Comparison

Google Cloud vs Forgn

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Google Cloud

Manage your Google Cloud services directly from your iPhone or iPad. Monitor billing, status, and critical issues, create custom dashboards, and access Cloud Shell for command-line operations. View and respond to incidents and errors.

Highlights
  • Cloud service management on mobile
  • Billing and status monitoring
  • Customizable dashboards
  • 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.

About

Forgn

Features
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Research your idea. Keep the evidence. Decide what to test next. Forgn brings your ideas, research sources and experiments into one private workspace on your iPhone. Describe a concrete mechanism, investigate related work and build a record you can return to. The app interface is currently in English. PRIVATE RESEARCH BRIEF Create a private research PDF with your project title, working notes, selected sources and saved search history. Review every included item before choosing where to save or share. The separate public progress card still excludes private notes. RESEARCH WITH CONTEXT • Run an explicit literature search across Crossref and arXiv. Read the original source and distinguish publication records from preprints. • Keep up to 30 sources and 20 search records per project, including the words searched, date and availability of each service. • Continue in Google Patents, Espacenet or Lens through clearly labelled external links. Forgn does not retrieve patent results in-app. TURN READING INTO A NEXT STEP • Keep private notes about shared mechanisms, unanswered questions and your next measurable experiment. • Organize projects and a personal archive. Local tools compare mechanisms and show relationships between fields. • Export a recovery copy of your archive, projects and notebooks without a subscription. SHARE A SMALL DISCOVERY Write a public takeaway and preview a branded progress card before choosing a destination. Only the takeaway and source/search counts appear: private project titles, search terms, source lists and notes are excluded. FREE AND PRO Project research notebooks, literature searches, progress cards and recovery copies are free. The free archive holds up to 25 entries. Pro adds cross-pollination across your archive, full risk-ordered test plans, an unlimited archive and the daily contradiction. Existing notes remain readable if your subscription ends. Monthly and annual subscriptions are available; the App Store shows the current price, period and any eligible introductory offer before purchase. YOUR WORKSPACE, YOUR DEVICE No app account or developer-operated backend. Workspace data is stored locally; local analysis works offline. Online searches send your search words and IP address to the selected services, which may retain request logs under their privacy policies. Web clipping contacts the website you choose. Purchases, restoration and optional sharing require the relevant online services. Forgn is an exploratory research and planning tool. Its local model, literature search and estimates are not a comprehensive prior-art search, proof of novelty, patentability opinion or professional engineering assessment. Check original sources and validate assumptions through testing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://berkemd.github.io/wristsuite/forgn/privacy.html

Screenshots

Google Cloud4 screens
Forgn3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Google Cloud at none against Forgn's 2. Forgn's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Forgn sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Forgn every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Google Cloud versus Forgn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle CloudForgn
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (110 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings110 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogleBERKE KAHRAMAN

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

Forgn

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Cloud

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Forgn

Subscriptions2
  • Forgn Inventor7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Forgn Inventor Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Google Cloud free?
Google Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forgn free?
Forgn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Google Cloud or Forgn have ads?
Neither Google Cloud nor Forgn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Google Cloud or Forgn?
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, and Forgn every 11 days. Most recently, Google Cloud was updated on November 7, 2026 and Forgn on October 31, 2026.

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