Google Announced Shutting Down, Check List Of Google Applications Shutting Down, and Inactive Google Applications

Active Google Applications

Google is the giant of all applications developed which still survives and helps us in different walks of life. Technically diligent, more Google Applications were developed long back for various purposes. Some of the active Google Apps are Gmail, Drive, Duo, Google Plus, Keyboard, Maps. Google has developed Google PlayStore, which holds almost 3.3 millions of Android applications. There are 131 applications developed by Google in total. The list of applications of Google that are active are

• ADK 2012

• AdWords Express

• Android Auto

• Find My Device

• Android System WebView

• Androidify

• Android Pay

• Android Settings

• Android TV Remote Control

• Android Wear

• Android's Built-in File Manager

• Arts & Culture

• Beacon Tools

• Blogger

• Calculator

• Camera

• Cardboard

• Cardboard Camera

• Chrome Beta

• Google Chrome for Android

• Chrome Canary (unstable)

• Chrome Dev

• Chrome Remote Desktop

• Clock

• Crowdsource

• Cloud Print

• Contacts

• Creative Preview

• DoubleClick for Publishers

• Expeditions

• Messenger

• Wallpapers

• Gmail

• Google+

• Google Admin (Formerly Google Settings)

• Google AdSense

• Google Allo

• Google Analytics

• Google Apps Device Policy

• Google Assistant

• Google Authenticator

• Google Calendar

• Google Camera

• Google Cantonese Input

• Google Classroom

• Google Docs

• Google Drive

• Google Duo

• Google Earth

• Google Edu Device Setup

• Google Fiber

• Google Finance (App has been discontinued)

• Google Fit

• Google Gesture Search

• Google Goggles

• Google Handwriting Input

• Google Home

• Google I/O 2016

• Google Indic Keyboard

• Google Japanese Input

• Google Keep

• Gboard

• Google Korean Input

• Google Maps

• Google My Business

• Google News & Weather

• Google Now Launcher

• Google On

• Google Opinion Rewards

• Google Photos

• Google Pinyin Input

• Google PDF Viewer

• Google Play Books

• Google Play Developer Console

• Google Play Music

• Google Play Movies & TV

• Google Play Newsstand

• Google Play Games

• Google Play Services (API)

• Google Santa Tracker

• Google Search

• Google Sheets

• Google Slides

• Google Springboard

• Google Street View

• Google Talkback

• Google Text-to-Speech

• Google Tez

• Google Translate

• Google Trips

• Google Voice

• Google Wallet

• Google Zhuyin Input

• Hangouts

• Hangouts Dialer

• Im2Calories

• Inbox by Gmail

• Intersection Explorer (helps visually impaired users explore their neighborhoods through Google Maps)

• Jump Inspector

• Messenger

• MyGlass (companion app for Google Glass)

• My Maps

• Phone

• Pixel Launcher

• Project Fi

• Snapseed

• Spaces – Small group sharing

• Street View on Google Maps

• Who's Down – Spring 2016

• Voice Assistant (Part of Google Now, but can be launched separately )

• YouTube

• YouTube Creator Studio

• YouTube Gaming

• YouTube Go

• YouTube TV

• YouTube VR

• YouTube for Google TV

• YouTube for Android TV

Inactive Google Applications

As mentioned, like the active Google Applications, Google announced shutting down some of its applications which weren't much welcomed by the people as Google finally planned to shut down the unreached Google Applications. Some of the shutdown applications by Google are

• Google Shoelace

• Neighbourly

• Hangouts

• Cloud Print

• Google Hire

• Google App Maker

Google Shoelace

Google Shoelace, launched in 2019 to help the people connect locally. The Google Shoelace team believes that the social application's defeat was due to the customers concentrating on prioritising their life and work due to the COVID-19 situation. Finally, after deciding to shut down, the company sent out an email to all the app users stating that Shoelace will be shutting down on 12 May. 

Neighbourly

Launched in May 2018, Neighbourly applications lets one explore their neighbourhood with help from local experts. In the same year, Neighbourly was expanded to some cities, but failed to excite the public and recorded a declined usage. Same as Shoelace, Neighbourly announced it is shutting down on 12 May. In their statement, Google said that Neighbourly aimed to connect people and share local information, but it did not add value, and thus it was shut down to concentrate on other Google products.

Hangouts

Hangouts, was announced to be shut down by Google back in 2017. But although the announcement was made earlier, it still exists and has kept undisturbed. But Google plans to transition the existing Hangouts in the G suite user to new Hangouts Chat and Hangout Meet applications by June 2021.

Cloud Print

Google Cloud Print helps users print from any device, from anywhere, to any web-connected printer. Google has shut down the product on 31 December 2020, and the reason to remove this application is still unknown.

Google Hire

Google Hire, which was developed to simplify the hiring process, with a workflow. It was integrated into Google's G Suite consisting of Search, Gmail, Calendar, Docs etc. for medium-sized businesses. This application was planned to be abandoned to shift their focus on using the resources on other Google products.

Google App Maker

Google App Makers is about to leave on 19 January 2021. But this will affect the admins, developers and end-users. It was announced that users will no longer create new App Maker apps but can still edit and deploy existing apps. After January 2021, the App Maker can no longer users can no longer access the application. Also, the data stored in Cloud SQL will remain unchanged.

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