Rainbow vs Google Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rainbow
Unify all your cloud storage into one accessible account. Upload large files, sync folders across different services, and back up data seamlessly. Share files easily with secure links and search across all connected clouds.
- Combine multiple cloud accounts
- Sync folders across accounts
- Backup data between accounts
- Share files with secure links
- Search across all linked clouds
- Passcode protection for data
- Drag & Drop file management
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How amazing would it be if you could combine the available storage of each account into a single account with that large storage? You then would be able to upload large files, files that do not fit in the available storage of each account... SmartCloud service: Combine your connected cloud accounts into a single account. The Rainbow app can be used to : - Connect to multi-accounts from the same cloud service - Sync two folders, even if they are located in different accounts - Backup on account to another. - Copy one account to a folder in another account - Share files with a single link from Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, MediaFire, OneDrive and SugarSync and for up to 11 days!! - Search for a file in all linked cloud accounts - Transfer files / folders from one account to a folder in another account or from one folder to another folder in the same account - Amazing graphics and UX. Drag & Drop feature Rainbow supports the following twelve cloud services: - Box - DropBox - Egnyte - Hubic - Google Drive - iDrive - MEGA - MediaFire - ShareFile - OneDrive (old SkyDrive) - OneDrive for business - Sugar Sync Furthermore, with the Rainbow app you can: - Passcode protect your data - Create and edit text files (simple text editor) - Use the camera or the photo library to take pictures - Use the camera or the video library to record video - Create folders - Rename files - Copy and delete folders - Share files over the Bluetooth device - Email files - Download files from the Internet and save me locally or on the cloud - Copy an account to a folder in any account
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Google Cloud at none against Rainbow's 9. Google Cloud also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (105 vs 5). Rainbow's advantage is rating (3.6 vs 3.4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Rainbow sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rainbow holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 105 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Rainbow's written reviews are positive against 29% of Google Cloud's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rainbow ships an update every 2 months, Google Cloud weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rainbow | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) — better | 3.4 (105 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.3% of reviews | 29.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 105 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | i-SmartSolutions | |
Customer experience
Rainbow
Google Cloud
User reviews
Rainbow
From 5 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Great concept for cloud management
- 🚀 Efficient file transferring between clouds
- 👍 Easy to use once familiar
- 👍 Exactly what users needed
- 👍 Works with multiple cloud services
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Unstable and buggy
- 🐛 UI is unintuitive and ugly
- 🐛 Not user-friendly interface
- 🐛 Limited functionality
Google Cloud
From 105 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Quick access to cloud resources on mobile
- 👍 Good UI/UX design with Material Design
- 🔐 Useful SSH functionality for VM management
- 📊 Helpful for quick monitoring and status checks
- ⚡ Cloud Shell access for command-line operations
Room to improve
- 🐛 Cloud Shell frequently disconnects
- ❌ Missing critical features (Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Build)
- 🔒 Persistent permission errors and access issues
- 💸 Confusing billing display and hidden charges
- 📉 Limited dashboard and monitoring capabilities
Bugs and requests
Rainbow
Reported bugs
26 issues- Crashes when transferring or backing up files
- Crashes when setting up Google Drive
- Crashes when adding SkyDrive
- Signs out of all cloud services after crash
- Cannot make sense of the interface
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- Sync, backup, and file transfer impossible since last update
- List of services no longer appears
- App Support link leads to a dead end
- No obvious contact us link
- Not obvious how to subscribe within the app
- Error message when trying to contact support
- App crashes when trying to login to skydrive
- Cannot see files on Pogoplug attached drive
- Crashes on trying to connect to Pogoplug
- Password creation locks users out
- Connections to cloud services drop
- Cannot access 2 accounts with the same cloud server
- Issues signing into Box account
- Box.net login redirects to App Store
- Skydrive login page broken
- Crashes when trying to sign into Sugarsync
- App asks to sign in every time
- Skydrive login redirects to main menu and then blank screen
- Other services show as connected without logging in
- Cannot add more than two clouds
- App disconnects immediately after opening a connected cloud service
Requested features
12 requests- Hide unused cloud services
- Progress bar for transfers
- Background transfer processing
- Password protection to prevent app use
- Mac version of the app
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- Support for more cloud services (e.g., PogoPlug, Box.net)
- Ability to select and transfer entire folders
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- UI design improvements
- Ability to open and rename documents
- Text editor with copy/paste functionality
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
In-app purchases
Rainbow
- 1 month subscription$0.99
- SmartCloud for 1 month$0.99
- Enable simultaneous transferring of files from multi accounts$1.99
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- Remove Ads$2.99
- Share files for 1 month$2.99
- Subscribe for 6 months$4.99
- SmartCloud for 1 year$6.99
- Subscribe for a year$9.99
- Share files for 1 year$27.99
Google Cloud
No in-app purchases
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