Comparison

PubMed Hub vs MDPhD

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

Head to head
About

PubMed Hub

Quickly search and access biomedical research papers. Spot retracted articles, save research, and read abstracts with confidence. Offers features like text-to-speech and PDF saving for a comprehensive research experience.

Highlights
  • Fast PubMed searching
  • Spot retracted papers
  • Structured abstracts
  • Save and cite papers
  • PDF library
  • Listen to abstracts and PDFs
  • Access open-access books
Features
Read full description

PubMed Hub makes biomedical research fast to find, easy to read and simple to keep. Search PubMed in seconds, spot retracted papers before you cite them, and keep your library in sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac. SEARCH IN SECONDS • Search by topic, title, author or PMID, or just say it • Sort by best match or newest • Filter to systematic reviews, clinical trials, free full text or recent years • Your recent searches, one tap away READ WITH CONFIDENCE • Clear, structured abstracts with citation counts • Retracted papers flagged and struck through in your results • Similar articles and Cited by, to follow the evidence • Open the full article, and save the PDF when one is free CITE AND KEEP • Cite in Vancouver, AMA, BibTeX or RIS • Save papers to My Articles and Favorites, synced with your account • PDF Box keeps your PDFs on your device and in sync • Sign in with Apple, Continue with Google, or use your email MORE TO EXPLORE • 500+ open-access medical books, with the license on each • Research News from 44 journal and news feeds • Scientific Jokes for a break between papers BEAUTIFUL ON iPAD • Results and the paper side by side • Full width reading when you want the whole screen • Large, comfortable text throughout PUBMED HUB PRO An optional subscription for more: • No ads on iPhone and iPad • Listen: abstracts, PDFs and books read aloud in your device's voice, and it keeps reading with the screen off • Two more looks: Evidence Desk and Omelette Night Pro is charged to your Apple Account and renews automatically until you cancel in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.omeletteinc.com/pubmedhub-privacy.html

About

MDPhD

This app summarizes clinical abstracts from PubMed, providing key evidence-based medicine insights. It helps health professionals make smarter decisions and improve patient care faster through data visualizations and personalized feeds. Unlock collaborative features for institutions to integrate EBM into workflows.

Highlights
  • Clinical abstract summarization
  • Evidence-based medicine insights
  • Data visualizations
  • Personalized journal feed
  • Semantic search engine
  • Team collaboration features
Features
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MDPhD automatically summarizes and organizes clinical abstracts from PubMed (a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine) days after publication. With MDPhD in your hands you do less reading, make smarter decisions and give better patient care, faster. Each of our summaries contain key evidence based medicine insights. Our data visualizations help you see the big picture and connect the dots. We are constantly improving our algorithms to make MDPhD the fastest way to consume evidence based medicine. MDPhD keeps health professionals current like never before. Our features help you rapidly translate research from the benchside to the bedside! 'MDPhD' For Individuals * Best Evidence daily * Semantic Search Engine * Personalized Journal Feed * Visualize your search results with graphs * Share Best Evidence with colleagues * EBM video tutorials 'MDPhD Teams' For Instituions: Available for Health Institutions like clinics, hospitals, medical schools and academic centres. Please ask your medical librarian or institutional admin to give your institution access. Sign up at https://www.mdphd.ca or email us at info@mifisi.com for more information. Unlock all the collaborative features of MDPhD for all your health staff and sign up for MDPhD Teams today! * Empower your health staff to become agents of change * Transform your institution into a data driven ecosystem * Integrate EBM into your clinical workflows * Deliver high quality healthcare * Deliver high value healthcare * Less reading, smarter decisions * Team Collaboration * More Data * More Insights * More Analytics * Institutional access Please visit our website https://mdphd.ca to review our introductory video tutorials and blogs on general app workflow. Our organization, MIFISI Inc., is a healthcare data science company operating out of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Our Mission: * Unlocking the scientist in every health professional. * Turning healthcare organizations into data driven ecosystems. * Helping patients with high value, high quality healthcare.

Screenshots

PubMed Hub4 screens
MDPhD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MDPhD at 5.0 against PubMed Hub's 4.6. MDPhD also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 38%) and iOS requirement (14.1 vs 17.0). PubMed Hub's advantage is ratings volume (342 vs 1) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). 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. PubMed Hub sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year and MDPhD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MDPhD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PubMed Hub has 342 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of PubMed Hub's written reviews are positive against 50% of MDPhD's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PubMed Hub ships an update every 8 days, MDPhD every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PubMed Hub versus MDPhD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPubMed HubMDPhD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (342 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings342 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.014.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB15 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOmelette, IncMIFISI Inc.

Customer experience

PubMed Hub

All ratings342 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative56.3%

MDPhD

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

PubMed Hub

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • App periodically crashes when tapping on an article
  • JSON doesn't download
  • Registration bug: password pop-up
  • No access to articles/Error messages: JSON could not be serialized
  • Search not authorized
Show 9 more
  • Cannot save articles
  • Swiping is too sensitive
  • Slow and buffers for a long time
  • Zero access to saved articles and search history after update
  • Cannot log in on iPad: screen does not respond
  • Cannot figure out the date of publication for any abstract
  • Doesn’t even stay open. Crashes often.
  • Keeps on crashing
  • Cannot access the pdf through the full text links? Nothing happens when I click on them?

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to access PDF full text
  • Fix traffic from amazon.com and google.com

MDPhD

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

PubMed Hub

Subscriptions7
  • Remove Ads for One Year$2.991 Year
  • 7.99 per Month$2.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • 16.49 for 3 Months$7.993 Months
  • 6 Months Subscription$12.996 Months
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
2 purchases

MDPhD

Subscriptions2
  • App access$9.991 Month
  • Full App Access$99.991 Year

Questions

Is PubMed Hub free?
PubMed Hub is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MDPhD free?
MDPhD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PubMed Hub or MDPhD?
MDPhD is rated higher. PubMed Hub averages 4.6 out of 5 from 342 ratings, while MDPhD averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PubMed Hub or MDPhD have ads?
Neither PubMed Hub nor MDPhD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PubMed Hub or MDPhD?
PubMed Hub ships an update every 8 days, and MDPhD every 3 weeks. Most recently, PubMed Hub was updated on November 11, 2026 and MDPhD on November 6, 2026.

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