Comparison

Google Cloud vs NoteyPad

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

NoteyPad

Capture thoughts, ideas, and important information with this note-taking application. Easily create, search, and organize your notes using categories and favorite markers. Keep personal and business information separate and manage recently deleted items.

Highlights
  • Create new notes quickly
  • Search through notes
  • Pin important notes
  • Add notes to Favorites
  • Organize into categories
  • Keep private notes separate
  • Manage recently deleted notes
Features
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NoteyPad Keep your thoughts, ideas, and important notes organized with NoteyPad. Create a new note whenever you need it, then easily find your notes later with the built-in search bar. NoteyPad also gives you simple ways to organize your notes with categories and tools designed to keep everything easy to manage. Features * Create new notes quickly * Search through your notes * Pin important notes * Add notes to Favorites * Organize notes into Personal and Business * Keep Private notes separate * Manage notes in Recently Deleted Whether you’re writing down an idea, saving something important, or keeping track of personal or business information, NoteyPad makes it easy to keep your notes organized and accessible.

Screenshots

Google Cloud4 screens
NoteyPad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: NoteyPad at 100% against Google Cloud's 30%. NoteyPad also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Google Cloud's advantage is ratings volume (103 vs 4). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NoteyPad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 103 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Google Cloud's written reviews are positive against 100% of NoteyPad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Cloud ships an update weekly, NoteyPad every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Google Cloud versus NoteyPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle CloudNoteyPad
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (103 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews29.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings103 — better4
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogleOTUSK LLC

Customer experience

Google Cloud

All ratings103 ratings
Positive55.3%
Neutral9.7%
Negative35.0%
Written reviews250 reviews
Positive29.6%
Neutral16.0%
Negative54.4%

NoteyPad

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 19 more
  • 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

NoteyPad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Cloud

No in-app purchases

None

NoteyPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Google Cloud free?
Google Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NoteyPad free?
NoteyPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Google Cloud or NoteyPad?
NoteyPad is rated higher. Google Cloud averages 3.4 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while NoteyPad averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Google Cloud or NoteyPad have ads?
Neither Google Cloud nor NoteyPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Google Cloud or NoteyPad?
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, and NoteyPad every 2 days. Most recently, Google Cloud was updated on October 7, 2026 and NoteyPad on September 28, 2026.

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