# Merck Vet Manual — user reviews > 84 indexed App Store user reviews of Merck Vet Manual by Merck & Co Inc, rated 4.60/5 from 224 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merck-vet-manual/id1289663059/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merck-vet-manual/id1289663059.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 184 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Merck Vet Manual? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 📚 Comprehensive veterinary reference material - 👍 User-friendly interface and easy navigation - 📱 Portable offline access without internet - 🎯 Valuable for veterinarians and vet students - 💊 Helpful medication and dosage information - 🔧 Useful clinical calculators and tools - 🆓 Available as free download - 📖 Regularly updated content - 🎨 Clear formatting with colored pictures - ⚡ Quick reference for refreshing knowledge **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes frequently during use - 🔍 Search function unreliable and returns poor results - 📊 Outdated medication information - 🗂️ Difficult to locate specific information - ⚙️ Tables jump around and restart unexpectedly - 🐱 Limited cat-specific content compared to dogs - 🧪 Missing current lab test values - 📋 Disorganized medication organization across sections - 🔧 Performance issues after recent updates - 📱 Installation problems on some devices **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when using search function - Search returns no results or irrelevant information - Tables crash and restart unexpectedly - App closes mid-use during various operations - Installation failures on iPhone and iPad - Download process takes excessive time - App won't load content - Performance degradation after iOS updates - No audio functionality despite expectations **Most requested features** - Expanded glossary with more definitions - Better learning resources and educational materials - More comprehensive cat owner section - Improved search indexing system - Sound/audio features for learning - Better organization of medication tables - Updated lab values for canine conditions - More topics and expanded coverage ## Newest reviews (19 of 84) ### 5/5 — Okay *2025-03-02, version 2.3* Okay ### 5/5 — Super *2025-01-24* Bravo, très utile ### 4/5 — Cat/Dog Health *2025-01-11, version 2.2* Animals hide symptoms very well; so the earlier they are found better for the animal. My daughter fosters along with her own dog and cats. I visit with them and use the Mereck app as a spring board for assistance or medication concerns but not for judgement of needed vet care. ### 5/5 — Veterinarian *2025-01-01, version 2.2* Poultry ### 5/5 — Good update for medical Review *2024-09-15, version 2.2* As a retired Veterinarian I enjoy reading for a fast review of subject matter. ### 5/5 — Merck *2024-08-20, version 2.1* Answers all my questions ### 5/5 — Very useful *2024-07-26, version 2.0* Easy to use and very useful. Understandable. ### 5/5 — Great resource and user friendly!!! *2024-06-28, version 2.0* An amazing resource for vet student studying and veterinary medicine refreshers! ### 5/5 — Highly comprehensive and accessible *2024-06-09* Being able to download information and have it without access to the internet is amazing! ### 5/5 — Merck Vet App *2024-04-12* I have both the hard copy and the app. I prefer the book when I’m in the house and have to research an issue that we have with our cattle. However, the app for me is more handy as I’m usually out in the great outdoors and with the cattle when a medical issue is noted. Both are outstanding resources but I will give the nod to the app as it is easier to carry and more handy as well as just as thorough as the book. ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2024-03-13* Thus app is very helpful when managing cats health issues. Vets tend to be vague with explanations of why drugs are prescribed and how to manage and adjust dosages over time. This manual helps owners advocate for their pets and ask better questions when interacting with vets. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Pharmacist *2024-02-29, version 2.0* Love this app ### 5/5 — Manual name *2024-02-02, version 2.0* Sorry, the app name appears when it’s moved out of the ipad dock. My bad! Of course the manual is outstanding. Thank you for producing it on line. ### 5/5 — Amazing resource for any pet owner! *2024-01-24, version 2.0* I use this app on a regular basis, cannot recommend it highly enough! ### 5/5 — perfect work *2024-01-15* The Merck Veterinary Manual addresses all essential aspects of veterinary medicin as always, we are deeply grateful to the authors for their contribution. The MVM only exists thanks to your dedication to animal health and your efforts and desire to share your time and knowledge. It is a very complete and updated work that all veterinary doctors should have. ### 5/5 — Great Commercial poultry resource *2024-01-14* Being a commercial poultry grower, this app helps me identify and treat a lot of possible issues I am seeing on the farm. I would say it is a valuable tool one must have. ### 5/5 — MVM is best *2023-12-10* Thank you very much Merck. Don’t have words to describe how amazing and up to date content you provide to us. MVM is my first to go source for queries regarding veterinary medicine. ### 5/5 — Super *2023-11-10* Bravo, très utile ### 5/5 — Vet manual *2023-10-28* Works great for brush up on forgotten material ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Save your time, but the manual. *2023-11-11* Buy the book. As a critical care nurse and vet tech for most of my life, this was anticipated to be a handy reference tool. Not! All I wanted was metabolic lab values for dogs! Could I find it, NO. If you have a specific disease, this may help, but I just wanted to see how easy it would be to look up relatively daily necessary info . Useless . Merck should be ashamed . To not have to carry the manual everywhere would have been helpful. This is a farce. for heavens sake : when you open a table, it should not jump around on its own, crash and restart itself, or go to another table. Who wrote this softwear? High school kids? No they would have done better There is no handy, easily found table of medications, or lab tests. Medications are outdated and do not take into account what the practitioner sees in his office. You have to dig through layers to try to find this information and often the meds are in one section where they may be used for other conditions. They don’t have the latest lab tests for certain Canine conditions or the latest medications. No excuse since updating an app should be easy, it not like they have to put out a new edition of the manual. **Developer response:** We regret that you are having difficulty with the app. We are aware of the issue and are working to resolve. Please contact us at msdmanualsinfo@merckmanualsinfo.com if you have additional concerns. ### 1/5 — App closing when searching *2022-09-16, version 1.6.1* The app continues to close when trying to search. ### 1/5 — Useless update *2022-09-12, version 1.6.1* As a vet tech, it is HIGHLY unhelpful when the app CRASHES mid-use. For anything. Fix the bug because my entire clinic also uses this app. It’s useless now. Completely useless. ### 1/5 — Waste of Time *2022-09-03, version 1.6.1* Cannot load anything ### 1/5 — Merck update issue *2022-08-08, version 1.6.1* Just updated to latest rev and now using the search function causes the app to completely abort and close itself. Thus, 1 star for taking a working program and turning it into a non-working program. Do better next time. ### 1/5 — Useless *2022-01-12, version 1.6* Useless ### 1/5 — Save your time, but the manual. *2021-08-11, version 1.5* Buy the book. As a critical care nurse and vet tech for most of my life, this was anticipated to be a handy reference tool. Not! All I wanted was metabolic lab values for dogs! Could I find it, NO. If you have a specific disease, this may help, but I just wanted to see how easy it would be to look up relatively daily necessary info . Useless . Merck should be ashamed . To not have to carry the manual everywhere would have been helpful. This is a farce. for heavens sake : when you open a table, it should not jump around on its own, crash and restart itself, or go to another table. Who wrote this softwear? High school kids? No they would have done better There is no handy, easily found table of medications, or lab tests. Medications are outdated and do not take into account what the practitioner sees in his office. You have to dig through layers to try to find this information and often the meds are in one section where they may be used for other conditions. They don’t have the latest lab tests for certain Canine conditions or the latest medications. No excuse since updating an app should be easy, it not like they have to put out a new edition of the manual. **Developer response:** We regret that you are having difficulty with the app. We are aware of the issue and are working to resolve. Please contact us at msdmanualsinfo@merckmanualsinfo.com if you have additional concerns. ### 1/5 — Search function is terrible *2021-05-20* I used all Merck Manuals for years. They are excellent! I had no problem navigating and searching. Now the app gives no search results or very brief often irrelevant information. Looking forward to the next version ### 1/5 — Search engine issue *2020-12-22, version 1.5* The search for common items doesn’t find any results much of the time. I’m even more frustrated because I paid for the app when I got it. There should be a index that could link to further reading on complex issues. ### 1/5 — This Vet will stick with print version! *2019-02-10* It is unbelievable that Merck, a renowned company with a more renowned veterinary reference book can’t supply an app that actually works. I am beyond disappointed AND frustrated after repeatedly attempting to download, install, uninstall, and reinstall numerous times. The app will simply not install onto my iPhone 7 or iPad Pro regardless of high quality internet speed and an over abundance of patience. I’m obviously not the only person out here having this same issue and it’s NOT because I can’t follow simple directions. The ***notation on the app store suggesting we just need to “install it right” in response to numerous complaints is beyond patronizing. Thanks for nothing Merck. It’s a shame because when I went to veterinary school, the Merck Manual was almost entirely what we studied before our board exams. Such a wonderful reference, but the app is a big pile of “feces”. **Developer response:** We regret that you are having trouble. Please contact merckmanualsinfo@merck.com for assistance. We investigated and discovered that the app requires 300 MB of free space to initialize or it freezes without warning. We will address this in the next release. We are also developing a smaller version of the app that accesses multimedia online. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Students and vets *2026-05-21* Good app for pre vet or vet students to take a look at cases and broad info instead of asking their veterinarians everything. Helps them get a foot in the door to ask more specific questions that will impress their mentors. Great search tool, wide knowledge base. I love it ### 5/5 — Outstanding *2026-03-25, version 2.3.1* Good resource ### 5/5 — Most complete *2026-02-22, version 2.3.1* This is likely the most complete veterinary source of information for an app to be used in an iPhone. ### 5/5 — Merck Veterinary Manuel *2026-02-04, version 2.3.1* Fantastic ### 5/5 — Great resource *2026-01-17, version 2.3.1* Fantastic resource for all vets ### 5/5 — Veterinarian *2026-01-01, version 2.3.1* Poultry ### 5/5 — Merck Vet. *2025-11-03, version 2.3.1* Very good source of information about animal diseases. ### 5/5 — Good update for medical Review *2025-10-15, version 2.3* As a retired Veterinarian I enjoy reading for a fast review of subject matter. ### 5/5 — Traylarrsr *2025-08-07, version 2.3* Excellent reference source ### 5/5 — Get it! *2025-07-20, version 2.3* Amazing on the manual! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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