Google Cloud vs Wireless Access Control
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.
Wireless Access Control
This app enables accredited clients to scan accreditation passes from their Accredit system. It verifies badge validity and permissions for secure areas, displaying attendee details and informing security of any access restrictions. The application supports both online and offline modes for continuous operation.
- Scan accreditation passes
- Verify badge validity
- Check area permissions
- Display attendee details
- Inform security of restrictions
- Online and offline modes
- Real-time scanning history
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This application allows Accredit Clients to scan accreditation passes produced from their Accredit system. Once you have configured your setup within Accredit, users can log into the WAC app with their username and password and start to scan accredited attendees into secure areas within your venue. After scanning each badge, the application will verify: That the badge is valid That the person is permitted into the area selected Informing security why someone is not permitted into an area Returns the photograph, name, company and role of the badge for improved security. The application is able to run in online and offline mode, providing the most up-to-date decision available. All scanning history is visible within Accredit in real-time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wireless Access Control at 5.0 against Google Cloud's 3.4. Wireless Access Control also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Google Cloud's advantage is ratings volume (105 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
Wireless Access Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 105 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Wireless Access Control every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Wireless Access Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (105 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EAS Technologies Limited | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Wireless Access Control
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
Wireless Access Control
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Wireless Access Control
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Google Cloud free?
Is Wireless Access Control free?
Which has better reviews, Google Cloud or Wireless Access Control?
Do Google Cloud or Wireless Access Control have ads?
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