Comparison

APEA vs ASCCP Management Guidelines

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

Head to head
About

APEA

Access free media content, video and audio courses, and continuing education lectures. Features a mobile reference for primary care with concise diagnosis and treatment information for over 370 conditions.

Highlights
  • Free media content and guidance
  • Video and audio CE courses
  • Downloadable CE certificates
  • Mobile primary care reference
  • Diagnosis and treatment information
  • View recent activity
  • Direct contact with APEA
Features
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New! The new APEA app, launched in 2020, delivers fast, reliable access to your APEA resources. Highlights of the new APEA app include: • Access free media content to receive prescribing pearls and other valuable guidance for study and practice. • Watch video courses and CE lectures in the CE Center. Access the Course Manual, complete the evaluation, and download your contact hour certificate—all within the app! • Download and listen to audio courses and CE lectures. Access the Course Manual, complete the evaluation and download your contact hour certificate—all within the app! • Access your CareOnPoint account wherever you have an internet connection. CareOnPoint is a mobile reference for primary care that provides concise diagnosis and treatment information on more than 370 diagnoses. It features anatomical illustrations, prescribing charts and other images to enhance patient care decisions—all accessible within the app! • View your recent activity from the main menu. • Contact APEA directly from within the app. Since 1997, Advanced Practice Education Associates (APEA) has been preparing NP students for success on their certification exams and meeting their continuing education needs throughout their careers. APEA review courses are known for their clarity and effective teaching methods. Students absorb and learn the material because the instructors present the information in ways that build knowledge and retention. Here are just a few comments from our thousands of satisfied customers: • “The knowledge that I gained was invaluable and I felt like it pulled together 2 years of classes that were patchwork. I took boards and much of the material Dr. Hollier reviewed was on the exam. I highly recommend this review course and plan to attend more courses for contact hours.” • “I found the APEA live review course extremely helpful. Everything I have learned the past two years came full circle. I never once lost focus as Dr. Hollier kept things lively.” • “The factor that sets APEA leaps and bounds above the other is their delivery. … the speakers are energetic and really drive home the concepts necessary to be successful to pass board exams. I felt the presenters were genuinely vested in my success. I did not feel the same with other review programs that are available for purchase, and that I had purchased. I encourage other students to utilize APEA to prepare for their future as an advanced practice provider.” In addition to presenting live and on demand review courses and clinical updates, APEA develops clinical resources, question banks and test banks and publishes evidence-based reference books and mobile reference tools used in practice every day.

About

ASCCP Management Guidelines

Access evidence-based recommendations for managing abnormal cervical cancer screening results and precursors. This app helps healthcare professionals navigate consensus guidelines for post-colposcopy and post-treatment scenarios, offering precise risk estimation and tailored interventions.

Highlights
  • Risk-based management guidelines
  • Abnormal screening result management
  • Post-colposcopy management
  • Post-treatment management
  • Risk estimation
  • Evidence-based recommendations
Features
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The ASCCP Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for managing abnormal cervical cancer screening results and cancer precursors, including post-colposcopy and post-treatment scenarios. ASCCP is pleased to offer this app to streamline navigation of the ASCCP Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines for abnormal cervical cancer screening tests and cancer precursors. The guidelines articles, as published in the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease, as well as the comprehensive risk estimates, can be accessed through https://www.asccp.org/guidelines. These evidence-based management guidelines, initially developed in 2019, came together through a consensus process of 19 organizations. The updated management guidelines aim to: • Allow for a more complete and precise estimation of risk • Provide more appropriate intervention for high-risk individuals (detect and treat more precancer) • Recommend less intervention for low-risk individuals (decrease testing and treatment that won’t prevent cancer and may cause reproductive harm) • Allow for the future addition of new risk modifiers and screening and management technologies See https://www.asccp.org/UserGuide for tips on using the app.

Screenshots

APEA4 screens
ASCCP Management Guidelines4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: APEA at Free against ASCCP Management Guidelines's $14.99. APEA also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). ASCCP Management Guidelines's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 2.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads 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

APEA is free to download; ASCCP Management Guidelines costs $14.99 up front. APEA sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. ASCCP Management Guidelines asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ASCCP Management Guidelines holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ASCCP Management Guidelines has 8.6K ratings behind it against 51, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of APEA's written reviews are positive against 33% of ASCCP Management Guidelines's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

APEA ships an update every 3 weeks, ASCCP Management Guidelines every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
APEA versus ASCCP Management Guidelines: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAPEAASCCP Management Guidelines
PriceFree — better$14.99
Rating2.3 (51 ratings)4.8 (8.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.7% of reviews33.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings518.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank—#2 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1311.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB47 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAdvanced Practice Education Associates, LLC.American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology Inc

Customer experience

APEA

All ratings51 ratings
Positive29.4%
Neutral3.9%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive19.7%
Neutral8.2%
Negative72.1%

ASCCP Management Guidelines

All ratings8,595 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews94 reviews
Positive33.0%
Neutral12.8%
Negative54.3%

User reviews

APEA

From 51 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great content and material
  • 👍 Useful for continuing education
  • 👍 Helpful for NP students
  • 👍 Good for on-the-go studying
  • 👍 Access to audio lectures

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App frequently doesn't work
  • 🐛 Videos freeze or don't load
  • 🐛 Content not registering as watched
  • 🐛 Rewind/fast forward limited
  • 🐛 Pausing resets lectures

ASCCP Management Guidelines

From 8.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Helpful for patient care
  • 🚀 Useful for clinicians
  • 🚀 Great app for women's health
  • 👍 Chock full of information

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitchy after updates
  • 👎 Not user-friendly
  • 👎 Confusing to navigate
  • 👎 Worse than previous version
  • 👎 Difficult to use

Bugs and requests

APEA

Reported bugs

66 issues
  • App never works
  • Videos freeze
  • Videos don't register as watched
  • Pausing lectures resets them
  • Fast forward/rewind only in 10-second intervals
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  • Women's health loaded in men's health
  • Lectures reset to 0 when paused
  • Black screen with timer running
  • Questions are glitchy and freeze
  • Need to log out and back in frequently
  • App opens website in external browser
  • Videos never load
  • App kicks users out
  • Constantly reloading screens
  • Switching back and forth from devices
  • Three bars on top right do not work
  • App OpenSSL and shows recent activity
  • App just flat out doesn't work
  • Blank page when opening app
  • Menu button does nothing
  • Deleting and re-downloading app doesn't fix issues
  • Audio won't play with a locked screen
  • "X" button to exit recording not tappable in portrait mode
  • App doesn't allow rewinding
  • Forces watching videos in order
  • Lectures automatically stop
  • Lecture times are inaccurate
  • App registers completed activities incorrectly
  • Only one login at a time
  • App stopped working, cannot access files or question bank
  • App freezes around 30th question
  • Quizzes freeze
  • Cannot choose certain types of quizzes
  • Cannot log in
  • Wheel of death appears when moving to next question
  • Qbanks freeze
  • App crashes
  • Terrible update
  • Takes forever to load
  • Cannot do more than five questions at a time
  • Audio course loads slowly
  • App doesn't load, says "downloading content"
  • Kicks out when reviewing for certificate
  • Shows unviewed segments despite completion
  • App doesn't log on
  • Continually kicks out when trying to log in
  • Cannot order reviews due to app issues
  • Lectures failed to load
  • Unable to rewind without restarting lecture
  • Constantly having to re-sign in
  • Cannot resume saved exams from the app
  • Cannot stay logged into the app
  • Need to log back in to pick another test
  • App doesn't work with latest Apple update
  • Cannot even login
  • App says sync in progress, try again later
  • App is down often
  • App automatically closes when clicking CE Center
  • Login failed, incorrect format
  • Cannot log in to practice on the go
  • Invalid login message
  • Has to log in every time after recent update
  • Syncing Qbank takes a long time
  • Delay in rationale for an answer
  • App never leaves the sign-in screen
  • App says it's downloading content but never leaves sign-in screen

Requested features

12 requests
  • Allow resuming saved exams from the app
  • Allow staying logged into the app
  • Add more question sets
  • Improve UI formatting for iPhones
  • Fix UI elements that are not tappable
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  • Allow users to choose which videos to watch
  • Provide a script for lectures for better quality control
  • Fix horizontal video playback issues
  • Fix the "quit" button functionality
  • Allow users to select quiz settings once
  • Allow multiple logins on different devices simultaneously
  • Fix the issue where users have to log in every time

ASCCP Management Guidelines

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes after entering data
  • Missing options for certain clinical scenarios
  • Inconsistent recommendations compared to previous version

Requested features

4 requests
  • Better search functionality
  • Streamlined workflow
  • Improved algorithm visualization
  • Automatic updates for previous app users

In-app purchases

3 purchases

APEA

One-time3
  • MyQBank 20 Questions$0.99
  • Clinical Brief$7.99
  • CareOnPoint$14.99
None

ASCCP Management Guidelines

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is APEA free?
APEA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ASCCP Management Guidelines free?
ASCCP Management Guidelines costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, APEA or ASCCP Management Guidelines?
ASCCP Management Guidelines is rated higher. APEA averages 2.3 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while ASCCP Management Guidelines averages 4.8 from 8.6K ratings.
Do APEA or ASCCP Management Guidelines have ads?
Neither APEA nor ASCCP Management Guidelines shows ads.
Which is updated more often, APEA or ASCCP Management Guidelines?
APEA ships an update every 3 weeks, and ASCCP Management Guidelines every 3 months. Most recently, APEA was updated on September 17, 2026 and ASCCP Management Guidelines on September 22, 2026.

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