Bullets* vs ViewMedica
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bullets*
Access medical and orthopedic educational content, including topics, questions, and cases. Create custom exams, review scientific articles, and monitor community activity. Earn CME credits through self-assessment exams and collaborative learning.
- Medical and orthopedic topics
- Customizable exams (Testmaster)
- Article review with PDFs
- Community activity feed
- Earn CME credits
- Point of Care Learning (PoCL)
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The companion APP for Orthobullets.com and Medbullets.com. Bullets* contains medbullets and orthobullets Topics, Questions, Techniques, Cases, Videos, and Evidence. Our Testmaster allows you to create, take, and review customized exams. Article links allows for quick review of scientific abstracts and often the PDF is provided and can be viewed on your phone. Our "Home" screen allows you to monitor a thread of educational activity within our community. All educational activity, including the Qbank, is synced with the main platform for seamless use on both your iPhone APP and computer. You can earn CME by taking Self-Assessment Exams and contributing to our free collaboration community by posting educational comments with scientific references as part of our Point of Care Learning (PoCL) activity. All CME Study Plan examinations can be taken on the iPhone and can be found on your CME Dashboard. Residents on the PASS institutional platform can take PASS exams, complete their PASS Skillmaster learning modules, and submit both Rotation and Milestone Skill Evaluations to faculty. Faculty members using PASS Pro 2.0 can grade Rotation Evaluations and Milestone Skill Evaluations on the APP, eliminating the need to log in with each evaluation.
ViewMedica
Access a library of award-winning patient education videos to explain complex medical information. Healthcare professionals can use these visual aids to enhance patient understanding of conditions and procedures. The app allows for annotation and saving of video frames.
- Access patient education videos
- Print related brochures
- Draw on video frames
- Save annotated images
- Favorite frequently used videos
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The ViewMedica On-Demand app gives subscribers of ViewMedica On-Demand videos a convenient way to use our award-winning patient education content. Our industry-leading, highly-visual videos help physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals explain complex medical information in a patient-friendly way. PATIENT EDUCATION VIDEOS • Hospitals and Practices that subscribe to ViewMedica On-Demand for their patient education videos can view all of their content in this app. • Print the patient education brochures that relate to your licensed videos. • Use Markup Mode to draw on any frame of your videos. Then save those images to your screenshots library. • Add your most-used videos or presentations to your Favorites menu for easy access. ABOUT SWARM INTERACTIVE AND VIEWMEDICA The maker of ViewMedica, Swarm Interactive, Inc., has been producing award-winning medical animations since 1998. Visit the ViewMedica website to learn more about the ViewMedica patient education system, and see how ViewMedica can enhance your patient education efforts. A ViewMedica video subscription gives you access to thousands of patient education videos. These industry-leading, highly-visual videos have been used by physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals for more than 20 years. Videos cover all the major medical specialties describing the conditions and procedures that you care most about.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ViewMedica at 5.0 against Bullets*'s 4.0. Bullets*'s advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (61 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ViewMedica holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bullets* has 61 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bullets* ships an update every 8 days, ViewMedica every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bullets* | ViewMedica |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (61 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LineageMedical Inc | Swarm Interactive, Inc. |
Customer experience
Bullets*
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In-app purchases
Bullets*
No in-app purchases
ViewMedica
No in-app purchases
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