Comparison

COMQUEST COMLEX vs Debrief.

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

Debrief.

This app helps medical students and residents retain knowledge gained from patient encounters. It converts voice recordings or notes into structured learning entries and uses spaced repetition flashcards to reinforce clinical pearls and growth moments.

Highlights
  • Voice recording for debriefs
  • Automatic entry structuring
  • Spaced repetition flashcards
  • Searchable library of cases
  • Offline recording capability
  • Tracking personal growth
Features
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Capture medicine in your own voice. You don't forget the patient. You forget what you learned from the patient. You finish a long shift able to name three patients on the walk to your car, and by morning they've blurred into a single feeling of fullness, mostly gone. Debrief is built to keep what the day taught you. Talk the way you'd tell a friend who was there. No structure, no script. Debrief turns a few minutes of talking into a structured entry: a summary, the cases you saw, the clinical pearls worth keeping, your growth moments, and the things you said you'd look up. It's the write-up you'd have done with two more hours. Then it helps you hold onto it. The pearls you mentioned in passing come back as flashcards, on the same spaced-repetition algorithm behind Anki. You quiz yourself on the medicine you saw on shift, not the medicine in a textbook, and the cards you miss come back sooner. HOW IT WORKS 1. Talk. Whether it's 30 seconds or 30 minutes, record a voice debrief whenever your day winds down. Some rooms aren't for voice memos, so you can also jot it down in the built-in scratchpad. 2. Review. Get an organized entry: cases, clinical pearls, growth moments, and follow-ups to chase. Every entry files itself under the right rotation on its own. 3. Remember. Lessons return as flashcards on a spaced schedule tuned to how well you knew them, timed to bring them back right before you'd forget. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Build a searchable library of every patient you've seen, by rotation. Find the case from three weeks ago by the way you described it then, not the way you'd describe it now. • Get answers backed by sources. Every "I should look that up" becomes a real answer, drawn from clinical references and saved next to the case that raised it. • Close the loop. Tick a follow-up off your list and it comes back as a quiz card, so looking something up once means keeping it. • See your own growth across rotations, in your own words. • Record offline in the stairwell or the basement. Debrief uploads the moment you're back online. WHO IT'S FOR Medical students and residents who learn the most from real patients and want a way to keep it. A question bank hands you fresh vignettes by the hundred. Your own service handed you a few real ones today, with a tone of voice and a family in the room. Debrief makes those patients teach you twice: once at the bedside, and again weeks later when it counts. PRIVACY Debrief keeps what they taught you, not who they were. It's built to keep patient identifiers out of your notes, working to strip names, dates, and record numbers, and asking you to leave them out when you talk. It isn't a medical record, and it isn't medical advice. It's a place to think out loud about your training and hold onto what the work is teaching you. Debrief is free while we're getting started. Debrief your shift, and turn the day you just lived through into something you can learn from.

Screenshots

COMQUEST COMLEX4 screens
Debrief.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Debrief. at 100% against COMQUEST COMLEX's 42%. Debrief. also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 17). COMQUEST COMLEX's advantage is ratings volume (142 vs 5). 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. Debrief. asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Debrief. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: COMQUEST COMLEX has 142 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of COMQUEST COMLEX's written reviews are positive against 100% of Debrief.'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

COMQUEST COMLEX ships an update every 2 months, Debrief. every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
COMQUEST COMLEX versus Debrief.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCOMQUEST COMLEXDebrief.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (142 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings142 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB45 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperCOMQUEST Osteopathic Specialists, LLCArvind Rajan

Customer experience

COMQUEST COMLEX

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

Debrief.

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Debrief.

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

Debrief.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is COMQUEST COMLEX free?
COMQUEST COMLEX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Debrief. free?
Debrief. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, COMQUEST COMLEX or Debrief.?
Debrief. is rated higher. COMQUEST COMLEX averages 4.0 out of 5 from 142 ratings, while Debrief. averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do COMQUEST COMLEX or Debrief. have ads?
Neither COMQUEST COMLEX nor Debrief. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, COMQUEST COMLEX or Debrief.?
COMQUEST COMLEX ships an update every 2 months, and Debrief. every 3 days. Most recently, COMQUEST COMLEX was updated on October 1, 2026 and Debrief. on September 28, 2026.

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