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

Seamless integration with the ability to run a reverse image search easily no matter where you store files, with only a right click. It's superior for online comparison shopping and locating specific items. You can even sub- search smaller parts within the image. My main complaint is that it seems to be updated for the purpose of mainly just shopping, whereas the ability to match faces consistently has somehow plummeted. Seems like the they took 3 steps forward and 4 steps back with this

I help translate Chinese, from English, and English - Chinese. Yet, twice already, the app translated 2/3 of text incorrectly, and the second time around, 1/4 of text incorrectly, and that is only for the months of January - July. It is understandable it incorrectly translated March as "to March", and May, as "possible", though there needs major improvements for context in translating text. Nonetheless, I won't give up on the app. Rather, I want to help Google improve upon such. Thanks.

It works great for informational purposes initially. It would get 5 stars if not for the fact that it stopped working halfway through exploring the topic in question and failed to load the other tabs for other facets of information, then got stuck and wouldn't let me go back to the previous tabs, or close the search results menu to return to lens. It then proceeded to have a seizure and freaked out when I tried to close it. 😅 So yeah it's a great app, works 95% of the time, but then doesn't.

What's new

Lens now analyzes camera motion for more accurate results.