Comparison

Google Cloud vs Floatline

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 on your iPhone or iPad. Monitor billing, status, and critical issues. Create custom dashboards, access Cloud Shell, and SSH into VMs for direct control.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Floatline

Features
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Life isn’t only made of big events. “Need milk.” “I’m tired.” “My kid seemed happier today.” Those half-formed lines are the material of an ordinary life. Floatline isn’t an app for writing tidy tasks. Speak one line. On your device it reads the meaning: • Errands and promises return at the right moment • On-device AI polishes the day’s fragments into a diary • The day’s weather is logged automatically—you just keep the feeling • Diary and memos are Face ID locked and AES-256 encrypted on device • Scan a rail ticket to keep the seat and get a pre-departure nudge • Export to Apple Reminders or Calendar—no lock-in What matters isn’t storing everything. It’s remembering when it counts. Catch what floats. Keep what matters. On-device processing. No ads. No account. Note: AI diary polishing requires an Apple Intelligence–capable device. On other devices, your notes are gathered into the diary as-is.

Screenshots

Google Cloud4 screens
Floatline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Google Cloud at none against Floatline's 1. Google Cloud also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Floatline's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, 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. Floatline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Floatline daily. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Google Cloud versus Floatline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle CloudFloatline
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (105 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings105 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogleTakayuki Hamuro

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

Floatline

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Cloud

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Floatline

One-time1
  • Floatline Pro$7.99

Questions

Is Google Cloud free?
Google Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Floatline free?
Floatline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Google Cloud or Floatline have ads?
Neither Google Cloud nor Floatline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Google Cloud or Floatline?
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, and Floatline daily. Most recently, Google Cloud was updated on October 13, 2026 and Floatline on October 11, 2026.

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