Google Messages

Name: Google Messages
Rating: 4.589391 (51402841 reviews)
Author: Google LLC

Google LLC

★ 4.6 (51,402,841 ratings)

⬇ 10,000,000,000+ downloads

Est. actual: 11,886,850,378

Free

Released: Nov 12, 2014

No in-app purchases

No ads

Rated: Everyone

Signals

5 this week · 4 positive · 1 warning All of this week's signals →

📈Last 7 days +60M installs — 53% slower than the week before (+128M) · 6.7M/day since Sep 19
🏆Among Communication apps top 1% by installs gained this week (148 peers growing)
⭐Rating ★ 4.50 → 4.59 since Sep 19
🛠Updates actively updated · updated 12 days ago · every ~28 days (2 updates tracked)
🍎App Store ★ 4.65 on 5.3M ratings · +31K ratings this week · on iOS since Feb 12 Google ↗

Installs since launch

+293,688,281 installs · +2,930,773 ratings since Sep 19

Reviews

No reviews in the last 30 days (1698 stored since Sep 28).

Update history

— Oct 29, 2026 · seen Oct 23, 2026

• Bug fixes and stability improvements.

VARY Oct 1, 2026 · seen Sep 19, 2026

• Bug fixes and stability improvements.

Google Messages is a communication app by Google LLC with 10,000,000,000+ downloads (about 12B estimated). +60M installs in the last 7 days. Rated 4.6 from 51M ratings. Released Nov 12, 2014. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.

From the store listing: “Google Messages is the official Google app for messaging. Google Messages is revolutionizing how a billion users connect and is powered by Rich Communication Services (RCS), the industry standard for texting that replaces SMS and MMS. With RCS, you can share high resolution photos and videos, enjoy dynamic group…”