Comparison

BMJ Best Practice vs LoCall

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Evidence-based clinical guidance
  • Offline access
  • Patient leaflets
  • Medical calculators
  • Guidance videos
  • CME/CPD tracking
Features
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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!

About

LoCall

Features
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LoCall is app which helps to find best job in Australia(for Hospitals).choose the jobs you would you wanted. LoCall shows you plethora of jobs across all hospitals according to your skills.We need 1.AHPRA registration Number for validate user also other details, 2.date of birth to calculate age, gender for some times patients wants 3.female or male doctor for treatment. So As per requirement we can use to assigned appropriate person over there. because of All above scenarios we need all above data.

Screenshots

BMJ Best Practice4 screens
LoCall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LoCall at 11.0 against BMJ Best Practice's 15.0.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BMJ Best Practice versus LoCall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBMJ Best PracticeLoCall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (207 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings207 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB26 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperBMJ Groupvikram sareen

Bugs and 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

LoCall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BMJ Best Practice

No in-app purchases

None

LoCall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BMJ Best Practice free?
BMJ Best Practice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LoCall free?
LoCall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BMJ Best Practice or LoCall have ads?
Neither BMJ Best Practice nor LoCall shows ads.

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