Google Cloud vs Parcel Tracker
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.
Parcel Tracker
This app automates internal parcel management using computer vision and OCR to detect tenant names and barcodes. It streamlines parcel logging, notifies tenants automatically, and provides QR code scanning for collection with signature proof.
- Computer Vision parcel scanning
- OCR for tenant and barcode detection
- Automatic tenant notifications
- QR code collection scanning
- Digital signature proof of collection
- Offline data access
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Parcel Tracker uses Computer Vision and Optical Character Recognition to bring a super fast and automatic way of dealing with parcels. Logging a parcel in the system is as easy as pointing the device to the label of the parcel: the tenant name and barcode will be detected instantaneously and the tenant notified automatically. For collection, we support QR code notifications that can be scanned to identify the tenant, and we take a signature as a proof of collection. All the data is synchronised on our servers for backup, and kept on the device for offline use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Parcel Tracker at 84% against Google Cloud's 29%. Parcel Tracker also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.4) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Parcel Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 100 and 35 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 84% of Parcel Tracker's.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Parcel Tracker every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Parcel Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (100 ratings) | 4.6 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 230 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | deepfinity ltd | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Parcel Tracker
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
Parcel Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Parcel Tracker
No in-app purchases
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