Comparison

ViewMedica vs Sterylab

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Access patient education videos
  • Print related brochures
  • Draw on video frames
  • Save annotated images
  • Favorite frequently used videos
Features
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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.

About

Sterylab

Features
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STERYLAB has devoted its efforts to the production of medical needles and devices for over 40 years, keeping its development in step with the constant progress in medicine and the latest advances in technology. Due to the precision workmanship of specialized workers and the great care taken in the choice of raw materials, the firm enjoys the confidence of the medical profession throughout the world. One of the main strenghts of Sterylab is its ability to rapidly adapt to customer requirements relating to the quality and the variety of the products offered. Assembling takes place in our internal clean room, class 10,000 (FED.STD.209E), one of the biggest in Europe for our category of products. All processes are performed in our 3000 sq.mts.modern facility at RHO (Milan) in compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 international standards and all products and components pass through rigorous quality control at each step of the path inside Sterylab, from materials acceptance upto customer delivery.

Screenshots

ViewMedica3 screens
Sterylab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sterylab at every 2 months against ViewMedica's every 7 months. Sterylab also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ViewMedica ships an update every 7 months, Sterylab every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
ViewMedica versus Sterylab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterViewMedicaSterylab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.111.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB43 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperSwarm Interactive, Inc.More Dots

In-app purchases

None

ViewMedica

No in-app purchases

None

Sterylab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ViewMedica free?
ViewMedica is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sterylab free?
Sterylab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ViewMedica or Sterylab have ads?
Neither ViewMedica nor Sterylab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ViewMedica or Sterylab?
ViewMedica ships an update every 7 months, and Sterylab every 2 months. Most recently, ViewMedica was updated on November 2, 2026 and Sterylab on October 26, 2026.

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