Google Cloud vs Jira Data Center
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.
Jira Data Center
Collaborate and track tasks for self-hosted Jira instances from anywhere. Manage projects, view boards, and update issues on the go. Stay informed with real-time notifications and communicate with your team.
- Manage projects
- View, create, and edit issues
- View boards and transition issues
- Collaborate with comments and mentions
- Real-time notifications
- Respond to project updates
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The Jira Data Center and Server app lets teams who use Jira collaborate and give updates from anywhere. This mobile app works with self-hosted: - Jira Core (Server) and Jira Software (Data Center and Server) instances running Jira 8.3 and later - Jira Service Management (Data Center and Server) instances running versions 4.15 and later. For more info on how to use this app, see: https://go.atlassian.com/jira-dc-server-app. With the app, you can: - Manage projects from your fingertips - Respond to project updates and important conversations - View, create, and edit your issues, wherever you are - View boards and transition issues to get the work moving - Collaborate on the go by commenting, and mentioning your teammates - Get real-time notifications about activity in your projects Do I need the this app or the Cloud app? To check if this is the right app for your site, open Jira in your browser and go to Help ( ? ) > About Jira. If your Jira version number is 8.3 or later you can use this app! If your version number starts with 1000, then you'll need the Jira cloud app instead. Feedback Shake your device with the app open to message the product team. We want to hear from you! Prior to login, we collect some anonymous info from the app to help us make sure the app is working well.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Google Cloud at 3.4 against Jira Data Center's 2.1. Google Cloud also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (29% vs 19%). Jira Data Center's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Google Cloud holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 100 and 71 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 19% of Jira Data Center's.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Jira Data Center every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Jira Data Center |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (100 ratings) — better | 2.1 (71 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews — better | 18.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 71 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Atlassian | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Jira Data Center
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
Jira Data Center
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Jira Data Center
No in-app purchases
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