Google Cloud vs Photo Scanner to Document
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.
Photo Scanner to Document
Transform your device's camera into a powerful document scanner. Easily create PDFs, add signatures, highlight, and annotate your scans. Share documents instantly via various platforms with searchable text.
- Scan documents with camera
- Create searchable PDFs
- Add signatures
- Edit and annotate documents
- Share via multiple platforms
- Selectable text
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Use your camera as a scanner to create PDF documents. After scanning your document you can easily add your signature, edit, hi-light or annotate your document. Share your document by Mail, Messenger, AirDrop, iCloud, etc. Your PDF will have selectable and searchable Text. We offer a very competitive price model. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Photo Scanner to Document at 100% against Google Cloud's 29%. Photo Scanner to Document also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.3). Google Cloud's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On price, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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. Photo Scanner to Document sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.
Photo Scanner to Document holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 107 and 28 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 100% of Photo Scanner to Document's.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Photo Scanner to Document every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Photo Scanner to Document |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (107 ratings) | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 107 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spicy Apps | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Photo Scanner to Document
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
Photo Scanner to Document
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Photo Scanner to Document
- Monthly3 Days trial$2.491 Month
- 6 month3 Days trial$7.496 Months
- Yearly3 Days trial$13.991 Year
Questions
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