BMJ Best Practice vs Right Decision Service
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Right Decision Service
Provides digital tools to help healthcare professionals and individuals make informed decisions about health and care. It offers validated evidence for quick, safe decision-making on the go.
- Digital decision support tools
- Validated evidence-based information
- On-the-go decision making
- Empowers professionals and citizens
- Safe and quick decision support
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This app is a source of digital tools that empower professionals and citizens to make the best decisions possible about their health and care. These tools enable staff and citizens to make safe decisions quickly ‘on the go’, based on validated evidence. Medical disclaimer: Please seek healthcare professional advice in addition to using this app and before making any healthcare decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BMJ Best Practice at 87% against Right Decision Service's 0%. Right Decision Service's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BMJ Best Practice | Right Decision Service |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (207 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 207 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | BMJ Group | Tactuum, LLC |
Customer experience
BMJ Best Practice
Right Decision Service
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
Right Decision Service
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BMJ Best Practice
No in-app purchases
Right Decision Service
No in-app purchases
Questions
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