Google Cloud vs Pyxie
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 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.
- 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.
Pyxie
This app helps parents and nannies align on childcare by creating a shared reference guide. An AI assistant answers caregiver questions based solely on the family's provided information, ensuring consistency and clarity without intrusive tracking.
- Guided parent sessions
- Living reference guide for nannies
- AI assistant for caregiver questions
- Customizable house rules
- Parenting approach sharing
- No location or recording tracking
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Set everyone up for success from day one. Whether you're preparing for a nanny's first day, welcoming an au pair, or beginning a trial, Pyxie helps you hand over everything they need to know before they walk through the door. Children thrive when the adults around them work together as a team. Predictable routines help young children feel safe, regulate emotions, and know what to expect (CDC). As your child grows and routines (or caregivers) change, Pyxie helps you stay connected through simple weekly check-ins and an always up-to-date Care Manual. Nanny onboarding made simple The Care Manual is a shared guide that helps your nanny understand not just what to do, but how your family does things. Designed with hundreds of parents and professional nannies, it captures routines, emergency protocols, parenting approaches, household rules, and more in one place. No more scattered google docs, sticky notes, or lost text threads. Invite your Nanny Share your Care Manual with your nanny, au pair, sitter, or another trusted adult caring for your child in your home, so they feel prepared before day one and supported every day after. Ask Pyxie Your nanny can instantly find answers based on your family's Care Manual, giving them the confidence to make everyday decisions that stay consistent with how you parent. Weekly Check-ins One week after your nanny starts, Pyxie prompts both of you to complete a short weekly check-in. Regular communication helps reinforce what's working, catch small concerns early, and keep your Care Manual up to date as your child grows and routines naturally change. We're building a future where every adult has what they need to help children thrive. The first five years of life are full of change. New milestones, changing routines, growing independence, new foods, new schedules. During these early years, children's brains are developing at an extraordinary pace, and consistent, responsive care helps build the foundation for future learning, behavior, and well-being. That's why we built Pyxie. We believe better tools for adults lead to better outcomes for children. Drawing from the proven systems of expert nannies, Pyxie makes it easy to share knowledge, communicate regularly, and adapt as children grow during the years that matter the most. We're building Pyxie alongside the families and caregivers who use it. If you have feedback, questions, or ideas, we'd love to hear from you at hello@mypyxie.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pyxie at 100% against Google Cloud's 29%. Pyxie also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Google Cloud's advantage is ratings volume (110 vs 6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Pyxie holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 110 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pyxie's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Cloud | Pyxie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (110 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pyxie Inc. | |
Customer experience
Google Cloud
Pyxie
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
Pyxie
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
Pyxie
No in-app purchases









