Google Photos

4.3
51.3M reviews
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About this app

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.

- “The best photo product on Earth” – The Verge
- “Google Photos is your new essential picture app” – Wired

The official Google Photos app is made for the way you take photos today and includes essential features like shared albums, automatic creations and an advanced editing suite. Additionally every Google Account comes with 15 GB of storage and you can choose to automatically back up all your photos and videos in High quality or Original quality. You can then access them from any connected device and on photos.google.com.

With the official app, you get:

15 GB OF STORAGE: Back up 15 GB of photos and videos and access them from any device and photos.google.com—your photos are safe, secure, and private to you. All photos and videos you back up in high quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage.

FREE UP SPACE: Never worry about running out of space on your phone again. Photos that are safely backed up can be removed from your device's storage in just a tap.

NO ADS: Google Photos doesn't sell your photos, videos, or personal information to anyone and we don't use your photos and videos for advertising.

FAST AND POWERFUL SEARCH: Your photos are now searchable by the people, places and things in them — no tagging required.

GOOGLE LENS: Search the hard-to-describe and get stuff done, right from a photo. Copy and translate text, identify plants and animals, add events to your calendar, find products online, and more.

ADVANCED EDITING SUITE: Transform photos with a tap. Use intuitive and powerful photo editing tools to apply content-aware filters, adjust lighting, and more.

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, panoramas, and more from your photos. Or easily create them yourself.

SHARING SUGGESTIONS: With smart sharing suggestions, giving your friends the photos you took of them is painless. And they can add their photos, too, so you’ll finally get the photos you’re actually in.

LIVE ALBUMS: Select the people and pets you want to see and Google Photos will automatically add photos of them as you take them, no manual updates needed.*

PHOTO BOOKS: Create a photo book in just minutes from your phone or computer. You can also see suggested photo books based on your best shots from a trip or period of time.*

SEND PHOTOS IN SECONDS: Instantly share photos with any contact, email, or phone number.

SHARED LIBRARIES: Grant a trusted person access to all of your photos.

You can also upgrade storage for your Google Account, used for Original Quality photos and videos by subscribing to Google One. Subscriptions start at $1.99/month for 100 GB in the US. Pricing and availability can vary by region.

- Google One Terms of Service: https://one.google.com/terms-of-service
- One Google Pricing: https://one.google.com/about

For additional help visit https://support.google.com/photos

Google Photos is also available on Wear OS for the Google Pixel Watch. Set your favorite photos as your watch face.

*Face grouping, live albums and photo books are not available in all countries.
Updated on
Jan 22, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 8 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

4.3
49.8M reviews
Noah Eissa
January 18, 2025
Great app to edit and keep track of all pictures in albums and in a timeline with 15gb of free storage for all of this. However, it becomes very clear that the entire purpose of this app is to get you to migrate all your pictures and then force you to buy more storage. You are not able to delete pictures from Google photos without deleting them from your device and once you click once to free up space on your device it deletes everything with no reversal except for manually redownloading.
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Niels van Beusekom (Nielser)
December 29, 2024
Deletes images and alters metadata when backing up data/managing backed up data, without any feedback to the user. The app also seems— based on what I know— to be designed without much adherence to core principles of UX Design. Many of the options and features of the app seem purposely obscured, accessed through a different app altogether, or just non-existant. The user is bombarded with notifications, and it is difficult to use a third-party alternative. I would go on, and give examples, but th
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Cristina
November 26, 2024
There is no option to mass download pictures. The inability to do so forces you not only to keep your files there, but it also means you cannot have a physical backup. Cannot choose what folders to back up and what folders to ignore. Very annoying to go through. If you redownload all of your files through their exports, your photos/videos are entirely different. If you lose the original you'll never see it again. File sizes are slightly smaller so I can only assume they've been compressed
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Google LLC
November 26, 2024
Hi Cristina. You can use Google Takeout to download all of your photos and videos. Learn more: goo.gle/48bcf3o. You can also back up specific device folders. More info: goo.gle/3PhHnqU. Also, review and change your backup quality at any time from photos.google.com or the Google Photos app: https://goo.gle/3Rf492R.

What’s new

We are introducing a new storage management tool to help you easily manage the photos that count toward your storage quota. This tool will surface photos or videos you might want to delete — like blurry photos, screenshots and large videos.