If you use the internet anything close to regularly, you’ve become increasingly comfortable with two things for the past few years: seeing more personalized content in your feed and more AI-generated imagery.
Google Labs’ newest app, Dreambeans, combines both, using Google’s AI to create custom-made illustrated daily stories based on your interests, drawing on the troves of data which Google holds on you.
Once you give it permission, the Android and iOS app will synthesize data from across your Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube and Search history. It will then “dream” overnight to produce a fresh, capped batch of new stories or “beans” every morning. Each story features AI-generated imagery created by Google’s Nano Banana 2 image generator.
For example, if your Google footprint suggests you are planning a foreign getaway with your mother, it may generate an illustrated story that suggests restaurant picks in that location, alongside recommendations about the different menus and the most scenic views.
Dreambeans uses a feature rolled out earlier this year, called Personal Intelligence, that allows Google Gemini to draw data from your entire personal Google ecosystem. For example, appointments in your Google Calendar, or emails in your Gmail.
It started rolling out in June, but had initially only been available to $99.99-per-month Google AI Ultra subscribers, followed by $19.99-per-month AI Pro subscribers in early August.
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If you aren’t happy with the suggestions you receive, you can tap the “thumbs down” button on any story to signal that something isn’t right. This then opens a chat where you can provide feedback, which is then processed overnight and reflected in your future stories.
Google Labs is currently in charge of some of the tech giant’s most forward-looking AI products. Gemini Notebook, which began rolling out in May 2025, allows users to generate AI-hosted podcasts from text. Flow, which began rolling out in January 2026, provides AI-assisted video and image generation and editing.
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