# Google

> Search with AI, Images & Text

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id284815942](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id284815942)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id284815942`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Google
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (5,076,221 ratings)
- **Version:** 437.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-07
- **First published:** 2019-02-12
- **Size:** 481 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google/id284815942)
- **Website:** [http://www.google.com/search/about](http://www.google.com/search/about)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.google.com/privacy](http://www.google.com/privacy)

## Description

**Google** is an intelligent search app for finding answers, exploring interests, and searching with text, voice, images, or your camera. Use **AI Mode**, AI Overviews, Search Live, and Gemini-powered features to ask complex questions, explore follow-ups, plan projects, brainstorm ideas, and discover helpful web links.

With **Google Lens**, identify plants and animals, translate over 100 languages, solve homework problems, find products, reverse-search images, and get step-by-step guidance. The app also includes Hum to Search for identifying songs, personalized Discover content, a convenient Search widget, image search, and secure privacy controls for managing search history and account activity.

## Rankings

- #73 — Overall
- #1 — good
- #1 — google
- #1 — google search
- #2 — chrome
- #2 — chrome browser

## Review summary

Users highlight the app’s strength as a one-stop hub for Google services and quick information, with a clean, intuitive interface and solid Maps experience. However, recurring complaints focus on Gemini AI features that users want to disable and that often deliver inaccurate results, updates that weaken non-AI search, occasional loading issues, and intrusive notifications that are hard to disable. Overall, it remains a useful information app, but AI control and stability are the main concerns.

### Pros

- Broad access to Google services (Classroom, Maps, weather) in one app.
- User-friendly, clean, and polished interface with easy navigation.
- Reliable resource for finding information quickly.
- Strong Maps integration and overall Google ecosystem quality.

### Cons

- AI features (Gemini) are disliked and cannot be turned off; AI search is often inaccurate or unhelpful.
- AI-driven updates degrade regular search performance; users want standard search results.
- Performance issues after updates: the app can fail to load or lock up on launch.
- Persistent notifications on app launch are hard to disable.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id284815942)