Comparison

MDPhD vs Evidence Based Medicine Guide

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

Head to head
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.

About

Evidence Based Medicine Guide

Access over 1,000 medical guidelines and evidence summaries for primary and ambulatory care. Quickly find information at the point of care with a user-friendly format, including videos, images, and audio samples. This continuously updated resource brings the latest clinical medicine developments into practice.

Highlights
  • Over 1,000 medical guidelines
  • 4,000+ quality-graded evidence summaries
  • Strength of evidence grading (A-D)
  • Videos of clinical examinations and procedures
  • Library of 1,400+ medical photographs and images
  • Audio samples for medical conditions
  • Medical calculation tools
Features
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The app includes sample content - In-App purchase required to unlock full content. Over 1000 problem-orientated or disease-specific guidelines including reference to evidence summaries for all guidelines, this title is the most extensive collection of guidelines. Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines (EBMG) is an easy-to-use collection of clinical guidelines for primary and ambulatory care linked to the best available evidence. Continuously updated, EBMG follows the latest developments in clinical medicine and brings evidence into practice. EBMG is designed to provide you with the information you need quickly (seconds, not minutes) and using a single search term. Designed for use at the point of care, the guidelines are delivered in a format that makes it easy for a clinician to make a decision regarding treatment. Key Features: * Nearly 1,000 concise primary care practice guidelines * Over 4,000 quality-graded evidence summaries, supporting the given recommendations * The strength of evidence is graded from A-D making this title a quick and easy reference whenever and wherever you need it! * Developed by over 300 experienced general practitioners and specialists worldwide * An expanding collection of videos (currently over 60), showing clinical examinations and procedures, and ultrasonographic examinations * A searchable library of 1,400 high-quality photographs and images of all common and many rare dermatological conditions, electrocardiograms and eye images. * Audio samples linked to articles, including descriptions of pulmonary diseases and heart murmurs in children * Tools for the calculation of e.g. peak expiratory flow rate variation, body mass index and LDL cholesterol * Provides physicians with fast and easy access to practice guidelines based on the best available research evidence * Includes both diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, and recommendations on diagnostic tests and drug dosage * Presented in a user-friendly format with self-contained topics based on clinical subjects * Clear and concise explanations of all available evidence results in the guideline for treatment * Assumes no prior knowledge of EBM or statistics - all the work of searching and appraisal has been done for you! * Seeks to include guidelines where clinical evidence is incomplete or unavailable

Screenshots

MDPhD4 screens
Evidence Based Medicine Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MDPhD at 5.0 against Evidence Based Medicine Guide's 4.5. MDPhD also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months). Evidence Based Medicine Guide's advantage is ratings volume (54 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MDPhD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Evidence Based Medicine Guide sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Evidence Based Medicine Guide has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of MDPhD's written reviews are positive against 25% of Evidence Based Medicine Guide's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MDPhD ships an update every 3 weeks, Evidence Based Medicine Guide every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
MDPhD versus Evidence Based Medicine Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMDPhDEvidence Based Medicine Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.5 (54 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings154 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB44 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMIFISI Inc.Skyscape Medpresso Inc

Customer experience

MDPhD

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

Evidence Based Medicine Guide

All ratings54 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral3.7%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MDPhD

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

Evidence Based Medicine Guide

One-time12
  • EBMG EM,Traumatology & Anaesth$24.99
  • EBMG Diabetes & Endocrinology$24.99
  • EBMG Cardio & Vascular Disease$24.99
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  • EBMG Geriatrics$24.99
  • EBMG Gastrointestinal$24.99
  • EBMG Infectious Diseases & STD$24.99
  • EBMG Psychiatry$24.99
  • EBMG Pulmonary Diseases$24.99
  • EBMG Women's Health$24.99
  • EBMG Paediatrics$24.99
  • EBMG Neurology$24.99
  • Evidenced Based Medicine Guide$119.99

Questions

Is MDPhD free?
MDPhD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Evidence Based Medicine Guide free?
Evidence Based Medicine Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MDPhD or Evidence Based Medicine Guide?
MDPhD is rated higher. MDPhD averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Evidence Based Medicine Guide averages 4.5 from 54 ratings.
Do MDPhD or Evidence Based Medicine Guide have ads?
Evidence Based Medicine Guide shows ads; MDPhD does not.
Which is updated more often, MDPhD or Evidence Based Medicine Guide?
MDPhD ships an update every 3 weeks, and Evidence Based Medicine Guide every 10 months. Most recently, MDPhD was updated on October 8, 2026 and Evidence Based Medicine Guide on October 24, 2026.

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