RFC View vs Paper Rooms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RFC View
Access and read RFC documents in various formats, including text, HTML, and PDF. Features offline reading for text files, document searching, and the ability to save favorites. Stay updated with the latest documents without needing app updates.
- List all RFC documents
- Search by title, ID, author, or keywords
- Read in text, HTML, or PDF formats
- Offline reading for text documents
- Save favorite documents
- View latest documents
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A reader for RFC documents. Features for RFC View are: 1 - List all RFC documents 2 - Search with title, document id, authors or keywords in all RFC documents 3 - Read all documents with text, HTML or PDF formats 4 - Offline Mode: You can read all documents in text format without internet 5 - Keep your favorite documents 6 - Get latest docs: You can view all new documents without waiting for the new version of this app
Paper Rooms
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Paper Rooms is a free, local-first library for research papers. Not a tool full of features, but a small building full of connected rooms you wander through. Paste an arXiv link and it lands at an address: a call number, a floor, a nearby shelf. Instead of a list of search results, you get a place. The paper has a coordinate, and around it sit the papers it lives next to. THE ROOMS The Circulation Desk. Paste a link and it resolves, or tells you plainly why it can't. No guessing, no upsell, no dead ends dressed up as features. The Reading Room. Typography first, chrome last. Real margins, real measure, equations and figures rendered cleanly, until you forget there is a screen between you and the page. The Floor Directory and the Stacks. Addresses, nearby shelves, and the trails you drift along. The scale is visible and the wandering is the point. Your Private Study. Your saved papers, highlights, notes, and collections, held on your device and belonging to you. FREE, FOREVER Not a free trial. Not freemium. There is no plan to upgrade to, no account to make, no ads, and nothing to buy, now or later. Consider it a gift, left out for anyone who wants to read. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Privacy here is not a setting or a promise. It is the shape of the thing. There are no accounts, no analytics, no tracking, and no server we run. When you open a paper, the request goes straight from your device to the source. Everything you create stays on your device. A love letter to libraries, built by one person, for anyone who likes reading something slowly and all the way through. With thanks to arXiv for its open-access interoperability.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Paper Rooms at every 3 days against RFC View's every 13 months. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RFC View ships an update every 13 months, Paper Rooms every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RFC View | Paper Rooms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | mantar | CHAEEUN HAN |
In-app purchases
RFC View
No in-app purchases
Paper Rooms
No in-app purchases






