SFPL vs NVIDIA GTC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SFPL
Access your local library's catalog from your mobile device. Browse new releases, manage holds, renew borrowed items, and discover upcoming events. Plan your library visits with ease, all from your pocket.
- Browse new titles and recommendations
- Place and manage holds
- Renew checked out materials
- Plan library visits
- See upcoming events
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San Francisco Public Library in your pocket. Browse new titles and recommendations curated by your library staff, place and manage holds, renew checked out materials, plan your visit and see upcoming events, anytime and anywhere.
NVIDIA GTC
Access your personal schedule, event agenda, and session details for a major technology conference. Connect with sponsors and exhibitors, and stay updated with the latest information.
- Personal schedule access
- Event agenda
- Sponsor/exhibitor profiles
- Session information
- Social media integration
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Stay connected with the NVIDIA GTC mobile app. Conference attendees can access personal schedules, the event agenda, sponsor/exhibitor profiles, session information, social media, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NVIDIA GTC at 4.6 against SFPL's 4.0. NVIDIA GTC also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (741 vs 50). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
NVIDIA GTC holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NVIDIA GTC has 741 ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of SFPL's written reviews are positive against 21% of NVIDIA GTC's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SFPL ships an update every 4 months, NVIDIA GTC every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SFPL | NVIDIA GTC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (50 ratings) | 4.6 (741 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.9% of reviews — better | 20.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 | 741 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | San Francisco Public Library | NVIDIA Corporation |
Customer experience
SFPL
NVIDIA GTC
Bugs and requests
SFPL
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
NVIDIA GTC
Reported bugs
10 issues- Login loop and authentication failures
- Profile loading error after OAuth
- App crashes when scrolling through schedule
- App crashes when scheduling/declining sessions
- Personal schedule randomly disappears and reappears
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- Broken screen layouts with invisible content areas
- Action buttons too small to click (dozen pixels high)
- App crashes frequently on iOS 12
- Survey submission causes app to hang for minutes
- Schedule keeps refreshing unexpectedly
Requested features
4 requests- Multiple sessions at same time scheduling support
- Sort interested sessions by time/day instead of alphabetically
- iPhone X support
- Offline mode capability
In-app purchases
SFPL
No in-app purchases
NVIDIA GTC
No in-app purchases
