Google vs Lemon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
This app provides a comprehensive search experience, integrating AI for quick answers and personalized content. It allows you to search using images, voice, or text, and offers features like song identification and real-time translation.
- AI Overviews for quick answers
- Image search with Lens
- Hum to Search for song identification
- Personalized Discover feed
- Real-time camera translation
- Home screen search widget
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Download the Google app to find quick answers, explore your interests, and ask anything on your mind in any way. Try AI in Google Search with AI Mode, Lens, Search Live, and more. Feature highlights*: • AI Mode: Get AI-powered responses to your toughest questions with AI Mode–talk, type, or snap a photo to get started, and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. You’ll continue to see a range of helpful links so you can keep exploring across the web. • Google Lens: See something you like? Snap a photo and discover where to shop for it, find related images, and more. Refine your camera searches by adding words – whether you want those shoes but in ‘blue’, or want to learn how to ‘repair’ that broken bit on your bicycle. • Search Live: Have a live, real-time conversation in Search by using your voice and camera to easily get answers and on-screen links to the web when you need them. • AI Overviews: Get a snapshot of key information about a topic or question, like ’how to fix a broken zipper’, with links so you can easily explore more on the web. • Hum to Search: Can't remember the name of that song? Hum the tune and Google will help find it for you—no lyrics, artist name or perfect pitch required. You can also search for a song playing near you. • Discover: Stay up-to-date on topics that matter to you. Get personalized news, articles, and videos based on your interests. • Google Search Widget: Search faster from your home screen or lock screen, with easy shortcuts to AI Mode, Lens, and more. Google Search, totally reimagined with AI • Explore a new intelligent Search box that expands with your curiosity, offers AI powered suggestions and lets you search with text, videos and more. • Bring your toughest questions to Search. With a more seamless Search experience, you can go from an AI Overview on the search results page to asking follow-up questions in AI Mode, with links to the web. • Get help with planning, researching, brainstorming new ideas, and more with the latest Gemini models delivering frontier performance for agents and coding. • Bring your ideas to life by transforming your photos in Lens or creating images in AI Mode with Nano Banana. Available in select languages and locations. Search what you see with Google Lens: • Use your camera to identify what you’re looking at. Identify plants and animals, translate text in real-time, find similar products to buy, and even solve math problems with step-by-step guides. • Translate over 100 languages on things like road signs when you travel, menus, and more by pointing your camera at text. • Reverse image search: Find the source, similar photos, and related information for any image. • Get step-by-step homework help on math, physics and word problems, and testing your knowledge with Questions and Answers are now fully supported within the Google app. Search safely and securely: • All searches in the Google app are protected by encrypting the connection between your device and Google. • Privacy controls are easy to find and use. Tap your profile picture to access your menu and delete recent search history from your account with one click. • Search proactively filters webspam to help ensure that you see safe, high-quality results. Learn more about what the Google app can do for you: https://search.google/ Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy Your feedback helps us create products you'll love. Join a user research study here: https://goo.gl/kKQn99 *Features may not be available in all countries.
Lemon
Easily transform lengthy text into visually appealing images. Share longer messages on social media by converting them into graphics. Customize fonts and colors, and automatically split content that exceeds single-image capacity.
- Text to image conversion
- Customizable fonts and colors
- Automatic splitting of long text
- Social media sharing
- Ad removal option
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Lemon is an app for turning text into images. You can even share long pieces of text over 140 characters on Twitter easily by turning them into images. Features • Turning text into images • Fonts and colors can be changed • Automatically splits long texts that don't fit on one image into multiple images Remove Ads Option $0.49 weekly, $0.99 monthly, $3.99 Biannually Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: http://rakko.app/lemon-privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: http://rakko.app/lemon-terms-of-service/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Google at 4.6 against Lemon's 4.1. Google also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (5.1M vs 11). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Google sells 22 in-app purchases, starting at $0.89 per month and Lemon sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Google holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google has 5.1M ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 59% and 58% positive.
Google ships an update every 5 days, Lemon every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lemon | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.1M ratings) — better | 4.1 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews — better | 58.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.1M — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 485 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rakko Inc. | |
Customer experience
Lemon
Bugs and requests
Reported bugs
5 issues- Search bar freezes or takes a long time to load
- Tabs disappearing or not saving properly
- Inability to save images or access image search
- Crashing or force closing issues
- Inconsistent dark mode/light mode behavior
Requested features
5 requests- Option to disable Google Lens
- Improved tab management
- Ability to customize news feed interests
- Restore image download functionality
- Dedicated search mode for trucks and larger vehicles
Lemon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
- 30 GB$0.891 Month
- 100 GB$1.991 Month
- 100 GB1 Month trial3 variants$1.991 Month
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- 100 GB3 Months trial$1.991 Month
- 200 GB$2.991 Month
- 200 GB1 Month trial3 variants$2.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (400 GB)$4.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (400 GB)1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)$9.991 Month
- 2 TB1 Month trial3 variants$9.991 Month
- 100 GB$19.991 Year
- Google AI Pro (5 TB)1 Month trial2 variants$19.991 Month
- Google AI Pro (5 TB)$19.991 Month
- Google AI Pro (2 TB)$19.991 Month
- 5 TB2 variants$24.991 Month
- 200 GB$29.991 Year
- 200 GB1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- Google AI Plus (400 GB)$49.991 Year
- 10 TB$49.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)$99.991 Year
- 30 TB$149.991 Month
- 5 TB$249.991 Year
Lemon
- Remove Ads$0.997 Days
- Remove Ads$1.991 Month
- Remove Ads$5.996 Months
Questions
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