ABEMPrep vs AAEM Meetings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABEMPrep
This educational app helps emergency physicians and medical students prepare for various certification exams. It offers a concise review of key concepts with award-winning faculty and a high pass rate.
- ABEM exam preparation
- In-training exam prep
- Shelf exam preparation
- Didactic review of concepts
- Peer-reviewed courses
- Award-winning faculty
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Welcome Emergency Physicians! Keeping up the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Requirements is easier than ever! Let us help you make it PAINLESS! Over 99% pass rate! For Medical Students - Shelf Exam Preparation for Medical Emergency Medicine Rotation For Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians - ABEM InTraining Exam Preparation For Emergency Medicine Written Board Exam - ABEM Qualifying Exam Preparation Why Use ABEMPrep? ABEMPrep provides emergency medicine physicians and medical students with a succinct, didactic review of key Emergency Medicine concepts for the different certification exams throughout a physician’s career. These elegantly designed peer-reviewed courses are intended to strengthen your Emergency Medicine knowledge and prepare you for all of your exams. Award winning faculty with 50+ years of combined experience are eager to help you improve your performance on all Emergency Medicine exams. Dr. Bose scored #1 in the nation on his ABEM In-Training Exam. Together, Dr. McManus and Dr. Bose have helped tens of thousands of emergency physicians through online board reviews for over 20 years.
AAEM Meetings
This app provides attendees with access to abstracts, presentations, speakers, and exhibitors for a specific annual event. Users can take notes, draw on slides, and message colleagues directly within the application.
- View abstracts and presentations
- Access speaker and exhibitor information
- Take notes on slides
- Draw directly on presentation slides
- In-app messaging with attendees
- Share information via tweet and email
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*** FOR MEETING ATTENDEES ONLY *** The AAEM Meetings mobile application allows you to view abstracts, presentations, speakers, and exhibitors from the annual AAEM event. Users can take notes adjacent available presentation slides and draw directly on slides inside the app. Note-taking is also available in the exhibitor module. Additionally, users can share information with attendees and colleagues with in app messaging, tweeting and emailing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AAEM Meetings at 4.8 against ABEMPrep's 3.8. AAEM Meetings also leads on ratings volume (27 vs 4). ABEMPrep's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
AAEM Meetings holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AAEM Meetings has 27 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of ABEMPrep's written reviews are positive against 67% of AAEM Meetings's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ABEMPrep ships an update every 3 months, AAEM Meetings every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABEMPrep | AAEM Meetings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | LLSA Prep, LLC | AAEM Young Physicians Section |
Customer experience
ABEMPrep
AAEM Meetings
In-app purchases
ABEMPrep
No in-app purchases
AAEM Meetings
No in-app purchases
