Comparison

COMQUEST COMLEX vs PHM Events

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

Head to head
About

COMQUEST COMLEX

Prepare for COMLEX and COMAT exams with practice questions and detailed explanations created by osteopathic physicians. Features include customizable exam modes, question filtering by status or specialty, and performance tracking against peers. Review past exams, add notes, and monitor answer changes to solidify your knowledge.

Highlights
  • Customizable exam modes (tutor, timed, untimed)
  • Question filtering by status and specialty
  • Performance review against peers
  • Note-taking on questions and explanations
  • Answer change tracking (ChoiceTrax)
  • Review of marked and guessed questions
Features
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COMLEX and COMAT assessments designed specifically by osteopathic physicians! Access questions with detailed explanations to assess and exhibit your knowledge of the COMLEX Level 1, COMLEX Level 2-CE, COMLEX Level 3, or any of the core COMATs. Here is what the app has: Exam mode: choose from tutor, timed, and untimed modes Question mode: choose from incorrect, correct, marked, used, or all questions Specialties and Tasks categories: narrow down your exam further by individual specialties and tasks in each shelf exam Review exams: review previous exams to see how you did compared to your peers in score and time (for individual questions and the entire exam). Marked questions: see how you’re doing on marked questions and review the questions to unmark them Notes: you can take notes on individual questions and explanations and refer back to them anytime Guessed score: mark questions as “guessed” to see if your guessed score ChoiceTrax: all of your changes are tracked so that you can see how often you’re changing the right answer to wrong, and vice versa Comments: submit comments to our staff to review and reply back to you *Must have a previous internal account to use app*

About

PHM Events

Navigate educational activities and access conference offerings for pediatric hospitalists. Customize your schedule, find exhibit booths, and connect with other attendees via social media.

Highlights
  • Conference schedule customization
  • Exhibit booth locator
  • Attendee networking
  • Social media integration
  • Access to educational activities
Features
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The PHM Conference app helps you navigate through PHM’s educational activities and provides comprehensive, direct access to conference offerings that are available to you. The Pediatric Hospital Medicine conference is the premier educational conference for pediatric hospitalists and other professionals involved in the care of hospitalized children. The largest meeting of the year for hospitalists, the conference is co-sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the AAP Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM), the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). Customize your conference schedule, locate the exhibit booths you want to visit and more. Get interactive with social media or locate and message other conference attendees.

Screenshots

COMQUEST COMLEX4 screens
PHM Events3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PHM Events at 4.6 against COMQUEST COMLEX's 4.0. PHM Events also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 17) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). COMQUEST COMLEX's advantage is ratings volume (142 vs 30). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. COMQUEST COMLEX sells 17 one-off in-app purchases. PHM Events asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PHM Events holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 142 and 30 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

COMQUEST COMLEX ships an update every 2 months, PHM Events monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
COMQUEST COMLEX versus PHM Events: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCOMQUEST COMLEXPHM Events
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (142 ratings)4.6 (30 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings142 — better30
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB100 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperCOMQUEST Osteopathic Specialists, LLCSociety of Hospital Medicine

Customer experience

COMQUEST COMLEX

All ratings142 ratings
Positive73.2%
Neutral7.0%
Negative19.7%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral13.9%
Negative44.4%

PHM Events

All ratings30 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral3.3%
Negative3.3%

Bugs and requests

COMQUEST COMLEX

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Pausing/suspending exam messes up final score
  • Highlighting is variable, won't clear, or adds space
  • App lets users click and type over explanations
  • Exhibit covers question vignette
  • Cuts off half of the question stem
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  • Server crashes
  • App hardly opens, crashes, and doesn't load images
  • ExamGuru error 403

Requested features

10 requests
  • iPad version with landscape support
  • Strike through and highlight option
  • Ability to enlarge vitals box
  • Fix highlighting issues
  • Fix issues with typing over explanations
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  • Fix pausing/suspending exam bug
  • Improve readability of tables and exhibits on mobile
  • Improve graphics and interface
  • Add CDM case prompts
  • Update app to modern standards

PHM Events

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

17 purchases

COMQUEST COMLEX

One-time17
  • Emergency Med COMAT 1 month$87.90
  • Family Medicine COMAT 1 month$87.90
  • Internal Med COMAT 1 month$87.90
Show 14 more
  • OMM COMAT 1 month$87.90
  • Pediatrics COMAT 1 month$87.90
  • Surgery COMAT 1 month$87.90
  • Ob/Gyn COMAT 1 month$87.90
  • Psychiatry COMAT 1 month$87.90
  • Internal Med COMAT 2 months$113.99
  • Family Medicine COMAT 2 months$113.99
  • COMLEX Level 2-CE 1 month$234.99
  • COMLEX 3 Level 1 month$234.99
  • COMLEX 3 Level 2 months$350.00
  • COMLEX Level 2-CE 3 months$429.00
  • COMLEX 3 Level 3 months$429.00
  • COMLEX 3 Level 6 months$509.00
  • COMLEX 3 Level 1 year$639.00
None

PHM Events

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is COMQUEST COMLEX free?
COMQUEST COMLEX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PHM Events free?
PHM Events is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, COMQUEST COMLEX or PHM Events?
PHM Events is rated higher. COMQUEST COMLEX averages 4.0 out of 5 from 142 ratings, while PHM Events averages 4.6 from 30 ratings.
Do COMQUEST COMLEX or PHM Events have ads?
Neither COMQUEST COMLEX nor PHM Events shows ads.
Which is updated more often, COMQUEST COMLEX or PHM Events?
COMQUEST COMLEX ships an update every 2 months, and PHM Events monthly. Most recently, COMQUEST COMLEX was updated on October 1, 2026 and PHM Events on October 7, 2026.

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