Comparison

Handtevy Mobile vs AHA PALS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Handtevy Mobile

This app provides healthcare professionals with rapid, precise medication dosing and equipment information for emergency care. It supports protocol management, real-time documentation, and includes features like CPR timers and checklists to enhance patient outcomes.

Highlights
  • Rapid medication dosing
  • Equipment information
  • Protocol management
  • Real-time documentation
  • CPR timers
  • Checklists
  • CPR Assist
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Handtevy Mobile brings precision dosing, real-time protocols or algorithms, and connected documentation to more than 200,000 clinicians across EMS, hospitals, air medical, and military installations. The Right Answer. Every Patient. Every Time. Every weight-based calculation is checked against clinical thresholds and confirmed with barcode verification using ScanSafe™. Updates in Minutes, Not Months. Administrators manage their formulary, protocols or algorithms, and checklists from one Admin Portal, with every change versioned instantly. Built for High-Performance Teams. CPR Assist® guides resuscitation with organization-specific timers and audio-visual cues, while built-in dashboards and analytics show dosing accuracy, compliance, and performance trends. Documentation That Flows With You. Interventions captured in Handtevy flow seamlessly into your ePCR, so clinicians only document once. Not Just Software. A Clinical Partner. A physician-led team of pharmacists, nurses, and paramedics supports your organization beyond launch, with certified courses and competency tracking. Download Handtevy Mobile and bring standardized, evidence-based care to every patient, every time.

About

AHA PALS

This app provides pediatric advanced life support (PALS) protocols and tools for healthcare professionals at the point-of-care. Developed by physicians and vetted by the American Heart Association, it offers intuitive access to algorithms, drug information, and timers for critical care situations.

Highlights
  • PALS pathways and algorithms
  • Drug therapy and dosing
  • CPR and intervention timers
  • Metronome for compression accuracy
  • Critical care references
  • Vetted by AHA and physicians
Features
Currently charting
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We continue to iterate based on real-time clinician feedback so that you will have the best experience providing life-saving care at the bedside. The AHA PALS app was developed by Harvard-trained physicians, in collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA), to help fellow physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and emergency medical technicians (EMT) deliver the highest level of pediatric advanced life support (PALS) at the point-of-care. This project was inspired by the tremendous success of our AHA ACLS app, which has thousands of clinician users in over 180 countries. Importantly, real-time feedback from our clinician users continuously drives improvements in app design, features, and function. AHA PALS is the only app to have all content vetted by both the American Heart Association (AHA) science team (with license to use PALS content) and practicing Harvard-affiliated physicians. We owe it to our patients to use the best digital health tools to give them the highest chance of surviving acute life-threatening illnesses. To this end, we have developed an intuitive and rigorously vetted mobile app to assist healthcare clinicians—at any stage of training—navigate PALS at the bedside. You can purchase a yearly subscription which begins with a 3-day free trial. After completing the free trial, you will be charged for an annual subscription automatically. Features: - Intuitive design to rapidly access PALS pathways (i.e. cardiac arrest , tachycardia with pulse, bradycardia with pulse, post cardiac arrest care, and critical care references) - Includes all PALS content including drug therapy and dosing, reversible causes, etc. - Easy-to-read timers and ability to log rounds of CPR, epinephrine, and defibrillations. There are additional functionalities to log PALS Cardiac Arrest interventions beyond EPI, CPR , and shocks such as lidocaine and more. - We also added a new metronome feature to improve compression accuracy as well as a ROSC button. - Button within cardiac arrest algorithm that allows for rapid transition to post cardiac arrest care checklist once patient achieves ROSC - Relevant critical care references: (1) drugs used in PALS (i.e., medication names, indications, and doses); (2) vital signs in children; (3) pediatric color-coded length-based resuscitation tape (adapted from Breslow tape) ; (4) pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale - All content rigorously vetted by AHA science team and practicing Harvard-affiliated physicians - Regularly updated with the most up-to-date PALS content

Screenshots

Handtevy Mobile4 screens
AHA PALS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Handtevy Mobile at 95% against AHA PALS's 55%. Handtevy Mobile also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). AHA PALS's advantage is chart position (#158 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AHA PALS sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Handtevy Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Handtevy Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Handtevy Mobile has 668 ratings behind it against 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Handtevy Mobile's written reviews are positive against 55% of AHA PALS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Handtevy Mobile ships an update every 8 days, AHA PALS every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Handtevy Mobile versus AHA PALS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandtevy MobileAHA PALS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (668 ratings) — better4.5 (54 ratings)
Positive reviews94.6% of reviews — better54.5% of reviews
Number of ratings668 — better54
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
Best chart rank—#158 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size396 MB48 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPediatric Emergency Standards Inc.Massachusetts General Hospital

Customer experience

Handtevy Mobile

All ratings667 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive94.6%
Neutral1.1%
Negative4.3%

AHA PALS

All ratings53 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral1.9%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral9.1%
Negative36.4%

Bugs and requests

Handtevy Mobile

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes after 5 seconds on Mac OS X Sonoma
  • Login screen freezes

Requested features

2 requests
  • Allow users to input their own concentrations
  • Dark mode option

AHA PALS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Handtevy Mobile

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

AHA PALS

Subscriptions1
  • PALS3 Days trial$3.991 Year

Questions

Is Handtevy Mobile free?
Handtevy Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AHA PALS free?
AHA PALS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Handtevy Mobile or AHA PALS?
Handtevy Mobile is rated higher. Handtevy Mobile averages 4.9 out of 5 from 668 ratings, while AHA PALS averages 4.5 from 54 ratings.
Do Handtevy Mobile or AHA PALS have ads?
Neither Handtevy Mobile nor AHA PALS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Handtevy Mobile or AHA PALS?
Handtevy Mobile ships an update every 8 days, and AHA PALS every 2 months. Most recently, Handtevy Mobile was updated on October 24, 2026 and AHA PALS on October 24, 2026.

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