Handtevy Mobile vs VCEMS Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
VCEMS Mobile
Access emergency medical protocols and supporting materials offline. Quickly find information with indexed lookup and search functionality. Save important entries to favorites and add custom notes for easy reference.
- Offline access to protocols
- Quick indexed lookup
- Search titles and text
- Favorites tab
- Customizable notes
- Regular updates
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VCEMS Mobile provides quick offline access to the Ventura County (CA) protocols and supporting materials. Features include: •Quick indexed lookup of content in a matter of seconds •Search titles and text •Favorites tab for quick access of what's important to you •Updated regularly, ensuring content is up-to-date •Customizable notes for each individual entry •Always with you as long as you have your device and never fades or tears
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Handtevy Mobile at every 8 days against VCEMS Mobile's every 15 months. Handtevy Mobile also leads on ratings volume (668 vs 2). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Handtevy Mobile against 5.0 for VCEMS Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Handtevy Mobile has 668 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Handtevy Mobile ships an update every 8 days, VCEMS Mobile every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Handtevy Mobile | VCEMS Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (668 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 668 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 396 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pediatric Emergency Standards Inc. | Acid Remap LLC |
Customer experience
Handtevy Mobile
VCEMS Mobile
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
VCEMS Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Handtevy Mobile
No in-app purchases
VCEMS Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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