Google Cloud vs Engage Calling
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 directly from your iPhone or iPad. Monitor billing, status, and critical issues, create custom dashboards, and access Cloud Shell for command-line operations. View and respond to incidents and errors.
- Cloud service management on mobile
- Billing and status monitoring
- Customizable dashboards
- 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.
Engage Calling
Enhance your incoming business calls with caller identification and the reason for the call. This app also offers reverse number lookup for unidentified calls in the US, protecting your privacy by only displaying information from legitimate, authorized businesses.
- Enhanced business caller information
- Reason for call display
- Reverse number lookup
- Privacy protection
- Mitigates scam calls
- Business logo display
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ENGAGE Calling helps enhance incoming business calls by showing you who is calling and why. Once installed, the identification process works entirely on its own and requires no further action from you! When a verified, participating organization calls, you will receive an enhanced calling experience on those incoming calls, complete with a business logo, caller name, and reason for the call. For any calls you receive that are unidentified, reverse number lookup is now supported in the United States! WE DO NOT SHARE OR SELL YOUR INFORMATION TO 3RD PARTIES You will only receive enhanced calls from businesses whom you have already given express permission to contact you, and only after we have identified them as legitimate business calls. Features • Enhanced Business Caller Information displaying who and why legitimate businesses are calling you. • Reverse Number Lookup • Protects your privacy and helps mitigate scam calls, as only legitimate business calls from organizations you have given express permission to call you are eligible to participate. Description of Features BUSINESS CALLER IDENTIFICATION We work with verified, legitimate businesses to identify who they are and why they are calling at the time of the call. You will see the business's logo and name as a temporary contact when they call. The app does not grant any business the right to call you and we never share your information with anyone, not even the business who called you. Your contacts never leave your phone and we do not track or collect your data. NUMBER LOOKUP We support reverse number lookups for anyone who registers with a “+1” country code. This feature returns available caller data for valid 10-digit numbers. PROTECTS PRIVACY We take privacy seriously. Your contacts are your contacts! Unlike other apps, ENGAGE Calling never shares, sells, or uploads. ALWAYS FREE You will never pay for enhanced calling services provided by ENGAGE Calling. Twitter: https://twitter.com/firstorioncorp/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firstorioncorp/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firstorioncorp *Privacy Policy: http://firstorion.com/privacy-policy/ *Terms of Use: https://www.firstorion.com/terms-use/ *A network connection is required for Business Caller Identification & Reverse Number Lookup.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Engage Calling at 73% against Google Cloud's 29%. Engage Calling also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Google Cloud's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (110 vs 19). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Engage Calling holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 110 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 73% of Engage Calling's.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Engage Calling every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Engage Calling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (110 ratings) | 4.4 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.0% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | First Orion Corp | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Engage Calling
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
Engage Calling
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Engage Calling
No in-app purchases
Questions
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