Google Earth

Google LLC

About this app

Explore the whole world from above with satellite imagery and 3D terrain of the entire globe and 3D buildings in hundreds of cities around the world. Zoom to your house or anywhere else then dive in for a 360° perspective with Street View. See the world from a new point of view with Voyager, a collection of guided tours from BBC Earth, NASA, National Geographic, and more. And now, visualize the immersive maps and stories you've created with Google Earth on web on your mobile device.

Ratings and reviews

PROs: Thank GOODNESS they let us turn off the "3D" building 💩! 😁 (being unable 2 was my biggest gripe last review) Quick access 2 ruler. Can customize quality/performance level of imagery. CONs: Stupid 'fade to black' bar across top(Search, Voyager, Dice, Ruler, & Account icons in it) won't go away at all. In Google Maps, such borders go away w/ tap of screen. 3D surround 'animation' seems 2 slow down logarithmically. Y not have it maintain speed like settings seem 2 indicate it should?

This app's always been pretty decent, but the most recent update adds a bug that annoys the hell outta me. I can't get accurate measurements anymore, 'cuz the "Measure" tool seems to freeze, even though the actual app's still running–and by the time it unfreezes, I could be anywhere from .10 of a mile to SEVERAL miles off course. Good thing I don't have to use that tool for hiking in the wilderness or finding my way back home, if I got lost–I'd be dead by now, if that was the case.

Wish it still had the pin drop feature. It's become very hard to find out what you are looking at, unless you want to google coordinates all the time. Though the project feature is nice. Really like the detail that it gives, makes it really easy to orient yourself and figure out how to get to were you are trying to go, especially when maps is not giving the proper directions

What's new

An improved search experience now includes locations, suggested points of interest, data layers, and guided tours in Voyager.