Google announces new apps for iOS (UPDATE)

Google previewed a few new iOS apps at its developer's conference today, called Google IO, that will be rolling out on the App Store later today.

Google's popular web browser, Google Chrome, has long been a desktop app for Windows and Mac. It recently became available for Android devices, and today is available for iOS, on both iPhone and iPad. The iPad app looks extremely familiar to the desktop version, and the iPhone version shares the same design concepts as well. The app will support incognito browsing, and well as tab syncing between devices. (UPDATE: Google Chrome is now available on the Apple App Store here.

The second iOS app they showed off is Google Drive. Google Drive is an online file storage system that has been available online for a while, but is only coming to iOS today. The app supports text recognition in images, so you can search through scanned receipts based on the text in the image. Drive also supports image recognition, so you can search through pictures based on the contents of the image. (UPDATE: Google Drive is now available on the Apple App Store here.)


More news is sure to come out from Google IO, so stay tuned.