Google Cloud vs Bean 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.
Bean Tracker
This app helps home coffee roasters meticulously track their roasting process. It allows users to manage green beans, record detailed roast information, and rate their results to find the best beans. The app offers a simple timer and automatic inventory calculations for a streamlined experience.
- Track green bean details
- Record detailed roast information
- Manage green bean inventory
- Simple in-app timer
- Automatic inventory calculations
- Rate roasts and discover best beans
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Improve your coffee roasting with Bean Tracker. Simple, free and easy to use. Made for tracking all the important information about your at home coffee roasting. Bean Tracker is a coffee roasting app that allows you to oversee all your coffee roasting. Manage green beans and roasts, rate your roasts to discover which beans are working best for you. Whether you're a meticulous coffee roaster looking to record every detail of your coffee roasting or a casual roaster looking to record merely your dates, beans and roast numbers. Bean Tracker enables you to record as much or as little information as you please. Bean Tracker records the following Fields: Green Bean: Country, Name, Supplier, Current Stock, Price, Description, Comment. Roast: Overall Roast Number, Green Bean, Bean roast No, Weight of green beans, Weight of roasted beans, Heat Profile, First Crack Start, First Crack End, Second Crack Start, Second Crack End, Total Time, Comment. Features: Simple in App timer for your roasts. Simple calculations done for you. Roast any amount of beans and it will be automatically deducted from your green bean Inventory. If you like to roast your own coffee beans this app is for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bean Tracker at 4.0 against Google Cloud's 3.4. Bean Tracker also leads on review sentiment (53% vs 30%) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Google Cloud's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 8 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Bean Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 103 and 41 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 53% of Bean Tracker's.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Bean Tracker every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Bean Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (103 ratings) | 4.0 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.8% of reviews | 52.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Callum Hill | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Bean 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
Bean Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Bean Tracker
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Google Cloud free?
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