VitalTalk Tips vs Rad Onc Calc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VitalTalk Tips
Enhance your communication with patients facing serious illness and their families. This app offers curated tips for clinicians to build trust and guide medical decisions effectively. Improve your practice with quick, actionable advice.
- Improve patient communication
- Build trust with patients
- Guide medical decisions
- Tips for serious illness
- Daily tip notifications
- Clinician-specific advice
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Having great communication skills makes a difference—your patients will understand their medical situation better, build trust with you faster, and you will be able to guide them to medical decisions that match their values. This app helps improve your communication skills with patients experiencing serious illness and their family members. Each tip can be utilized for your specific discipline and subspecialty. For clinicians in hospital medicine, oncology, cardiology, social work, nephrology, hepatology, chaplains, neurology, trauma, emergency medicine, primary care, pediatrics, palliative care and more. This app is made for you! We've complied the research and curated a special set of communication skill tips, focused on the moments where clinicians most often get stuck. Flip through the tips by topic (serious news, prognosis, family conferences, goals of care, and more), or just get a daily tip as a notification. Read the tip (it'll take less than 10 seconds), try it out, and over time, your practice will improve.
Rad Onc Calc
A radiation oncology calculator and reference tool for medical professionals. It provides quick access to essential calculations and treatment constraints.
- Radiation oncology calculations
- Treatment constraints reference
- Quick access to essential data
- Comprehensive tool for professionals
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Comprehensive RadOnc calculator and constraints reference for radiation oncologists.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rad Onc Calc at every 6 weeks against VitalTalk Tips's every 9 months. VitalTalk Tips's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, 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.
VitalTalk Tips holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 12 respectively.
VitalTalk Tips ships an update every 9 months, Rad Onc Calc every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VitalTalk Tips | Rad Onc Calc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better | 4.6 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vital Talk | Matthew Culbert |
Customer experience
VitalTalk Tips
Rad Onc Calc
In-app purchases
VitalTalk Tips
No in-app purchases
Rad Onc Calc
No in-app purchases
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