5 stars: Super light and works fantastic. The best part is the Spaces feature to have groups. Also excellent for work or in a school environment where you have groups and departments. I use it with my girlfriend for all our communication and also I use it with my work and customers. Google chat supports links, emojis attachments and many more. It's truely the only super-light chat app you'll ever need.
5 stars: I see that it's integrated with Gmail and Google Meet. But don't forget to include Google Translate since it is in same category of communication. If you allow these two apps to utilize Google Translate, then its' a full circle. It would be awesome to read or listen to translated e-mails, text messages and even real-time captions. Excellent apps.
3 stars: Missing a lot of features to integrate better with Android. Sharing screen (to Chat) is abysmal and no support to show specific contacts in sharing screen. Not possible to
2 stars: Huge downgrade from Hangouts. While I appreciate the ability to put paragraph breaks in a single message, they have seemingly randomly split group hangouts into groupchats and
2 stars: This app is not great. It forced me to switch from hangouts, but every message notified me in both apps so it's clearly still online. The chat interface looks awful, no chat bubbles or line divisions, it is
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