemini holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Gemini has 2.3M ratings behind it against 47, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Google Gemini's written reviews are positive against 24% of BLACKBOXAI's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Gemini ships an update every 5 days, BLACKBOXAI weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Google Gemini versus BLACKBOXAI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle GeminiBLACKBOXAI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.3M ratings) — better2.6 (47 ratings)
Positive reviews67.0% of reviews — better24.1% of reviews
Number of ratings2.3M — better47
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#3 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size347 MB19 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperGoogleRIZK Richard

Customer experience

Google Gemini

All ratings2,268,769 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews10,860 reviews
Positive67.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative28.0%

BLACKBOXAI

All ratings47 ratings
Positive38.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative57.4%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive24.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.9%

Bugs and requests

Google Gemini

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inconsistent responses
  • Inability to understand certain languages
  • Trouble accessing personal information

Requested features

6 requests
  • Integrate with other apps and services
  • Improve voice recognition and response
  • Enhance image generation capabilities
  • Provide more language support
  • Optimize for iPad and tablet devices
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  • Offer more customization options

BLACKBOXAI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Google Gemini

Subscriptions18
  • 100 GB$1.991 Month
  • 200 GB2 variants$2.991 Month
  • Google AI Plus (400 GB)2 variants$4.991 Month
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  • Google AI Plus (400 GB)1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Google AI Pro (5 TB)3 variants$19.991 Month
  • Google AI Pro (5 TB)1 Month trial2 variants$19.991 Month
  • 100 GB$19.991 Year
  • 200 GB2 variants$29.991 Year
  • 10 TB$49.991 Month
  • 2 TB$99.991 Year
  • 20 TB$99.991 Month
  • 30 TB2 variants$149.991 Month
  • Google AI Ultra (30 TB)1 Month trial$199.991 Month
  • Google AI Ultra (30 TB)$199.991 Month
  • Google AI Pro (2 TB)$199.991 Year
  • Google AI Ultra (30 TB)1 Month trial$249.991 Month
  • Google AI Ultra (30 TB)$249.991 Month
  • 5 TB$249.991 Year
None

BLACKBOXAI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Google Gemini free?
Google Gemini is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BLACKBOXAI free?
BLACKBOXAI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Google Gemini or BLACKBOXAI?
Google Gemini is rated higher. Google Gemini averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.3M ratings, while BLACKBOXAI averages 2.6 from 47 ratings.
Do Google Gemini or BLACKBOXAI have ads?
Neither Google Gemini nor BLACKBOXAI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Google Gemini or BLACKBOXAI?
Google Gemini ships an update every 5 days, and BLACKBOXAI weekly. Most recently, Google Gemini was updated on September 24, 2026 and BLACKBOXAI on August 31, 2026.

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