Comparison

Platinum Planner vs Navigate eReader 2.0

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

Head to head
About

Platinum Planner

This app allows students and preceptors in EMS, Allied Health, and Nursing to manage clinical documentation, scheduling, and skill tracking. It offers offline capabilities for documenting opportunities, labs, and scenarios, with features for preceptor review and digital signatures.

Highlights
  • Offline clinical documentation
  • Skill tracking and reporting
  • Clinical opportunity sign-up and documentation
  • Lab documentation and peer review
  • Preceptor review and digital signatures
  • Calendar sync for opportunities and labs
  • Progress and skill status reports
Features
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Planner is an easy to use companion app for existing users of Platinum Planner. Students and preceptors can complete documentation from anywhere! Even offline without an internet connection! Planner is for EMS, Allied Health and Nursing Professions, it provides online skill tracking, scheduling, reporting and much more! Student Features: Clinical Opportunities - View, sign up for and create clinical opportunities. - Document a clinical opportunity including entering time, notes, preceptor information, and patient information. - Complete any associated forms. - Upload images from your camera and attach them to an opportunity. - Click on the PIN icon to open clinical sites in location aware applications like maps or driving apps. - Ability for a preceptor to give a digital signature right from the app! Labs - View, sign up for and create labs. - View upcoming labs, document current labs, or review documentation from completed labs. - When documenting labs, students will be able to document their skills and complete any forms associated with the lab. - Peer review other classmates labs. - Upload images from your mobile devices camera. Scenarios - Peer review other classmates scenarios. - Review completed scenarios. Preceptor Features: Training - View and complete training in the app. - Upload documents to your training. Student Documentation Review - Review and complete student documentation. - Return student documentation. - Upload additional documents/images to student documentation. - Sign off using your signature on student documentation. - Preview student documentation during the student's shift. - Manage students from multiple schools. Other Features: - Option to work offline then sync data when you have an internet connection available. - Sync upcoming opportunities and labs directly to your calendar. - View current classes along with their details. - Sign up for any additional classes available for your course. - View your progress report and see your overall skill status of your course. - Badge notifications showing the total number of labs, scenarios, opportunities, and items which need to be sync'd.

About

Navigate eReader 2.0

Access and interact with digital textbooks online or offline. Enhance your studies with note-taking, highlighting, and web link integration. Adjust text size and search content for a personalized learning experience.

Highlights
  • Offline reading
  • Interactive learning tools
  • Note-taking and highlighting
  • Web link integration
  • Adjustable text size
  • In-book search
Features
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Navigate eReader 2 Features: · Read your digital textbook online or offline · Enhance your learning with interactive tools · Make notes, highlight important content, and add links to web resources · Increase or decrease text size for improved readability · Search inside the book or within your study notes · Integrated bookshelf with the original Navigate eReader app

Screenshots

Platinum Planner4 screens
Navigate eReader 2.04 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Platinum Planner at every 2 months against Navigate eReader 2.0's every 5 months. Navigate eReader 2.0's advantage is ratings volume (349 vs 87). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

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 — 1.4 for Platinum Planner against 1.5 for Navigate eReader 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 87 and 349 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 7% of Platinum Planner's written reviews are positive against 11% of Navigate eReader 2.0's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Platinum Planner ships an update every 2 months, Navigate eReader 2.0 every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Platinum Planner versus Navigate eReader 2.0: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlatinum PlannerNavigate eReader 2.0
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.4 (87 ratings)1.5 (349 ratings) — better
Positive reviews6.8% of reviews10.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings87349 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB67 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperPLATINUM EDUCATIONAL GROUP, LLCInformed Publishing

Customer experience

Platinum Planner

All ratings72 ratings
Positive11.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative87.5%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive6.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative93.2%

Navigate eReader 2.0

All ratings348 ratings
Positive10.1%
Neutral2.9%
Negative87.1%
Written reviews123 reviews
Positive10.6%
Neutral2.4%
Negative87.0%

User reviews

Platinum Planner

From 87 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Works like the website
  • 👍 Helpful, especially offline
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Documents everything needed

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Takes too long to load
  • 🐛 Unreliable saving of data
  • 🐛 Difficult to use on phone
  • 🐛 Confusing and inconsistent experience

Navigate eReader 2.0

From 349 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient navigation
  • 💡 Useful features like highlighting and note-taking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • 🔍 Difficult to log in and access content
  • 🔧 Poor app performance and responsiveness
  • 📚 Lack of features compared to website version
  • 🤖 Unreliable text-to-speech functionality

Bugs and requests

Platinum Planner

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App won't open
  • App stuck on 'Syncing preceptors'
  • App won't load past 'Syncing preceptors'
  • Half of submissions don't go through
  • App crashes
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  • App never syncs right
  • App needs an update
  • App is broken after update
  • App says 'syncing' and doesn't work
  • App crashes during sync
  • App freezes during sync
  • App won't sync
  • App gets stuck on syncing
  • App freezes at 'syncing program type options'
  • App won't load anything after update
  • App gets stuck at X% syncing

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to upload documents from iCloud
  • Ability to select multiple documents for upload
  • More filters for scheduling labs on the app
  • Ability to make changes on dates/locations when making opportunities
  • Dark mode option
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  • Advanced analytics dashboard

Navigate eReader 2.0

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login issues and inability to create account
  • Pages randomly skipping or not loading properly
  • Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
  • Crashes when switching between apps or going to sleep

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to adjust text-to-speech speed
  • Improve highlighting and annotation tools
  • Implement split-screen/multi-tasking support
  • Allow offline access to textbook content

In-app purchases

None

Platinum Planner

No in-app purchases

None

Navigate eReader 2.0

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Platinum Planner free?
Platinum Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Navigate eReader 2.0 free?
Navigate eReader 2.0 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Platinum Planner or Navigate eReader 2.0?
Navigate eReader 2.0 is rated higher. Platinum Planner averages 1.4 out of 5 from 87 ratings, while Navigate eReader 2.0 averages 1.5 from 349 ratings.
Do Platinum Planner or Navigate eReader 2.0 have ads?
Neither Platinum Planner nor Navigate eReader 2.0 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Platinum Planner or Navigate eReader 2.0?
Platinum Planner ships an update every 2 months, and Navigate eReader 2.0 every 5 months. Most recently, Platinum Planner was updated on October 24, 2026 and Navigate eReader 2.0 on October 29, 2026.

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