Google Cloud vs Hourglass
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.
Hourglass
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Count down to the moments you’re looking forward to with Hourglass. Hourglass allows you to create countdowns for birthdays, holidays, releases, deadlines and everything in between. Personalize your countdowns, share them with others and keep your favourites visible with widgets. Features: - Create countdowns in seconds - Personalise events with styles and colours - Follow shared countdowns from the Hourglass community - Check your countdowns at a glance with widgets - Keep your countdowns synced across devices with iCloud
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Google Cloud at Free against Hourglass's $0.99. Google Cloud also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months). On ads 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
Google Cloud is free to download; Hourglass costs $0.99 up front. Hourglass sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Hourglass every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Hourglass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (105 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 29.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SNEH NILESH | |
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
Hourglass
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Hourglass
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$5.99
Questions
Is Google Cloud free?
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Do Google Cloud or Hourglass have ads?
Which is updated more often, Google Cloud or Hourglass?
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