The best apps are the ones that address a genuine problem or void in our lives. Inbox made it easier to manage incoming email, especially from mobile; Chrome made it simple to keep browser tabs synced ...

After two and a half years of service, Google’s Allo chat app is being closed for good on Tuesday, March 12. Google launched the chat app in September of 2016, offering a feature-rich environment for ...

Google Allo is done. Announced in 2016, it was Google’s big attempt to build a Google chatbot right into your text message conversations. Allo’s death signals something important to the tech industry: ...

In a turn of events pretty much everyone outside of Google saw coming, the search giant is apparently poised to wind down its Google Allo messaging app, with an announcement coming “soon.” That’s ...

We’ve already been pretty impressed by Google’s artificially intelligent assistant, housed in the Allo messaging app, and now the tool is giving us more reason still to sing its praises. On Monday, ...

The chat app simply wasn't popular enough, so Google is shutting it down and moving the focus to Messages. Allo users will be able to continue using the app until it goes offline at the end of March ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Weeks after closing the book on Google Talk — better known as Gchat — for good, Google is ...

Google’s consumer-facing chat application Allo, a successor of sorts to Gchat, is today available on the web for desktop users. The service, which lets you chat with friends while taking advantage of ...

Watch out Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, Google has a new messenger app on the loose. It's called Allo and Google is calling it a "smart messenger" because it combines communications with its new ...

Google launched its new Allo texting app Wednesday, and it's pretty fun. You can use it to get information from a bot, send your friends doodles, mess with font sizes — all that good stuff. But stop ...

Over the past several days, 9to5Google reported that Google was planning to move away from “classic Hangouts” and sunset Google Allo. Amid the discussion about the company’s messaging future, Google ...

Beginning today, Google’s Allo can now be used on the Chrome web browser on your desktop, but you can only install it by scanning a QR code on your Android phone. iPhone users are left out for now.