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

It can IDENTIFY most images, if that's ALL you want, but USING the results to search for the item online is a NIGHTMARE that takes you through a series of screens in which clicking on anything takes you nowhere useful, yet still keeps you trapped within the app. Want to find it on Amazon or Google? Impossible. For best results, just type the name manually in a separate browser. Let the goofy ladies responsible for developing Lens, continue their little experiment on their own time; not mine.

I think this is about the coolest app! I use it all the time (work, shopping, diggling, etc). Sometimes my ability to take a proper picture limits it's usefulness, but generally it looks at a pic I have taken, and looks up websites with similar pics. Great if you continually run into items you cannot identify or cannot price. --for identifying items, you may have to take se real pics from different angles. Maybe developement could add a question bar? To help limit the search function.

It's great to have a resource I can depend on and Google Lens is one of the best. I use it to research items in various collections I have and it delivers! It's user friendly and accurate, with quick results that are concise and easy to understand. Sometimes there are also pleasant little surprises along the way. Tonight it took me to a gem auction ad after I put in a pic of a rock I thought was a common agate. Lens showed me it may very well be a common OPAL!! Well done, Google! Thank you!

What's new

Lens now analyzes camera motion for more accurate results.