Google Cloud vs Lab Scale
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.
Lab Scale
This app works with a smart food scale to record weight measurements. It offers manual logging or automated recording at set intervals. It's particularly useful for remote science education.
- Log weight readings
- Manual logging
- Interval/frequency logging
- Compatible with Smart Food Scale
- Useful for remote science classes
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Use the Lab Scale app with a compatible Smart Food Scale to log weight readings manually or at a fixed interval/frequency. A must-have feature for remote learning science-related classes. To see a live demo, please search for the YouTube video: "smart chef Weighing Data Logger"
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Verdict
Google Cloud and Lab Scale both sit at 3.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 30% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lab Scale's. Google Cloud also leads on ratings volume (103 vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Lab Scale's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for Google Cloud against 3.3 for Lab Scale. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 103 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 30% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lab Scale's.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Lab Scale fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Lab Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (103 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| 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 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ReFleX Wireless Inc. | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Lab Scale
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
Lab Scale
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Lab Scale
No in-app purchases
Questions
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