ViewMedica vs Surface Eye
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.
Surface Eye
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This application together with bionovacloud.com traceability system, Pro1 Micro and MiniPro high sensitivity system for quantification of surface proteins, helps central sterile services departments to estimate the surface area on a surgical instrument for hygiene control within the framework of the ISO 15883-5: 2021 standard.
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Verdict
ViewMedica and Surface Eye are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 ships an update every 7 months, Surface Eye every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ViewMedica | Surface Eye |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swarm Interactive, Inc. | Terragene |
In-app purchases
ViewMedica
No in-app purchases
Surface Eye
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ViewMedica free?
Is Surface Eye free?
Do ViewMedica or Surface Eye have ads?
Which is updated more often, ViewMedica or Surface Eye?
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