Google Cloud vs Driverlink
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.
Driverlink
This mobile application streamlines fleet management for businesses by providing drivers and field workers with tools for communication, tracking, and digital form submission. It enhances operational efficiency through features like route planning, vehicle inspections, and driver behavior monitoring.
- Digital forms for deliveries, expenses, and reports
- Real-time mobile tracking and route history
- In-app communication tool for back-office and drivers
- Digital vehicle inspection checklists
- Driver behavior performance rating
- Worktime tracking for drivers
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A fleet management mobile application for drivers and field workers that will improve the efficiency of transport companies, delivery services and other businesses. Available only to clients who have access to the platform! Driverlink features include: Dashboard - a place to overview and quickly access all relevant information; Communication tool - provides successful communication between the back-office and drivers/field workers. Users can send messages, exchange photos, videos and other media on-the-go; Mobile tracking - a built-in mobile tracker functionality; Route history - a complete log with all of the driver's previous travels. Add comments, client names and costs to each route and view reports in the platform; Forms - everyday paper forms such as delivery forms, expense forms, inventory forms and even accident report forms, now available digitally for around-the-clock access and instant submission. Created and customized by managers, acquiring only the most essential data and allows for immediate processing; Vehicle Inspections - a section specifically designed to perform checks and account for the vehicle technical status in a quick and effortless way. Allows to stay on top of your fleet maintenance and reduce repair costs that can easily be avoided; Driver Behaviour - a driving performance rating, based on ECO speed, idling time, cruise control usage, coasting, harsh braking, acceleration and cornering, green RPM, etc.; Route Planning - shows pre-planned routes from managers, allows for use in the driver's preferred navigation app and provides room for comments and files, which are significant for the journey; Worktime - an easy to use space to account for working time, break time, overtime and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Driverlink at 4.7 against Google Cloud's 3.4. Driverlink also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Google Cloud's advantage is ratings volume (100 vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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.
Driverlink holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 100 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Driverlink every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Driverlink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (100 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Idea Bits | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Driverlink
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
Driverlink
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Driverlink
No in-app purchases









