Edit(s): Cleared my focus towards this post which was "Circle to Search". Added few cons too. More download Links for those who need.

I've been playing around with the Google app for Windows for a while, and I found it very useful. It has features similar to Windows "Click to do", AI Select as it has on-screen Google Lens search/copy/translate option but with optional Spotlight search features.  So here's what i liked about it:

* Default Google's **AI Mode search**:You can toggle it off for native google search by default.
* **On-Screen OCR**, CTS, AI Select, Google Lens, you name it, it's basically the same: It can search translate or copy text directly from your screen (like Circle to Search on phones).
* **I**t has Spotlight/Flow Launcher features if you keep enable those while installing.
* **Universal & Free:** It can be used in every computer running windows 10/11, not just Galaxy-books or newer CoPilot+ models exclusive.
* **Performance:** The launch time is like instant.
* **Resource Usage:** But ram usage is upto 1gb while searching and 5-7% CPU Usage.(con)
* **Privacy** : If you use Chrome & Default  Settings then it's that same but yeah with OCR when you trigger Google Lens, so google servers will analysis you screen data like "Click to do" or "AI Select" where it goes to microsoft servers. If you're privacy focused user then I recommend user everthing offline & online ones with VPN/Mulvad Brower and maybe use Linux or MacOS or hardened modified windows version.

Note:

1. This app requires google account login. It can be downloaded from [Google app for Windows - Search Labs](https://labs.google.com/search/experiment/40) (with VPN if not available in your region, use proton vpn maybe) or [Direct Link(dl.google.com)](https://dl.google.com/tag/s/appguid%3D%7B06A8089E-0B65-445D-B5C4-10B0D1B540F2%7D%26iid%3D%7B014185B7-F3C9-3383-73A1-8A2D59113A2B%7D%26lang%3Den%26browser%3D3%26usagestats%3D1%26appname%3DGoogle%2520App%26needsadmin%3DFalse%26ap%3Dperuser/windows-google-app/GoogleAppInstaller.exe) or [Exe from my Google Drive (You can check for malware from ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13RaW_jgbnjwGqu2Hargfgcmfts8TX1Yo/view?usp=sharing)[https://hybrid-analysis.com/](https://hybrid-analysis.com/) & [virustotal.com/](http://virustotal.com/) )
2. See this app as an alternative to "Click to do" which has some raycast features if you enable in settings. Not just as another Flow Launcher.

What’s your take on this—useful feature or just a niche gimmick?

Google app for Windows is Amazing!!