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Gemini Spark is Google's always-on AI agent in the Gemini app. You describe a task, and it works through the steps in Google's cloud, using Gmail, Calendar, Sheets and other connected apps. It can run on a schedule or when an email arrives, and it is designed to ask before sending messages or changing your data.
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Describe what you want done. Spark plans the steps, carries them out and shows its progress in the work panel.
Example: Find last month's invoices in Gmail and list them in a sheet.
Run a task at a set time or when something happens, such as a matching email arriving. Up to 50 schedules can be active.
Example: Every Monday at 9:00, summarize last week's client emails.
Save reusable instructions for work you repeat, then call them with / in a task or a schedule.
Example: A skill that drafts follow-up emails in your usual style.
Each recipe shows what you provide, what you get, and a setup prompt to copy into Gemini Spark. Examples are illustrative, not recorded results.
Find missing job details, suggest priority and prepare a reply for you to check.
Find quotes and proposals you sent that got no reply, with a suggested follow-up for you to send.
Use approved account notes to prepare a short factual recap and neutral questions for the next conversation.
Turn approved incident facts into a short customer update, keeping scope, uncertainty and next-update commitments clear.
Find deadlines in client and supplier emails and add the ones you approve to Google Calendar.
Get a short brief for each of tomorrow's meetings, built from your calendar and recent email threads.
Compare new meeting notes with an accepted action list and draft traceable updates for review.
Find subscription receipts and bills in Gmail each month and flag changes in one Google Sheet.
Compare transaction rows with a document index and prepare a precise request list for your accountant or client.
Turn a dated project update packet into a short status brief while preserving the same facts, risks and unknowns.
We have not run these setups ourselves. Recipes are written from public Gemini Spark documentation, and their examples are illustrative.
| Gemini Spark | ChatGPT Work | Claude Cowork | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Google's cloud, through the Gemini web, mobile and Mac apps | ChatGPT on the web and in the desktop app (local or cloud) | Claude Desktop (macOS, Windows), the web and mobile |
| Connected apps | Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Keep, Tasks and custom apps | Files and plugins such as Google Drive, Slack, Gmail, SharePoint, Salesforce and GitHub | Local folders, connectors, plugins and a browser |
| Scheduling | Yes: set times, Gmail monitors and topic monitors (up to 50 active) | Yes: scheduled tasks, managed in the Scheduled view | Yes: /schedule, with scheduled tasks running in the cloud |
| Plan | Google AI Pro or Ultra on a personal Google account | All ChatGPT plans, with plan-based usage limits | Paid Claude plans: Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise |
| Countries | Not in the EEA, UK, Switzerland or Nigeria | Where ChatGPT is available; some features are limited by region | Where Claude is available |
No. Spark needs a paid Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription, and its usage limits rise with the plan. Cancelling or downgrading pauses your schedules.
It is offered where Gemini Apps are available, except the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Nigeria. You also need a personal Google account: work and school accounts are not supported for now.
Regular Gemini answers in a chat. Spark takes on a task, works through the steps in Google's cloud, uses the apps you connect and can keep running on a schedule after you close the app.
Google says Spark is designed to ask before sending communications, changing your data, making purchases or submitting web forms. It can make bulk changes to private Google Tasks without asking, so check what each task can reach.
Up to 15 tasks can run at the same time, and up to 50 schedules can be active. A schedule does not run if 15 tasks are already running or you have reached your usage limit.
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