Comparison

Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail vs Google Cloud

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail

This app provides visual voicemail with speech-to-text transcription, allowing you to read, export, respond to, and share voicemails. It integrates with services like Slack and email, and supports multiple phone numbers.

Highlights
  • Speech-to-text transcription
  • Export voicemails to Slack or email
  • Call back, text, or email replies
  • Share voicemails with other apps
  • Push notifications with transcription
  • Contact matching for incoming calls
  • Support for multiple phone numbers
Features
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Answer Cloud offers visual voicemail with transcription for your mobile, home, or work phone: ● Read - Voicemails include speech-to-text transcription. ● Export/Copy - Automatically post a copy to Slack or to email. ● Respond - Call back, or reply with text or email. ● Share - Share your voicemails with other apps like Messages, Mail, and more. Includes push notifications with speech-to-text transcription. Matches incoming calls to your Contacts. Add multiple numbers to have all your voicemail in one place. FIRST MONTH UNLIMITED FREE TRIAL Answer Cloud requires a monthly plan, starting at only $0.99/month. Try for one month at no charge with unlimited minutes. See Monthly Plans for details. READY FOR ORGANIZATIONS, WITH COPY TO EMAIL OR SLACK Answer Cloud is designed for individual users as well as large and small organizations. You can set up Answer Cloud to automatically copy voicemails to an email address or a Slack channel. IMPORTANT ● To use Answer Cloud, you need to forward unanswered calls to your phone number to Answer Cloud. Most phone carriers/plans support this but some, often prepaid plans, do not (e.g., T-Mobile Prepaid, Boost Mobile, or Virgin Mobile). Check with your carrier or support@answer-cloud.com beforehand if you are in doubt. For work numbers, check with your administrator. Detailed forwarding instructions are provided when you sign up in the app. ● Once an unanswered call is forwarded to Answer Cloud, your phone carrier may charge minutes for the forwarded call to Answer Cloud. (Some carriers may also impose an additional charge per forwarded call.) Check with your carrier for details. ● Transcriptions are provided for voicemails in English. Transcription quality depends on many factors and may vary. In some cases, Answer Cloud may not be able to transcribe a message. MONTHLY PLANS First month is always free. Subscriptions can be canceled at any time (see Subscription Details below). ● 30 minutes - $0.99/month - for about 1 voicemail a day ● 120 minutes - $2.99/month - for about 2-4 voicemails a day ● 600 minutes - $4.99/month - for up to about 20 voicemails a day Shared minutes plans available for organizations using Answer Cloud for Work, contact support@answer-cloud.com. Minutes apply only to calls that result in a voicemail. The maximum length for any call is 2 minutes. Call duration is rounded up to the nearest 30 seconds. Missed calls are not charged. During the free trial or while you have a paid plan, Answer Cloud allows a single "grace" month with unlimited minutes for individual use (defined as 900 minutes or about 900 voicemails). Repeat overage requires upgrading to a larger plan. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS You are not charged for the first trial month offered when you start using Answer Cloud. Your subscription automatically renews at the end of the subscription period, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your iTunes account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the above rates. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Account Settings on your phone (tap Settings > iTunes & App Store > Apple ID > Subscriptions) or by tapping Manage Subscription in the Answer Cloud app. You can cancel automatic renewal at any time but you cannot cancel the current subscription period once it has started. Near the end of the trial month, Apple will notify you via email that you are about to be charged for the first time. This email includes a link to cancel the subscription. If you cancel, you will be able to use your remaining minutes until the end of the subscription period. You will be able to access your voicemails and missed calls stored in Answer Cloud for 3 months after the end of your subscription. TERMS OF USE Answer Cloud's Terms of Use can be found at: https://www.answer-cloud.com/terms PRIVACY POLICY Answer Cloud's Privacy Policy can be found at: https://www.answer-cloud.com/privacy

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.

Screenshots

Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail4 screens
Google Cloud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail at 71% against Google Cloud's 29%. Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail also leads on rating (3.5 vs 3.3) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). Google Cloud's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Google Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Cloud has 107 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail's written reviews are positive against 29% of Google Cloud's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail ships an update every 6 weeks, Google Cloud weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail versus Google Cloud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnswer Cloud Visual VoicemailGoogle Cloud
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (10 ratings) — better3.3 (107 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better29.5% of reviews
Number of ratings10107 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCloud App LabsGoogle

Customer experience

Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

Google Cloud

All ratings107 ratings
Positive53.3%
Neutral10.3%
Negative36.4%
Written reviews251 reviews
Positive29.5%
Neutral15.9%
Negative54.6%

Bugs and requests

Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail

Subscriptions7
  • 30 Minutes$0.991 Month
  • 30 Minutes1 Month trial2 variants$0.991 Month
  • 60 Minutes$2.991 Month
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  • 120 Minutes1 Month trial2 variants$2.991 Month
  • 120 Minutes$2.991 Month
  • 600 Minutes$4.991 Month
  • 600 Minutes1 Month trial$4.991 Month
None

Google Cloud

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail free?
Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Google Cloud free?
Google Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail or Google Cloud?
Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail is rated higher. Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail averages 3.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Google Cloud averages 3.3 from 107 ratings.
Do Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail or Google Cloud have ads?
Neither Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail nor Google Cloud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail or Google Cloud?
Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail ships an update every 6 weeks, and Google Cloud weekly. Most recently, Answer Cloud Visual Voicemail was updated on October 7, 2026 and Google Cloud on October 20, 2026.

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