Google vs Reverse Search
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.
Reverse Search
Discover the origin and details of any image by using it as a search query. Upload photos, paste links, or capture new images to find information across multiple popular search engines simultaneously. Ideal for identifying sources, finding similar visuals, or learning more about a subject.
- Search using photos, links, or clipboard images
- Take a photo to search instantly
- Supports Google, Bing, Yandex, and TinEye
- Find image source and related information
- Available on iOS devices
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Have you ever seen a picture and wanted to know more about it? Reverse Search allows you to use images instead of keywords on major search engines! -- Use any picture You can use photos, links, images on your clipboard, files and even take a picture and search it right away! -- Major search engines Results are shown simultaneously using popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yandex and TinEye -- Reverse Search By searching using images you can quickly find the source of an image and more useful information about the subject on image Reverse Search is now available for all iOS devices! -- Terms of Use: https://reversesearch-186b2.web.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://reversesearch-186b2.web.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Reverse Search at none against Google's shown. Google's advantage is ratings volume (5.1M vs 182) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence 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 Reverse Search sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Google against 4.5 for Reverse Search. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google has 5.1M ratings behind it against 182, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of Google's written reviews are positive against 50% of Reverse Search's.
Google ships an update every 5 days, Reverse Search weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reverse Search | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.1M ratings) — better | 4.5 (182 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.1M — better | 182 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 485 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. | |
Customer experience
Reverse Search
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
Reverse Search
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
Reverse Search
- Reverse Search Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- Reverse Search Premium$2.99
Questions
Is Google free?
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Do Google or Reverse Search have ads?
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