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

Why did you remove the ability to scan and copy text? Now the only options are translate, search, and homework. And none of them give you the option to quickly select all text of the raw untranslated text. You have to manually select text or a region of the image. Also, is there a way to make something other than "search" the default displayed option? I never use "search" and primarily use this to scan text to be able to quickly make a note in my phone.

Such a great app and tool. You can take pictures of things with foreign languages and then translate them later. Super helpful and useful. I use it all the time traveling. The only change I would suggest would be to be able to clear the screen of all the tools so you can have an uncluttered translated picture to take a screenshot or share the translated picture with other people or yourself.

I like Google Lens. I can take pictures and search things up, using the image that I took on Google Lens. I also like that it has a homework feature that helps you get done your assignments. And I absolutely love that they have a translate feature which I think is very useful in many situations. In addition to that, I believe that there are a few things that they should add to make the app more versatile. Microsoft lens has features for business cards , and documents - just to name a few.

What's new

Lens now analyzes camera motion for more accurate results.