# PhotoScan by Google Photos — user reviews > 728 indexed App Store user reviews of PhotoScan by Google Photos by Google, rated 4.80/5 from 89,384 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photoscan-by-google-photos/id1165525994/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photoscan-by-google-photos/id1165525994.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 77,407 · 4★ 9,279 · 3★ 1,611 · 2★ 373 · 1★ 714 ## What do users think of PhotoScan by Google Photos? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Quick scanning - 🔍 Removes glare and adjusts photos - 💾 Saves photos to Google Photos - 🎨 Preserves old photos digitally **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes frequently - 🔍 Corner adjustment feature not always reliable - 🔀 No batch export option, have to export photos one by one - 🔍 Image quality not as good as a dedicated scanner **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when trying to edit/adjust corners of scanned photos - Scanned images not always properly rotated or cropped - App performance degrades when scanning large number of photos **Most requested features** - Add ability to add notes/captions to scanned photos - Improve corner adjustment feature - Add batch export option - Increase output image quality ## Newest reviews (18 of 728) ### 5/5 — Convenient *2026-08-10, version 1.7* Great app. I am writing my memoir about n book firm and this made it simple ### 3/5 — Pretty good I would say *2026-08-10, version 1.7* Usually doesn’t capture the photo correctly, but it’s easy enough to correct. Worth checking out to restore memories. ### 5/5 — Great *2026-08-03, version 1.7* Easy to operate works great ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-01, version 1.7* Best free photo scan on the market ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-01, version 1.7* Just so easy to use and great results!! ### 5/5 — Simple to use great results. *2026-07-28, version 1.7* Yes it’s actually pretty easy to use. I found it best to stand the photos against something so as not to get a shadow and have a plain background. The result are great. It crops and rotates it correctly most times. ### 5/5 — Great scanning tool *2026-07-27, version 1.7* Of way to quickly digitise old albums ### 5/5 — The best option for scanning *2026-07-25, version 1.7* This app is a life saver. We have been scanning our 40 years of photos and this works better than any physical scanner. And the size does not matter. This is amazing. ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2026-07-22, version 1.7* Wow! I hadn’t used this app in quite some time but I don’t know if it’s now having an iPhone 17 versus 14 or something changed with the app but it’s perfectly scanning in photos without any correction needed! ### 5/5 — Photos *2026-07-20, version 1.7* Very easy to use ### 5/5 — So clean , so easy *2026-07-16, version 1.7* i was using my notes app hack but this is wayyyy easier and wayyyy more precise and wayyyy more detailed ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2026-07-15, version 1.7* Easy to use great results ### 5/5 — Bom demais *2026-07-14* Que app incrível! O dono merece um prêmio. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-07-10, version 1.7* Once you get the hang of it! Works fast ### 5/5 — Fantastic app! *2026-07-07, version 1.7* So easy to use, helped me create photo book. ### 5/5 — Just Wow! *2026-07-05, version 1.7* So easy to use! ### 5/5 — Best Free App *2026-07-05, version 1.7* Love that I can take scans with my own phone! Look amazing! ### 5/5 — So easy *2026-07-03, version 1.7* It’s so easy to use and can copy my photos quite nicely. It actually seems to improve and brighten a lot of them! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Quit asking me for feed *2026-08-19, version 1.7* I always rate every app one star, but it keeps on pestering me to give it feedback. ### 1/5 — Low quality *2026-07-07, version 1.7* Photos come out grainy and/or blurry. Scanning system is janky and produces a bad final image. ### 1/5 — O círculo central não consegue ser movido. *2026-06-21* Tentei diversas vezes mover o círculo central para a direção indicada. O círculo não sai do lugar e depois de alguns segundos, é pedido para eu repetir a captura. Não me serviu. ### 1/5 — Very disappointing *2026-06-19, version 1.7* This “scanner” just takes a photo of your photo. It’s not a scanner. The glare removal feature does not work and it wont export to the iPhone photo library. Glad it was free. ### 1/5 — Is not able to detect photo size accurately. *2026-04-12, version 1.7* Seems like it would work if it could accurately detect the photo boundaries! I am photographing an old album (square) and have placed in on a black sheet with adequate lighting but the app is not able to sense where it is- so unfortunately it’s back to photoshop for us. Please add the ability to manually set photo boundaries so this issue can be circumvented! ### 1/5 — Buggy *2026-04-03, version 1.7* Scanning feels buggy these days. The corners are almost always aligned in odd spots. ### 1/5 — Please update this App! *2026-03-31, version 1.7* Stopped working after update to iOS 25.4. This has been the absolute best photo scan App I’ve used. Clearest scans of documents & photos on my phone. Please can you (Google) get it working again. ### 1/5 — Opposite to add *2026-01-25, version 1.7* Add was promoting removal of glare ,in my case added glare. App deleted. ### 1/5 — Won’t scan to Google Photos *2025-12-30, version 1.7* This app WILL NOT SCAN TO GOOGLE PHOTOS WITH AN iPhone. I learned this after hours of trial and error, research, and finally an in-depth conversation with ChatGPT. It will save to Google Drive or other locations. I wanted to scan to a shared album in Google Photos but instead I had to put them in Google Drive and I’m currently researching how to efficiently batch upload them to a shared album, but that looks like more work than I expected too. ### 1/5 — Crash! *2025-12-12, version 1.7* Wonderful for the price of free but …. Needs an update. 3 years is a long time! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Scan *2026-08-31, version 1.7* Works great ### 5/5 — Easy to use!! *2026-08-29, version 1.7* And all the pictures are automatically stored into my photos app on my iPhone so I can easily access them in iCloud on my PC. ### 5/5 — Wow! *2026-08-28, version 1.7* This is an amazing app. Thank you, Google. I am a 70 year-old woman with lots and lots of old pictures of my family. it is so simple for me to put all of my old photos into my Google Photos. Best part I can do it, even though I’m not super tech savvy, and it’s free. ### 5/5 — perfecto *2026-08-23, version 1.7* muy útil ### 5/5 — Years using PhotoScan *2026-08-22, version 1.7* I have been using PhotoScan for years and it works really well and it is so easy to use. I highly recommend it to others. ### 5/5 — Love this! *2026-08-20, version 1.7* Amazing App - Love it’ ### 5/5 — Family Photos *2026-08-18, version 1.7* Thank you so much for this app, it is allowing me to have safe copies of our old family photos. ### 5/5 — Easy! Convenient! And Free! *2026-08-15, version 1.7* What more can you ask for? ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2026-08-12, version 1.7* So quick and easy to use. Thanks Google Photos - I’m going through an old box of photos and this app is my saviour! ### 5/5 — Photo scan *2026-08-11, version 1.7* Perfect for saving family photos --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-05.*