Comparison

Google Cloud vs Instachat AI

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

Instachat AI

Features
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Instachat AI is your personal AI assistant that you can simply talk to. Hold a natural, real-time voice conversation: speak, interrupt mid-sentence, and get spoken answers in seconds. Or use the chat when voice is not convenient. FEATURES - Real-time voice: low-latency conversation with natural interruptions - Chat: message your assistant like any messenger - Memory: it remembers what matters to you across conversations - Hands-free: pair Bluetooth glasses or a headset and talk on the go - Vision: take a photo and ask about what you see - Multilingual: English, Russian, Spanish, Dutch and more Your assistant runs on the SoulfulAI platform and keeps your data in your own private workspace. A SoulfulAI account is required.

Screenshots

Google Cloud4 screens
Instachat AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

Google Cloud and Instachat AI are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Cloud ships an update weekly, Instachat AI every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Google Cloud versus Instachat AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle CloudInstachat AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (110 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings110 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogleSoulfulAI OU

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

Instachat AI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Cloud

No in-app purchases

None

Instachat AI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Google Cloud free?
Google Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Instachat AI free?
Instachat AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Google Cloud or Instachat AI have ads?
Neither Google Cloud nor Instachat AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Google Cloud or Instachat AI?
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, and Instachat AI every 4 days. Most recently, Google Cloud was updated on November 7, 2026 and Instachat AI on November 6, 2026.

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