Google Photos 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Google Photos

4.8

(140)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Google Photos

Google Photos is a simple way to keep all your photos safe, with backup and sharing made easy. With Google Photos, your memories are automatically organized and searchable by the people, places, and things in them–no tagging required. With machine learning capabilities that are able to recognize faces and objects in photos, it's easy to search for specific items like "sunflowers" or "dogs".

Google Photos Screenshots

Google Photos Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

Google Photos Features

Popular features found in Cloud Storage
Access Controls/Permissions
Backup and Recovery
Data Storage Management
Encryption
More features of Google Photos
Archiving & Retention
Automatic Backup
Batch Processing
Content Sharing
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
File Sharing
File Transfer
Image Library
Multi-Device Support
Real Time Synchronization
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Third-Party Integrations

Google Photos Integrations

Google Drive

Integration rated 4.8 from 12 reviews

Google Photos User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

81%

16%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.7

Vasilis K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2025

The most convenient way to save your photos and videos on Android

My overall experience with Google Photos is excellent. It's by far the most convenient way to save your photos and videos to the cloud. Furthermore, it's cheap and it has many powerful features such us, detecting faces, documents, places etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

One of the future I like the most is the ability to create albums and share them with your friends. Also, I like the option that allows you to save an optimized version of your photos and videos in order to save space.

Cons:

I have noticed an important issue which bothers me a lot. When you share to someone a video through Google Photos the video player doesn't work properly. The play buttons does nothing and the video doesn't start.

Christian S.

Verified reviewer

Translation and Localization

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

The best gallery application

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Google Photos is free and accessible on any device, whether Android or iOS (Apple devices). I'm using it as my main gallery for a long time, and I love how it reminds me of some days each time I open it.

Cons:

The free storage fills too fast, and I had to delete or transfer some heavy videos to Dropbox to gain more free space.

Marko P.

Verified reviewer

Photography

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Google photos review

My overall experience with google photos was positive, but I wouldn’t choose it over dropbox

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked the storage capacity and minimal compression of Google photos the most.

Cons:

I liked the confusing interface and difficulty uploading photos the least about Google photos.

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Storage?: All in one Solution

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Such a great platform, can store all files and pictures, recently we revisited an item from 2013 which was invaluable.

Cons:

Price. Price price price. This is the biggest issue, they only give us 15gigs and you have to buy the rest for a monthly subscription which is no way near cheap

Leonard G.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

My review on google photos app

Google photos app has been an incredible platform where I store my photos and videos. I have had a wonderful experience so far Keep up the good work

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Automatic organization I like its powerful search I always enjoy it’s free storage It doesn’t loose photos unless you delete it Its accessibility is incredible etc

Cons:

It depends on internet connection It has storage limits It has limited editing capabilities Privacy concerns

Samuel Isaí R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

Simplest photo Gallery

I have used Google photos every day to have a backup of my photos

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy integration with other Google products and it works in background

Cons:

Storage limit is to low and take the same storage of other Google services like Google drive

Rachael N.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Google Photos is Great

Amazing experience! I love it very much and will always keep the app (as long as my storage doesn't run out)

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

I really love google photos. It allows me a place to store my photos so I can delete them from my camera roll and free up space on my phone. I really love that part. I also love that it creates fun videos of people in my life and can easily identify people and put them in categories. Very fun app.

Cons:

They added a storage limit and that is very frustrating and defeats the purpose of the app for my I am going to run out of storage on there soon and it is making me nervous.

Veronica R.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Great for teams

Google photos works great for us we are able to upload photos as a team to a team drive and everyone has them instantly on their phones when they need

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As a team we all have access to all the photos regardless of where we go and can all have private folders too

Cons:

It fills up fast and I find all the extra storage can be a bit pricy - it can also get messy if you dont take the time to set it up

Sherree H.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Safe and Secure

I am very pleased to have a app for my photos other then the one that came with my phone and tablet. I can delete photos from my normal app and still keep them on Google Photos. I'm happy that I can use Google Photos to keep product photos in one place and regular photos like family and animals on my camera photo album. Google Photos keeps my pictures Safe and Secure. App is very easy to use and edit any photos I want in one app. I am able to view my collection tab and sort photos into albums with labels making it even easier to find what I'm looking for. Can create collage of photos or video of highlights with photos.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Helps keep all my photos in one place and safe. Gives me extra storage.

Cons:

So far I don't have any cons for using Google Photos. Maybe more storage for what you pick.

Jerad C.

Verified reviewer

Photography

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Its an alright program

My overall experience with Google photos has been pleasant, not the greatest, but also not the worst.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that my photos automatically sync to Google photos. It got multiple features, such as grouping photos based of faces, being able to share your Google photos account with someone else by sending a invite, it organizes photos and videos based on the years they were taken/uploaded.

Cons:

What I like the least is that when Google photos first launched, it was unlimited storage for photos and videos and in recent years you now have to pay a yearly fee to get even a decent amount of storage.

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