Google Photos

RATING:

4.8

(90)

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 Pricing

Google Photos is a free application.

Free trial: 

Not Available

Free version: 

Available

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Google Photos Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Google Photos

1 - 5 of 89 Reviews

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Raj

Verified reviewer

Mining & Metals, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Get all your memories in one place!

The app can handle a large volume of photos without a hiccup, and you get excellent photo album services for up to 15 GB without paying anything. That is more than enough for an average user. The app has simplified our lives, always at our beck and call to retrieve our memories!

PROS

1. Google Photos neatly organizes all your photos, screenshots, videos, animations, etc., and lets you search them in whatever way you like. 2. You can search for persons, places, items, docs, etc. The incredible search facility lets you organize your photo collection and pinpoint a specific shot in no time. 3. The library keeps all your albums on the cloud. Google's Artificial Intelligence automatically prepares theme-based albums for you. 4. The Recent Highlights feature showcases the images you clicked in the last few days. Similarly, the Spotlight feature automatically takes a person's best picks and creates a collage. 5. It can automatically spot similar shots giving you the flexibility to keep any or all of them. 6. You can share your albums with your near and dear ones or everyone. 7. The feature of sharing your photos with your partner by adding a partner account is fantastic. The moment your partner clicks a picture, you can see the snap instantly from the cloud storage. 8. Every email account gets 15GB of free storage. If you ever feel that space is insufficient, you can always buy more storage space at nominal rates. 9. Google Photos sends stylized photos and animations; more often than not, they are excellent. 10. It is also possible to alter the quality of the photo backup – ranging from original to medium. The cloud backup ensures that your photos are safe, even if you lose your device.

CONS

1. Free storage of 15 GB is not enough and gets filled up pretty fast when you allow backup of videos or insist on original quality. If your storage gets exhausted, you lose proper access to all Google services that are storage based. Your emails will not come in the inbox, which is very awkward. 2. You require excellent Wi-Fi and mobile internet to reap the full potential of this app; otherwise, most of your photos will not be backed up, or you may not access your snaps when needed. 3. The face recognition feature is not perfect, and you need to train the app to confirm that the faces are of different persons. 4. The safety of your data is a big issue, and you may not be entirely immune to data-based advertisements. 5. You can't merge the storage space of multiple email accounts. One of your accounts may be out of storage, while others may be almost empty.

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Maruf

Verified reviewer

Financial Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2023

Edit for Google Photos

PROS

Google Photos is a fantastic app for organizing and storing my photos. The free storage option is great, and its search feature is impressive

CONS

However, recent changes to the free storage policy are disappointing. It's becoming less cost-effective for users with large photo libraries

Mark

Automotive, 10,000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Great photo storage app

PROS

I like how I can order photo prints to local stores directly from my phone or laptop

CONS

I don't like how my storage is limited unless I pay for extra storage

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2023

Google photos is a great way to keep track of your pictures

Overall I love Google photos and it usually backs up quickly and keeps everything backed up so that you never lose it and you can always go online and grab whatever picture you need without using up the storage on your device or pc

PROS

Whether it's a document or product photos or family photos Google photos stores and organizes your photos by date and time and it also has a search for photos feature that is really great you type in a keyword and it finds you photos that match at key word that is awesome

CONS

The search for photos program part needs a little work maybe a little AI integration sometimes it's hard to find it the right keyword Bert to use to match the photo you're looking for Yet but you put in enough synonyms it gets it right eventually

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Amanda

Verified reviewer

Writing and Editing, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2023

Number 1 Choice for Memory Keeping

I have been using Google Photos for years and years and most of the photos were auto uploaded by my cell phone(s) which meant I was very lucky to not lose so many pictures!

PROS

I love the intuitive search and face recognition that makes it so easy to find specific photos quickly.

CONS

Sometimes it can be tricky to know how to archive, delete, or sort folders without losing them.