AACN Events vs Dharma Platform
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AACN Events
Access detailed information for upcoming conferences, including program schedules, speaker bios, and presentation materials. This app serves as a central hub for participants to navigate and engage with conference content.
- Upcoming conference access
- Detailed program information
- Speaker biographies
- Presentation materials
- Continuing Education (CE) tracking
- Conference navigation
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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for academic nursing education. AACN works to establish quality standards for nursing education; assists schools in implementing those standards; influences the nursing profession to improve health care; and promotes public support for professional nursing education, research, and practice. The AACN app gives users access to upcoming conferences including detailed program and speaker information, presentation materials , CEs, and much more! It is the gateway for participants to navigate through conferences.
Dharma Platform
Collect, manage, and share field information in real time, online or offline. The mobile app syncs data to a web portal for analysis, with intuitive workflows and color cues for incomplete forms. It supports tracking trends over time and cross-sectional data, saving incomplete entries for later.
- Real-time data collection
- Online and offline functionality
- Seamless web portal sync
- Intuitive workflows
- Trend and cross-sectional data tracking
- Save incomplete forms
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Dharma Platform allows users anywhere, anytime to collect, manage, and share field information in real time. Whether you’re tracking patients, taking polls, or testing a new product, the mobile application makes it easy to gather information, online or off. Once collected, it’s seamlessly synced to the Dharma web portal, where trends can be viewed, staff tracked, and data exported for further analysis. Using Dharma Platform on mobile is simple, with logical workflows and simple color cues to let you know if a form is incomplete - no prior experience needed. The app can be used to collect both longitudinal/trend series information (tracked over time) and cross-sectional data. And if you need to pause, don’t worry - incomplete forms are stored until you return. **Please note that you must have a Dharma Platform account in order to use the mobile application.**
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dharma Platform at 4.5 against AACN Events's 4.0. On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Dharma Platform holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively.
AACN Events ships an update every 2 months, Dharma Platform every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AACN Events | Dharma Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Association of Colleges of Nursing | Dharma Platform |
Customer experience
AACN Events
Dharma Platform
In-app purchases
AACN Events
No in-app purchases
Dharma Platform
No in-app purchases
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