Comparison

Google vs Lemon

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Google

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Text to image conversion
  • Customizable fonts and colors
  • Automatic splitting of long text
  • Social media sharing
  • Ad removal option
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Google4 screens
Lemon3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Google versus Lemon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogleLemon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5.1M ratings) — better4.1 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews59.1% of reviews — better58.3% of reviews
Number of ratings5.1M — better11
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#1 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size485 MB41 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGoogleRakko Inc.

Customer experience

Google

All ratings5,108,043 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews10,353 reviews
Positive59.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative35.1%

Lemon

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Google

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

22 purchases

Google

Subscriptions22
  • 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
3 purchases

Lemon

Subscriptions3
  • Remove Ads$0.997 Days
  • Remove Ads$1.991 Month
  • Remove Ads$5.996 Months

Questions

Is Google free?
Google is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lemon free?
Lemon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Google or Lemon?
Google is rated higher. Google averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5.1M ratings, while Lemon averages 4.1 from 11 ratings.
Do Google or Lemon have ads?
Both Google and Lemon show ads.
Which is updated more often, Google or Lemon?
Google ships an update every 5 days, and Lemon every 3 months. Most recently, Google was updated on September 25, 2026 and Lemon on September 18, 2026.

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