Med Standards vs Deployed Medicine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Med Standards
Access essential medical standards and tools for US Air Force, Army, and Navy special duty personnel. Includes medication lists, waiver guides, and flight medicine documents. Updates monthly.
- Aerospace Medicine Approved Medication List
- Air Force Waiver Guide
- Army Standards of Medical Fitness
- Navy Aeromedical Reference Guide
- DoD Medical Accession Standards
- Altitude Oxygen Converter Calculator
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This application presents the medical standards for special duty personnel of the United States Air Force, Army, and Navy as well as other useful tools and information for Aerospace Medicine professionals. AF Documents/Tools: - Aerospace Medicine Approved Medication List - AFI 48-123 Medical Examinations & Standards - AFI 48-133 Duty Limiting Conditions - Air Force Waiver Guide - Medical Standards Directory - MOD Approved Medication List - OTC Approved Medication List - Many other Flight-Medicine-Relevant AFI's & Documents - 13 RSV Sample Briefings - Altitude Oxygen Converter Calculator for Aeromedical Evacuations Army Documents: - AR 40-501 Standards of Medical Fitness - Flight Surgeon Checklist: Aeromedical Policy Letters & Technical Bulletins - Physical Examination Requirements Table Navy Documents: - Navy Aeromedical Reference & Waiver Guide - Navy ManMed Chapter 15 DoD/MHS Documents: - DoDI 6130.03 Medical Accession Standards - DoDI Occupational & Environmental Health - MOD 15 USCENTCOM Deployment Policy + Tabs Updates with new document versions will occur once per month. For questions, concerns, and/or suggestions, please email info@doc-apps.com. ***Effective 30 Jun 2025, marking 10 years of independently creating & maintaining this app, I will no longer be able to continue this service. If you have coding experience and are interested in taking ownership of Med Standards, please email the above address.
Deployed Medicine
This learning service supplements medical education for military personnel, focusing on tactical combat casualty care. It offers pocket guides, videos, podcasts, and a reference repository for trauma care in deployed settings. The app works online and offline, providing up-to-date information.
- Pocket Guides for compact learning
- Short 'how-to' videos
- Expert podcasts
- Reference Repository
- Online and offline functionality
- In-app alerts for updates
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Deployed Medicine is an innovative learning service developed to supplement the medical education and training of U.S. military personnel, although some of the medical content could be broadly applied for use by civilian medical providers. The information contained in this app is designed to serve as a supplementary resource to reinforce prior training, and to help you deliver high quality trauma care in deployed settings. The medical content currently focuses on tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) training for combat medical personnel, and includes topics, such as hemorrhage control, airway management, hypothermia, pain control and care of wounds and splinting etc. TCCC focuses of providing the information you need to know to assess, treat and stabilize a patient at the point of injury. Additional content will be added over time to cover a broad range of military trauma training resources ranging from the most basic training, suitable for non-medical military personnel, and more advanced material for doctors, nurses and physicians assistants. Features: • Pocket Guides offer short and compact learning modules. • Videos from peers teach you “how-to” perform a skill in under 3 minutes, and other information. • Podcasts provide key updates from experts. • Reference Repository contains important reference materials or the “why” behind the techniques and information being taught. • The app is designed to work online and offline to accommodate use in the field and while traveling abroad. • In app alerts will keep you up-to-date and connected to the latest information. The Deployed Medicine app was created by a multidisciplinary team of medical, learning and software engineers in close collaboration with U.S. military experts. All medical content contained in this app was reviewed and approved by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, which is composed of trauma experts from across the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The Deployed Medicine app is a research and development effort sponsored by the Defense Health Agency in Falls Church, Virginia.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Med Standards at 4.6 against Deployed Medicine's 3.1. Med Standards also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 35%) and ratings volume (81 vs 15). Deployed Medicine's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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.
Med Standards holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Med Standards has 81 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Med Standards's written reviews are positive against 35% of Deployed Medicine's.
Med Standards ships an update every 6 weeks, Deployed Medicine every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Med Standards | Deployed Medicine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) — better | 3.1 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 34.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Doc Apps LLC | Allogy Interactive |
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In-app purchases
Med Standards
No in-app purchases
Deployed Medicine
No in-app purchases
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