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Google Photos is a new photo gallery from Google, made for the way you take photos today. Your photos and videos will be automatically backed up and organized, so you can find and share them faster - and never run out of space on your phone.

Finally, a photos app thats as smart as you.

FREE UNLIMITED STORAGE
Back up unlimited photos and videos for free in High Quality. Access them from any device and photos.google.com - your photos are safe, secure, and private to you.

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 devices storage in just a tap.

VISUAL SEARCH
Your photos are now searchable by the people, places and things in them - no tagging required.

BRING PHOTOS TO LIFE
Get automatically created movies, collages, animations, panoramas, and more from your photos. Or easily create them yourself.

ADVANCED EDITING
Use the intuitive and powerful editing tools to enhance your photos and bring them to life. Adjust lighting, contrast, color, and vignette, or pick from 14 innovative photo filters to make your pictures look great in one tap.

SMART AUTOMATIC ALBUMS
Tell better stories, without the work. Automatically get a new album with just your best shots after an event or trip, then invite others to add their photos.

SEND PHOTOS IN SECONDS
Dont waste data texting and emailing photos. Instantly share photos with any contact, email, or phone number, right from the app.

REDISCOVER
Its easier than ever to relive your memories. Get collages of photos you took a year ago on this day - perfect for #tbt.

CAST
View your photos and videos on your TV with Chromecast support.

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Reviews

4.4

6,100,780 total

5 4,102,181

4 1,151,583

3 417,184

2 151,367

1 278,465

Joe Castorena

Best photo app

Dason Wong

Unlimited cloud storage! All photos and videos (4K!) taken from the Pixel stored for free, forever!

Jen Weghsteen

I've lost photos from computer crashed etc, but not anymore! (Except if my sync is off) I love this app and all the different suggestions/animations/photo videos and more that it not only makes up, but you can make yourself. I only wish I could make and edit the slideshow videos on a PC instead of just my phone, cropping and tilting photos for videos would be nice, and being able to add personalized music!

DIVINELY CRUZ

Very convenient and genius! I really regretted losing my old phone because of the saved pictures which went with it.. but when I got a new one I realised that Google Photos has backed them up and I didn't lose them after all! It's also convenient that the app edits pictures and videos automatically, making it more fun to view them after a long time. Furthermore, it makes my files more organized and maintains enough storage space since I could just delete backed up files.

Wilhelm Rahn

Great photo backup and curating service Keeps getting better every year! The auto-backup feature has saved a couple of hundreds of photos from being lost after my phone died, couldn't ask for more. The facial recognition and object search are great additions; and the automatically created albums save me so much time and effort, it's brilliant.

George Rickett

Super baller No I'm not some 11 year old, don't judge me by that title lol. Anyway this app is great, automatically backing up your photos for free and it makes these movies and animations randomly for you and they are pretty cool. You can make some yourself too, like take some burst photos of something happening then make it an animation ( basically a gif). You can also look up photos that have cars in them, cats, dogs, etc... You can also look at photos that have a specific person in them

User reviews

Joe Castorena December 16, 2016

Best photo app

Dason Wong December 18, 2016

Unlimited cloud storage! All photos and videos (4K!) taken from the Pixel stored for free, forever!

Jen Weghsteen December 15, 2016

DIVINELY CRUZ January 1, 2017

Wilhelm Rahn January 1, 2017

George Rickett December 17, 2016

James H December 23, 2016

Back up with WiFi only option. Needs to be a private mode. There needs to be a way to make a private album and protect it with a password or fingerprint. It would be an awesome app after that. There needs to be an option to back up while connected to WiFi only! It used two gigs of data from my phone plan while backing up a 20 minute video. Now I don't have any more high speed data to last the rest of the billing cycle 24 days! Make this an option ASAP so we don't use our data for a simple video back up!!! Don't believe this is not an option from the beginning!

Tamanika Burton December 20, 2016

Never lose a photo again.. so easy to use. I love this app!! I can take all the photos I want, back them up to Google Photos, and all my photos are safe in one place, even if I delete my camera roll in my phone Google Photos has my back.... Thanks Google for this App!! Love the way they organize the photos by month/year, the collage and animation features are great.. if you dont have Google Photos download it today.

Jason Schero December 17, 2016

Smarter Than You & Me This is, hands down, my favorite photo app of all time. Not only does it take the work out of organizing your photos across multiple platforms via time-stamps, facial recognition, and location tags; but it cross references them as well. Add to this a bunch of really intuitive editing options (and a SUPER cool automated video/montage/GIF generator), and this photo app is smarter than you, me, and even my wife! Ha! But seriously... Google has outdone themselves with this one. Kudos, Google!

December 25, 2016

No more lost photos I have had so many phones break with thousands of pictures of my children that I can not get back. Memories from when they were little and firsts for them that only happens one time. With this app I don't have to worry about that anymore and I have so much more room on my phone for apps. Google makes it so easy to organize everything in my life and not complicated at all.

Michele Louthan December 27, 2016

Revising my previous review Photos have come a long way and am now rating 5 stars from previous 3. Love the assistant and the surprise collages, albums, animations and movies Photos generates every so often. Editing has improved greatly. The only thing I would change is when you add a photo to an album, give the option to remove from the main directory.

PETER JOHN DORMOR January 5, 2017

Well done Google !!! This is the ultimate photo storage app. It's a easy and user friendly snap and save to the cloud. Never loose a picture or video and unlimited storage too. The search facility is quite astonishing too their must be some quite complex alagrithums used to power this. I would recommend to all using an android / windows or ios phone.

Megan Brown December 19, 2016

Editing ability is just meh. Let me tell you, I love Google photos. I use it everyday to share pictures with friends and family. My mother-in-law likes the ability to leave comments on photos and that she receives notifications when new photos are shared with her. I like that is easy enough for the grandparents to understand and use on their own. My husband enjoys the ability to organize and archive memories in their full quality. My biggest complaint is the editing options. They are very basic, lacking even red-eye function.

Karlene Evans-Frazier December 24, 2016

Google Photos The easiest... Most Convenient way to save & keep photos... No cost & connected to your Gmail account ... Never lose photos contacts or personal documents again... Loads automatically to new phones or in your computer .... I Love Google.... The are truly there for those of us who are not quite as Tech Savvy or who don't have the time to separate upload or download. & it all stays within easy reach 😳

Nicasio Cintron December 29, 2016

Pretty good app, minor issue, read below Love the quick saving of my photos. I do like that they "try", it's not great but putting photos together is cool. Making a few photos into a stream shot. I don't like that downloading from here comes up corrupted, I've had to download to Google drive and than download back to phone. Not sure what's issue with that but many people might not know how to get around this issue.

Quincy Poaches January 1, 2017

Could be great, if... It is WAAAYYYY better than it used to be. It's good that it allows you to organize photos by places and faces. The facial recognition is pretty spot on. My only gripe is that you can't list order of the photos in an album. So, if you have a lot of photos, the newest photos always end up at the bottom and you have to scroll through a lot to get to them. Newest photos should be added first or at least let you organize them how you would want to see them. You can't resize tiles within the albums either.

Adam Francuzik December 22, 2016

Makes photo storing easy Since I already have had a Google account, it's easy. Just log in and it's all yours. I've had Photos for a long time now, and I couldn't be without it. Only thing I would like to see is some kind of photo slideshow for all photos, rather than having to make a limited animation or movie. But the animations and movies themselves are great.

Zoe Smith December 20, 2016

Auto Awesome video have disappear. My auto awesome video are no where to be seem. Google photos recently made a video of my holiday photos. But the video is nowhere to be seen. 4/5 video have gone which I am really dissapointed. Also, the usserbility is awful, there should be one tab for auto awesome videos. Which there is none. One a movie tab. With some auto awesome video. Also Google should make it simple, self explanatory, easy to use without faffing around, and googling in circles! Google product and search engine was built on simplici

NL Burrows January 1, 2017

Bring back Gallery Phone renewed. Software updated. Preferred previous combination of Gallery App with Photos. No longer know where my photos (ones organised and previously kept in locatable, personalised albums in Gallery) are. Miss the editing tools from the Gallery App - scribbling tool was good fun. Original photos disappear if edited. I'm pretty much lost outside of this. Also agree, filters are not satisfactory; private album function would be good. Can it be fixed, please?

Harrison Schmidt December 18, 2016

Unbelievably, astonishingly good photo app. You can search based on the content of images and it automatically creates collages, movies, and gifs of your pictures based on time and location, e.g. a collage of a vacation or holiday. You can also share albums, which is great for family. It's absolutely wonderful if you have kids. I did have an issue with it crashing on my old phone, which seemed to be caused by a particular video or picture that I couldn't identify, but it has worked on all my devices since.

Gerard Keegan December 27, 2016

Great, but! Extremely good photo backup app from Google (plenty of space given) but I have found that photos are not automatically backed up from time to time. I gave gone into the app on more than 1 occasion and found photos pending. I have unlimited mobile data and have this enabled. I'm not sure if its to do with the fact that I use 2 mobile phones and at least 2 tablets all signed into my Google account. I've had to disable and re-enable photos app to get it automatically working again. Have tried searching Google.

Mrs. H Brooks's December 28, 2016

Perfect! Automatic backup, downloaded images are 10.5MP (works for most photo reproduction items). Secure and safe for storage (I haven't let go of my favorite pics on my phone yet...but I have been confident in deleating most🤓). Noteworthy "usability" - very common sense features & interface. My favorite... it's free...Just another product that showcases why Google owns the world! (They get it right...and make it free!) 🤓😎🤗

Jesse Becker December 23, 2016

Below still applies, but the automatic stylistic/sorting features are amazing. Used to be one of my favorite apps. Five stars, undoubtedly. The new version, however, has less editing options than a stripped down MS Paint. It's awful, so I'll be looking for alternatives. Hopefully Google restores at least a fraction of the previous version's functionality. If, like me, Photos was your primary editing tool, most of those came from when Google acquired Snapseed, which is still its own free app.

Jack Talbot December 30, 2016

If you enjoy memories, you need to download. To be fair, without this I'd be lost. My last phone completely died on me, luckily I had this up and running which meant I didn't lose a picture or video... perfect. Absolutely love the personal touches too... It's really quite nice to be surprised by a collage or movie of photos from a year or two ago.. highly recommended.

Tarin Mahmood December 26, 2016

Very useful piece of app So much awesome, I wait to see more awesome stuffs and they never failed to deliver! BUT It would be nice if they improve which folders to backup section. I have lots of ebooks, in each of their own folder with one or few images, they are presented in a huge list without any way to filter them. Which is kind a pain. Otherwise I have not a single complaints!

Michael Free December 31, 2016

Great features and convenient Overall it's a pretty good photos app. Pros - Photo organization is good, quality editing software, Google assistant created gif or photo and unlimited storage with my Google Pixel is fantastic. The only qualm I have is with the phone backup software which is why I gave 4 stars. Problem is when your on-board storage is full and you let Google delete photos to make room on your phone or also deletes the albums they were in so I had to go create them all from scratch which took a long time.

Stephanie van Beusekom December 31, 2016

Love it! I love how the assistant makes gifs out of videos or a series of pictures. I love the editing filters and options, I also love that I can make a folder and share the photos with everyone. You can pick the folders on your device that you want backed up, and it automatically syncs for you. I don't have to worry about losing photos or losing space, because Google photos will delete the photos off my phone but only when they are backed up to my gmail account!

Long Tran December 28, 2016

Works great, just needs to have SD card support The auto backup is fantastic and the auto awesome videos was a nice surprise. I think the only thing missing is SD card support. I have to set my camera to always write to internal storage instead of the SD card cause Google Photos doesn't access the SD card so it basically means cleaning out my backed up photos often. Would be nice to be able to just have it read from both internal storage or SD for auto backup

Cole Kennedy December 19, 2016

The best photo experience Google Photos is doing to my image library what Gmail did for my inbox. Stop fretting over organization and let the software work its magic. My only wish is that I could use Photos as my default photo app rather than having duplicate files stored in my Gallery. Yes, I know I can manually free up space, but I'd like to skip that step entirely.

David White January 4, 2017

Love it but the UI could use some help I don't know exactly what the user interface needs but it seems sort of cluttered sometimes. I think it can do some powerful stuff that I haven't even taken the time to learn because I just don't think to usually but also because it feels like a lot of hassle. But I do love what Google is doing with this app and can't wait to see what's ahead with it!

Sandra Susana Filoteo December 29, 2016

I love the fact that I don't need to worry about deleting pictures from my cell phone because this app automatically backs up every picture I take... Im just wondering why the app uses almost half of my monthly data when I ever hardly use it???? (This app has been using about 6 GB a month!!!!!)🤔😡 and it didn't happen before until I changed my plan...

Louise Mitchell December 22, 2016

Best app ever Couldn't live without this app i can save every pic I take or ones I have applied stickers or changed slow motion films to picture animation can't stop taking pictures and playing. I also love the way it takes days out and makes films or animations of your day and location brilliant 5 stars . I still love this app love picture quality 5 easy

Jennifer Ryan December 20, 2016

Favorite Google App It may not be the most used Google App but it is definitely one of my favorites. I really like to get the photo flash backs. It's fun to see what pictures you took that day years ago. Also it's a great tool for automatically having your photos saved all in one place. It's a big load off my mind knowing that if I lose my phone I won't lose some of my fondest memories.

Nka Osaro December 25, 2016

Great App - but used to be Excellent (Bring back the 2013 edit) Always loved this app that has prevented me from losing photos as I lose my phones.. Amazing App!! Giving it fours stars cos the editing features in the app were a whole lot better in 2016.. The auto-edit was perfect - correcting the lightings colour and everything.. There was even this Snow effect that was in the Winter-Holiday updates - amazing.. If they can bring back all those awesome filters, it would undoubtedly make a lot of us happier.. Editing is unnatural right now..

David Bardin December 22, 2016

High Quality App The app helps me manage the space on my phone by allowing me to upload photos and videos to the cloud. It keeps track of duplicate photos I have on both my cloud and my device, then allows me to safely delete the duplicates in a single button - saving me plenty of time! The app even senses characteristics in the photos to enhance them. I enjoy seeing the interesting concoctions it creates from my photos. The only downfall of the app is the limited space. It's understandable and necessary though. Great app!

TheKubbas January 3, 2017

Insanely incredible Unlimited storage (for a quality I'm very happy for), auto backups, did I mention the insanely useful "clear stuff that are already backed up" function? And it's amazing how Google Photos categorizes faces, things, places, created instant GIFs from videos that are actually impressive, & the search function... by golly, Google has outdone itself. By searching "tree" or "New York" or "smile", it searches almost anything you've uploaded accurately. Talk about a crazy smart app! Definitely recommend!!

Joe Durica December 21, 2016

Simple and easy to manage storage space The only thing I would like changed is to have the Device folders show up by default when I open the app. That's pretty much the only reason I didn't use this app 100% of the time on my Galaxy S6. Otherwise very well made app and makes the "Low Disk Space" issue non-existent.

Steven Montoya December 26, 2016

INCREDIBLE Easy way to make sure you have all of your pictures. And they're linked to a Google account so you don't have to worry about them getting lost! Wife and I had a baby 5 months ago and our 3 year old had her birthdays and Christmas so there was a LOT of photos in my Gallery. Google Photos helped me by telling me my memory was getting full and to clear it up with what I already backed up. Simple. You guys rock. Keep it up!

Matthew Cosenza December 26, 2016

Great improvements with one flaw (fixed) App makes great improvements for finding and organizing pictures. Only problem I have with it is the lack of native Chromecast support. I used to be able to stream my photos to the Chromecast straight from the app, but now I have to cast my screen which isn't nearly as effective when showing videos. 5 stars if this gets fixed. Edit: this has been remedied.

Carlota Piney December 19, 2016

Only one flaw... So basically, my overall impression is that Google Photos is amazing! You can make movies, edit photos, ect. It's really cool. But when I try viewing some of my movies that I've made on my android on my laptop, it says: your movie will be ready soon. Soon?! Not really. Well, time is important and well, we can't be waiting for long, can we? Sometimes we can, but what happens if the movie is urgent? And also please can you add the feature of making movies on computers and stuff like that? Thanks!

What's New

• An all-new set of smart, dynamic filters to enhance photos in one tap.

• Advanced editing controls to tweak lighting, color, and more, including an innovative Deep Blue slider that adds color to sky and water.

• More movies, made for you: your child's first months, holiday traditions over time, highlights from the year, and more – all easily editable.

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