Google Photos

The home for your memories. Relive, share, and organize your photos.

Google Photos - Organize and Share Your Memories

"Google Photos" is a comprehensive mobile app designed to store, organize, and share photos and videos effortlessly. It offers 15 GB of free storage, powerful search capabilities, automatic photo organization, and advanced editing tools. Users can enjoy features like shared albums, photo books, and automatic creations such as collages and animations. With privacy in mind, Google Photos ensures that your data remains secure and ad-free, making it an essential tool for anyone wanting to manage their memories.
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App stats

Version: 7.16.0.722859601 (Last updated: 2025-02-12)
Version code: 49682954
Creation date: 2015-05-28
Permissions:
  • android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
  • android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
  • android.permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION
  • android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • android.permission.BLUETOOTH
  • android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE
  • android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE
  • android.permission.DOWNLOAD_WITHOUT_NOTIFICATION
  • android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
  • android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CONNECTED_DEVICE
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Size: 133.35M

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App summary

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.

- “The best photo product on Earth” – The Verge
- “Google Photos is your new essential picture app” – Wired

The official Google Photos app is made for the way you take photos today and includes essential features like shared albums, automatic creations and an advanced editing suite. Additionally every Google Account comes with 15 GB of storage and you can choose to automatically back up all your photos and videos in High quality or Original quality. You can then access them from any connected device and on photos.google.com.

With the official app, you get:

15 GB OF STORAGE: Back up 15 GB of photos and videos and access them from any device and photos.google.com—your photos are safe, secure, and private to you. All photos and videos you back up in high quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage.

FREE UP SPACE: Never worry about running out of space on your phone again. Photos that are safely backed up can be removed from your device's storage in just a tap.

NO ADS: Google Photos doesn't sell your photos, videos, or personal information to anyone and we don't use your photos and videos for advertising.

FAST AND POWERFUL SEARCH: Your photos are now searchable by the people, places and things in them — no tagging required.

GOOGLE LENS: Search the hard-to-describe and get stuff done, right from a photo. Copy and translate text, identify plants and animals, add events to your calendar, find products online, and more.

ADVANCED EDITING SUITE: Transform photos with a tap. Use intuitive and powerful photo editing tools to apply content-aware filters, adjust lighting, and more.

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, panoramas, and more from your photos. Or easily create them yourself.

SHARING SUGGESTIONS: With smart sharing suggestions, giving your friends the photos you took of them is painless. And they can add their photos, too, so you’ll finally get the photos you’re actually in.

LIVE ALBUMS: Select the people and pets you want to see and Google Photos will automatically add photos of them as you take them, no manual updates needed.

PHOTO BOOKS: Create a photo book in just minutes from your phone or computer. You can also see suggested photo books based on your best shots from a trip or period of time.


SEND PHOTOS IN SECONDS: Instantly share photos with any contact, email, or phone number.

SHARED LIBRARIES: Grant a trusted person access to all of your photos.

You can also upgrade storage for your Google Account, used for Original Quality photos and videos by subscribing to Google One. Subscriptions start at $1.99/month for 100 GB in the US. Pricing and availability can vary by region.

- Google One Terms of Service: https://one.google.com/terms-of-service
- One Google Pricing: https://one.google.com/about

For additional help visit https://support.google.com/photos

Google Photos is also available on Wear OS for the Google Pixel Watch. Set your favorite photos as your watch face.

*Face grouping, live albums and photo books are not available in all countries.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Excellent photo organization and search capabilities
  • Automatic backups for photos and videos
  • AI features like face recognition and sorting photos
Cons
  • Frequent bugs and crashes, especially during editing
  • Invasive pop-up notifications urging to enable backups
  • Limited customization and confusing layout after updates
Most mentioned
  • Unwanted auto-backup feature that cannot be turned off
  • Issues with app crashing during edits
  • Frustration with constant changes to the app layout and features
User reviews
Every time they update this app it gets worse. I use it ALL the time, and they just make it harder to find anything and more confusing to use. Every time I get comfortable with it and I'm able to find my way around they screw with it and suddenly it's impossible to find anything again. I ONLY use it because it's convenient. That is THE ONLY reason. Otherwise it's terrible in every way. It IS updated and I've used search. Sometimes it's great, mostly it's not. It has trouble finding exact dates..
by Tiffany Lynne, 2025-01-20

Why is there a million notifications for out of storage? When you open the app, you get a screen saying out of storage, open a photo? Another out of storage notification, in phones notifications area, another one, then in email, just everywhere. Yes we know we're out of storage. Some just use it as a regular app, we don't need more storage! Also, out of storage means you can't edit album or create one or add pics to album? Can't add to favorites. This is a case of pay or horrible experience
by Meshack Unah, 2025-01-18

"A+" for backing up all my photos. "C" for not having a payment tier in between the 200gb and 2tb zone. Finally most importantly a hard "F" for not being able to sync/upload my files into the same albums which are already sorted on my Samsung photo gallery. The end result is a massive useless jumble. Yes I'm glad my photos are safe, but the interface is useless + I never want to open the app and show my friends or family images I've taken with my camera when private stuff from WhatsApp may show.
by Shakar Hershkovitz, 2025-01-16
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