1. Google drive
Store, access and share securely with Google Drive, part of Google Workspace.
Google Drive, part of Google Workspace, is a safe place to back up and access all your files from any device. Easily invite others to view, edit or leave comments on any of your files or folders.
With Drive, you can:
• Safely store and access your files anywhere
• Quickly access recent and important files
• Search for files by name and content
• Share and set permissions for files and folders
• View your content on the go while offline
• Receive notifications about important activity on your files
• Use your device’s camera to scan paper documents
Google Workspace subscribers have access to additional Drive functionality, including:
• Easily managing users and file sharing to help meet data compliance needs
• Sharing files and folders directly with groups or teams within your organisation
• Creating a shared drive to store all of your team’s content
2. Google Translator
The world is closer than ever with over 100 languages
• Text translation: Translate between 108 languages by typing
• Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and tap the Google Translate icon to translate (all languages)
• Offline: Translate with no Internet connection (59 languages)
• Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera (94 languages)
• Photos: Take or import photos for higher-quality translations (90 languages)
• Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (70 languages)
• Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (96 languages)
• Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference (all languages)
• Cross-device syncing: Log in to sync phrasebook between app and desktop
• Transcribe: Continuously translate someone speaking a different language in near real time (8 languages)
Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dogri, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
Permissions Notice
Google Translate may ask for the following optional permissions*:
• Microphone for speech translation
• Camera for translating text via the camera
• External storage for downloading offline translation data
• Contacts for setup and management of your account
*Note: The app may be used even if optional permissions are not granted.
3. Google Photo
The home for your memories. Relive, share and organise your photos.
Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organised and easy to share.
– ‘The best photo product on Earth’ – The Verge
– ‘Google Photos is your new essential picture app’ – Wired
The official Google Photos app is made for the way you take photos today and includes essential features, such as shared albums, automatic creations and an advanced editing suite. Additionally every Google Account comes with 15 GB of storage and you can choose to automatically back up all your photos and videos in high quality or original quality. You can then access them from any connected device and on photos.google.com.
With the official app, you get:
15 GB OF STORAGE: Back up 15 GB of photos and videos and access them from any device and photos.google.com – your photos are safe, secure and private to you. All photos and videos that you back up in high quality before 1 June 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage.
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 device’s storage in just a tap.
AUTOMATIC CREATIONS: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, panoramas and more from your photos. Or easily create them yourself.
ADVANCED EDITING SUITE: Transform photos with a tap. Use intuitive and powerful photo editing tools to apply content-aware filters, adjust lighting and more.
SHARING SUGGESTIONS: With smart sharing suggestions, giving your friends the photos you took of them is painless. And they can add their photos, too, so you’ll finally get the photos that you’re actually in.
FAST AND POWERFUL SEARCH: Your photos are now searchable by the people, places and things in them – no tagging required.
LIVE ALBUMS: Select the people and pets that you want to see and Google Photos will automatically add photos of them as you take them, no manual updates needed.*
PHOTO BOOKS: Create a photo book in just minutes from your phone or computer. You can also see suggested photo books based on your best shots from a trip or period of time.*
GOOGLE LENS: Search the hard-to-describe and get stuff done, right from a photo. Copy and translate text, identify plants and animals, add events to your calendar, find products online and more.
SEND PHOTOS IN SECONDS: Instantly share photos with any contact, email or phone number.
SHARED LIBRARIES: Grant a trusted person access to all of your photos.
You can also upgrade storage for your Google Account, used for original quality photos and videos by subscribing to Google One. Subscriptions start at $1.99/month for 100 GB in the US. Pricing and availability can vary by region.
4. Gmail
Connect, create and collaborate with Gmail, part of Google Workspace.
The official Gmail app brings the best of Gmail to your Android phone or tablet with robust security, real-time notifications, multiple account support and search that works across all of your emails.
With the Gmail app you can:
• Automatically block more than 99.9 per cent of spam, phishing, malware and dangerous links from ever reaching your inbox
• Undo send, to prevent embarrassing mistakes
• Turn on Google Chat to connect, create and collaborate with others
• Get more done as a group in Spaces – a dedicated place for organising people, topics and projects
• Enjoy high-quality video calling with Google Meet
• Respond to emails quickly with Smart Reply suggestions
• Switch between multiple accounts
• Be notified of new emails quickly, with notification centre, badge and lock screen options
• Search your emails faster with instant results, predictions as you type and spelling suggestions
• Organise your emails by labelling, starring, deleting and reporting spam
• Swipe to archive/delete, to quickly clear out your inbox
• Read your emails with threaded conversations
• Auto-complete contact names as you type from your Google contacts or your phone
• Respond to Google Calendar invitations straight from the app
Gmail is part of Google Workspace, allowing you and your team to easily connect, create and collaborate. You can:
• Connect with co-workers via Google Meet or Google Chat, send an invitation in Calendar, add an action to your task list and more without leaving Gmail
• Use suggested actions — such as Smart Reply, Smart Compose, grammar suggestions and nudges — to help you stay on top of work and take care of simple tasks, so you can be more efficient with your time
• Stay safe. Our machine-learning models block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware from reaching our users
5. Google Sheet
Sheets, part of Google Workspace
Create, edit and collaborate on spreadsheets from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Sheets app. With Sheets, you can:
– Create new spreadsheets or edit existing files
– Share spreadsheets and collaborate in the same spreadsheet at the same time.
– Work anywhere, anytime – even offline
– Add and respond to comments
– Format cells, enter or sort data, view charts, insert formulas, use find/replace and more
– Never worry about losing your work – everything is saved automatically as you type
– Quickly get insights, insert charts and apply formatting with smart suggestions
– Open, edit and save Excel files.
Google Sheets is part of Google Workspace: where teams of any size can chat, create and collaborate.
Google Workspace subscribers have access to additional Google Sheets features, including:
– Easily add collaborators to projects, see changes as they occur, receive notifications for edits that happen while you’re away and chat with colleagues in the same spreadsheet. All changes are automatically saved as you make them. And with offline access, you can create, view and edit files wherever and whenever
– Get insights fast, powered by Google AI
– Work seamlessly across Sheets and Excel
– Maintain control with enterprise-grade security
– Analyse data from other business-critical tools
– Build custom solutions
Create, edit and collaborate on spreadsheets from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Sheets app. With Sheets, you can:
6. Phone by google
Reliable phone calls with spam protection, caller ID and more helpful features
Google’s official phone calling app is now available to download for the first time. Phone helps you easily connect with family and friends, block spam callers and know who’s calling before you answer – all with a simple, intuitive design.
Powerful spam protection
See warnings about suspicious callers that help you avoid unwanted calls from spammers, telemarketers and scammers. Block numbers to prevent them from calling you again.
Know who’s calling you
Google’s extensive caller ID coverage lets you know the business that’s calling so that you can answer with confidence.
Screen unknown callers 1,2
Call Screen answers unknown callers, filters out detected spammers without interrupting you and helps you learn more about callers that you don’t recognise before you pick up.
Visual voicemail 1,3
Check your messages without needing to call your voicemail – view and play them in any order, read transcriptions, and delete or save them directly from the app.
Intuitive design
Our simple, lightweight design keeps your favourite people just a tap away. Plus, switch to dark mode to save battery and reduce eye strain at night.
Emergency support 1,4
See your current location when you make an emergency call, and share information about the assistance that you require, along with your location, to the emergency operator without speaking.
Phone app is available on most Android devices running Android™ 9.0 and above.
Also available for Wear OS.
1 Available only on some devices that have Phone pre-installed.
2 Automatic screening is available in the US only, English only. Manual screening is available in US, CA only, English only. Call Screen may not detect all robocalls or spam calls.
3 Transcription is available in the US only, English only.
4 Available in Australia, the United Kingdom and the US only, English only.
7. Google Authenticator
Enable 2-step verification to protect your account from hijacking.
Google Authenticator generates 2-Step Verification codes on your phone.
2-Step Verification provides stronger security for your Google Account by requiring a second verification step when you sign in. In addition to your password, you’ll also need a code generated by the Google Authenticator app on your phone.
Find out more about 2-Step Verification:
Features:
* Generate verification codes without a data connection
* Google Authenticator works with many providers and accounts
* Dark theme is available
* Automatic setup via QR code
* Transfer accounts between devices via QR code
Permission notice:
Camera: Needed to add accounts using QR codes
9. Google Keep
Quickly capture what’s on your mind and get a reminder later at the right place or time. Speak a voice memo on the go and have it automatically transcribed. Grab a photo of a poster, receipt or document and easily organize or find it later in search. Google Keep makes it easy to capture a thought or list for yourself, and share it with friends and family.
Capture what’s on your mind
• Add notes, lists and photos to Google Keep. Pressed for time? Record a voice memo and Keep will transcribe it so you can find it later.
Share ideas with friends and family
• Easily plan that surprise party by sharing your Keep notes with others and collaborating on them in real time.
Find what you need, fast
• Color and add labels to code notes to quickly organize and get on with your life. If you need to find something you saved, a simple search will turn it up.
Always within reach
• Keep works on your phone, tablet, computer and Android wearables. Everything you add syncs across all of your devices so your thoughts are always with you.
The right note at the right time
• Need to remember to pick up some groceries? Set a location-based reminder to pull up your grocery list right when you get to the store.
Available everywhere
• Try Google Keep on the web at http://keep.google.com and find it in the Chrome Web Store at http://g.co/keepinchrome.
Permissions Notice
Camera: This is used to attach images to notes in Keep.
Contacts: This is used to share notes to contacts.
Microphone: This is used to attach audio to notes.
Location: This is used to set and fire location-based reminders.
Storage: This is used to add attachments from storage to their notes.
10. Google chat
Collaborate seamlessly with Google Chat, part of Google Workspace
Google Chat is an intelligent and secure communication and collaboration tool, built for teams. From ad-hoc messaging to topic-based workstream collaboration, Chat makes it easy to get work done where the conversation is happening.
• Group collaboration that allows Google Workspace content creation and sharing (Docs, Sheets, Slides), without having to worry about granting permissions
• Side by side editing, one click meetings, scheduling, document creation and shared files, tasks and events make it easy to get work done
• Google search functionality, with options to filter for conversations and content that you’ve shared
• Ready for enterprise, with the full benefits of Google Workspace security and access controls including Data Loss Prevention, compliance, admin settings, vault retention, holds, search and export
11. Google lens
Translate words, identify plants, find products & more − using just your camera
Google Lens lets you search for what you see, get things done faster and understand the world around you − using just your camera or a photo.
SCAN & TRANSLATE TEXT
Translate words you see, save a business card to your contacts, add events to your calendar from a poster and copy and paste complicated codes or long paragraphs into your phone to save time.
IDENTIFY PLANTS & ANIMALS
Find out what that plant is in your friend’s apartment or what kind of dog you saw in the park.
EXPLORE PLACES AROUND YOU
Identify and learn about landmarks, restaurants and storefronts. See ratings, hours of operation, historical facts and more.
FIND THE LOOK YOU LIKE
See an outfit that catches your eye? Or a chair that’s perfect for your living room? Find similar clothes, furniture and home decor to the one you like.
KNOW WHAT TO ORDER
See popular dishes on a restaurant menu based on reviews from Google Maps.
SCAN CODES
Quickly scan QR codes and barcodes.
12. Google meet
your team securely connected video conferencing with Google Meet.
Securely connect, collaborate and celebrate from anywhere. With Google Meet, everyone can safely create and join high quality video meetings for groups of up to 250 people.
• Meet safely – video meetings are encrypted in transit, and our array of safety measures are continuously updated for added protection
• Host large meetings – invite up to 250 participants to a meeting, whether they’re in the same team or outside of your organisation
• Engage in meetings – engage in meetings without interrupting, through Q&A, polls and hand raise
• Easy access on any device – share a link and invite team members to join your conversations with one click from a web browser or the Google Meet mobile app
• Share your screen – present documents, slides and more during your conference call.
• Follow along – live, real-time captions powered by Google speech-to-text technology
*Tile view for Android tablets coming soon.
**Not all features available for non-paying users.
Anyone can join a meeting on Meet via an invitation. However, some capabilities are available only to Google Workspace customers.
With Google Workspace, you and your team can:
• Enjoy helpful features like live captions, breakout rooms and noise cancellation* to make meetings more productive.
• Attend meetings on the go. Meetings organised by Google Workspace users also create a dial-in phone number for each meeting, so every guest can join – even without Wi-Fi or data.
• Seamlessly jump into a video call from Chat or take document collaboration to the next level by connecting over video – everything ties together so that you can always connect and collaborate in context.
13. Google Slide
Create and edit presentations with Google Slides, part of Google Workspace.
Create, edit and collaborate on presentations from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Slides app. With Slides, you can:
– Create new presentations or edit existing ones
– Share presentations and collaborate in the same presentation at the same time
– Work anywhere, anytime – even offline
– Add and respond to comments
– Add and rearrange slides, format text and shapes, and more
– Present straight from your mobile device
– Never worry about losing your work – everything is saved automatically as you type
– Make beautiful slides, instantly – with smart suggestions
– Present slides to video calls – scheduled meetings will automatically appear
– Open, edit and save PowerPoint files
Google Slides is part of Google Workspace: where teams of any size can chat, create and collaborate.
Google Workspace subscribers have access to additional Google Slides features, including:
– Collaborating on a single presentation online with your business partner, your whole team or external contacts. You control who gets permission to edit, view or just add comments.
– Starting from scratch or expediting the process by choosing a template. You can enhance your presentations with videos, images, drawings and smooth transitions.
– Working across PCs, Macs, mobiles and tablets – View or even present your slides from your phone or tablet, so you always have the option to practise your presentation up until the last minute.
14. Find my device
Find, ring, lock and erase any lost Android device
Find My Device helps you locate your lost Android and lock it until you get it back.
Features
See your phone, tablet or watch on a map. If current location isn’t available, you’ll see the last known location.
Use indoor maps to help you to find your device in airports, shopping centres or other large buildings
Navigate to your device with Google Maps by tapping the device location and then the Maps icon
Play a sound at full volume, even if your device is on silent
Erase the device or lock it with a custom message and contact number on lock screen
See network and battery status
See hardware details
Permissions Notice
• Location: Needed to show your device’s current location on the map
• Contacts: Needed to access the email address associated with your Google Account
Find My Device is part of Google Play Protect
15. Google Task
Simply create any task or subtask. Integrated with Gmail for easy collaboration
Get more done with the Google Tasks mobile app. Manage, capture and edit your tasks from anywhere, at any time, with to-dos that sync across all of your devices. Integrations with Gmail and Google Calendar help you get tasks done, faster.
Quickly capture tasks anywhere
• Create task lists with your most important to-dos
• View, edit and manage tasks on the go, from any device
• Manage tasks created in Gmail or Calendar on the web from your mobile device
Add details and create subtasks
• Break down your tasks into subtasks
• Add details about the work you need to focus on
• Edit details about any task as your work progresses
View tasks created from emails
• Create a task directly from an email in Gmail
• View your tasks in the side panel of Gmail
• Trace a task back to its source email
Stay on track with due dates and notifications
• Set a due date for every task to help you achieve your goals
• Organise your tasks by date or prioritise using drag and drop
• Receive due date notification reminders to keep your tasks on track
Part of G Suite
• Bring Google’s suite of powerful, intelligent apps to your business
• Leverage Google’s AI to bring data insights and analysis to every employee
• Connect with your team seamlessly using one suite: Gmail, Tasks, Calendar and more
Take control of your task management and install the Google Tasks mobile app. Start managing your to-do list easily on the go with the Tasks planner app from Google.
16. Google Classroom
Connect with your classes and do homework on the go.
Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect – inside and outside of schools. Classroom saves time and paper and makes it easy to create classes, distribute assignments, communicate and stay organised.
There are many benefits to using Classroom:
• Easy to set up – teachers can add students directly or share a code with their class to join. It takes just minutes to set up.
• Saves time – the simple, paperless assignment workflow allows teachers to create, review and mark assignments quickly, all in one place.
• Improves organisation – students can see all of their assignments on an assignments page, and all class materials (e.g. documents, photos and videos) are automatically filed into folders in Google Drive.
• Enhances communication – Classroom allows teachers to send announcements and start class discussions instantly. Students can share resources with each other or provide answers to questions on the stream.
• Secure – like the rest of Google Workspace for Education services, Classroom contains no ads and never uses your content or student data for advertising purposes.
Permissions notice:
Camera: Needed to allow the user to take photos or videos and post them to Classroom.
Storage: Needed to allow the user to attach photos, videos and local files to Classroom. It’s also needed to enable offline support.
Accounts: Needed to allow the user to choose which account to use in Classroom.
17. Google maps Go
Get real-time traffic and directions, and search and find places
Google Maps Go is the lightweight Progressive Web App variation of the original Google Maps app, now with navigation support!
This version requires Chrome (if you don’t wish to install Chrome, please use www.google.co.uk/maps in your browser instead).
Taking up 100 times less space on your device than the full Google Maps app, Google Maps Go is designed to run smoothly on devices with limited memory and on unreliable networks without compromising speed to provide your location, real-time traffic updates, directions and train, bus and city public transport information. You can even search and find information about millions of places, such as phone numbers and addresses.
• Find the fastest route combining two-wheelers, metro, buses, taxi, walking and ferries
• Ride the metro, bus or train with live city public transport schedules
• Navigate your car or two-wheeler with Navigation for Google Maps Go
• Step-by-step directions with route preview, helping you plan your trips ahead of time
• Get there faster with real-time traffic information and traffic maps
• Discover and explore new places
• Search and find local restaurants, businesses and other nearby places
• Decide on the best places to go by reading customer reviews and viewing pictures of food
• Find the phone number and address of a place
• Save places that you want to or visit often, and quickly find them later from your mobile device
• Available in 70+ languages
• Comprehensive, accurate maps (including satellite and terrain) in 200 countries and territories
• Public transport information for over 20,000 cities
• Detailed business information for over 100 million places
18. Google Cloud
Manage your Google Cloud solution.
The app helps you manage your services running on Google Cloud directly from your Android phone or tablet:
- Stay connected to the cloud and check billing, status and critical issues.
- Create your own custom dashboard to produce an overview of your Google Cloud services.
- Monitor the state of your Compute Engine and App Engine resources with the ability to SSH into your VMs.
- Access to Cloud Shell to perform any Google Cloud (gcloud) operation.
- View and respond to incidents, errors and logging.
We plan to deliver new features regularly and continually improve your user experience. Please give us your feedback in the app by tapping the menu button in the upper left-hand corner, selecting ‘Help and feedback’ and then ‘Send feedback’.
