Comparison

Handtevy Mobile vs RapidRef.

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

RapidRef.

This platform is designed for prehospital care providers, offering a centralized system for managing clinical protocols, drug information, and operational procedures. It includes integrated calculators for dosing and scoring, and allows agencies to customize their content and manage user accounts.

Highlights
  • Clinical protocols management
  • Drug formulary and calculators
  • Operational SOPs and hospital directory
  • Customizable resource library
  • Agency administrator web panel
  • Offline content access
Features
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RapidRef is a field reference platform built for fire and EMS - by providers, for providers. Your agency's protocols, dosing, and operations in one app. • Protocols with dosing built in: ALS, BLS, and pediatric protocols carry their own weight-based doses and scoring tools (GCS, APGAR, Broselow, ETT), so the calculation lives in the protocol, not a separate lookup. • Cardiac arrest support: run a live code with dual timers, epinephrine countdown, shockable and non-shockable branches, pediatric dosing, one-tap logging, and a compression metronome. Export any code as a PDF for debrief and QI. • Formulary, procedures, and checklists: your drug formulary, procedures reference, and standard or branching checklists. • Department operations: SOPs, a hospital directory with ER lines, door codes, and capabilities, an equipment reference, and a configurable resource library. • Fast to find: search across all your content and pin what you reach for most. • Works fully offline: everything syncs in the background and stays available with no signal. • Managed by your agency: admins handle members, roles, groups, stations, and divisions from a web panel, with CSV import, email invites, and push or in-app alerts linked to the right protocol. • Built for both fire and EMS: and always advancing. RapidRef is developed by active providers and improved release after release, with serious new capabilities underway for both sides of the service. This is a platform that keeps growing with the field, not a static reference.

Screenshots

Handtevy Mobile4 screens
RapidRef.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Handtevy Mobile at 667 against RapidRef.'s 2. Handtevy Mobile also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Handtevy Mobile against 5.0 for RapidRef.. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Handtevy Mobile has 667 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Handtevy Mobile ships an update every 8 days, RapidRef. monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Handtevy Mobile versus RapidRef.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandtevy MobileRapidRef.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (667 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings667 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size400 MB53 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPediatric Emergency Standards Inc.Steven White

Customer experience

Handtevy Mobile

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

RapidRef.

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

RapidRef.

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Handtevy Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

RapidRef.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Handtevy Mobile free?
Handtevy Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RapidRef. free?
RapidRef. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Handtevy Mobile or RapidRef.?
RapidRef. is rated higher. Handtevy Mobile averages 4.9 out of 5 from 667 ratings, while RapidRef. averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Handtevy Mobile or RapidRef. have ads?
Neither Handtevy Mobile nor RapidRef. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Handtevy Mobile or RapidRef.?
Handtevy Mobile ships an update every 8 days, and RapidRef. monthly. Most recently, Handtevy Mobile was updated on October 8, 2026 and RapidRef. on September 29, 2026.

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