PhotoScan by Google Photos App Reviews

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Life Changing!. PhotoScan will change your life. It’s wonderful. What better time than the pandemic to dig out those old prints and digitize them? You will find yourself transported into happier times as you look at all those baby and vacation photos! Once they are in Google Photos , splurge on some photo books. I use Mixbook. You will get so much pleasure from “looking back” when it’s kind of scary being in the present or the future! Love PhotoScan. Thank you to whoever invented it. It is getting me through this COVID crisis!

Doesn’t export properly. UPDATE: Looks like I jumped the gun a little bit. The app did transfer all photos (original and cropped) via thunderbolt cable! However, it still needs option to export multiple photos directly from within the app. The initial portion of the app - photo-scanning images is very good. I also like the ability to crop the images. For that, Id rate 5 stars. But it completely falls flat for what I would say is the most important part - exporting the images. After scanning and cropping, the photos are saved to the camera roll (as cropped), but when they’re imported to a desktop via thunderbolt cable, the photos are not cropped. That’s completely useless. There is, however, an option to extort photos directly from the app, but only one at a time!?? The app allows selecting multiple photos but then the only option is to delete. That’s a huge usability error. So the only way I can export over 500 finalized cropped photos is to export the one at a time via AirDrop. Like I said, great on the front end but complete fail on the backend. Developers, please add option to; A) bulk export from the app, and B) Export finalized photos from the camera roll.

Awesome Digital Photo Scanner with iPhone. I love how intuitive the app was to digitally scan old photos of family members. I was turned onto this app when my father-in-law recently passed away. I was assisting my wife scan the numerous photos of her father throughout his life. We were using an Epson scanner and found it very tedious and time-,consuming despite the obvious grief we were experiencing for his recent passing. Nonetheless, I thought to myself with all the recent advances in technology isn’t their an easier way to scan these photos for posterity as well as use for a slideshow tribute? Yes, indeed there was and it was free of charge from Google. Works pretty darn well and am impressed how true to the actual pictures the digital copy chame out. I would highly recommend everyone use this app to scan old photos of family members, pets, or anything you cherish and want kept for posterity. Only issue of mine is the lack of real seamless syncing with my MacBook Pro. I find that the Google Photos app doesn’t want to work well with my MacBook Pro. It was getting stuck in the export of the data from my iPhone. Not sure if it is user error but recommend Google tech developers get on that!

Amazing!. I searched years ago for a way to digitize all the family albums. I painstakingly used our company scanner to scan in pages of photos, trimmed each photo individually. Used photoshop to adjust color and created digital photo books in indesign, exported to pdf’s to send out to family members. This took months to accomplish. In 2 days time I have scanned in 2 albums, adjusted the edges of all photos and am now ready to either create photo albums or send them out as is. I’m very impressed with this app. I found it easy to use after reading the instructions.

Amazing and fantastic. This is the only app that you can take photos on your cell phone of photo albums without needing to remove the pictures. Removing pictures from albums can be destructive to the pictures. This app removes the glare by moving the camera around the picture. It only takes about 5 seconds a picture. Best of all, it directly uploads into Apple Photos. Other apps require you to use there organizer and their cloud. One wish that it had an easy way to annotate the picture as you take them.

Like it a lot, just don’t love it.. Of the plethora of scanning apps I have used, this one is by far my favorite. It is easy enough to use, and more importantly, works. However, it can sometimes takes a moment to get everything lined up and situated. It’s not fast at all and is unenjoyable for multiple page documents. However, if it was as fast as using the camera and taking pictures it would probably be giving those same results. The only other main thing that could probably be improved is ease of use. I don’t have much of a problem using this and getting the results I desire. However, I can’t imagine someone under 15 or over 60 being able to open this right up and be able to use the app with any amount of confidence or proficiency.

Great Scanner with some limitations. I have been using this app to recapture printed photographs. The scanned images are of great quality however, just like anything else there are several factors that need to be considered such as room lighting, condition of original, size of the original, etc. The program does not have photo editing tools, but the scanned image gives you a good copy to start with if you then want to edit it. Most of the images I was able to touch up using google photos edit tools and was satisfied with the results. I am sure the images would look even better with professional editing tools but like I said, this program gives you a better starting point that just taking a picture of the original or even worse scanning the photo.

Does the basic job.. This app does the basic function of removing parallax from a flat image and it often removes the glare. I use it primarily to scan magazine covers and important documents. A significant problem has been encountered when trying to position crosshairs, as they often move as I remove my finger from the screen. This occurs when the view changes to the overview, so the error is not detected until the image is magnified again. A second problem occurs in the management of the saved images. I do not use Google photos to store the images and so local storage is the Apple photos camera roll. When I modify an image, the app requires that I replace the existing image if I want to keep it. It would be helpful to allow replacing or adding to the camera roll or just storing locally in the App. It would also be helpful to dump local storage directly to an album and then clear the storage without losing the images from the photos app.

Great app, needs some fixing. This app is really great and convenient for me as a person who takes a bunch of film and scans them. It scans and transfers the photos well on to digital. My one and only issue though is that it lags terribly, but only when you have a bunch of photos already scanned. So I have to rotate and scan, download, and delete so the process can go more smoothly. Again genius app just needs some bug fixes for it to run better with storage.

Great Tool for sentimental moms. As a mom with 3 kids, 2 of them being prolific picture creators, you might imagine how much paper clutter that we have, especially wanting to keep so many of their masterpieces! This app means that you can keep it all, without burying yourself and your loved ones in paper! This way, I have a copy of their work, while only keeping a physical copy of the really important pieces. I use it for photos too, and even documents, and it is WONDERFUL! Thank you, thank you for this app!

Awesome App... includes suggestion(s). This app is very good and I have tried several including both phone based and also a flatbed scanner. It removes glare very well from both satin and glossy photos. It seems to auto correct for faded color which eliminates a post scan step. The auto cropping is also good. The two suggestions would be 1) To allow an auto create of an album. 2) To allow the capture of some notes along with the picture. But these two things are minor and can also be handled after the fact. Modified Review: the final resolution is pretty low... several other apps do significantly better... I stand by the review above... it is easy to use and does a good job of removing glare, however, the current final resolution does not allow for a good display on a full sized monitors which is should be table stakes for type of app.

Great Start, But.... TL;DR... Pros: easy to scan pics, produces nice quality scans. Cons: glitchy, some functions are unintuitive. I really like this app and I want to like it more. Unfortunately, the ease of use sort of goes out the window with the glitches and bugs. I’ve been able to work around most of it, but it becomes a pain to have to do it with every scan. Developers (if Google Devs actually look at these reviews)... Bug 1: when scanning, the corners are so far off it’s not funny. Even when putting the photo on a contrasting background so it can see the edges better. Seems like the window is too tall (in portrait) or too wide (in landscape). Bug 2: when editing a scan, when adjusting the corner positions, the zoomed in circle is mostly filled with part of the original in-zoomed image, and I cannot see what’s under the crosshairs. It’s basically useless. Bug 3: I occasionally need to close the app, reopen it, and then view scanned images again for them to be saved to or appear on the camera roll. This happens randomly and throws things out of sequence. Super frustrating.

I would give it 10 Stars if I could!!!. This app is straight up AWESOME. There are other good scanner apps out there, but this is by far the best photo scanner app I have ever used. In fact, it might even be better than actual photo scanner machines. The quality of scans is great. I scanned several old family photos and they came out clear and accurate. It has to take a picture in the dead center of the picture, then it primos you to move to the four corners of the picture. It similar to when you take panoramic photos with your phone. By taking pictures of the center and each corner, it allows the software of the app to automatically get out any glare, but also maintain the integrity of the photo. Once you're finished with a batch you can save the photos to your Google Photos app. I highly recommend it to anyone, but especially those who have been wanting to scan old photos, but have been afraid of the amount of time it would take as well as the money to spend on a photo scanner. Here is your answer.

Excellent time saver and easy way to look professional!. This app is great! Does what it says, stores files in with other photos where they can be edited(usually only to rotate) then be sent off to where they need to be in your choice of format. Takes roughly 2 seconds to capture, then your off doing whatever else you got going. No complaints, I use no other apps for capturing documents. This app works flawlessly and makes life so much easier! Definitely download! And tell your boss! Who knows, saving his time could lead to another way to make life easier/better!

Surprising Photo Quality. Before downloading this app I was skeptical of what it could do and how well it could execute it. Quickly, after using it I got the hang of it and had scans of Polaroid pictures I had taken to share with my friends. The quality of the scans is something to be excited about because if done right the quality like for the Polaroids that I scanned could be better than the original picture itself. Job well done Google. :)

Best App for Scanning photos hands down. I LOVE THIS APP! I don’t normally write reviews but this was an opportunity I made time for. I’m a designer and often Make obituaries and memorial videos. I was able to scan in 55 photos in less than 30 minutes. The best part was not having to edit or crop the photos. Every image was client ready and most were auto rotated as well. I will be recommending this app to clients and friends. Thanks Google for making my job easier.

Pretty decent app. I like this app, a lot actually. It does a good job of removing glare, but you still have to have good lighting otherwise some parts of the photo will be brighter than others. But I might just be noticing that bc I like to edit photos and can run into problems if a photo doesn’t have consistent lighting. But even with that I would still give this app five stars, except that isn’t the only issue that I’ve been having. About half the time that I’m trying to do a scan the app just quits and I am sent to my homepage. I’m wondering if this is bc I have an older phone ? I Have an iPhone 6? So is it possible that this app isn’t compatible with my phone. I’m going to give this app 3 stars, only because if it takes me 3 tries to get one scan without the app mysteriously quitting then that def leaves areas for improvement . However if I hear from support on this app who can help me resolve my issue then I will change my rating to five stars. I’ve already tried deleting and reinstalling the app once before.

Jaw dropping!. This is the most mind blowing app I've seen in a very long time! My mind is going crazy trying to figure out how it so seamlessly matches up the quadrants of the photo, and then magically orients your phot to the natural aspect ratio. I was just able to scan a couple of hours worth of pictures in less than 5 minutes. It's seriously take me longer to write this review than it took to scan a dozen pictures. If I could give it 6 stars, I would.

Great except when it’s not. This is a great app for capturing old images in digital format. The only downside is that it can be clunky and not complete the process, or it requires you to chase it down across the table away from the picture. And it faults with a message that could be more friendly to the user other than a terse message to hold the picture in the viewing area... which of course I’ve been doing. This last point is the reason it’s not 5 stars. Obviously the marketing department has not been too involved with the launch of this product.

it’s basically magic. so I’m one of those “I never write reviews, but” yeah I’m here because I literally got teary-eyed when I saw the results of using Photoscan instead of just taking a photo of a photo. I have no-glare, not distorted, not faded photos of family from before I was born. I’d taken photos of these pictures before, because a lot of them are old and quite fragile and I wanted a record of their existence. The difference using Photoscan was…like I said, a little teary-eyed. Look, I was the girl who always had the camera, who holds reams of photos (from high school and college, especially) and puts a priority on protecting that physical print from time, wear, and tear. The Photoscan images are so good, they kinda look better than the print sometimes. It somehow balances the colors perfectly — not like a filter or editing black point, shadows, etc., but it just looks RIGHT. It’s better, but you wouldn’t realize it until comparing a couple of times. I am a photo person. I love looking back at these images, because you can hear stories about people all the time, but a photo…is so much more. And this app takes that next-level by preserving them the way they really look. It is incredible, and I truly think it’s the best “photo-to-computer” facilitator ever, including things like scanners. It’s simple to use and the results are stunning. Get it.

LOVE IT!. The only thing I wish it would do is allow notations or captions that would “live” with the image- maybe on the small white frame that has the Google branding that gets added to the scan. The other thing is I wish it would connect to my Google Photos account so I could back up quickly. Otherwise, amazing app. Great quality scans. I plan on getting some fresh prints of some old pictures for some wall collages. The rest I’m just digitizing to save the family history for future generations.

BEST Photo App I’ve Used. This app is exceedingly accurate & helps me take pics of framed art (eliminates glare), images in books, photo IDs & business cards, docs and those stupid receipts that have disappearing ink(!)... As an art historian, it was difficult for me to take a good shot because I have a hand tremor until I discovered PhotoScan in its infancy. I use this app daily, have recommended it to tons of people and cannot exaggerate how awesome this photo app is. Plus, this is a Google product - a plus in my opinion!

Fabulous!!!. I don’t write reviews for apps but I am taking the time to do one for this app because I am so happy with it! I have struggled for a year with trying to get good photos of my paintings (i.e. no glare, no funky angle, etc) because I don’t have a fancy lighting so up with a tripod, etc and I can’t hold the phone still. I didn’t even have to take my paintings off of the walls to use this, even the ones that are hung way above my head (yes, I am short). It does give me a warning to try not to tilt the phone but even when I do, the scan is still great! It worked where the light was on and also where the painting only has normal indoor lighting (no lights on). I want to make a calendar with my artwork and I think this will allow me to do so very easily. So happy!!!!!

Photo scan quality. I am blessed with beautiful grandkids that came over to see me. As we have all been isolating and only going out for groceries, I needed their hugs. It was a great Mother’s Day and pictures that my daughter gave me I wanted to scan and post some of them because they are so beautiful and the scanner just makes the best quality picture I’ve ever seen a scanner produce. Very sharp detail. Not grainy. Thank you for fixing that graininess with scanning! The pictures are unreal ! Very good quality to them !!

Amazing!. I’ve worked on scanning in all my old photos using a computer and printer/scanner... torture! This app is amazing! Quick and easy to use! And I already have my phone set up to back my photos up to google photos, so I have my computer beside me and can scan in a “roll” of photos and then easily select all taken in one month and shift the dates. Thank you Jesus for all those years I had photos developed with the dates printed on back or front!

Without words…. How do I say this. Forgive the length of this but this is the first time I’ve addressed it. Daddy passed years ago, independent mother started having falls, less social and COVID. Mother moves in with family, I inherit family videos and photos. Being the baby, many were before my time. I had the old 8mm reel video tapes transferred to thumb drives and copies given to siblings. Kinda pricey but worth it. Now the family pictures. Boxes and boxes of them. Even to have them scanned professionally, tons of time is required to filter through, identify, and be selective in the ones to duplicate. Do it myself with a flatbed scanner seemed daunting. Found this free app and thought if it wasn’t sufficient then I’d find a paid app to get the job done. Looks promising so that was my game plan. Fast forward 6 months. My house burns down. Fire and water damage. All photos damaged but some salvagable. I haven’t printed anything yet but this app is so easy to use and what is appearing on screen is such good quality. I’m thrilled. Thank you to the minds who created this ❤️

Great photo scanning app. It handles both gray and color photos just fine. Instructions are easy - you will be scanning in no time. It handles pictures in frames or behind the glass - its anti glare feature is awesome. I wish they had a bit better border detection as I often find myself tweaking borders for older pictures. The UI for border detection could be better likewise / provide better controls as pictures could get small while it gets harder to catch the border at such scale (with my imperfect eyesight). Still, I like the app a lot. Taking pictures in batches works faster. When scanning albums, just keep going - you can adjust borders for your batch later before saving them all in one go. This speeds things up significantly rather than taking a picture/adjusting its borders/saving one at a time.

Great for turning old film photos to a shareable digital format without paying extra for it.. I choose PhotoScan as it’s the only app I know of that does not charge me to get full access to its features that helps me get my old film camera era photos to shareable format. It’s overall good but can be tenacious at times to get the right quality and lighting and avoid reflections though. Sometimes the edges needs to be readjusted to fit the photo. Though at least there is an option that doesn’t cost extra most others would charge for extra features or to access the app at all.

Great For Photo Archiving. This is an amazing app! It lets you easily use your phones camera to “scan” physical photos. It auto detects the edges of the photo, works best if you put the photo on a contrasting surface (I.e. light surface for dark photo and dark surface for a light photo), so you don’t have to spend hours cropping the edges. You can then save the photos to your device or in the cloud. This is great for finally getting those old family photos online without having to mess with a printer/scanner and without paying someone else an arm and a leg!

Awesome app for preserving memories!. This app is awesome! A great way to quickly scan photos and save them to your phone. Only problem I've run into is that the same great technology that allows you to edit corners and cropping and save it across the app and the rest of your albums is that if you try to remove them from the app it will delete them everywhere. This is causing me problems since the app has a lot of data in it and is therefore crashing a lot. Other than that it's awesome. Definitely recommend.

Works but has major issues. Freezes CONSTANTLY. Also why can’t I take all the photos I take and transfer them to my gallery on my iPhone? I have to send each picture individually to my gmail then save it to my phone. For some reason on my iPhone it won’t let me select all photos and transfer them to my gmail then save them to my gallery. Btw I have well around 50-60 pictures that I’m trying to get from physical to digital with this app and doing each picture individually through gmail then saving it from gmail to my gallery is majorly time consuming. Could have easily by passed this by adding a select all button and then a save all to phone gallery option.

Great photo Scan app. I looked for a scanner that would scan photos from old albums or portraits that can’t be removed from the album or frame without wrecking the image. I tried 4 apps, and this was the only one that allows you to have a less-than-steady hand and get a good image. It also allows you to scan a page full of photos at once, as long as there are images close to the corners of the page, which is a great option.

App crashes and phone heats up when scanning multiple photos. Overall I like the app and it does what it's stopped to. I like how the photos automatically upload to Google photos. I encountered lagging, lots of crashing, and my phone heating up when I was trying to scan a whole photo album worth of photos (around 50). I had to take a break and let my phone cool down and then continue after 30 min or so. This process happened continuously. If you're planning on scanning a few photos at a time, this app is excellent!

Good for simple, glossy. I found out after the fact that these were saving to my camera roll. Otherwise, the options of saving within the app are minimal and one at a time. I just did the 4-point scan for hundreds of photos with this app in preparation of a wedding. Biggest struggle: glossy photos are fine (I need to adjust about 1 of every 4 because it’s unusable), but the ones that have more of the matte finish are disasters. The app cannot adjust to the grainy texture of this kind of photo. And unfortunately, I had a lot of these. I’ve also had to play around with the room lighting quite a bit to find something optimal. Otherwise, I do like that the app can drastically reduce/eliminate glare on the more glossy, simple photos. It’s better than just the iPhone camera/app by itself!

Easily digitize old photos. I started scanning old photos one at a time for posterity for my family. Was long and painful process. Happened to read about this app and downloaded it. Made things so much easier! I don’t even need to take pics out of albums. Just open the page, focus on desired pic, click and follow the dots. Then, just download them all from phone to hard drive. It takes a bit of getting used to so That the pic doesn’t get overexposed but it’s not difficult. Really appreciate how this app made a huge long-term project a lot easier.

No more hours over the scanner!. There are about 1 million photo apps. And most of them work fine. This one works amazingly well. And just a few seconds you can quickly reproduce almost any old photo so that it looks beautiful in the digital universe. I sorted all my family photos, set on the kitchen floor, and and just a few minutes digitized everything I needed for a special family event. It comes in super handy whenever you want to send a photo to a friend. Also, does great with text based printed items as well. I’ve use this app since 2017, and it has never disappointed me once.

Aha!. I used to use this a lot but misplaced it. I keep a list of apps, their price, what the in-app purchases and ratings when I buy them. When I write a review I save a copy - after all, if I gave it one star 3 yrs previously it's probably not something I’ll bother with unless the version history looks promising. (some developers maybe shouldn't be so eager to truncate theirs). Getting rid of glare & shadow is unique to this app so not having it was distressing. How could I lose it and my review? I've had to reset to factory settings multiple times because the native Notes are crashing. I *love* Notes and used it daily. Crashing means I have to run in & run out before it crashes and guess how effective searching through all the apps named Photo Scanner, Scan Photo or some variation is? Right.* I couldn't count on my review helping me find it- if there's been a major rewrite of the app the App Store wipes the "out of date" reviews. * one star down for having a non-memorable name; pretty much the same name as least half of the others like it

Super helpful photo app. I love using this app almost daily to take photos of postcards and walk-mounted art. I collect postcards and often photograph them flight on a desk or table and, more likely than not, there will be glare from the ambient light. This app completely eliminates that glare. The app also tries to figure out where the borders of your image are, but lets you adjust them if you want a different image than the one it selected.

New version started crashing a few months ago. Google updated this app a few months ago so that it automatically syncs with your photo library. Now whenever I attempt to manually edit the corners of the captured image, the app crashes when updating the photo in my iOS photo library. After that the app is never useable again. It crashes every time I reopen it and this behavior survives through force-quitting the app and reboots. The only way to get it to work again is to uninstall and reinstall. Of course if you ever edit a photo manually again you’re back in the same boat. So frustrating and disappointing. I keep the app on my phone in hopes that someday Google will issue an update to fix it! This used to be one of the most useful apps I’ve ever had.

Easy scanning but terrible quality. The UI on this app is very simple and makes it incredibly easy and fast to scan your photos. It corrects the perspective and colors of the photo very well. Unfortunately, the resulting image is very grainy and well below the resolution that my iPhone takes photos. I tested a photo scanned in this app vs. taking a normal photo in the native Camera app and when you zoom into the details the difference is night and day. The image quality that this app saves in will be fine if you just want to share it on social networks or other low-res applications. However, if you’re like me and want to archive old photographs in a high-quality digital form without a traditional scanner, then you’ll have to look elsewhere.

Gone down hill. I LOVED this app when it first released. It was perfect. The photos were hi res, crisp, no glare, and it cropped the images perfectly. But it has come down over the years. Now, my images constantly have glare unless I have just the right lighting in the room. And even then, I still have to ignore small glares. The pictures seem to be fuzzy now. Sometimes it better to just take a normal picture with my iPhone camera app. The biggest headache now is that the magnifying glass tool that you use to crop the images is completely broken (displays just a black dot). This makes it impossible to accurately crop your images. Makes it impossible to conveniently crop them at all. It’s so fiddly. Judging by the fact that this app hasn’t been updated in over 4 years, my guess is Google stopped caring. Such a bummer.

Great idea, super easy & well implemented. This is a great tool for getting old photos, epically ones your family won't part with, into digital. It's very easy to use and gives you good results most of the time. Users should beware of glare in the window when framing your shot. I'd *love* to see this product augmented with better editing tools or at least allow 3rd party integration within the app so I can edit my photos within Photoscan. Also, zooming in the main window would be quite helpful as would pre-photo resolution options.

Easy but not great quality. This app is definitely the easiest way to "scan" a bunch of old photos without glare. But compared to just taking a regular photo with my iPhone camera app or using a real scanner, this app often gives lower quality results - subtle brightness and color gradations are lost and fine details get blurry. If you just need to scan a photo once in a while, I think you're better off using the camera app and be careful to avoid glare - and if you have a lot of photos to scan, consider sending them to a scanning service; you'll get the best results at maximum convenience (yes you could also buy a scanner but you probably have better things to do than spend days just scanning and tweaking photos).

Great for making digital copies of my scrapbook pages. I made several scrapbooks of my family photos before digital photos were around. But now I wanted to preserve them digitally but they are too big for my flatbed scanner. This app is great for taking digital copies of these large pages so I can view them on my iPad. Sometimes I can even scan the scrapbook pages right from their plastic overlays without any glare. The app even takes pictures of the pages and crops them automatically so just the pages are the photos, without me having to crop out any unnecessary surroundings. Great app!

Love Love Love This App!!!!!. I was spending hours scanning photos on my Cannon Flat Bed. I can scan a photo in 3 seconds with this app! And I love that the pictures are immediately saved in both my Google Photos and IPhone Photos without being asked! Thank you for saving that step!!! A couple things to know. Click the lightning bolt on bottom of screen to turn off your flash and cancel out glare. It saves the extra seconds it takes to readjust the photo. Also don't let Google modify your picture when it pops up. It was cropping off heads and the focus of the picture when I went to look at them in my Google Photos. Thanks for making this great app!!!!!

Great for making a quick backup of the blunder years. My granny is in her nineties and is basically the family archivist. This app is great for when the family gatherings when the blunder years photos come out (and other fondly treasured snaps). The stitched and de-glared photos seem compressed, which makes the results slightly mushy no matter how steady I try to make my hands. Not a perfect replacement for a place with a proper photoscanner perhaps, but as is often the case with the photos I’m duping: “the best camera is the one you have on you at the time”

Great Google App. This is a wonderful free App from Google to scan single page documents for personal use. Very easy to use and the quality of scan is superb. Sharing with email and saving the scan to Google drive is fairly easy once you get the hang of it. It is extremely useful during the tax time. I have used other scan apps in past but find this particular App the best. Highly recommend.

Best free scanner there is. I’ve taken old photographs, birth certificates, and other important documents, and digitized them using this scanner. I had played around with so many others, but the fact that whatever you’re trying to scam in is photographed 5 times ensures highest quality of the images/content, so that others may enjoy the clarity and details. If you need to digitize anything really, start with this app first so that you can compare the ease of use to others.

Awesome, love it!. This app is super simple to use. It pretty much does it all for you. You know those pictures you get that have stuff you didn't want around the edges? You can easily make that stuff go away on your scanned photo. My mom still uses a camera with film and is always giving me pictures I want to keep but have no room for, I love this app! They can now all go into Google Photos and it's "one stop shopping!" All in one place, nice, neat uncluttered and supremely space saving. Love it!

Awesome app! Needs photo date options!. Just downloaded this app a few minutes ago. So far, it’s great! It crops and removes the glare for you all at once! It also automatically uploads to your Gmail photos account (after signing in). It’s amazing. So far it has cropped all my photos perfectly except for one where it cropped it more to the left than I would like. I gave it four stars because I would like the option to change the date of multiple photos at once (I actually don’t see the option to change the date at all).

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PhotoScan. I’m LOVING PhotoScan. It’s easy to use, quick because I don’t have to remove photos from the album under the plastic protection and they are perfect

Easy and good quality. Does a fantastic job of getting old photos digital. Quick and easy

Easy to use - high quality. I have tried a few photo scan apps all with varying results but nothing noteworthy and also asking for a lot of money in monthly subscriptions. This is by far the best! Go Google!

So far so good….🙂. Works well. Easy to scan and share with others. Don’t know any other things it can do so watch this space!👍😁

Scans lose a lot of detail. Be warned that the scanned images are fairly low resolution and compressed. They will mostly look fine on your phone or laptop, but if you zoom in or try to print them again you notice BIG problems. Things are pixelated or blocky or just look weird. This app is fine if you want to quickly scan photos for a 21st slideshow or something, but don’t use it to preserve old memories or the images will forever be compromised. Giving this 2 stars because google suggests it provides high quality scans, and because they absolutely should have fixed it by now. When I went searching I found this has been a known problem since it launched years ago!

Easy to use. Easy to use. Love how it gets rid of any reflection of myself as I take a photo of the old photo. Does take time to scan each photo, so I recommend you put on some music or a podcast and just settle in

Super Easy to use. Thank you so much.. My brother just passed away 2 days ago and this has really helped me save old photos as memories of him.

Scanned but no way to share with Google photos. I downloaded this app yesterday & spent hours scanning old photos. Thought it would be easy to upload to google photos or to my pc. How wrong was I, I have spent hours googling how to do this. Ie. click on the 3 dots which has select - only option is to delete, send feedback or Help. Seriously have wasted so much time to know have to redo it all again. Will try to delete and reinstall as my last option :(

So easy for family history. So my easier than to scan my images for family history!

Someone should tell the world!. It’s even quicker than my printers scanner. The only thing that could make it better (probably already available but I’m a partial techtard) is if it first auto adjusted the corners and allowed me to re adjust if needed. Right now I’m adjusting manually and the suggested corners are perfect. Just wish I didn’t have to do it manually.

So so impressed with this app. So impressed with this app. I’m an iPhone user and I have struggled to find a quick easy, free way to scan my old photos. I found the way, and it’s amazing

Perfect Scans - and MORE!. I was told by my brother to try the scanner from google and was a little sceptical at first. But I used it and was very happy with the results on photos and documents. I found it easy to use and that I got great quality images from it. I have now found another use for the app. I own an art gallery and even with amazing big cameras, some artwork is very hard to capture a good image of a painting. But I had a light bulb moment when I decided to try and take scans of some artworks and they turned out so well!! It works like a camera, but stitching the four images together works so well. Red paint is particularly hard to capture properly. Scanning it works beautifully!! I wish I could show the pics! Thanks google 👍

An absolutely brilliant app. Works perfectly once you get the hang of it and I was really impressed with the results. Helped me capture some old photos in a rush for a very special cause. Cheers Google.

Poor, not even close. I really would have thought that an app that will be used to digitise old photos would have the ability to change the date of the image to the date it was originally taken. Location would be good also. Alas none of this sophistication exists. It gets worse, once a photo is taken all that can be done is adjust the corners, basically cropping. There is the option of selecting images, but once selected, all one can do is delete! This app is disappointing given that Google are usually very good with photos.

LOVE. This app is simply amazing. The amount of time I have tried taking photos of photos whilst trying to shield light/ glare/ shadows - this app has just removed those problems.

The Best. Such a great app. So quick and easy to scan all our old photos and then can edit easily if required. Can’t rate this app highly enough.

Great results. I have been scanning black-and-white photos and the quality is just fantastic. This app is highly recommended

Photo scan. What a fantastic app I’m not very good at these things but this is the simplest and easiest app to use you don’t have to go through 10 stages to get to it like so many others thank you very much next stop Cheers. Frances and Gracie MPG NSW 2016

Excellent photo quality. This is an excellent way to digitalise your photos. However, make sure there is enough light and hold the ipad straight and steady. This way the quality will be excellent!

What an incredible and useful app. Loved this so much and perfect for scanning photos. I always spend so long trying to not get glare and the image in focus but this app really helps to scan them more efficiently.

THE GREATEST APP YOU WILL DOWNLOAD. If your all about film photos, or going through old photo albums and wanting to save those memories to your phone. This app will be your best friend. The quality is insane, and saves so much time from using a scanner.

Good but....... It’s a good app, nothing really bad to say about it in regards to how the app works. However the only thing I can say needs work, which would have given 5 stars, is the app needs to be updated for the iPhone X screen resolution. Most of the other Google Apps have been updated to the iPhone X screen resolution, it’s time this one does too!

The best app to scan photos. I tried many ways to scan and store my childhood photos. This does in the smartest and easiest way. The quality is a lot better than a regular scanner.

Simple and quick. Simple to use and does a great job. You do need to invest a few moments to understand how to save your photos. I'm happily scanning old family photos without having to take them out of the albums.

Fantastic App. I have been able to scan two photo albums of very old black and white photos without removing one from the album. The process is very simple and accurate. Each photo scanned resulted in sharp, clear copies saved to my iPad that can be shared with family. I highly recommend this app.

Excellent scanning of old photos. This is a fast, simple and easy to use app for taking a photo of old photographs. Eliminates glare, gets the edge trims right. Would be good if user could edit the take back to when the original photo was taken and add a note

PhotoScan works for me. Scanning a lot of old photo albums and this app works well. Don’t need to disturb the photos and it allows quick cropping of the pictures. If more editing is needed, then you need to follow up with Photoshop or similar.

Love this app!!. It's helped bring my photos in my albums to life and allowed me to share them without all the glare you'd normally get from trying to take a photo of a photo!! Big thanks to you & to my hubby showing me the app!! Love it!! 🙏🏽

Makes copying old photos extremely easy. Highly recommend. Easy to use, quick.

Awesome app - works well. This app works exceptionally well and would rate it at 4.5 stars if I could. The app scans glossy photos perfectly - removing all glare without fault. However, it doesn’t perform so well with photos printed on matt photo paper. Turning glare removal off does help providing there is ample ambient light.

Cropping: Zoom crosshairs half transparent. Generally, a very good product which seems to work best with indirect sunlight. Lately, whilst cropping photos I found that the zoom crosshairs were not fully transparent. This made the process next to impossible to complete and create a good result.

Outstanding App. I have used photomyme and other photo scanning apps to scan old photos however no other app has come close to this one for clarity and the ability to remove glare. Great features like magnifying corner adjustment to make it easier when needed are also very helpful. Awesome work Google!

Easy to use & GREAT results!. I am delighted with this App. I have soo many photos from my childhood, boxes of them. This has been a wonderful way to scan and store them online. I compiled a memorial video of my Brother just recently 😔😢 and I was easily able to scan all the photos and edit them. It all came together perfectly with minimal effort. A truely excellent app and I recommend it to everyone. 🥲

Great app to a point. App was working really well until I reached around 100 photos. Following this every time I go to scan the app closes. I have deleted old apps and increased storage but issue keeps occurring. I cannot find a solution on google to tell me how to fix ?

Works well. Works well and takes off all reflections etc

Loving this app!. I have been tediously scanning old photos on a flatbed scanner, thought I would give this a try and I love it! Saves photos to my iPhone camera role but also to my google photos. I shared a whole album from 1985 via google photos with an old friends 👍scan copy is excellent ⭐️

Look like plastic surgery. Does a good job, although sometimes there is so much smoothing happening that people can look like they've had plastic surgery! Great at removing glare spots when you take a photo of a photo. Early days for this tech, so will only get better. At the end of the day, at least you have a digital backup of old printed family photos.

Good. I like this app but I can’t work out why I can seem to send a whole document or a back page without sending each one in separate emails. Very frustrating.

Easy to use. the app is super easy to use however my only problem is when I’m not using the flash the scanned photo will look like it has too much saturation. Otherwise, the app is super good.

Thank you Google again. Once again they made an excellent app. So simple to use. Not asking for money or hidden subscriptions. I have recommended this app to so many of my friends and family. I think this is an essential app

So intuitive.... It doesn't even need instructions and fixes problems automatically. Perfect for digitising your old photos. This app is next level.

It’s free and not user-friendly. Almost every photo or page of an album Needs 1 click, 4 hovering movements and 4 to 8 lines and corners adjustments, plus 3 taps to rotate the captured photos in the right way totalling 5 to 16 steps to take just one picture. Also, unlike third-party apps, you cdd add not expect to get support from Google.

Save your precious memories. A great (not perfect) way to save your old family film memories to the cloud with Google Photos and share them forever! I’ll use this for receipts and documents too 😉

Getting better all the time.. When I first installed this app I thought it was wonderful. But now I find it keeps getting better with every update. I’ve no idea how it works but it takes new perfect copies of 99% of photos. Occasionally I have to rotate a photo or retake one. However nearly every time the photo is perfectly copied with none of the surrounds showing. There are all sorts of tools for making adjustments but I’ve never had to use them. I occasionally rotate a picture. I give this app ten stars —- five isn’t enough.

Easy to use. Downloaded this app to digitalise photos from the past. The app is easy to use and it syncs to my Google Photos. 👍🏻

Less than perfect. While the app scans photos, the instructions are confusing and it took me some time to work out that I had to physically move the phone to get the dot in the target, not try to drag it with my finger.

Spectacular app. Excellent quality scans, don’t need to remove pics from album, quicker than a desktop scanner - amazing !!

Great to capture last century family memories. Have photos in old cellophane photo albums? This will sort you out!

Trouble using. Just installed this app and find it hard to position the circle over the dots in the few seconds available. Also once scan is completed there is no ‘DONE’ button to go back to home page. Where is it??? Disappointed so far….. app used on my iPad Pro.

Unable to download the App. After scanning a few days of old photos. Suddenly, the app just stop. I reload it again but unable to do it. Otherwise this is a good free app for scanning old photo to save earth and space.

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What a wonderful surprise. I love this app, so simple and easy to use

Keeps freezing. It’s a good app to scan photos but it keeps freezing on me.

I love Google. PhotoScan is a great app accompanied with Google photos

Does a good job some lag issues. Scans great just has some slow response and lags

Love this but I want to name the pictures. This is a great product and so easy to use. The pictures are like I scanned them. One thing I would like is to be able to add some text to the pictures.

Corner action.. I really don’t like how the app is not getting the corners of images and I constantly have to adjust where the corners are. It’s frustrating.

Easy to use with excellent results. Excellent results

Best scanner. The easiest, best quality scanner I’ve tried and totally free!! Amazing!!

Digitize you history. App does a great job at conveniently converting pics. I would like to say to google tho: PLEASE I hope when I scan my photos you don't collect and store anything. I should've read the policy agreement...

Digitize your developped photos free!. I love everyone of my scanned old photos. It even enhances them if you choose to. Very easy to use. Anyone can do it. Good preview of how to scan the correct way for best results. Plus photos are automatically stored in the Google Photos app. Thank you Google team!

Love it but there is a glare. I love this software but there is a glare and the lighting of the photo changes to a yellow tint. Would not recommend if these changes are not made.

Fantastique. Application fantastique qui permet de scanner rapidement des photos avec de très beaux résultats

App super slow on iPhone 6. App super slow to switch between functions.

Simply awesome!. Just started using this to scan old photos for my daughter's wedding slideshow. I can't believe how effective the glare reduction is! Don't need to remove the photos from the album, and the results are better than what I could get from my old flatbed scanner. So vibrant colors. No editing required!

Simple, easy, accurate. Expected from Google… they did it again

Good to prevent light reflection but the corner adjustment is getting my nerves. The “four corner light capture” is good to prevent light reflection, especially if you are taking some product photos with plastic packaging. But the automatic corner detection is not human. Most of the time I need to leave extra space for framing but the automatic corner cutting function will bounce back my request. 🙄

Awesome!. This was the perfect app for scanning old pictures- they go directly into google photos (if you have the app installed) where you can then edit any marks or imperfections. This app was a lifesaver when making a memorial video for my grandpa- thank you for this awesome app and keeping it free! :)

Very good. I’d taken copies out of an album without removing photos out from sleeves. There had been a few pictures that showed a hint of wrinkles but over all, I’m satisfied.

Awesome app. Great app for scanning photos

PhotoScan. C’est super! Merci beaucoup.

How do you import photos?. what a garbage UI

Amazing!!!. Great way of preserving your developed photos!

Scanner. Very quick scanning tool. Kept colours true to original photos. Much better than my desktop scanner.

So quick, so easy. Fast, easy and free. Acceptable file size.

Formidable application. Permet de scanner livres et photos en minimisant les reflets et en réduisant les effets de parallaxe.

Works!!. I’ve tried many of these and all of them charged a ridiculous subscription fee! This app does exactly what I need. I am able to scan in all my old photos and the app saves them to my Photos app and adjusts the photo for glare! Works great!

Scanner. It’s great and portable !

Vas très bien!. C’est parfait

Garbage. G should stand for Garbage, because thats what Google is able to produce. This a stupid app, you have to move around your phone 4 times and then it combines pictures. I tried it on 36 photos and the quality varried; some had glare, others were auto cropped incorrectly. You can do much better with the PDF Scanner by Readdle. It has more features and lets you export as JPEG.

WoW. Merci c’est vraiment hot comme application 🤩

👍🏼El mejor scaner de fotos. Sin duda es una app muy eficiente!

Fantastic!. Fantastic program! Scans great, and puts straight into digital! Have scanned so many old photos!!!

Good free scanner for old photo albums. Easy to use and generally works well. Some problems with flame, even using glare reduction. And difficult to edit in apple photos as the original pic with the background comes back. But it’s free. So not perfect!

Awesome tool. Great way to digitize the photos!

Google has W’s and L’s this is a big W. Thanks to this app, I can preserve all my childhood photos and my parents’ wedding photos.

Amazing!!!. This is simply amazing!!! I have albums upon albums of old family photos that needed to be scanned and shared amongst family members!! Since it was so simple I also went ahead and made my siblings beautiful photo books of all our childhood memories! This app made all that so simple! I am a 50(ish) yr young, even I could figure it out! Thanks very much!

Amazing quality. This app is amazing at taking scans of old photos, so easy to make copies of grandmas albums for all the family members!

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Easy!. Super easy to scan photos

Simplicité, efficacité et qualité.. Enfin la possibilité de photographier ou scanner peintures, photos ou documents rapidement.

Easy and convenient. Scanned multiple pictures in a very short period.

Very effective scanner for photos, though gradients aren’t handled well. Recently used this app to scan old photos from a client’s autobiography and the results turned out really well. However, sometimes with uneven lighting the photos will appear darker in certain areas and can mess up what the app detects as glare. Then again, gradients aren’t the easiest things to detect. Definitely useful and easiest thing to detect. Definitely faster than using an actual scanner.

A big help. Just taking pictures of my dad n me, that is so much better than removing them ; wrecking the print in the process

Scanning photos made easy!. I love this app ❤️ I’ve scanned photos that are over 40 years old and this app makes them look better than the originals! Be sensible though people - if you have a photo that’s blurry it will still scan blurry. At least in my experience.

Easy to use and great results. Great that we can scan all our family pictures and share. Great results, better than the original in a lot of cases. I wish someone would incorporate a version of the focusing algorithm. I have a few really old pics that are slightly blurred and would be great to see them as they should have been. However, that does not detract from the quality of this app! Thanks Google.

Anazing. Does exactly what it says it does… well!

Export is a mess. No batch or auto export, and then images are watermarked.

The Best!. This is the best photo scanner ever!!!

Surprise. Surprised at the ease of use and the quality. Not 100% perfect but close. Using it on my mini ipad. Beats cranking up the dedktop scanner!!!

App freezes constantly. When it works it does a good job but unfortunately it constantly freezes. I also have no idea how to move the scans from the app to save on a hard drive.

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Needs a caption option. Great app. I do wish it had a caption option so you have a description of the photo. Or a truly interactive option that would record sound. We used this to scan old family photos and it either of the above options would’ve been great to have while elder relatives were telling us the story of the photos. But again, great app.

High hopes. I have a 12x16 document I need to scan but my physical scanner won’t handle larger than 11x14. I thought this app would be great, but no such luck. I’ve scanned my document about 7-8 times so far. I position the entire document within the camera window and click, then move to the four white dots and click. The quality is great as far as glare reduction, crispness of image, etc. But it never includes my entire image. It always cuts off part of the top, or part of the right side, and usually cuts off both. I got thinking the app was confused as my document is primarily white, and I had it lying on a whiteish background. So I then put the document on a dark green background so there was strong contrast. But same thing! The top and the rightmost side are still cut off every time. I want to love this app but I definitely can’t. So bummed.

Most useful app I’ve ever down loaded. My family has thousands of photos from the last 100 years family pictures, trips and such this makes it so easy to organize and show them off. My grandfather leads tours to Vietnam and Korea for war vets and this app has allowed me to easily catalog and digitalize the thousands of photos he took on each trip. If this app wasn’t free I’d pay for it.

If you have physical photos, you need this app. I got to go through old photo albums and I recently found a stash of photos of my father when he was younger. I was able to scan them with this app and have clear, non-glare photos of him. I haven’t been able to see photos of him since he passed away. This app is wonderful, and I would highly recommend it.

Fantastic job. This app is really great for scanning whatever you want. I personally use it to scan documents, and it’s really good at it. For photos it works even better and I think it’s overall just a great app. Keep in mind that you do have to move the camera, so tight spaces like a bus or train probably wouldn’t be the best place to scan. All things considered though, this is an amazing app with amazing quality! Great job!

Great photo scanning tool. This tool works better than using your camera, eliminating reflection and utilizing your phone light for a clear photos. This also has a easy to use cropping tool. For future updates, it would be nice to have a photo enhancing feature. For now, I can use my iPhone 11 Pro’s photo enhancing features, so no big deal. I definitely recommend this app.

It's great!. I have scanned over 300 photos and only a select few did I ever have trouble with. Pros: ITS GREAT ITS GREAT ITS GREAT! The quality of a picture is only as good as the camera you take it with. If you're using a low end phone to scan or take pictures, chances are they aren't going to turn out the best. I use an iPhone 7 plus and my pictures turn out great. It might take some time to perfect the lighting but overall, it's great!

Very difficult to get scanned photos into photo library. This app lets you scan your photos to avoid glare, get accurate corners, etc. Unfortunately once you’ve done this, the process to get the photos into your phone’s photo library is extraordinarily (and unnecessarily) tedious. Think several steps for every single photo kind of tedious. Until this insanity is fixed, this app is useful for one-off usage, not for scanning more than a few photos. A workaround may be to give the app access to your entire photo library? But like, no. it doesn’t need to read my photo library in order to write into it.

Super good!!. It is a great way to capture memories without the annoying glare of light you usually get when taking a pic- pic (picture of a picture) I really enjoy this app but one thing is that some pictures become blurry or don’t work like having some of the picture cropped off. Other than that it is a great app I would recommend!!!

As Advertised. The app scans as advertised, no complaints there however like Google Photos if you delete a pic from the app in will also delete it from the iphone album. Note, to keep all of your pics you’re doubling up on storage space, so for example 5gb via the Photoscan app plus 5gb in the phone’s album for the same pics. Google wants you to access pics via their services.

Could be great. Love the idea of this. I was a scanning machine last week with a bunch of old family photos, but then yesterday I was looking through all the scanned photos and it’s “auto-crop” is off on the majority of them. I even laid the photos on a white or black (depending on the color of the photos edges) poster board so that the app could find the edges of the photos easier. And the glare-free feature is nice, but it doesn’t do anything about shadows... Most of the photos I scanned last week.... Have the shadow of my phone and hand in it. Super bummed.

Quick and easy!. This app is the best. It is way faster than my flatbed scanner and very good quality. I use it both in my phone and iPad. Love that you can adjust the corner easily. Also it is very good at guessing the corners. My mom wrote on the edges a lot so I adjust to save her notes. I can scan in a lot of photos in a short time. Turn off the flash and use in nice even lighting. I have scanned I several hundred photos in just a few hours. Very pleased.

Amazing. I love this app. I have a really nice scanner but it isn't always convenient and doesn't always pick up on shiny photos well. This often does a better job on shiny photos as it knows how to take the glare out. I have also used this at work to make digital copies of notes someone else has already taken. This app also works well if you use google photos. I would highly recommend and hey it is free, what do you have to loose?

10 stars ? I’d give them 100 if I could !!. This app is beyond amazing . I never leave a review for anything. I always tend to find glitches here and there with sooooo many apps HOWEVER....I’m beyond impressed, the quality in which my extremely old pictures were scanned were beyond my imagination!!! Thank you to the amazing developers and creator of this app for bringing my childhood back to life !!!

Awesome with room for improvement!. This really is an awesome app. I have been able to digitize a lot of old photos and store them digitally for the entire family! I would love to se an increase in the resolution with the improvement of cameras and there is a pretty frustrating bug when you have to adjust the frame. Overall, definitely worth the minor frustrations for an amazing app!

Easy and Great Quality. This is so simple to use. My hands aren't very steady but the digitized images still come out great. We have boxes of old family photos. Getting them all digitized on a scanner takes too long and having them professionally converted is too expensive. You can use this app anywhere so if your going through some one else's photos you can easily get copies for yourself.

Google Photo scan. This is awesome app! I love it!!! I would rate 10 stars if I could!!!! Besides scanning photos and getting rid of glare it works perfect on turning slides from the 70’s into great looking pics. Refreshes old pictures. You just gotta play with the app and scan from slightly different angles to get the perfect pic from a slide. Make sure you put a white background behind slide before scanning and use flash.

Been great. So so far this has been a great app I’ve taken pictures of old photos and the pictures have come out looking better than the originals, it’s also helped with my documents for school that have been paperwork that need to be posted. They come out . Idk if how well this typing is going though as I am unable to see it as I type, but this has been a great app for pics

What a day we live in.... Needed to scan over 40 photos for a wedding anniversary, and didn’t want to wait for a scanner all day. This nifty app actually does the job extremely well, except for the fact you can’t manually adjust exposure for the processing to work. Best done in a well lit environment. If there’s extra tape stuck on a photo, the app even removes it as well. Overall, best value for time and was of use!

Great app for preserving photos!. I use this app to make digital copies of old photos and photos from an instant camera and it works well. Very easy to use and I like that you can edit the digital photo once you have “taken” the photo of the hard copy. Simple process and fast, although it took a while to capture all of my hard copy photos because I have so many, but this is worth the download.

I’ve spotted another gimmick. Honestly this app isn’t all that. It’s convenient and easy to use, but effectively it’s a gimmick. You will get a higher quality photo by using your main camera app. To avoid glare using your main camera, simply take the photo of your printed picture at an angle where the glare isn’t visible. Then edit the photo using the built in editing tools and adjust the perspective, then crop it manually. And that’s all. And you can even make your own brightness and color edits while you’re at it. The result from taking the photo with your regular camera app is a much higher quality scan.

Absolutely the best random photo scanner. Sure, a flatbed scanner is nice when the photos you have are flat and in your possession, but how about all those photos that are slightly bent, under plastic in someone else’s photo album? PhotoScan guides you through taking 4 views of the picture (in one flow), and combining them, removing all the glare and warping. Super impressive. It’s my go to photo scanner.

One important feature missing. I would love to give this a higher rating but there is one feature that needs to be in here related to organization. Scanning photos generally mean they were not taken that moment. This app needs to allow you to change the metadata so that photos that you scan from 1984 show up in that year, not the day that you scan it. The photos scan great but without this feature I can’t organize the way that I would like.

FANTASTIC!. We lost so many old family photos during Hurricane Andrew. This app has just been invaluable in helping us rebuild our family album from copies we each have in our own collections. So easy and quick to use..much more efficient than scanner. Photos save to device and can add to Google Photos or any other photo sharing app, so all of our family can enjoy. Priceless app and it's free!

Preserving our family memories. We’ve been using this while in quarantine to preserve decades of photos. In conjunction with google photos, we’ve been able to share these photos with our family abroad and it’s brought so many smiles during this otherwise scary time. The app itself is super easy to use, and my parents have even learned to use it using their phones.

Excellent detail. I have been scanning hundreds of pictures of my father in law back to the early 1900’s and probably even farther. This app has helped so much for us to be portable when going through the many of boxes of photos and documents he has been the keeper of. Now we can have it digital and improve the quality of the pictures before they fade away.

Easy to scan. Was not looking forward to scanning photos on my HP printer for my husband’s 80th birthday party. Found this app for my iPhone and iPad. It has saved hours of work, does a much better job than taking photos of old photos, easier to handle than the lid of my printer! I would give it a five star if I could do the scan in a second or two. I’m guessing it takes 3-5 seconds. Very quick to scan but would still like it faster.

When it works, it’s great.. I am very frustrated with this ap. One time it works fine, then I try to scan something another time And it freezes up and I can move around to the 4 circles. I just get a message that says “sorry can’t scan”. There is no rhyme or reason why it won’t scan. It is not a Lighting issue. I hate apps because there is no one who you can call to ask for help. The help forum doesn’t seem to address this issue. So use this...but it’s reliability is questionable.

Works great.. I've been scanning some 57 year old photos and they look great. The glare is almost completely removed and the digital image is as good as the original black and white photos. Now it's easy to annoy friends and family with pictures from long ago. Also you can zoom in on the background and see things from your childhood. It's been fun.

Good news and bad news.. The good news is that this is a fabulous app. I particularly like the ability to crop the old photographs. In the good old days my camera did not have a zoom capability. The bad news is that I have a collection of photographs going back 50 years. It will take me at least a year to get my collection digitized. But as I go through each picture one at a time it certainly brings back lots of happy memories.

Preserving memories made easy!!. PhotoScan has been so helpful in preserving memories digitally from scanning my kids huge pieces of school art work without shadow or glare to my old 12x12 scrapbook pages that were falling apart and even old family photos. We’ve been able to save the images and print them into books that make them more durable to touch. Highly recommend!

Great App!. I have hundreds (if not thousands) of photos I have taken over the years prior to the digital age. I have wanted to somehow “scan” them into my iPad without having to use a computer, flatbed scanner, etc. This app has made it so easy to do!! It’s able to eliminate the glare and allow you to just take a picture of your photo with your phone and have it come out great!

Good app but could be made more user friendly. It does the job and the scanned photos are of good quality. It integrates well with google photos. But the it is not as user friendly as it can. First of all it should start the scan process automatically when held over a photo. The other scanner apps do that. This one requires pressing a button. Also aligning the four circles takes time. Compare it with other scanners where just focusing over a document automatically detects the boundary and starts the scan.

Amazed. I have just started using this to scan photo prints that are about 20 years old. The images come out perfect every single time. So easy to use, and it cuts out so many steps compared with using an actual scanner. Just snap the image, then pop over to Google Photos to crop and color correct in just a few taps. I will definitely be using this app often as I archive my old prints.

Powerful Tool. This is by far my personal favorite Google product of all. It enriches our lives by making our old printed photos into virtual without having to spend money or traveling to a photo center when the scanner is right there in your pocket. The most amazing thing about this product is that, it’s free to use and free of ads. I couldn’t see how we can live without this app.

Thank you. This app is the best. I’m currently going through my mother’s secret photo albums (she just passed), and needed something to digitize my family history. The app is easy to use, and automatically (and VERY accurately) cuts the photo and removes glare. Again, thank you for helping me during this rough time. I can’t express how grateful I am for the intuitive and easily accessible products you make. Tytyty

So-so editing and not sharp. I enjoyed this app for its ease of cropping and photographing. It is easy to use and modified any non-flat surface in app. However, I found that it made the photos too highlighted and the results were not as sharp as I wanted. When I zoomed in, I could not clearly see the details and it almost looked like a digitized photo. I took a plain picture with my iPhone X and the image quality was actually better. So, moving on and trying to find a better app for archiving my printed photographs.

Good Concept but Buggy. There is an issue when you adjust corners of the scan that hides the image you are adjusting. It’s been there for over a year and they haven’t fixed it. Probably just a layer thing but it makes it impossible to use the corner adjustment feature. The AI also doesn’t do a good job with lighting. I sometimes find it’s better to just take a regulate picture and crop it. If they fixed those two issues it’s be perfect.

Its okay. The location of the corner dots do not always line up correctly so u end up rescanning a picture a few times. Otherwise the app is great... I definitely recommend it for anyone that needs to scan/save multiple photos fast & don't have the time to do each pic individually. It definitely saves time. I have not printed out any pics yet from the app, so that'll be the true test. Most picture apps print crappy pixelated pictures. Im hoping this one doesn't.

Best scan app. I have downloaded a bunch of free apps, and thanks to this app I was able to delete all the other apps. I almost gave up and bought a real scanner, until I found this app. This is quick and easy to use, and has not given me any problems. I scan all my receipts using this, even when paper is creased and folded it will give you a clean clear scan.

Truly amazing. I used to spend so much time with my grandma trying to angle photos just right to take pictures of our hundreds of old family photos just to share them online with friends. She's no longer around but I can tell you she would have LOVED this and probably would have found it easy enough to do herself! I am actually amazed how well they turn out. Another win for Google!

The best app ever!. I’m making a photo book for my son’s 50th birthday. I wondered how I could get my old photos digitized and whether I could afford to do it. With this app I take a picture of the old photo right from my album- through the old plastic sleeve. It makes a perfect print which I can upload to make my book. Easy peasy even for a 70 year old mom. And it doesn’t cost anything to do this. Can’t get any better than that.

Marginally better than default camera in certain circumstances. I’ve found this app to be mostly disappointing; if you can more or less reduce glare to begin with and fill the frame with your photo, this scanner can produce a pretty good result, although not much better than the default camera. In less ideal circumstances, the result can be very poor, with a resolution that’s far inferior to the default camera. It would be better if you could increase the number of capture points so you could create a higher resolution image, if desired.

PhotoScan. This is such a helpful app! So much better than just taking a picture on camera! There are things you can do like flip the photos and crop them and it doesn’t even need to be square! If you are looking for a perfected document then this is a great app for you. I can’t even believe the work it has saved me, and I think that the only thing it could change is writing on it digitally! If that happens I will gladly give it a 5 star review!! Perfect photos!!

Photo Scan Review. This app makes scanning old photos really easy! It’s much easier than using a scanner because it trims the photos for you, and the resolution is better. The glare reduction isn’t perfect but it is good enough. I do post-scan editing in other apps, but most shots come out well enough to not need adjustments. Scans are saved to the camera roll and are easy to access and in a useful format. Overall I am pleasantly surprised.

The best and a great idea for the 21st century!. This is the best way to take a real photo and digitize it for future events. I used it on a lot of pictures. I’m so glad I use this app to do so and now I got the memories never forget. now it’s on my phone and I can share memories that are very precious to me. I just used it on pictures from my mom funeral and it made me look like a computer wiz.

Deleted photos from gallery. I love the idea of this app. I scanned in all of my family photos, but now if I delete the app or delete photos from the app it also deletes from my photo gallery. That doesn’t make any sense. The whole point of me using the app was to have a copy of the photos, not have them stored twice on my phone, the app and the gallery. Also, it crashes if you scan too many. I’m not holding that against the app, but I wish I could offload or delete the app without deleting the photos I used the app for 🙄

It is so close. The quality of the scans are fantastic. There are just three flaws, unfortunately one is major. When scanning there is no way to override what the app determines is the border. I am scanning some post cards and it is cutting off a lot of text. Major enough that I have to another app. There should be some way to link to a cloud account because sending each one individually is a royal pain. There should be some way to select the format (png, HAIC, jpg, etc)

Fantastic app. Much better than expected. I am scanning all old photos from my parents old photos. Some black and whit, some old color photos, and some old fading and curling polaroid prints. I was just taking photos and many had glare, were misaligned, and other issues. This app is great. Brightens faded photos, aligns frame even when my I’m not precise holding camera, and is easy to use. So glad I found this app.

One more thing . . .. would make this perfect . . . unless I’m missing something. I can invite a person to view all my pictures. But I have 5 siblings, with their spouses, umpteen nieces, nephews, cousins and grands, 2nd and 3rd of each. Can we not create a group share option. Scanning 69 yrs worth of my parents’ photos which will want to be shared with various members of the family. If they ALL had access to the photos I’m scanning, they could pick which ones they want. Thx.