Google Earth

Explore the world from your phone

Google Earth is a globe-viewing app for exploring places through satellite imagery, 3D terrain, 3D buildings and ground-level Street View coverage. It suits travelers planning a visit, students studying geography, and anyone who wants to inspect a city, coastline, landmark or remote area without being there.

What you can do

• Search for locations and move from a worldwide view to streets, neighborhoods and individual landmarks.
• Use satellite imagery to examine the layout of towns, natural features and other destinations.
• Tilt and rotate supported areas to view terrain and buildings in three dimensions.
• Open Street View imagery where available for a 360-degree look from ground level.
• Browse guided location content and create or share map-based stories for learning or trip planning.

Best suited to visual research

The app is built around looking rather than turn-by-turn navigation. Its strongest use is visual context: checking what an area looks like, understanding terrain, previewing a destination or following curated geographic content. Detailed 3D scenes and imagery may require more processing and data than a simple map, so performance can vary by device and connection.

Ratings in context

Google Earth has a 3.78919 rating from 2,972,147 reviews and an install range of 500,000,000+. That combination points to a widely used app with a substantial body of user feedback, while the score is more moderate than the install figure alone might suggest. Google LLC publishes it in the Travel & Local category.