The Best Google AI Products You Haven’t Tried Yet
A hands-on review of Pomelli, Stitch, Genie, Flow, and NotebookLM, plus my honest take on Google’s AI strategy in 2026
Dear subscribers,
OpenAI vs. Anthropic gets all the attention these days, but Google Labs is quietly shipping some of the most interesting AI products right now.
Pomelli for marketing, Stitch for design, Flow for videos, and more — these tools are better than most people realize.
Watch the tutorial now to see me review all five tools live and share where each product excels and where they fall short.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Why Google’s most underrated AI products are in Labs
(0:39) Pomelli: Generate marketing assets from any URL
(4:37) Stitch: Create web and mobile designs from scratch
(7:27) Genie: Walk through AI-generated 3D worlds
(9:11) Flow: The best tool for making AI videos and images
(11:49) NotebookLM: Turn any source into video, slides, and infographics
(14:27) 3 takeaways on Google’s AI strategy
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A review of 5 Google Labs tools and their pros/cons
1. Pomelli: Generate marketing assets from a link
Pomelli generates beautiful marketing assets and your brand DNA (colors, fonts, images, logo), all from a link to your website.
For example, I gave Pomelli a link to my favorite local Asian bakery, Simply Cake. It pulled the brand’s logo, fonts, colors, and images in under 20 seconds:
Once Pomelli has your brand’s DNA, it’ll generate 3 marketing campaigns for you to review. Here’s a Mother’s Day campaign it made for Simply Cake:
Pomelli’s Photoshoot feature is also worth trying. Upload a basic photo of an egg tart and it creates marketing-ready assets with Nano Banana:
Next, I tried Pomelli on my newsletter to see how it handles a content business. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as well. Content brands like mine don't have great product photography to extract from, so Pomelli has less to work with:
My verdict: Pomelli is incredible if you run a physical or e-commerce store with a strong visual library. My one gripe is that you can’t edit the text and images manually — you have to re-prompt the AI every time.
2. Stitch: Create beautiful product designs
Stitch is Google's answer to Claude Design. I gave it a simple prompt to "design a mobile fitness app." Stitch first generated a design system, then produced the screens:
One great thing about Stitch is that it’ll use Nano Banana to fill in images, which makes the screens look more realistic. There’s also a fun feature that shows a predictive heat map of where users might click.
But Stitch has one flaw compared to Claude Design — it didn’t ask me a single clarifying question before making the app. Compare that to how Claude Design handles the same prompt: