# Pomelli by Google

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Pomelli by Google and 14 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Lets small businesses with a few locations make on-brand marketing visuals. Critics say it does little without existing reach, and its output is simple and sometimes mangled.

## Why people recommend it

- Produces on-brand marketing material (2 comments): "Some of the new ones do create brand design systems." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812962)) "this is both on brand and pretty cool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787924))

## What people warn about

- Does not build reach or trust (3 comments): "This tool does not help significantly with building all of that reputation you need to be trusted and gaining reach." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793310)) "This is just going to breed mistrust, possibly end up hurting businesses." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792875)) "those campaigns are useless, if you do not have reach already" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792747))
- Output is simple or mangled (2 comments): "the stuff it produces is just simple text overlaid nicely on images you supply" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45791451)) "It generates mangled text and objects with bad proportions." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788531))
- Fears of AI-generated ad slop (4 comments): "Suspicious-me is wondering how Google are going to treat AI generated marketing slop created using Pomelli differently" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787569)) "Now google can sell you the AI that will design the ads for you that you will pay Google to serve." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788727)) "It really does not help me as a small business if Pomelli creates (shitty) AI content" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45791795))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Design](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-design.md): 145 recommend
- [Google Stitch](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-stitch.md): 25 recommend
- [Diffui](https://hackerapproved.com/p/diffui.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Pomelli by Google", https://hackerapproved.com/p/pomelli/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).