Google Vids is the video creation app inside Google Workspace that assembles a presentation-style video from a prompt, a Google Doc or a Slides deck. A personal Gmail account now gets in for free, with 10 Veo 3.1 clips generated per month. Gemini writes the script, arranges the footage and adds the AI voiceover, while talking avatars are reserved for Google AI and Workspace subscribers. Teams, trainers and teachers already paying for Workspace find it in every plan, at no extra cost.
Google Vids generates a full storyboard from a written brief or a Drive file, Docs, Sheets or Slides. The Help me create feature writes the script, pulls stock footage and music, then lays an AI voiceover over each scene. You paste a ten-page Doc, pick a tone, and a rough cut appears (clean, rarely final, which is what rough cuts are for).
From there it behaves like a Doc. Several colleagues edit the same timeline live, drop comments along the way, and each video can run up to 30 minutes.
Google Vids for free is no stripped-down demo, since AI voiceovers, dynamic captions and Veo 3.1 generations all work with a personal account at vids.google.com. In its early days, the app was reserved for paying Workspace customers.
On the work side, every Google Workspace plan ships with it at no extra charge, starting with Business Starter at $7 per seat per month. Those numbers shift as Google updates its lineup, so the official Workspace pricing page has the final word.
| Access | What you get |
|---|---|
| Free Google account | Help me create, AI voiceovers, dynamic captions, 10 Veo 3.1 clips monthly |
| Google Workspace (all plans) | Vids included, team collaboration and admin controls |
| Google AI Pro | Monthly AI credits shared with other Google tools, Lyria 3 music, AI avatars |
| Google AI Ultra | Up to 1,000 generations per month with extended limits |
Google Vids and Google Flow do very different jobs. Vids builds collaborative presentation videos for the office or the classroom, while Google Flow is a cinematic studio built around Veo 3.1. An onboarding tutorial belongs in Vids, a shot-by-shot generated short film belongs in Flow.
Against Canva, which also covers quick marketing videos, Vids leans on Drive, Meet recordings and Docs-style sharing. Its scene-based logic actually places it closer to AI presentation tools than to pure generation studios.
Yes, Google Vids works for free with any Google account, including 10 Veo 3.1 clip generations per month, AI voiceovers and transcript trimming. Google AI Pro adds a pool of monthly AI credits shared with other Google tools, Ultra pushes the limit to 1,000 videos a month, and every Workspace plan carries the app at no extra cost.
They serve different audiences. Google Vids makes collaborative presentation videos for work, training and school, while Google Flow is a cinematic AI studio built around Veo and aimed at filmmakers. In short, an internal tutorial fits Vids, a generated movie scene fits Flow.
Fully. The interface runs in French, and both AI voiceovers and talking avatars speak the language, among 24 supported. Avatars are reserved for Google AI Pro, Ultra and Workspace subscribers, while the free account sticks to voiceovers. That multilingual reach remains rare among rivals mostly limited to English.
Absolutely, just open vids.google.com in a browser, nothing to install. A personal account covers Help me create, AI voiceovers and dynamic captions. Exports come out as MP4 or GIF files, and the direct YouTube upload sets the video to private by default.
Verdict: Ten free Veo 3.1 clips a month and an editor that behaves like Slides. For teams, trainers and teachers already living in Google Workspace, the distance between a document and a shareable video has rarely been shorter.
Gemini Omni 
HeyGen AI 
CapCut 
