This app is not free. You are the product and the data is the payment. Every feature is engineered to maximize your engagement and by extension the value extracted from your attention. Calling it free because the subscription is optional is like calling a casino free because you can also just watch other people gamble.

Circle to Search is a solution to a problem nobody asked for. Googles actual innovation strategy has been copying Apple features in a worse way and calling it ambient computing. The actual useful features get deprecated because they do not serve engagement metrics. This is not intelligence, it is design theater.

App doesn't appear to work at all.

Might work with the floating button, but I won't activate it to test.

The accessibility option it needs is unclear, it just sent me to the android accessibility setting tab with no idea what needs to be done there, if anything.

It didn't replace my default assistant when I tried to change it.

Circletosearch says to double tap the status bar? Why? That doesn't do anything?

I didn't see anything sketchy about the app, but it doesn't appear to be functional, so meh. Maybe try again after they've worked on it some more.