Google Cloud vs App Central
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.
App Central
Monitor your apps and organizations with detailed analytics. Track active user counts, version-specific activity, and crash data. Supports dark theme and multiple Apple operating systems.
- API Token Login
- View Apps and Organizations
- Active User Count Tracking
- Version-Specific User Data
- Crash Count Monitoring
- Dark Theme Support
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* Login using an API Token. This token will be stored securely in your device Keychain. * View your apps and organisations * View Active User Count (daily, weekly and monthly) * View Active User Count per Version * View Affected Users * View Crashes count * Supports Dark Theme * Supports for iOS, iPad OS and macOS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Google Cloud at 3.3 against App Central's 2.1. Google Cloud also leads on ratings volume (110 vs 13). App Central's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Google Cloud holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 110 ratings behind it against 13, 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 26% of App Central's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | App Central |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (110 ratings) — better | 2.1 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.2% of reviews — better | 26.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ezequiel Leonardo Aceto | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
App Central
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
App Central
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
App Central
No in-app purchases
Questions
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