Medical FlashNotes vs BMJ Best Practice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Medical FlashNotes
This clinical medicine reference tool helps students and residents quickly look up conditions and drugs. It allows users to create custom flashcards from any content and offers a random flashcard quiz mode. All data is stored offline for convenient access.
- Clinical medicine reference
- Quick lookup for conditions and drugs
- Create custom flashcards
- Random flashcard quiz mode
- Offline data storage
- Concise reviews of thousands of topics
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Medical FlashNotes is a clinical medicine reference and studying tool for students and residents, covering medicine, surgery, paediatrics, psychiatry, and obs & gynae. It is ideal for quickly looking up a condition on the wards, or studying for exams. Browse or use the quick autocomplete search to access concise reviews of thousands of conditions, presentations, and drugs, with the ability to turn anything you read into a flashcard by swiping it. These are then stored in your custom flashcard stack to review later. Alternatively, the random flashcard mode allows you to quiz yourself using over 5000 flashcards. All the app data is stored offline - so there's no need to rely on wifi or a mobile signal - with a small file size of under 10 MB. The app is a free, non-commercial piece of FOAM (Free Open Access to Medical education).
BMJ Best Practice
Access up-to-date, evidence-based clinical guidance for healthcare professionals. This app offers offline access to diagnostic, treatment, and prevention information, along with patient leaflets, calculators, and procedure videos. It also tracks CME/CPD activities.
- Evidence-based clinical guidance
- Offline access
- Patient leaflets
- Medical calculators
- Guidance videos
- CME/CPD tracking
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Instant access to the latest evidence-based guidance for healthcare professionals. Updated daily, BMJ Best Practice provides healthcare professionals with the latest evidence-based clinical decision support information. It's available offline, which means clinical decision support can be accessed anytime, anywhere. This app can be downloaded by those who have access to the BMJ Best Practice website, and have already set-up a username and password. Don’t have a subscription? Download the app and access a free 7 day trial. The app provides: - Fast access to the latest guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention - 500+ patient leaflets - 250+ medical calculators - Guidance videos on common clinical procedures - Automatic CME/CPD activity tracking Your feedback helps to inform future developments. At BMJ, we have a user-centered product development process, which means that we enhance the product based on what our customers, and our users tell us they need and want. As a result, we have introduced features such as ‘night mode’ and patient leaflets to the app. If you have a question or want to provide feedback, please contact us at support@bmj.com. Thank you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Medical FlashNotes at free against BMJ Best Practice's freemium. Medical FlashNotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). BMJ Best Practice's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (207 vs 9). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Medical FlashNotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BMJ Best Practice has 207 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Medical FlashNotes's written reviews are positive against 87% of BMJ Best Practice's.
Medical FlashNotes ships an update every 5 months, BMJ Best Practice monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Medical FlashNotes | BMJ Best Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.7 (207 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 86.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 207 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Robert Goulden | BMJ Group |
Customer experience
Medical FlashNotes
BMJ Best Practice
Bugs and requests
Medical FlashNotes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
BMJ Best Practice
Reported bugs
3 issues- App getting stuck on download screen
- Inability to open the app on certain devices
- Automatic logout issues
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to save favorites and bookmarks
- Improved support for landscape mode and split-screen
- Author/reference details for content
- Institutional login option
In-app purchases
Medical FlashNotes
No in-app purchases
BMJ Best Practice
No in-app purchases
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