Gemini in Google Sheets is making spreadsheets less painful on Android

Working with a spreadsheet on your phone usually isn’t much fun. The screen is smaller, navigating a table can be annoying, and figuring out what hundreds of rows of numbers mean can become a job better saved for your laptop. Now, Google is trying to make that a little less painful by bringing Gemini in Google Sheets to Android.

Gemini can now analyze the spreadsheet you have open and answer questions about the data directly from your phone. You can tap the Gemini sparkle icon inside the Sheets app and ask it to summarize a table, look for interesting patterns, or pull out useful insights.

That could come in handy in plenty of everyday situations. Say you’ve been tracking your monthly spending in a spreadsheet. Instead of scrolling through every transaction yourself, you could ask Gemini to summarize where your money went or highlight anything unusual. It can also create charts from your data, which makes the mobile version particularly useful when you just need a quick visual overview.

There are still limits, though. Google says more involved tasks, including complex formatting changes and generating formulas, are better handled through Gemini in Sheets on the web. So this isn’t quite the full desktop experience squeezed onto your phone.

Google has started gradually rolling out Gemini in Sheets on Android, with wider availability expected over roughly the next 15 days. Access is limited to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans, including Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, Google AI Pro for Education, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra.