MDPhD vs Research Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Clinical abstract summarization
- Evidence-based medicine insights
- Data visualizations
- Personalized journal feed
- Semantic search engine
- Team collaboration 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.
Research Notes
Access RSS feeds from hundreds of scientific journals across various subject categories. Download PDFs and utilize a text-to-speech feature for articles. Organize your favorite journals and discover new ones.
- Hundreds of journal RSS feeds
- Subject category filtering
- PDF download functionality
- Text-to-speech for articles
- Favorite journals section
- New journal additions
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Research Notes app provides hundreds of journals RSS Feeds in single app Major Features -World renowned Publishers and their science journals RSS Feeds -Nature, Science, Cell, Trends, PLOS, BioRxiv and Oxford journals -Journals based on the their subject categories -Biology, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Oncology, Plant Biology, Virology/Pathology and Surgery -Blood and Journal of Biological Chemistry -Connect us and Social pages -PDF Box for PDF files to download -Hundreds of new journals added -In-App purchases -Add journals to favorite section -Other apps from us Note: If you want add any other journal to App, email us ===================== Subscription Benefits ===================== -PDF to Audio subscription is for people who need them scientific articles to download in PDF Box and which can be read as text to speech -You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. • Auto-renewable subscription • 6 months ($7.99) • 12 months ($11.99) • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase Terms of use and Privacy policy: http://omeletteinc.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MDPhD at 5.0 against Research Notes's 4.0. MDPhD also leads on ads (none vs shown). Research Notes's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 50%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. MDPhD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Research Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.49 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MDPhD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of MDPhD's written reviews are positive against 71% of Research Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MDPhD ships an update every 3 weeks, Research Notes weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MDPhD | Research Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MIFISI Inc. | Omelette, Inc |
Customer experience
MDPhD
Research Notes
In-app purchases
MDPhD
- App access$9.991 Month
- Full App Access$99.991 Year
Research Notes
- PDF to Audio for 6 months$7.496 Months
- PDF to Audio for 12 Months$11.991 Year
- Research Notes$4.99








