Google Camera

Google LLC

About this app

Never miss a moment with Google Camera, and take fantastic pictures and videos using features such as Portrait, Night Sight, and the video stabilization modes.

Features
• HDR+ with Exposure and White Balance Controls - Take pictures using HDR+ to capture fantastic photos, especially in low-light or backlit scenes.
• Top Shot - Pick the best moment with Top Shot. It automatically recommends the best pics, where no one is blinking and everything looks just right.
• Night Sight - You’ll never want to use your flash again. Night Sight brings out all the details and colors that get lost in the dark. You can even take photos of the Milky Way!
• Super Res Zoom - Super Res Zoom makes your pictures sharper when you zoom in.
• Motion Mode - Capture life in motion. Take professional quality Long Exposure and Action Pan photos.
• Long Shot - Take casual, quick videos by simply long-pressing the shutter key in the default camera mode.

Requirements - The latest version of Google Camera only works on Pixel phones running Android 12 and above. The latest version of Google Camera for Wear OS only works on Wear OS 2.0 devices connected to Pixel phones. Some features are not available on all devices.

Ratings and reviews

The app is so unbelievably unoptimized for taking good photos. Photos look grainy, dull, and unnatural. Unless you're taking landscape photo in good light, everything else looks horrid. They don't have an option to save camera adjustments for the 3 things that can actually be adjusted and don't even have the bare minimum of filters. The only good thing about the app is that it is free and there are no adds. However, if you want to improve your photos, use literally any other app.

This is the worst camera I have ever used on a phone (both front and rear). A photo may look great in the viewfinder but after it processes, there's this horrible dark filter that seems to be added. Also makes ppl's faces grainy and accentuates things that you couldn't see in the viewfinder, like wrinkles and bags under eyes. If you check out Reddit this has apparently been going on for a while and no one has fixed it yet. Literally makes me want to go back to my old pixel 2.

Edit: is been a while now, the stabilization in video mode, at least on the Pixel 4a, when zoomed in digitally tend to snap on the right of the scene even if the preview (while recording) the subject is correctly targeted, the final clip appears to be totally off scene, on the left edge, if not totally out. So this makes the uses of the zoom totally useless. (1 star just to highlight this issue)

What's new

• Material You - Experience a new interface with dynamic colors and components from Google’s Material You design system.
• General bugfixes and improvements