Comparison

Google Cloud vs ZenShield

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

ZenShield

Features
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ZenShield is an anti-doomscrolling app for iPhone that sets itself up. Grant Screen Time access once, and ZenShield looks at how you already use your phone and builds a calm plan for the two moments distracted scrolling hurts most: right after you wake up, and in the hours before bed. HOW IT WORKS • Tap "Set this up for me" and allow Screen Time access — that's the only permission ZenShield asks for. • ZenShield shows you what your phone told us, and the plan it built from it. Tap "Turn it on" and Apple's own picker opens so you can confirm which apps to pause — a one-time system step, nothing to type. • Calm mornings — social apps stay off for the first 30 minutes after you wake up. • Night limit — for your first 3 nights, ZenShield only watches. Then it sets your limit for you, about 15 minutes less than you actually use. • The breathing gate — open a paused app during a shielded window and ZenShield asks for one slow, 15-second breath first. Afterward you choose: put the phone down, or give yourself a strict 5 minutes. ZENSHIELD PRO The free version keeps calm mornings, your night limit and the breathing gate at their defaults, always — no trial required. ZenShield Pro adds: • A single switch, "Make it a little stricter each week" — your night limit gets 5 minutes shorter each week, down to 15, while your calm mornings grow the same way, up to 60. • Your own sliders for morning (15–120 min) and night (15–180 min) limits. • Your own wake and bed times, instead of the defaults. 100% ON-DEVICE ZenShield has no account, no server and no analytics. Everything — reading your Screen Time history, building your plan and pausing apps — happens locally on your iPhone through Apple's own Family Controls, Managed Settings and Device Activity frameworks. Nothing about how you use your phone is ever collected, transmitted or seen by us. ZenShield Pro is a 7-day free trial, then $4.99/month or $29.99/year. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple Account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hbadgerlabs.com/zenshield/privacy

Screenshots

Google Cloud4 screens
ZenShield4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Google Cloud at none against ZenShield's 2. ZenShield's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ZenShield sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Cloud ships an update weekly, ZenShield daily. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Google Cloud versus ZenShield: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle CloudZenShield
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (110 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings110 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogleAfricapps LLC

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

ZenShield

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Cloud

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ZenShield

Subscriptions2
  • ZenShield Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • ZenShield Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Google Cloud free?
Google Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ZenShield free?
ZenShield is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Google Cloud or ZenShield have ads?
Neither Google Cloud nor ZenShield shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Google Cloud or ZenShield?
Google Cloud ships an update weekly, and ZenShield daily. Most recently, Google Cloud was updated on October 26, 2026 and ZenShield on October 9, 2026.

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