IDSA (Journals) vs Kaizen Education
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IDSA (Journals)
Access leading infectious diseases journals offline on your iOS device. Download issues, bookmark articles, and add personal notes. Features include in-app search and PDF viewing.
- Offline journal access
- Downloadable issues and PDFs
- In-app search
- Bookmark articles
- Add personal notes
- Share articles
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About the app The IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America) Journals app from Oxford University Press enables you to read the leading journals Clinical Infectious Diseases, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Open Forum Infectious Diseases both online and offline on your iOS device (provided you have a relevant personal subscription, institutional subscription, or society membership). You can: • download issues when you’re online, so that you can read them whether you’re connected to the Internet or not • view the tables of contents for issues when you’re online, whether you have downloaded them yet or not • easily read issues from cover to cover by swiping through articles • download and read advance articles (published ahead of print) • download and read the PDF version of an article • use the in-app search feature • bookmark your favorite articles • add your own notes to articles • share articles by email or on social media About the journals Clinical Infectious Diseases publishes for practitioners and researchers. Topics include clinical descriptions and prevention of infections, public health, the evaluation of current and novel treatments, and the promotion of optimal practices for diagnosis and treatment. The Journal of Infectious Diseases publishes research results on microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and related disciplines; on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases; on the microbes that cause them; and on disorders of host immune responses. Open Forum Infectious Diseases publishes clinical, translational, and basic research in a fully open access, online journal. It focuses on the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice, with an emphasis on knowledge that could improve patient care globally. The journals are published on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) by Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.
Kaizen Education
This educational platform uses a competitive quiz game format to enhance learning and knowledge retention. It helps users meet training requirements, reinforce competencies, and prepare for exams in various fields.
- Competitive learning format
- Online quiz game
- Enhances knowledge retention
- Meets NIH training requirements
- Reinforces good clinical practice
- Prepares for board exams
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The Kaizen training platform, developed by CCTS Informatics, is based on the philosophy of continual improvement and is designed to enhance education through a competitive learning format. Developed as an innovative online quiz game, the aim is to provide a fun and flexible way to learn new competencies. As part of the popular gamification trend, the desired result is for students to learn and retain more information. The innovative platform is helping investigators: • Meet NIH requirements of formal training in Rigor, Reproducibility and Transparency (R2T). • Reinforce competencies in good clinical practice (GCP). • Retain knowledge in the use of clinical and translational research tools. • Prepare for clinical board exams. • Strengthen or learn new competencies in the UAB Nursing program.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Kaizen Education at none against IDSA (Journals)'s shown. Kaizen Education also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 0%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for IDSA (Journals) against 3.1 for Kaizen Education. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of IDSA (Journals)'s written reviews are positive against 33% of Kaizen Education's.
IDSA (Journals) ships an update every 4 months, Kaizen Education every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IDSA (Journals) | Kaizen Education |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.1 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Oxford University Press | UAB |
Customer experience
IDSA (Journals)
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In-app purchases
IDSA (Journals)
No in-app purchases
Kaizen Education
No in-app purchases
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