easyHAB vs RFCReaderPlus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
easyHAB
Simplify your smart home setup with this app, allowing easy installation and orchestration of home automation rules across multiple systems. Integrate all your devices, from lighting and heating to media players, and create custom automations for a truly personalized living space.
- Easy installation of OpenHAB
- Orchestrate and automate across systems
- Integrate all your devices
- Create custom scenes and automations
- Control lighting, heating, and more
- Support for Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit
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Little time and no desire for complicated installations? Still want to define your own home automation rules? You want to be able to integrate all your devices? KAndySoft easyHAB allows you an easy installation of OpenHAB on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Mac Mini and to easily orchestrate and automate your home automation across multiple systems. Everything is conveniently configured in the easyHAB app. OpenHAB is a great opensource platform for your smarthome with support for around 400 home Automation Systems. It runs locally without further costs, on request without cloud, with high reactivity and best longterm stability. >> Alexa + Google Home + Apple Homekit โ all in one! >> Easy "zero-touch" automation across all devices and services! >> Customize your home to your needs and habits! >> Multiple backups of your configurations: never have to set everything up again! easyHAB aims to harmonize the control of all your devices in a single interface and above all to provide simple, event-driven automation of your home. For this purpose we implement many useful use cases that reduce daily operations to one click or "zero-touch" convenient Automation: โ Creation of scenes with multiple devices โ Light Control with Colors and dimming โ Heating / Thermostat Control โ Single / Multiple switches โ Window contacts โ Presence โ Garden watering also with weather based rules โ Control of blinds based on time or sunset / sunrise โ Configurable greeting texts or device status via text-to-speech โ Play Music files in certain conditions โ Notifications on the smartphone โ Mediaplayer / Television / HarmonyHub โ Many more... easyHAB works with Philips Hue, Sonos, Homematic, Ikea Tradfri, Harmony Hub, Samsung TV, AVM Fritzbox, enocean, IFTTT and all other devices that can be controlled via HTTP (REST API). Additional services that are compatible with OpenHAB are constantly being added or can be added by the user. Features: โ Automated setup of the HomeServer via wizard โ Simple integration and configuration of various services โ Automatic detection of all devices that are available via configured services โ Grouping your devices into rooms โ Easy creation of automation rules for all devices (if-then rules with different triggers, additional conditions and actions) โ Automatic generation of HomeServer rules and user interface for use in mobile phones, tablet and desktop computers โ Integration of Alexa, Google Home and Apple HomeKit โ Up to 3 generations of configuration and control sets stored and retrievable โ Optionally also usable for existing OpenHAB / openhabian installations Supported OpenHAB server environments: โ New Raspberry Pi or easyHAB Starter Kit (SD card image provided via the app). โ Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS or Raspbian (also with OpenHAB 3 preinstalled). โ Openhabian โ OpenHAB Docker container e.g. on Synology โ mac Mini โ Linux Server (Debian or other distribution with apt package manager)
RFCReaderPlus
Access and read technical internet standards documents offline. Features include searching, bookmarking, text formatting, and navigation aids for various document formats.
- List all RFC documents
- Search RFC by keywords or number
- Add RFCs to favorites
- Text formatting and styling
- Offline RFC reading
- Support for PDF and HTML formats
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Requests for Comments (RFC) document series contain technical and organizational notes about the Internet. RFC Reader plus is a tool which can provide user a more efficient way to read the RFC documents.ย Difference between trial version and full functional version: Features for RFC Reader plus trial version and full functional version are almost the same, except that some advance feature in trial version can be used with limitation. All features below are available for try with limited times with trial version and are fully supported by full functional version if user purchased the product in the app. 1. List all RFC documents 2. Search RFC File by Keywords or RFC number 3. Add to favorite for the interested RFC 4. Support marking text with color when reading in text format 5. Support adding Bold, Itatic and Underline styles to RFC text when reading in text format 6. Support changing default Font name and Font size for RFC text reading 7. Support fast navigating to last reading position and can go back and forward several times 8. Support fast navigating with Table Of Contents (TOC) 9. Offline RFC reading: Once you read it once, it will be cached locally 10. Save your changes to the document in Document folder 11.Support both Landscape and Portrait reading mode on all supported devices. 12. Support cleaning up cached files 13. Support search by keywords in Text format RFC page and navigate to the found results 14. Support read RFC in PDF format 15. Support searching RFC content when reading in PDF format 16. Support navigate RFC content through Table Of Content when reading in PDF format 17. Support navigate RFC content through PDF thumbnail 18. Support view RFC content in thumbnail grid view 19. Support read RFC in HTML format 20. Support navigate back and forth when reading in HTML format 21.Support navigate through Table Of Content when reading in HTML format for some RFCs 22. Support add to favorite RFC list when reading both in PDF format and HTML format
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RFCReaderPlus at Free against easyHAB's $6.99. RFCReaderPlus also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). easyHAB's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
RFCReaderPlus is free to download; easyHAB costs $6.99 up front. RFCReaderPlus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. easyHAB asks for nothing beyond the download.
easyHAB ships an update every 2 months, RFCReaderPlus every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on July 15, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | easyHAB | RFCReaderPlus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free โ better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews โ better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months โ better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KAndySoft UG haftungsbeschraenkt | ้ฃ ้พ |
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easyHAB
RFCReaderPlus
In-app purchases
easyHAB
No in-app purchases
RFCReaderPlus
- Full Functional Version$1.99
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