Beautiful New Tabs vs RFCReaderPlus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beautiful New Tabs
Enhance your browsing experience with stunning wallpapers on every new tab. This extension for Safari displays gorgeous photos from Unsplash and provides local weather information, adapting to your device's dark or light mode.
- Customizable new tab page
- High-quality Unsplash wallpapers
- Local weather display
- Dark/light mode support
- Privacy-focused design
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Why not look at a beautiful photograph when you open a new tab? Beautiful New Tabs is an extension for Safari that replaces your new tab page with a gorgeous wallpaper. Images are pulled from Unsplash, a repository for beautiful photographs. Images can be anything you want - nature, cats, lizards or fruit, anything. Beautiful New Tabs also shows the weather for your location. The interface for the weather and the rest of the page responds to dark and light mode, looking good on any theme. Try a simple, beautiful way to open new tabs. ## Purchasing Beautiful New Tabs contains no in-app purchases. Buy once and own forever. Buying this version for iOS also unlocks Beautiful New Tabs for Mac. ## Privacy Beautiful New Tabs caches whatever you put into the weather search field locally on your computer so it can display the correct weather when you open a new tab. It does not store or share this information with any third party. This app does not use any: - Tracking of any kind - Third-party software libraries or SDKs
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. 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 Beautiful New Tabs's $0.99. RFCReaderPlus also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 19 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Beautiful New Tabs's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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
RFCReaderPlus is free to download; Beautiful New Tabs costs $0.99 up front. RFCReaderPlus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beautiful New Tabs asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beautiful New Tabs ships an update every 19 months, RFCReaderPlus every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beautiful New Tabs | RFCReaderPlus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyle Nazario | 飞 龙 |
Customer experience
Beautiful New Tabs
RFCReaderPlus
In-app purchases
Beautiful New Tabs
No in-app purchases
RFCReaderPlus
- Full Functional Version$1.99
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