COMQUEST COMLEX vs PHM Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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*
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.
- Conference schedule customization
- Exhibit booth locator
- Attendee networking
- Social media integration
- Access to educational activities
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. COMQUEST COMLEX sells 17 one-off in-app purchases. PHM Events asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | COMQUEST COMLEX | PHM Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (142 ratings) | 4.6 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | COMQUEST Osteopathic Specialists, LLC | Society of Hospital Medicine |
Customer experience
COMQUEST COMLEX
PHM Events
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
COMQUEST COMLEX
- Emergency Med COMAT 1 month$87.90
- Family Medicine COMAT 1 month$87.90
- Internal Med COMAT 1 month$87.90
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- 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
PHM Events
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is COMQUEST COMLEX free?
Is PHM Events free?
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Do COMQUEST COMLEX or PHM Events have ads?
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