RAF Stories vs RAF Discovery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RAF Stories
Share and discover personal stories connected to the Royal Air Force. Create your own narratives using video and audio, and contribute to a living archive celebrating RAF history and inspiration.
- Discover RAF stories
- Create your own RAF Story
- Use video and audio functions
- Warm-up and dry-run sessions
- Share stories via email/social media
- Contribute to RAF commemoration
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RAF Stories is an online community developed by the Royal Air Force Museum to share and explore diverse RAF tales. What’s your story? Are you one of the millions who has, or knows someone who has, an interesting story connected to the RAF? Then download our RAF Stories app to discover, create and share yours today. With the RAF Stories app you can: Discover RAF Stories that enhance and enrich our understanding of the RAF today. We are collecting stories about love, death, friendship, bravery, humour, sadness and everything in between. Create your own RAF Story and keep the story of the RAF alive and relevant for generations to come. Use your own device: use video and audio functions – there’s no need to have lots of technical skills. There are warm-up and dry-run sessions to help you learn how to create a great story. Share amazing RAF stories with your family and friends via personal networks using email or social media Contribute to the many stories that celebrate and commemorate the RAF and inspire the next generation. Questions? Feedback? Visit http://rafstories.org/
RAF Discovery
Explore the world of flight with augmented reality. Learn about aviation principles, track iconic aircraft, and view them come to life in your environment. Discover stories, specifications, and share your own flypasts.
- Augmented reality flight experiences
- Learn flight principles
- Track and collect aircraft
- View and interact with 3D aircraft
- Discover aircraft stories and specs
- Capture and share flypasts
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The new RAF Discovery app uses augmented reality to bring concepts of flight to life in the digital Workshop. Experience exciting flypasts and capture iconic RAF aircraft through your device camera. View official RAF flypast formations or watch your own generated formations live in your home. FEATURES • WORKSHOP (New for 2020) Learn about he principles of flight, how to control planes and helicopters and see inside a jet engine at work. • TRACK AND COLLECT Track and collect aircraft from the flypast based on real formations at RAF events around the country. Bring images to life at our events with the RAF Discovery app’s augmented reality experiences. • VIEW AND INTERACT Watch aircraft come to life and fly around your environment to reveal stories, specifications, real footage and interactive 3D visualisations • DISCOVER REAL STORIES & SHARE Unlock detailed specifications and technical information on your aircraft. Discover historic stories, photographs and video to find out about the people behind each aircraft. Take photos and share your own flypasts with friends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RAF Stories at 100% against RAF Discovery's 45%. RAF Stories also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months). RAF Discovery's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
RAF Discovery holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of RAF Stories's written reviews are positive against 45% of RAF Discovery's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
RAF Stories ships an update every 3 months, RAF Discovery every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RAF Stories | RAF Discovery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 45.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 290 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM ENTERPRISES LTD | Harmony Studios Limited |
Customer experience
RAF Stories
RAF Discovery
In-app purchases
RAF Stories
No in-app purchases
RAF Discovery
No in-app purchases
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