Comparison

Drug Structures vs Access

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

Head to head
About

Drug Structures

This game helps pharmacy and healthcare students practice identifying drug structures. It offers a focused learning experience for medical professionals in training.

Highlights
  • Identify drug structures
  • Practice for healthcare students
  • Targeted medical education
  • Free to play
Features
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Drug Structures is a game designed to provide pharmacy students and other health care professional students practice identifying drug structures.

About

Access

Access medical learning resources like videos, podcasts, and textbooks on the go. Search for specific topics, save content to collections, and personalize your dashboard. Offline viewing and specialty-specific content are available for subscribed institutional users.

Highlights
  • Search diverse medical resources
  • Save and organize content
  • Refine by content type
  • Offline viewing
  • Personalized dashboard
  • Specialty-specific content
Features
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Learn when you want, where you want, and how you want. Access is your personal medical resource that makes studying easier and more efficient. Search across a number of medical resources such as videos, podcasts, images, infographics, and textbooks, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine or Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, so that you can learn in a way that suits your style and time constraints. • Find and save resources - search anything from symptoms to procedures and then favorite, or save to a collection. • Refine by content type - get the type of content you want to suit your learning style or time constraints. • Search within content - find the fine details you need. • View figures and tables - view content in its entirety, or just the images and tables. • View content offline - whether it’s a case of bad wifi, or you are traveling, you can always take your content with you. • Curate new collections - save content into your own personal reference library, so you always know where your favorite resources are. • Personal dashboard - create and personalize your own dashboard, allowing you to tailor the Access experience to your needs. • Caters to your specialty - This app has content from the full Access suite of sites, which cater to the following specialties; general medicine, anesthesiology, biomedical science, cardiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, hematology medicine, neurology, advanced practice nursing, ObGyn, pediatrics, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and surgery. This app's content is only fully accessible to users that are linked to an institution that subscribes to a McGraw Hill Access product. All users are offered seven days to link their profile to their subscribing institution.

Screenshots

Drug Structures3 screens
Access4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Drug Structures at 4.7 against Access's 4.2. Drug Structures also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26). Access's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (134 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drug Structures holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Access has 134 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drug Structures ships an update every 14 months, Access monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Drug Structures versus Access: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrug StructuresAccess
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.2 (134 ratings)
Positive reviews—8.3% of reviews
Number of ratings3134 — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB59 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperDavid BourneMcGraw-Hill

Customer experience

Drug Structures

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Access

All ratings132 ratings
Positive80.3%
Neutral3.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive8.3%
Neutral13.9%
Negative77.8%

Bugs and requests

Drug Structures

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Access

Reported bugs

32 issues
  • Infinite login loop
  • App won't log in
  • App broken or glitched
  • Unable to access content
  • Appendix and introduction absent
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  • Cannot search all chapters at once
  • Cannot access last sections of chapters
  • Text-to-speech mispronounces words
  • Text-to-speech requires app to be open
  • Does not remember last read position
  • Search function unusable
  • Accounts do not sync properly
  • Books, collections, and favorites not added appropriately
  • Crashes and logs out
  • Hard to navigate within textbook
  • Flash cards won't load
  • Cannot open books
  • Search bar shows technical difficulties
  • Cannot log in after password reset
  • App crashes when highlighting content
  • Copying text crashes the app
  • Lost highlight data after update
  • Lost keyword search ability after update
  • Favorites are erased
  • Books show error message of item not available
  • Search function won't find books
  • Favorites don't sync from desktop
  • Top bar heading obstructs reading
  • Book does not appear in the whole screen
  • Cannot find books by author or ISBN
  • No robotic audio option
  • Username difficult to find

Requested features

10 requests
  • Option to search all chapters at once
  • Improve text-to-speech functionality
  • Allow text-to-speech to continue when app is in background
  • Remember last read position
  • Sync favorites across devices
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  • iPad optimization
  • Browse all books by subscribed module
  • Toggle option for top bar heading
  • Full screen book display
  • Implement robotic audio option

In-app purchases

None

Drug Structures

No in-app purchases

None

Access

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drug Structures free?
Drug Structures is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Access free?
Access is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drug Structures or Access?
Drug Structures is rated higher. Drug Structures averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Access averages 4.2 from 134 ratings.
Do Drug Structures or Access have ads?
Neither Drug Structures nor Access shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drug Structures or Access?
Drug Structures ships an update every 14 months, and Access monthly. Most recently, Drug Structures was updated on October 20, 2026 and Access on October 27, 2026.

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