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Search by taking a picture: point your mobile phone camera at a painting, a famous landmark, a barcode or QR code, a product, or a popular image. If Goggles finds it in its database, it will provide you with useful information.
Goggles can read text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish, and translate it into other languages.
Goggles also works as a barcode / QR code scanner.
Features:
- Scan barcodes using Goggles to get product information
- Scan QR codes using Goggles to extract information
- Recognize famous landmarks
- Translate by taking a picture of foreign language text
- Add Contacts by scanning business cards or QR codes
- Scan text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Recognize paintings, books, DVDs, CDs, and just about any 2D image
- Solve Sudoku puzzles
- Find similar products
Goggles can read text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish, and translate it into other languages.
Goggles also works as a barcode / QR code scanner.
Features:
- Scan barcodes using Goggles to get product information
- Scan QR codes using Goggles to extract information
- Recognize famous landmarks
- Translate by taking a picture of foreign language text
- Add Contacts by scanning business cards or QR codes
- Scan text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Recognize paintings, books, DVDs, CDs, and just about any 2D image
- Solve Sudoku puzzles
- Find similar products
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4.0
345,609 total
5 177,300
4 74,377
3 39,694
2 17,988
1 36,250
Steve Clark
Doesn't work at all! I tried many pictures of different items. Simple items I knew pictures existed online. Results were not even close. It's such a great idea and I would think if anyone could make it work it would be Google with the large searchable index they have. I've tried this app a few times since it came out. On different phones and better cameras on the phone. I thought maybe they would perfect it or it was my devices. I didn't want to rate badly until I'd given it the benefit of the doubt. No doubt now!
Annie Spalsbury
I like it a lot but........ My only issue is that when you scan something you get the info right then but there is no way to go back and look for it later. If you don't remember or write down the info right away you lose it. This would be ok if it was something you can go back and scan again but what if you can't. Or when it says I have new results if I don't open it right away, it's gone. If you guys made it so we could look up our previous searches that would make this app way better!!!
Great app that has improved with time. When it does manage to focus and scan at the correct depth with good light, it is surprising when you magically find what you need. Also picks up text and can return many results regarding translation, codes, indexes as well as related images or works. There is still much out there that has not been indexed but if it's out there, a good scan will dig it up.
Rachel Green
This app is a great concept I was really excited when I downloaded it but it just doesn't work properly yet, even for the things they say it can do. Instead of reading barcodes it goes for the text (even when there's barely any to read) can't read text properly either, puts spaces where there aren't any etc. So when you use the search function end up re-typing anyway. Hopefully this will reach it's potential because it could be great, but it's not there yet.
Grant Legacy
Google goggles I'm quite happy with the app even if I don't get a answer to all my photos. But dam near. I love this application so much because I learn more and more all the time. I give it a five out of five all day long for the evacuation value and potential to help answer questions about stuff I see everyday that I have no idea of what it is. Take a picture and most of the time I get a Web Link and I learn something new.
Malik Rashid
Is cool From what I can tell the main benefit of having this app is for shopping. The only issue I have it is that I struggle to find ways to use it, it seems more like a luxury than an essential tool. Maybe because I don't shop. I struggle looking for practical ways to use it other entertainment or information. Perhaps It's not for me. Its completely functional and always works well and surprisingly has never even so much as crashed. I like this app a lot , so I always keep it.
User reviews
Doesn't work at all! I tried many pictures of different items. Simple items I knew pictures existed online. Results were not even close. It's such a great idea and I would think if anyone could make it work it would be Google with the large searchable index they have. I've tried this app a few times since it came out. On different phones and better cameras on the phone. I thought maybe they would perfect it or it was my devices. I didn't want to rate badly until I'd given it the benefit of the doubt. No doubt now!
I like it a lot but........ My only issue is that when you scan something you get the info right then but there is no way to go back and look for it later. If you don't remember or write down the info right away you lose it. This would be ok if it was something you can go back and scan again but what if you can't. Or when it says I have new results if I don't open it right away, it's gone. If you guys made it so we could look up our previous searches that would make this app way better!!!
Great app that has improved with time. When it does manage to focus and scan at the correct depth with good light, it is surprising when you magically find what you need. Also picks up text and can return many results regarding translation, codes, indexes as well as related images or works. There is still much out there that has not been indexed but if it's out there, a good scan will dig it up.
This app is a great concept I was really excited when I downloaded it but it just doesn't work properly yet, even for the things they say it can do. Instead of reading barcodes it goes for the text (even when there's barely any to read) can't read text properly either, puts spaces where there aren't any etc. So when you use the search function end up re-typing anyway. Hopefully this will reach it's potential because it could be great, but it's not there yet.
Google goggles I'm quite happy with the app even if I don't get a answer to all my photos. But dam near. I love this application so much because I learn more and more all the time. I give it a five out of five all day long for the evacuation value and potential to help answer questions about stuff I see everyday that I have no idea of what it is. Take a picture and most of the time I get a Web Link and I learn something new.
Is cool From what I can tell the main benefit of having this app is for shopping. The only issue I have it is that I struggle to find ways to use it, it seems more like a luxury than an essential tool. Maybe because I don't shop. I struggle looking for practical ways to use it other entertainment or information. Perhaps It's not for me. Its completely functional and always works well and surprisingly has never even so much as crashed. I like this app a lot , so I always keep it.
Thought maybe it could identify a particular fish... Not only could it not tell me what kind of fish it was, it didn't even recognize it as a fish. I thought maybe it was too hard, so I tried a couple fish even a small child could identify. They were crisp clear pictures shot from the side. This time it couldn't even hazard a guess. At least with the first fish it TRIED to guess. But I honestly didn't expect it to spit out an answer that wasn't even English. I think it was trying to tell me it was a tattoo. In Spanish.
Google's greatest potential With pictures everywhere (including fb, IG, and Snapchat) google needs to revive this. The UI is from 3-4 years ago. This could work incredibly well with google camera, now, and search. It could be useful when on the go to take a pic to learn about something than typing or talking to your phone (like a weirdo when using voice search sometimes) Please update!
Works just fine So far I have not really put this app to the test, but it seems to work pretty good on my phone (Nexus 5X). The only complaint I can come up with is that the image gets flipped when the content is being scanned, but som far this has not been represented in the output. Overall maybe not the most useful app, but a cool proof of concept and fun to use.
Great Googly Goggles Batman!! Well, it takes a bit of playing around to get your goggles working. Once you've got the hang of it, the worlds at your fingertips! Help tips suck!! So here are some of my own. 1. Unlike Gremlins, Google Goggles LOVE bright light. Go outside or power your camera's flashlight before attempting to take a scan. 2. Skip a wide angle pic at first & see if you can get any writing on the object, male, model, serial #.
Well... Seems like another cool app but the recognition ability can be TOO general and simple. So results are disappointing most of the time. It does better recognition with text than objects. My phone has a decent camera and at some point believed i couldn't take clearer pictures as possible that Goggles cant recognize. Thats not the case. I will wait until it improves.
Downhill When Google Goggles first came out, it was revolutionary. It wasnt perfect by no means, but it broke molds and blew minds. Now after revisiting it after a few years, it seems like they have abandoned the project. Deep learning is very tricky. If I were Google I would focus more on the voice recognition and the ability for the AI to hold a decently intelligent conversation. Image recognition would be smoother if the AI knew the context of the picture it was taking.
Life made easy. The way technology should be. Runs in the background. Ignores 'everyday objects'. Take a picture of a business card. ..Goggles reads the text and offers to add the person to your contacts. ..with all the data from the card. Take a picture of a new beer you've just tried, Goggles will tell you the brewery. Brilliant. .and often amusing. Took a picture of a statue at grandma garden.; gave me the title and artist.
Is cool From what I can tell the main benefit of having this app is for shopping. The only issue I have it is that I struggle to find ways to use it, it seems more like a luxury than an essential tool. Maybe because I don't shop. I struggle looking for practical ways to use it other entertainment or information. Perhaps It's not for me. Its completely functional and always works well and surprisingly has never even so much as crashed. I like this app a lot , so I always keep it.
What exactly is this app supposed to do? Because right now all it does is occasionally identify text and open up ads on images of famous buildings. Seriously it couldn't even identify the Eiffel Tower and instead returned an ad for a product that uses the tower in its logo. So I figured if it recognized logos it could identify McDonald's logo. Except it didn't. Useless waste of space
Use to be useful This app use to recognize product emblems and completely read text now I can't get it to do much but I pick out a couple letters. All it's good for now is a barcode scanner if that. Scan bar stops as soon as it thinks the image is out of focus but if it continued it would realize part of the image is in focus. I'll redownload in the future hopefully issues are resolved
I am an OnePlus 3T user, the app is great with other devices but when concerned with my device, I can find so much trouble in using it. I am unable to read readily taken images and I am forced to take a picture first then upload it from the gallery. It's fine when there is no urgency but very irritant when in a emergency. Hope Google fixes this issue!😃
Amazing Technology, Horrible App It's really cool that you can have it automatically recognize your photos when you take them, but you have at most one opportunity to see them. I get a notification that it recognized one or more photos, and the only way to see them is to click on the notification. If you bring up the app instead, or dismiss the notification, they are gone for good. No history or any other way to see what it recognized. Sometimes clicking the notification doesn't even work. It recently recognized several photos I had recently taken, but I couldn't see any of them. It's more concerned with telling you how great it is without making it actually useful.
3 strikes you're out I tried to get it to identify 3 relatively easy objects: Eagle Talon (granted not the most common car now but popular in it's day), Ford F150 (most popular truck in the US) & the US flag. Goggles could not identify any of them! Not even the flag!! Uninstall.
Nice idea It's a nice idea being able to search using visual cues. However it doesn't really work very well. It didn't recognise the (well known) products I showed it and struggled to recognise brands. A 250ml bottle of ketchup was recognised as 'Hinze'. Well I can also read that label and it is quicker to type the info in myself - so not very good. If it recognised it as a 250ml bottle of the stuff and showed me where to buy - much better. Until then i'll pass.
It appears this app no longer works under Android nougat. When I attempted to take a picture nothing happens. As a visually impaired person using this app since 2014 it has been an absolute godsend by allowing me to read labels and identify objects. Please consider fixing this to continue providing this fantastic support.
Results used to be instant. Now, I'll get a notification on my phone a day or more after taking a photo. The results are too general as well. I used to use this app all the time. I remember it being so helpful & awesome! It would surprise me when I'd take a snap & more useful information than expected would come up.
Doesn't work on Google flagship Android phone Doesn't work on Pixel, which is ridiculously stupid! An Android phone that won't run Google software. I don't want to save photos and worry about where they're saved and delete them later. I just want a quick efficient way to point the camera on my Pixel at a QR code and have it correctly and quickly read it. Why is that so hard on a phone that's supposed to be the best?
Has not worked one for me, not understanding the high rating on this app?? Will not even completely scan a picture before telling me object not recognized. Tried scanning a spider picture, would not recognize.. even cropped the image leg to leg to try and get a better result, stopped scanning a quarter of the way through the picture and says image not recognized. This is a big spider and a great pic of it! This has happened multiple times, so it is not a fluke, the app in my opinion is useless.
Doesn't work with Nougat Doesn't seem to work on Android 7, Nexus 5x. It only searches from gallery, on camera it doesn't even takes a picture. Can you solve this please? By the way, it has great technology, didn't found app like this from any other developer. Why did you stopped updating it and adapting it to Material Design?
It would be really useful to have the barcode reading and general search functionality of Goggles integrated into the Google Camera app. In its current state, Goggles can't take pictures on its own, and having a second camera app doesn't make sense. It's a bit nonsensical that Motorola had integrated barcode and business card recognition into their camera software while Google owned the brand, but that bit of brilliance didn't transition to the parent.
Works great This app works great for me with no problems. I took a pic of a pack of Marlboro Menthols & it gave me info for the Marlboro company & even on menthol leaves. Then I took a pic of my Nirvana lighter, and it gave me info on the group Nirvana. I'm not sure why some ppl have problems & others don't. I wish it would work for everyone becuz it is a good app. Very helpful & useful...
Suffers from lack of flexibility, options Although you can crop the field of view to hone in on the part of a thing you're trying to capture, the app automatically uses any text that's recognized as a parameter for an Internet search (although you may simply want to copy the text or select a relevant part of it). To do the latter, you need to cancel the web search, go back to Goggles, select copy, then paste the text in a temp file so you can choose the target text (e.g., a URL). If the app had a built-in text editing mode, it would make a huge dif
Google itself is not adopting its new camera APIs in Nexus 5x Texts could not be captured since the app is trying to read the inverted image incorrectly. The physically inverted camera installed in Nexus 5x which was corrected by software corrections as per newer camera APIs. And Google itself being a developer has not incorporated it in its goggles app. Please correct at the earliest and make this app usable in Google Nexus 5x
Zero Privacy I downloaded Google Goggles last night and thought it was super cool. I get home and suddenly it tells me I have a new result: my chemistry textbook. It shows me a picture I took of my homework out of the book earlier. In other words, it was helping itself to the contents of my gallery when it shouldn't have even been running in the first place. Amazing idea but granting it full access and autonomy by installing it was a mistake I should have never made in the first place.
Used to be a wonderful app, best on the play store. But now, it won't focus on a QR code without bringing the phone up close, then far away and repeating until it finally focuses - a process that can take anywhere from 15 to 45 seconds. I've tested it on the Motorola Droid turbo (1st Gen) and the Google pixel, and get the same performance.
Used to be great. Now it just doesn't work at all (on Pixel XL or Nexus 6P). The camera button does nothing. Apparently the last update was 28 May 2014. C'mon Google! This was a great concept and app, and while it may have been "too new" back in '14, I think it's time has come. Resurrect it!
Does what it says I tried this app on a medicine box and it provide all info about it including its application, drug usage and its chemical formula. Also I captured some logos and it efficiently recognised it. Soon I will try it on QR and barcode and also on sudoku and landmarks pics and if it fails, I will reduce my rating to 3 stars.
Used to work well, some were down the line it stopped scanning the image and so produces no search. Tested on both Htc and Sony android devices with the same result. App has not been updated since May 2014 so guess it's just not compatible with up to date versions of Android.
Goggles I am not sure what the other negative reviews are about. I have a note 3 and this thing works flawlessly every time. I have even scanned very obscure articles and it has given me authors and publishing dates. I have scanned pictures and it has shown me where they came from on the internet if they did. I have scanned logos and it has never failed to tell me who the company is. I am truly sorry for those for whom it did not work. I recommend 100% to give it a try.
Samsung galaxy note 3, lollipop. This app is awesome! There are so many things that you can use it for. However, it's not perfect. Its either dead on accurate when you scan something for an image search or it is way off. Sometimes fixing the lighting or angle when letting it scan does help
Great application but possibly abandoned... Google Goggles is an excellent application for identifying iconic landmarks and scanning QR codes. It hasn't seen an update in quite some time and I hope that it hasn't been abandoned. Could you please push out an update to fix bugs and give it a Material Design makeover?
Doesn't do what you'd expect. Matched an antique doll... with painted toenails. What??? Basically looks like it matches image for image. Matching colors by quantity? Can't "recognize" a turd from chocolate cream pie. All of this...with a tasty dose of Google GPS data collected. Should be better by now, right? Nah. Just use it and the can collect your data and interests by sifting photos for them.
Blind leading the blind! As much hype as this app initially had at launch, it's completely failed to meet those expectations. 98% of my search results to comon items returned as "unknown." Honestly, it's been much faster & more accurate to use the regular Google, non goggle search engine.
It is good helpful but needs some upgrades The Google goggles app is good but it has some demerits. #can't detect faces,this app can't even detect the face of Michael Jackson,Charlie Chaplin,bruce Lee. #detects junk things in the photograph. it reads numbers and other things except the subject. But its a good app if they fixes these problems.
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28 May 2014
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10,000,000 - 50,000,000
Current Version
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