On May 15, 2013, Google announced the integration of Google Wallet and Gmail, allowing users to send money through Gmail attachments. Initially, the app only supported Mastercard cards issued by Citibank. The first app was released in the US only on September 19, 2011.

Google demonstrated the original version of the original Google Wallet app at a press conference on May 26, 2011. Google's various payment applications through the years, as well as their various titles. This replaced the Tez app on the Play Store, while the 2018 Google Pay app continued to co-exist as a separate, pre-installed app on Android smartphones. In 2020, the Google Pay app underwent an extensive redesign based on Google's India-focused Tez app, expanding into an all-encompassing personal finance app. The old Wallet app, with its functionality reduced to a peer-to-peer payments service, was rebranded Google Pay Send before it was discontinued as well in 2020.

The 'Google Wallet' brand name was first used for the company's mobile payment system of the same name, which was introduced in 2011 before being merged with Android Pay into a new app called Google Pay in 2018. It began rolling out on Android smartphones on July 18 while co-existing with the 2020 Google Pay app. It is available for the Android, Wear OS, and Fitbit OS operating systems, and was announced on May 11, 2022, at the 2022 Google I/O keynote. Google Wallet (or simply Wallet) is a digital wallet platform developed by Google.

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