Google Cloud vs IoT OnOff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Google Cloud
Manage your Google Cloud services on your iPhone or iPad. Monitor billing, status, and critical issues. Create custom dashboards, access Cloud Shell, and SSH into VMs for direct control.
- Cloud service management
- Billing and status monitoring
- Customizable dashboards
- Compute Engine/App Engine monitoring
- SSH access to VMs
- Cloud Shell access
- Incident and error response
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The app helps you manage your services running on Google Cloud directly from your Apple iPhone or iPad: • Stay connected to the cloud and check billing, status, and critical issues. • Create your own custom dashboard to produce an overview of your Google Cloud services. • Monitor the state of your Compute Engine and App Engine resources with the ability to SSH into your VMs. • Access to Cloud Shell to perform any Google Cloud (gcloud) operation. • View and respond to incidents, errors, and logging. We plan to ship new features regularly and continually improve your user experience. Please give us your feedback in the app by tapping the menu button in the upper-left corner, selecting Help & Feedback, and then Send feedback.
IoT OnOff
Monitor and control your Internet of Things projects with this app. It offers interactive widgets for data presentation and in-app configuration. Supports JSON formatted MQTT messages and includes a demo configuration for immediate use.
- Interactive widgets for IoT data
- In-app configuration
- JSON formatted MQTT message handling
- Customizable themes
- Multiple dashboards
- Auto reconnect to MQTT broker
- Topic builder with autocomplete
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Monitor and control your Internet Of Things (IoT) projects with this app. Everything can be configured inside the app. The app is preconfigured with a demo configuration so that you experience the simplicity directly after the install. (Tip: use two devices to see and feel the speed of the app.) Optionally, JSON formatted MQTT messages can be handled. We designed smart interactive widgets (controls) so your IoT data will be presented nice and smooth. Under the MQTT broker settings menu we have foreseen a list with public available MQTT brokers. We are not responsible for the availability of these brokers. If the default broker is not active, please select another one of the list or configure your own. Features: * Nice set of widgets * In-app configuration * Theme support * Customisable themes, locally and remote * Auto reconnect to MQTT broker * Native TCP sockets & WebSockets * Client support for topic filters with wildcards * Grid layout with rearrange support * Multiple dashboards * High performance * JSON parser (optionally) * Backup / restore (optionally) * Export / import (optionally) * Export / import single widget from one device to another (optionally) * Copy and move widgets from one dashboard to another * Topic builder with autocomplete * Manage list of MQTT brokers * E-mail support * GDPR compliant No advertising in the app. Have fun!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Google Cloud at none against IoT OnOff's 3. Google Cloud also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (105 vs 14). IoT OnOff's advantage is review sentiment (48% vs 29%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. IoT OnOff sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for Google Cloud against 3.5 for IoT OnOff. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 105 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 29% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 48% of IoT OnOff's.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, IoT OnOff every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | IoT OnOff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (105 ratings) | 3.5 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.5% of reviews | 48.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kris Van Hoye | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
IoT OnOff
User reviews
Google Cloud
From 105 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Quick access to cloud resources on mobile
- 👍 Good UI/UX design with Material Design
- 🔐 Useful SSH functionality for VM management
- 📊 Helpful for quick monitoring and status checks
- ⚡ Cloud Shell access for command-line operations
Room to improve
- 🐛 Cloud Shell frequently disconnects
- ❌ Missing critical features (Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Build)
- 🔒 Persistent permission errors and access issues
- 💸 Confusing billing display and hidden charges
- 📉 Limited dashboard and monitoring capabilities
IoT OnOff
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works well with MQTT
- 🚀 Fast and responsive GUI
- 👍 Configurable interface
- 👍 Good for prototyping
- 👍 Works with local brokers
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent responsiveness
- 🐛 UI issues on modern iPhones
- 🐛 Buttons hard to tap
- 🐛 Graph widgets limited
- 🐛 Lacks documentation
Bugs and requests
Google Cloud
Reported bugs
24 issues- Cloud Shell stuck on 'preparing to connect' screen
- Cloud Shell disconnects when switching apps
- SSH authentication failures
- App crashes when viewing error console details
- Logs page continuously refreshing
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- Cannot view saved dashboards from web
- Saved queries not displaying correctly
- Permission errors blocking access to projects
- Billing section shows incorrect date ranges
- Incident notifications not working
- Device registration process failing
- Cloud Shell input issues with special keys (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E)
- Cannot select or copy text in Cloud Shell
- SSH return key not working properly in some contexts
- App crashes after updates
- 2-factor authentication sign-in broken
- Incidents marked resolved still show as new
- Logs missing with applied filters
- App crashes when viewing log entry details in dark mode
- External keyboard support broken on iPad
- Notification permissions not requested on iOS
- Cannot change logged-in account
- Project switching broken
- Scrolling issues in logs and traces
Requested features
20 requests- Cloud Run service support
- Cloud Tasks management
- Cloud Build integration
- Custom dashboard access from mobile
- Dark mode for iPad
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- Cloud Shell full-screen mode
- Better keyboard support for external keyboards
- Account switching capability
- Notification management improvements
- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) support
- Cloud Functions monitoring
- Datalab integration
- API quota viewing
- Cloud Storage bucket upload/replace functionality
- Instance group management
- HTTP Load Balancing controls
- Password protection for app
- Font size adjustment in console
- Improved SSH/terminal UX
- BigQuery support
IoT OnOff
Reported bugs
55 issues- Icons sometimes not working
- App does not respond to screen clicks
- Cannot save groups or add items
- Storage Manager does not see saved configs
- Interface forces users to keep tapping
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- App does not account for screen island
- Restore data not found after reinstall
- Graph widgets only update when app is in foreground
- Menu buttons too close to corners
- Buttons too close to top/corners of screen
- App regularly locks up
- App crashes when trying to connect to broker
- JSON with underscore character results in unknown
- Buttons at top/bottom don't work
- Top/bottom controls don't work
- Cannot subscribe to anything
- Back button on subscribe UI does not react
- App is buggy and moody about connecting to MQTT
- Connection status message blinks on and off
- Does not update button status if commanded locally
- Stopped connecting to MQTT server
- JSON converter does not convert numbers correctly
- Cannot connect to broker anymore
- Cannot configure iPhone XR
- Buttons by the notch require multiple taps
- Cannot add topic in settings
- Keyboard does not appear on input field
- Cannot connect to CloudMQTT
- App tries to subscribe to a fixed topic
- Does not get messages when subscribing
- Errors appear at the server when editing dashboard while connected
- Seems incompatible with Thingspeak.com broker
- No log message for connection struggles
- App bombard network with Google Analytics requests
- Not working on iOS 9.3.5
- App lost configuration by closing the app
- Cannot connect to my broker
- Controls at the top of the screen are hard to interact with
- Does not connect to broker
- UI issues on modern iPhones
- Buttons hard to tap
- Restore data not working
- JSON parsing issues
- App crashes
- Not working on latest iOS
- Does not update when in background
- Family sharing not working
- Tracking in app
- Incompatible with some brokers
- Lacks instructions
- Does not display all data
- Automatic updates limited
- Lost configuration
- Not connecting to broker
- Few widgets available
Requested features
14 requests- Add shortcuts for voice commands
- Add momentary push button widget
- Add more colorful widgets
- Add datalogger widget
- Add ability to connect to multiple brokers simultaneously
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- Add notifications when changing topic
- Add support for Russian language
- Add option to select number of switches and their labels
- Add ability to extract specific bits from data
- Add joystick control widget
- Add large light display and control widget
- Add percentage value for blinds
- Add simple animated pictogram
- Add X/Y control widget
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
IoT OnOff
- Premium edition$2.99
- JSON parser$2.99
- Storage Manager$2.99
Questions
Is Google Cloud free?
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Which has better reviews, Google Cloud or IoT OnOff?
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