Comparison

COMQUEST COMLEX vs Gas Academy

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

Gas Academy

This app offers a comprehensive platform for anesthesia education, featuring lectures, study guides, practice questions, and flashcards. It is designed to help residents and medical students prepare for rotations and build foundational knowledge in a connected, topic-based learning environment.

Highlights
  • Topic-based learning modules
  • Flexible practice question modes
  • Detailed answer explanations
  • Flashcards and smart review
  • Full-screen study guides
  • Cross-device progress syncing
Features
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Gas Academy brings anesthesia lectures, study guides, practice questions, and flashcards together in one place. Built for residents and medical students, it connects what you learn with how you practice and review. Prepare for your anesthesia rotation, build your CA-1 foundations, or revisit a topic between cases. Each module keeps the lecture and its study materials together, so you can spend less time switching resources and more time understanding the material. AVAILABLE COURSES CA-1 Foundation Series Build the knowledge you need for your first months in the operating room. Study airway management, monitoring, pharmacology, emergence, and perioperative care through lessons and practice designed for anesthesia residents. Medical Student Bootcamp Get familiar with anesthesia before your first day in the OR. Review the fundamentals and develop a clearer understanding of what you will see during your rotation. A CONNECTED WAY TO STUDY Topic-based modules Watch a lecture, read its study guide, and work through the related questions and flashcards. Keep track of your progress as you move through each course. Flexible question practice Build practice sessions around the topics you need. Use Tutor Mode for feedback after each question or Exam Mode to review your results at the end. Focus on a lecture, revisit missed questions, or work through questions you have not seen. Detailed explanations Understand why an answer is correct and why the alternatives are less appropriate. Explanations connect clinical reasoning with the distinctions that matter in anesthesia practice and exams. Flashcards and Smart Review Reinforce what you have learned with focused flashcards. Missed questions add relevant cards to your review, helping you return to concepts that need more attention. Full-screen study guides Review high-yield notes, tables, and algorithms alongside your lectures or on their own. MADE FOR iPHONE AND iPAD Study on your phone or use the additional space on iPad. Split View lets you keep a lecture beside its study guide and adjust the divider to suit your workspace. Your Gas Academy account keeps your learning progress connected across the app and website. COURSE ACCESS Create an account to get started. Some courses require a paid plan. Available plans, prices, and access periods are displayed before purchase. Monthly subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Three-month plans provide fixed-term access and do not renew automatically. Manage Apple subscriptions through your App Store account settings. EDUCATIONAL USE Gas Academy is an educational resource for residents and medical students. It does not provide medical advice or patient-specific clinical guidance and does not replace clinical judgment, supervision, or institutional policies. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gasacademy.com/privacy

Screenshots

COMQUEST COMLEX4 screens
Gas Academy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gas Academy at 100% against COMQUEST COMLEX's 42%. Gas Academy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). COMQUEST COMLEX's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (142 vs 4). On price, ads, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Gas Academy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $49.00 per month. COMQUEST COMLEX asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gas Academy 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 4, 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 Gas Academy's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
COMQUEST COMLEX versus Gas Academy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCOMQUEST COMLEXGas Academy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (142 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings142 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB36 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperCOMQUEST Osteopathic Specialists, LLCGas Academy LLC

Customer experience

COMQUEST COMLEX

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

Gas Academy

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 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
Show 5 more
  • 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

Gas Academy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

COMQUEST COMLEX

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Gas Academy

Subscriptions1
  • CA-1 Foundation — Monthly1 Month trial$49.001 Month
One-time1
  • CA-1 Foundation — 3 Months$99.00

Questions

Is COMQUEST COMLEX free?
COMQUEST COMLEX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gas Academy free?
Gas Academy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, COMQUEST COMLEX or Gas Academy?
Gas Academy is rated higher. COMQUEST COMLEX averages 4.0 out of 5 from 142 ratings, while Gas Academy averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do COMQUEST COMLEX or Gas Academy have ads?
Neither COMQUEST COMLEX nor Gas Academy shows ads.

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