Google Lens

Google LLC

About this app

Google Lens lets you search what you see, get things done faster, and understand the world around you—using just your camera or a photo.

SCAN & TRANSLATE TEXT
Translate words you see, save a business card to your contacts, add events to your calendar from a poster, and copy and paste complicated codes or long paragraphs into your phone to save time.

IDENTIFY PLANTS & ANIMALS
Find out what that plant is in your friend's apartment, or what kind of dog you saw in the park.

EXPLORE PLACES AROUND YOU
Identify and learn about landmarks, restaurants, and storefronts. See ratings, hours of operation, historical facts, and more.

FIND THE LOOK YOU LIKE
See an outfit that catches your eye? Or a chair that's perfect for your living room? Find similar clothes, furniture, and home decor to the one you like.

KNOW WHAT TO ORDER
See popular dishes on a restaurant menu based on reviews from Google Maps.

SCAN CODES
Quickly scan QR codes and barcodes.

*Limited availability and not available in all languages or regions. For further details go to g.co/help/lens. Some Lens features require an internet connection.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent app for quick snap and search operations. Snap a pic of an object and instantly learn more about it; snap a pic of a dress and instantly be able to look it up in online stores; snap a pic containing textual data and instantly be able to select required text, which not only lets you copy the text, but also triggers an automatic Google search on the text; snap a pic... You get the idea. It just lacks facial recognition at this point.

Overall great but I hate one thing about it. I just can't use it in landscape mode! Like why is this an issue?! When I have to scan for Homework question, they are very long and I have to hold my phone very high up making it very annoying because it is difficult to crop one small question. It would have been so much easier if landscape mode was enabled. The same applies for Translate and Text tabs as well. They would feel much more functional if landscape mode is supported in the app.

Amazing app, helps with everything that I can't search on Google otherwise. Especially translating when I'm in another state or country. But the constant voice suggestion "Take a photo of text to translate" or "Tap shutter button to search" is so annoying. I can't find any way to turn it off, it makes me not wanna use the app at all sometimes. Does anyone know how to turn that off?

What's new

Lens now analyzes camera motion for more accurate results.