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.

App stats

Version: VARY (Last updated: 2024-12-04)
Creation date: 2015-05-28
Permissions
Identity:
  • find accounts on the device
  • add or remove accounts
  • read your own contact card
Calendar: read calendar events plus confidential information, add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
Contacts:
  • find accounts on the device
  • read your contacts
  • modify your contacts
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Phone: read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Microphone: record audio
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Wearable sensors/Activity data: body sensors (like heart rate monitors)
Other:
  • download files without notification
  • read subscribed feeds
  • write subscribed feeds
  • modify/delete internal media storage contents
  • modify secure system settings
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • pair with Bluetooth devices
  • change network connectivity
  • connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
  • measure app storage space
  • full network access
  • control Near Field Communication
  • read sync settings
  • run at startup
  • set wallpaper
  • draw over other apps
  • use accounts on the device
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • modify system settings
  • toggle sync on and off
  • install shortcuts
  • read Google service configuration

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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
  • Good organization of photos.
  • Provides photo editing suggestions.
  • Allows stacking of similar photos.
  • Decent free storage options.
Cons
  • Invasive prompts to turn on cloud backup.
  • Frustrating layout and navigation after updates.
  • Issues with syncing photos to PC.
  • Difficulty managing and finding photos in albums.
Most mentioned
  • Annoying prompts for cloud storage backup.
  • Issues with the app's layout and navigation.
  • Problems with finding and organizing photos.
  • Frustration over storage limits and inability to control backups.
User reviews
The app has some good features, but it offers is no easy way to manage the files. For instance, I back up everything to OneDrive so I don't need the RAW (DLG) images stored in Photos, and there is no way to delete them, unless I go one by one through several thousand photos.
by Rudy -, 2024-12-02

New review 3 down from 5: Your search options keep frustrating. People who use many albums over the years cannot search for album names from a long list of albums. Is there a way? Old 2017 review was 5 stars: I miss Picasa but you are doing a good job getting features from Picasa to Google photos + adding new stuff I like, for example cleaning clutter, suggested "then & now"
by Dor Juravski, 2024-12-01

Over all, it's a very good app & helps me organize photos for my projects. Most of my issues with photo captions seems to have become less of an issue these days (solved? Too soon to say). But I wish I could search WITHIN an album, instead of only across all photos. Also, I wish there was a way to force search to use the captions to find photos.
by M Song, 2024-12-01
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