Comparison

Google Cloud vs Crosspace

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

Crosspace

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Crosspace turns the cloud accounts you already own into one Drive. Connect Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and any S3-compatible bucket - Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, MinIO. Crosspace pools them into a single Library and routes each upload to whichever account has room, so you stop keeping track of which drive a file landed on. CLIENT-ONLY BY DESIGN Crosspace has no file backend. Your credentials stay on your device in the iOS Keychain, and files move directly between your phone and your own accounts. Nothing is hosted, proxied, or seen by us. WHAT IT DOES - Unified Library across every connected account - Smart routing - uploads go to the drive with the most free space - Spanned files - split a large file across several accounts when no single one has room - Background uploads that survive leaving the app - Share sheet - send files to Crosspace from anywhere in iOS - Vault - a passphrase-encrypted .cpvault file backs up your account logins, so a new phone is a restore instead of a re-setup - 13 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew with full right-to-left layout CROSSPACE PLUS - Up to 25 connected accounts, instead of 3 - Unlimited spanned files - Priority and round-robin upload routing - Shrink photos and videos before uploading - Zip and unzip inside your Library - LAN Host - browse your pool from another device on the same Wi-Fi - Photo Backup - copy your Camera Roll into your own cloud accounts Plus is available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Crosspace does not sell storage. It makes better use of the storage you already pay for. Terms of Use (EULA): https://waelmakh.github.io/crosspace-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://waelmakh.github.io/crosspace-legal/privacy.html

Screenshots

Google Cloud4 screens
Crosspace3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Google Cloud at none against Crosspace's 3. Google Cloud also leads on device support. Crosspace's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Crosspace sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.89 per month. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Google Cloud versus Crosspace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle CloudCrosspace
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (105 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings105 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — better—
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGooglewael makhoul

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

Crosspace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Cloud

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Crosspace

Subscriptions2
  • Crosspace Plus Monthly$4.891 Month
  • Crosspace Plus Yearly$39.951 Year
One-time1
  • Crosspace Plus Lifetime$124.99

Questions

Is Google Cloud free?
Google Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crosspace free?
Crosspace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

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