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Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R4] Google Earth 1/5 · US Blurry on Ipad: On my Ipad 7, for some time now GE gets blurry after a few minutes of normality . I have had extensive conversations with Gemini on what to do. Tried everything suggested, Nothing helps. Just now tried developer help button, but nothing applies to my ipad. Please help
2. [R8] Google Earth 4/5 · US Best: This is honestly the best, but if I try to find a boat and look at it and I can you please fix it some other day like in Europe why is everything blurry?
3. [R12] Google Earth 3/5 · US Why is it blurry: What is wrong with this app at first you open the app and it perfect then after a few minutes it get blurry I can’t see see the buildings or landmarks
4. [R18] Google Earth 3/5 · US Great initially: It’s great the first 5min, then the rendering quality falls off a cliff. I’ll set my phone down with google earth open and I can literally watch the polygons disappear and it become unusable. I’m not sure what changed but now the app is only useful for 4-5min before I have to close and reopen it, which is very annoying.
5. [R7] Google Earth 1/5 · US Clearly wrong inconsistent images: Did you sell a house 5 years ago. This shows before you bought it lol.
6. [R10] Google Earth 1/5 · US update ts and make it look better mane: outdated as hell, we’re in 2026 i’m wanting a realistic globe.
7. [R13] Google Earth 1/5 · US Examine the planet: How can we examine the planet if it’s not updated properly with most recent everything
8. [R16] Google Earth 2/5 · US Time to update your satellite images: I finished building my house and moved in over 2 years ago and your image of my home still shows a construction site with a port-a-potty at the end of my gravel driveway! Also...try taking the pictures closer to midday to avoid misleading lengthy shadows in your images.
9. [R6] Google Earth 3/5 · US Good, but needs bug improvements (very specific bugs): I love this app for making kml files and doing research but the bugs make it really hard to use. Whenever I place a pin, It often crashes when saving color, pin size or label size changes, completely freezing the screen. The pins glitch in size as well, sometimes getting larger when clicked and not going back to their original size, leading to
10. [R27] Google Earth 4/5 · US Could be improved: New problem, July, 2026: This app freezes regularly and unpredictably. I was hoping for an update but there isn’t one. Weirder is that punctuation to write this review is failing. … I use this app a lot and love that I can save searches, measurements, etc. I've been using map apps as I read because they make everything more memorable and real. I’ve run into a problem recently th
11. [R35] Google Earth 4/5 · US New updates cause issues: I use this for work almost every other day but the constant updates keep having issues and bugs that are really annoying. I save projects to my account but the app won’t open them when I try to tap on it you have to force the app closed and open repeatedly to get it to work right especially if you rename a project then it glitches. They also placed the “New” button in pro
12. [R48] Google Earth 1/5 · US Worthless now: Lost all my stuff I had saved… I’m a fireman and can’t find a layer with fires… Can’t search the layers. Someone needs to get fired Leave it to Google to not care about their users…
13. [R3] Google Earth 3/5 · US Add projects back: Hey there Google team, I noticed that the ‘projects by google’ is now in a seperate website(eg… cities in night, empires of India map etc.). I missed using it and playing the mini games. Add it back
14. [R15] Google Earth 3/5 · US Great App...Need Coordinates to Show: UPDATE: Wish we could see the coordinates on the screen we’re on when looking around. If I do a screenshot, it used to say the coordinates so I could refer back to the location at a later date. It no longer does this. Please change this part back so coordinates can always be identified.
15. [R46] Google Earth 1/5 · US No longer useful: Satellite imagery is no longer available. Historical imagery was added about a year a go, which was great, but now it's gone. Most of the available overlays are pretty obscure and not terribly useful.
16. [R9] Google Earth 3/5 · US Can’t install app: I cannot install the app. I don’t have enough data install the app I wish I could get it. How do I delete apps on my apple phone without getting in trouble if you know tell me how to do it. Idk what the heck the phone number is but I’m not able to ask my brain just tells me not to idk why it says that.
17. [R24] Google Earth 1/5 · US Loved it but now miss it: So, I understand that it requires higher Apple iOS / iPhones now but, why couldn’t you continue keeping for the older versions? I have a iPhone 10 someone gifted me, I knew at some point it’ll get more older over the years but I just saw You Google actually had your google car visit my home and I just got excited now. But finding out Google Earth no longer works on my iPh
18. [R52] Google Maps 5/5 · US Great overnight stay: Hi, we use this location quite frequently we live on Daufuskie Island. The rims are clean. The staff is always friendly and they’re always very Flexible with our our schedule and last-minute needs I work for a hotel company and I have to tell you we need more people like the person I always deal with which is Nina in our world, she’s always been great gracious kind, and carin
19. [R55] Google Maps 5/5 · US Excellent idea: Anything that helps people for the good, is a great thing, really love the Google maps.
20. [R57] Google Maps 1/5 · US Shows nothing along routes: A 12-hour road trip along I-15 and Google couldn’t find a single restaurant, gas station, or lodging. It will pull up with the AI assistant, but will still not show up on the map to get directions to.
21. [R58] Google Maps 5/5 · US Very Professional: Justin and Brent was very quick and professional moving in!
22. [R65] Google 1/5 · US Too intrusive: The app started displaying sports scores on my screen constantly. Deleted it.
23. [R66] Google 5/5 · US Best: I love this app because it just has everything
24. [R68] Google 2/5 · US Not as good as the Chrome browser: I feel like the Chrome app leaves tabs open for as long as you want, this one battles between AI answers and regular browser search if it answers via AI it uses an active tab(in use). Not as intuitive. Additionally, notifications..lots of them now. Scores pinned to home screen sometime appear sometimes not, and if I try to pin it, it says it is already set, but
25. [R72] Google 5/5 · US So great: I use google to research and find songs I don’t know,now I LOVE LISTENING TO SUMMER TIME
26. [R79] Google Chrome 2/5 · US Could Be Better: Ad blocker is poor. Close all tabs needs an undo button or an option to remove that button. There should be a way to organize or search by name through your tab groups. Tab groups should not be removed all at once if, outside of the group, you click on the close tabs button.
27. [R83] Google Chrome 5/5 · US Fast Internet: Fantastic!!!!!
28. [R85] Google Chrome 1/5 · US Might be ok on servicing BUT: Google might be ok on servicing web searchers BUT with all the personal information they collect on each and every web searcher it sure wouldn’t look good for these people if/when ‘BIG BROTHER’ came to google wanting all that information. That’s why I’m switching to www.duckduckgo.com
29. [R95] Google Translate 3/5 · US Great tool, but Conversation Mode is broken. Bring back manual control!: The auto-detection in Conversation Mode is too aggressive. When sharing one phone with a friend, the app constantly cuts me off and blasts out translations while I'm still talking. It causes a confusing overlap of audio that ruins the conversation. Please bring back the manual recording controls and give us an option to disab
30. [R96] Google Translate 1/5 · US Error: All I get is “I didn’t understand the audio”. I write to Google to get an answer and all I receive is a “thank you for your feedback” message.
31. [R97] Google Translate 5/5 · US Nice: I learned some Albania from this app
32. [R101] Google Translate 1/5 · US Ai made it worse: It used to be decent. Now it just gives unnatural ai sounding translations that doesn’t translate word for word your original input.
33. [R107] MAPS.ME 2/5 · US Great interface, but limited: I like the user experience. However, it can only find the businesses I’m looking for about half the time. Even major ones like KFC or Tractor Supply. And you can’t put in addresses, so I can’t get to them that way, either. I end up looking up the street on the web, getting directions to that street, and driving around looking for the business. I love the offline capab
34. [R110] MAPS.ME 5/5 · US Great travel maps app: I’ve been using maps me for years and it’s never let me down. The maps are up to date and accurate to even small details are included. I’ve used it in several countries and loved using it.
35. [R112] MAPS.ME 5/5 · US A emergency app for all mountaineers: Two years ago while climbing the mountain SABALAN 4845m , summit of Mount SABALAN we were caught in a severe blizzard near the peak. Visibility was almost zero- we could only see about 1-2 meters ahead since Sabalan has many dangerous cliffs and steep drop-offs, we were in a very risky situation. Our only option was to use MAPS.me . I checked the map, found th
36. [R113] MAPS.ME 2/5 · US Halting: I found it very difficult to use while walking around Florence. Some of the places are not where the maps indicate they are. Had to resort to Google maps and pay for data
37. [R5] Google Earth 5/5 · US I have a question: Hello this game is amazing I love it so much but I have one question does this game run without WiFi?
38. [R21] Google Earth 3/5 · GB Good, BUT…: I got this app because i thought it would be cool to look at certain stuff, explore, and plan for trips. HOWEVER, the 3D buildings are all…blurry. Defeats the whole purpose of the app if Im being honest with you.
39. [R25] Google Earth 5/5 · US Amazing work, google!: Wanna travel the world and c anything u want? GET THIS APP. It is a free ticket to anywhere on earth in just a small, free download. Go into street view and with just 5 seconds, u don’t even remember ur on a screen! Therefore, google earth = GOAT!
40. [R44] Google Earth 1/5 · US Do you want to pay for a subscription?: Pay for premium to unlock basic features! Monetize everything into a subscription service to milk every last penny out of the underlings! Garbage.