Comparison

ServerGuard24 vs RPN

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

Head to head
About

ServerGuard24

Monitor servers, websites, databases, and online services directly from your iPhone. Get real-time status updates, availability, and performance insights for your critical online assets. Ensure your business processes are always running smoothly.

Highlights
  • Availability Monitoring
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Business Process Monitoring
  • 24/7 Downtime Alerts
  • Real-time Status Updates
Features
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ServerGuard24 is the perfect way to monitor your servers, websites, databases, online services, e-mail and more directly from your iPhone. By using this app you have the status of your monitoring scenario available at your fingertips – at any time! Features: - Availability Monitoring Get an overview of your servers and all online services at once and receive detailed information on downtimes and errors 24/7. - Performance Monitoring Monitor the performance of websites and web-based applications and avoid frustration of customers, prospects, and employees because of slow sites and services. - Business Process Monitoring Make sure that you do not lose any revenues by always knowing if your online business processes (e.g. login, registration, check-out…) work. Requirements: To use ServerGuard24 you need a ServerGuard24 account. Please register at www.serverguard24.com

About

RPN

This app simulates a legendary 1970s programmable calculator, offering advanced features for scientists and engineers. It allows users to run programs, manage virtual cards, and access hundreds of free program cards from its website.

Highlights
  • Virtual program and data cards
  • Virtual paper tape printer
  • Database-driven card manager
  • Create, label, and organize unlimited cards
  • Effortless saving of card collections
  • Formatted program listings
  • Live display of stack and registers
Features
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A dream calculator of the 70's, priced at $3,200 in today's dollars, now affordable for everyone! RPN-97 Pro is the first complete simulation of Hewlett-Packard's legendary HP-97 programmable calculator for iOS. Produced from 1976 to 1984, the HP-97's features coupled with its capability to store programs on magnetic cards made it a huge success among scientists, engineers and other professionals. Thousands of programs were written for it. Now you can run them right on your iPad, with more ease and faster than ever before. To get you started quickly, download hundreds of program cards from our website for free. What users said: “The most delightful app I possess. The magnet card reader emulation rocks. Would have paid much more for this." "As the owner of an actual working HP 97 calculator, I am blown away with this new simulator. Simply fabulous." "Whoever coded this my hat goes off to you - what a professional piece of work, incredible app." RPN-97 Pro is fully compatible with RPN-67 Pro, its companion simulator of the HP-67 calculator. Features: • Virtual program and data cards • Virtual paper tape printer • Powerful database-driven card manager • Create, label, and organize a virtually unlimited number of cards • Use iTunes to effortlessly save entire card collections on your Mac/PC • Sharing: e-mail, AirDrop, Dropbox, copy, paste, print • Formatted listing clearly showing labels and targets of branches • E-mail listings and let the recipient paste the text right into RPN-97 • Print listings on any AirPrint-compatible printer • Program listing on paper tape shows subroutine nesting • Edit paper tape • E-mail paper tape, or print it via AirPrint • Cut/copy/paste displayed value or program steps • Paste HP-67 or HP-97 listings from other sources into RPN-97 and run them • "Live" display of stack, memory registers, program counter, flags • Show program usage notes • 30 selectable background images, even add your own • Much faster than a real HP-97 • Low-battery indicator (iPad charge 10% or less) • Compatible with RPN-67 Pro and RPN-67 SD, CuVee Software's HP-67 simulators • Supports hardware keyboard While RPN-97 Pro can work exactly like a real HP-97, changing a simple setting will turn the app into a super-charged HP-97: • Up to 999 program steps, 8 subroutine levels, 6 additional flags (F4...F9) • 100 additional registers • 100 additional labels • 100 built-in constants and conversions • More than 150 additional powerful operations and functions Plus: • 15 commands to print and manipulate any range of extended registers • Unrestricted register arithmetic • Exchange x with any register • Complex numbers mode, hyperbolic functions • Non-volatile memory - stack, registers, program, flags, paper tape • Status indicators for prefix keys (EXT, f, LBL, GTO, etc.) • Display showing thousands separators (optional) • Text output on paper tape in 10 colors, even simple plotting • Stack-of-stack: push/pop the entire stack on internal stack (4 levels) • Single-step into subroutines (optional) • Powerful debugging aids, including 10 breakpoints with counters • Keycodes translated to command name while entering or single-stepping a program • Change the duration of the PAUSE command • Cancel SST or BST operation by simply sliding your finger off the depressed key • Compress constants in programs into a single step (reversible) • Use existing programs in text format by a simple paste operation RPN-97 Pro comes with more than 130 programs pre-installed, including HP Standard Pac, HP Business Decisions Pac, HP Math Pac I, HP Stat Pac I, and HP Surveying Pac I. The simulator has been verified to correctly run the examples given in HP Civil Engineering Pac I, HP Clinical Lab Pac, HP E.E. Pac I, HP Games Pac I, HP M.E. Pac I, HP Navigation Pac I, as well as large number of programs published in Users' Library Solutions. For more information and free program downloads visit the RPN-97/67 website: cuveesoft.ch/rpn67

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ServerGuard24 at Free against RPN's $4.99. RPN's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ServerGuard24 is free to download; RPN costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RPN holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RPN has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ServerGuard24 ships an update every 7 months, RPN every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ServerGuard24 versus RPN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterServerGuard24RPN
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings211 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperServerGuard24 GmbHCuVee Software

Customer experience

ServerGuard24

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

RPN

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ServerGuard24

No in-app purchases

None

RPN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ServerGuard24 free?
ServerGuard24 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RPN free?
RPN costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ServerGuard24 or RPN?
RPN is rated higher. ServerGuard24 averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while RPN averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do ServerGuard24 or RPN have ads?
Neither ServerGuard24 nor RPN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ServerGuard24 or RPN?
ServerGuard24 ships an update every 7 months, and RPN every 3 months. Most recently, ServerGuard24 was updated on October 20, 2026 and RPN on October 20, 2026.

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