Exclusive: Google’s hidden list of 134 apps that support Gemini task automation

Gemini’s task automation is one of the more ambitious and impressive things Google has shipped on Android this year. Instead of handing you a link, Gemini opens the app on a virtual screen, taps through it on your behalf, and stops just before checkout so you can confirm. It began rolling out in March with just six apps: Lyft, Uber, Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Starbucks, on the Galaxy S26 series and later the Pixel 10 series. In July, Google said support was expanding “to more than 40 popular apps,” and this week, it announced that task automation is expanding to the UK, India, and Japan.

Beyond a handful of examples, Google hasn’t really shared which apps actually work. Its blog posts and help pages only mention “select apps.” Google instead has tried to focus on the task category, mentioning support for “everyday tasks” like:

• Booking rides, flights, and accommodations
• Buying tickets to events and experiences
• Buying and selling products
• Ordering food and groceries

However, I’ve now found the list of supported apps itself, and it’s far longer than Google has let on.

Google’s list has 114 apps, and it’s growing

Gemini’s task automation runs on an Android framework called Computer Control, which we first spotted in October 2025. Google’s developer documentation says the framework only works with “a limited set of target apps,” with plans to “expand this support over time.”

Turns out, Google delivers this list of target apps from its servers to Android phones. Each entry pairs an app’s package name with its signing certificate, so only the official Play Store version of an app qualifies for task automation through Gemini.

As of November 12, the target app list on stable Android 17 QPR2 holds 114 apps. That’s up from 106 just two days earlier, on November 10 on Android 17 QPR1.

The eight new additions lean heavily on Australia and Canada: regional apps for McDonald’s, KFC, and Starbucks in Australia, plus Best Buy Canada, McDonald’s Canada, Burger King Canada, and KFC Canada, along with 7-Eleven’s 7NOW delivery app in the US. Neither Australia nor Canada are officially supported for Gemini task automation yet, so these additions could hint at where Google is headed next, though it hasn’t said so.

Phones on Android Canary get a longer 134-app target app list: the same 114 apps plus 20 test additions, covered further below.

The target app list for Gemini task automation goes well beyond the categories Google has talked about. Alongside the expected food delivery, ride-hailing, travel, and shopping apps, it also includes work and productivity apps such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote, as well as Slack and Evernote.

Curiously, the presence of this target app list isn’t limited to phones that officially support the Gemini task automation feature. I found the identical list on my Galaxy S26 Ultra, which supports task automation, and on my Pixel 7a and Pixel 9 Pro XL, which don’t. Phones still on Android 16 don’t get it at all, though.

Only apps present in the target app list are allowlisted to work with Gemini task automation

When Google mentioned the expansion in India this week, it didn’t specify which regional apps work with task automation. The target app list I found mentions these nine regional apps for India: Zomato, Blinkit, Rapido, BookMyShow, ixigo, McDelivery, KFC India, Burger King India, and Starbucks India.

To put this list to the test, I asked Gemini on my Galaxy S26 Ultra to order food from a nearby restaurant on Zomato.

Gemini opened Zomato, navigated out of a dark mode toggle screen, searched for the restaurant, found the dish, picked the right portion size, and added it to my cart (along with a free dessert, nice). It then stopped and asked me to finish the payment myself.

A request to add a liter of milk on Blinkit worked the same way: Gemini searched, picked a 1-liter pack of milk, and took me to the cart. Starbucks India worked up until checkout too.

Then I ran the same requests on competitor apps, Swiggy and Zepto, which aren’t on the list. Gemini refused both outright: “Swiggy is not available for automation” and “Zepto is not available for automation.”

Both Swiggy (food delivery) and Zepto (grocery ordering) are covered under the app categories Google mentions, but since the apps aren’t explicitly allowlisted in the target app list, Gemini does not support task automation for them.

Being on the list doesn’t automatically mean Gemini will support task automation, though

Confusingly, not every app present in the target app list works today. The clearest examples I ran into are Microsoft Word and Outlook.

When I asked Gemini to edit a document in Word, it replied, “I can’t directly edit files inside the Microsoft Word app on your device.” Asking it to share a Word file got “I don’t have access to Microsoft Word,” and asking it to open a recent document only either launched the app (but not the document) or brought up a button to launch the app.

When my colleague C. Scott Brown tried creating a document on his Pixel 11 Pro in the US, Gemini simply generated a DOCX file itself and handed it to Word, without operating the app at all.

Outlook went the same way, with Gemini producing a compose-email link rather than automating anything.

If you pay closer attention to the wording of Gemini’s refusals, you can spot a pattern. Swiggy and Zepto are “not available for automation,” which suggests these apps are being blocked outright. Word shows “I can’t directly edit files” and “I don’t have access,” suggesting Gemini has a second layer of restrictions on top of Android’s target app list.

This could mean that apps not only need to be on Google’s target app list to work, but Gemini also needs to support the kind of task you’re asking for — which is where Google’s task category could come in. Right now, the supported tasks include food, groceries, rides, and reservations, but not document work.

So why are Word, Excel, Teams, and Slack on the list at all? There’s a fair chance Google is laying the groundwork for productivity tasks down the line, and these entries are there for testing, so I wouldn’t count on Gemini filling out your spreadsheets just yet.

Here are all the apps on the target app list for Gemini task automation

These are the apps on the stable Android 17 QPR2 target app list as of November 12, grouped by the market each app mainly serves:

• Global: Airbnb, AliExpress, Booking.com, DiDi, eBay, Etsy, Eventbrite, Evernote, Expedia, Hotels.com, IMDb, Kayak, Lime, McDonald’s, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Word, SHEIN, Shop, Skyscanner, Slack, StubHub, Temu, Trip.com, Tripadvisor, Uber, Uber Eats, Vrbo
• US: 7-Eleven, 7NOW, American Airlines, Best Buy, Burger King, Delta, DoorDash, Grubhub, KFC, Kroger, Lyft, McDonald’s, Poshmark, Starbucks, Target, TodayTix, United Airlines, Vivid Seats, Walmart, Yelp
• UK and Ireland: ASOS, Argos, British Airways, Burger King UK, Deliveroo, Depop, Just Eat, KFC UK & Ireland, McDonald’s UK, Ocado, Starbucks UK, Tesco, Trainline
• India: Blinkit, BookMyShow, Burger King India, ixigo, KFC India, McDelivery, Rapido, Starbucks India, Zomato
• Japan: ANA, Burger King Japan, GO, KFC Japan, McDonald’s Japan, Peatix, Rakuten Ichiba, Rakuten Mart, Rakuten Ticket, Starbucks Japan, TimeTree, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel
• South Korea: 11st, Burger King Korea, Catchtable, Catchtable Global, Gmarket, Kakao T, KFC Korea, Korean Air, Naver Calendar, Starbucks Korea, Yanolja
• Australia: 7-Eleven Fuel, ALDI, Coles, KFC Australia, McDonald’s Australia, Menulog, Starbucks Australia, Woolworths
• Canada: Best Buy Canada, Burger King Canada, KFC Canada, McDonald’s Canada, PC Express, Tim Hortons, Voila
• Europe: Bolt, FREENOW, Vinted

The list also includes a “com.sampleapp” placeholder, which I haven’t counted.

Google hasn’t published this target app list or said which apps work in the UK, India, or Japan. Since the list is delivered from Google’s servers, it could change at any time.

As mentioned, being on the target app list doesn’t guarantee Gemini will automate all tasks within that app right now. Read this list alongside Google’s targeted “everyday tasks” list to see which tasks in which apps have the best chance of running through Gemini on your Gemini Intelligence-supporting Android 17 phone.

As of today, Gemini Intelligence is supported on these phones and tablets:

• Google Pixel 10 series: Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro Fold
• Google Pixel 11 series: Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, Pixel 11 Pro Fold
• Samsung Galaxy S26 series: Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26 Plus, Galaxy S26 Ultra
• Samsung Galaxy Z8 series: Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Flip 8
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra
• Motorola Signature 27

A bigger list is already in testing on Canary

On Android Canary, the target app list is even longer still. My Pixel 9 Pro XL running the latest Android Canary 2611 currently carries 134 apps in the target app list! This includes the 114 apps in the stable list, plus another 20, namely Flipkart, Reddit, X, Strava, KakaoTalk, LINE, Costco, Domino’s, iFood, Rappi, Mercado Libre, Wolt, Shopee, Postmates, Safeway, MyFitnessPal, Peloton, Picsart, FaceApp, and AllTrails. Flipkart’s presence is interesting, given that Google is separately testing Flipkart checkout inside Gemini in India.

The Canary target app list also includes Google’s own mock versions of DoorDash, Uber, Lyft, Grubhub, Uber Eats, and Instacart, which look like internal test apps.

During my testing, I learned that the Canary list includes the extra apps that sit on top of whatever the stable target app list holds at the time. For instance, the Canary list on November 10 showed 126 apps (106 apps from the then-stable list plus 20 Canary apps). When I jumped to the newest Android 17 QPR2 release, it showed the newer 114-app list, and jumping back to Canary got the newer 134-app list within minutes of boot.

We’ve reached out to Google for a statement on the target app list for Gemini task automation, and we’ll update this article when we learn more.