ViewMedica vs Recupe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ViewMedica
Access a library of award-winning patient education videos to explain complex medical information. Healthcare professionals can use these visual aids to enhance patient understanding of conditions and procedures. The app allows for annotation and saving of video frames.
- Access patient education videos
- Print related brochures
- Draw on video frames
- Save annotated images
- Favorite frequently used videos
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The ViewMedica On-Demand app gives subscribers of ViewMedica On-Demand videos a convenient way to use our award-winning patient education content. Our industry-leading, highly-visual videos help physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals explain complex medical information in a patient-friendly way. PATIENT EDUCATION VIDEOS • Hospitals and Practices that subscribe to ViewMedica On-Demand for their patient education videos can view all of their content in this app. • Print the patient education brochures that relate to your licensed videos. • Use Markup Mode to draw on any frame of your videos. Then save those images to your screenshots library. • Add your most-used videos or presentations to your Favorites menu for easy access. ABOUT SWARM INTERACTIVE AND VIEWMEDICA The maker of ViewMedica, Swarm Interactive, Inc., has been producing award-winning medical animations since 1998. Visit the ViewMedica website to learn more about the ViewMedica patient education system, and see how ViewMedica can enhance your patient education efforts. A ViewMedica video subscription gives you access to thousands of patient education videos. These industry-leading, highly-visual videos have been used by physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals for more than 20 years. Videos cover all the major medical specialties describing the conditions and procedures that you care most about.
Recupe
This app helps patients adhere to their care plans for medical episodes, like surgery. It tracks activity, symptoms, and medications during preparation and recovery, integrating with health data. The information is shared with care teams for timely interventions.
- Follow care plans
- Track activity and symptoms
- Monitor medication intake
- Integrates with Health app
- Share data with care team
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Recupe app is intended to help patients follow the care plan provided by their care provider during an episode of care, such as a surgical episode. Recupe records data from a person's activity, symptoms, and the medications they take during their preparation for and recovery after an acute medical condition. Recupe integrates with the Health app and monitor steps data. The data is visible to their care team for suitable action.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Recupe at every 3 weeks against ViewMedica's every 7 months. Recupe also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ViewMedica holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recupe has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ViewMedica ships an update every 7 months, Recupe every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ViewMedica | Recupe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Swarm Interactive, Inc. | Plethy |
Customer experience
ViewMedica
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In-app purchases
ViewMedica
No in-app purchases
Recupe
No in-app purchases
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