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

I am very impressed with how quickly the app is able to read pictures of text and the accuracy of the text. By far the best free text to speech app I have tried. It has made reading small physical text easier for me as a person with VI. The other features are also very cool. The only reason I'm not giving the app 5 stars is because the reading speed in the app is too slow. On my Android S8 phone changing the speech rate setting, as has been suggested in Google's help center, does nothing.

Very good! But I like to learn about bugs, sea life, plants, fungi, birds, animals, etc. For fun and one day I went to search for a bug I found and it said tortoise. What??? Lol, it is funny though. Just try to make it more accurate and more focused on tiny bugs from glass windows. For us bug lovers. Thanks so much for understanding. 🩷

It took 4 attempts to get the result I was looking for on a picture of a logo. I submitted info to Google with screenshots. When I got what I wanted and clicked that the results were helpful, it didn't allow me to submit that, so they could know what works as well as what doesn't. Still, I think the lens app is mostly helpful. Lack of right results, like giving me a link for sugar at Walmart as a result for what the logo meant is why only 4 stars because it makes it harder to use.

What's new

Lens now analyzes camera motion for more accurate results.