Google vs Smart Vision
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.
Smart Vision
Instantly identify and learn about anything you see with AI-powered visual recognition. Get detailed information, ask follow-up questions, and discover more about plants, animals, food, landmarks, and everyday objects.
- AI-powered visual identification
- Detailed information on objects
- Plant care tips and identification
- Animal and bird species recognition
- Food and recipe suggestions
- Landmark and art exploration
- Product information and purchase links
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Meet Smart Vision — the ultimate AI scanner that identifies and explains everything you see with just one tap! Whether you’re curious about a wild animal, plant, food ingredient, vehicle, or landmark, Smart Vision has the answers. Beyond simple identification, this app empowers you to ask questions about your surroundings and even find things online! Have you ever asked, ‘What is this?’ With Smart Vision, you can identify anything and everything you see. Every scan you make reveals fascinating details about your surroundings, providing practical examples like these: - Food & Ingredients: Wondering what to cook with the ingredients in your fridge? Scan them, and Smart Vision will suggest recipes. - Plants: Don’t know how to care for your plant? Smart Vision is not only a plant finder, but it also provides plant care tips and detailed information. - Goods: Interested in learning more about a product you see? Get detailed information, reviews, and links to where you can find it by scanning the item. - Parking Signs: See a parking sign and unsure if you can park there? Scan it, and Smart Vision will provide you an answer. - Animal & Wildlife: Want to know more about an animal? Learn about various species, including mammal, amphibian, reptile, snake, turtle, and their habitats by scanning them. - Birds: Want to know more about a bird species? Identify and get information on different bird species by scanning them. - Cat & Dog Breeds: See an unfamiliar dog or cat breed? Identify and get information about different breeds. - Insects & Bugs: Curious about an insect or bug? Discover detailed information by scanning them. - Mushrooms: Unsure about a mushroom you found? Identify different mushrooms and learn more about them. - Art: Found an intriguing piece of art? Explore art styles and artists with a single scan. - Landmarks: Visiting a new landmark? Learn historical facts and details with a quick scan. - Rocks & Crystals: Found an interesting rock, stone or crystal? Discover their properties and origins with a scan. - Coins: Curious about a coin you found? Use Smart Vision as a coin identifier to learn about its origin, value, and history with a simple scan. Why use Smart Vision? Unlike Google Lens, which finds similar images online without understanding context, Smart Vision understands exactly what’s in the image, explains it to you, lets you ask follow-up questions, and provides detailed information from its vast knowledge base. And everything is at your fingertips with just one tap. Manage and cancel subscriptions anytime through your account settings. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, with the renewal cost provided. Privacy Policy: https://www.smart-vision.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.smart-vision.app/terms-of-use Contact us: team@smart-vision.app
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Verdict
Google and Smart Vision both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Smart Vision's written reviews are positive against 59% of Google's. Smart Vision also leads on ads (none vs shown). Google's advantage is ratings volume (5.1M vs 15) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Smart Vision sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. 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 Smart Vision. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google has 5.1M ratings behind it against 15, 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 100% of Smart Vision's.
Google ships an update every 5 days, Smart Vision every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.1M ratings) — better | 4.5 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.1M — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| 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 — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 485 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Yaromii | |
Customer experience
Smart Vision
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
Smart Vision
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
Smart Vision
- Smart Vision$3.997 Days
- Smart Vision3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Smart Vision$29.991 Year
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- Smart Vision7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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