Google Cloud vs Raven Mobile
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.
Raven Mobile
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Raven is an open-source messaging platform designed to enhance team collaboration and productivity. Whether you're part of a large enterprise or a small business, Raven brings your team's conversations, and information into one centralised place. Accessible on any device, Raven ensures you can connect with your team and manage your work seamlessly, whether you're at your desk or on the move. - Communicate Effectively: Organise your conversations by topics, projects, or any category that suits your workflow. Send direct messages or create channels for group discussions, ensuring everyone stays informed and engaged. - Enhance Collaboration: Share and edit documents, images, and files within Raven. React to messages with emojis and maintain organised discussions using threads. - Integrates seamlessly with ERPNext: Raven integrates effortlessly with other Frappe apps, allowing you to share documents from ERPNext with customisable document previews, trigger notifications based on document events, and perform workflows directly within chats. - Leverage AI Capabilities: With Raven AI, automate tasks, extract data from files and images, and execute complex, multistep processes with just a message to an agent. Build your own agents without writing a single line of code to streamline your workflows. - Stay Organised: Quickly schedule and join meetings with the Google Meet integration, conduct polls to gather feedback, and use advanced search to find messages, and files. Customise your notifications to stay focused on what matters most. Since Raven is open source (including this mobile app), you have complete control over your data. Experience a clutter-free, efficient communication platform with Raven, and transform the way your team collaborates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Google Cloud at weekly against Raven Mobile's every 3 weeks. Raven Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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.
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Raven Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Raven Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (105 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 29.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Commit Company | |
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
Raven Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Raven Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Google Cloud free?
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Which is updated more often, Google Cloud or Raven Mobile?
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