Comparison

Extra Acupoints vs AcupointDG

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

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About

Extra Acupoints

Explore a comprehensive database of 952 extra acupuncture points with detailed information on location, treatment, and application. Visualize these points on interactive 3D anatomical models, with options to customize views and add notes. This app is based on established medical texts and supervised by Korean medical professionals.

Highlights
  • 952 extra acupoints database
  • 3D anatomical models
  • Interactive model editing (transparency, zoom, notes)
  • Customizable display options (skin, muscles, meridians)
  • Detailed text information (location, treatment)
  • Multilingual support (Korean, English, Chinese)
  • References WHO/WPRO standards and medical texts
Features
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- โ€˜Extra Acupointsโ€™ was created by integrating โ€˜Old extra Point(Gi-hyeol)โ€™ and โ€˜New Point(Shin-hyeol)โ€™ and creating a group called โ€˜Extra-Acupuncture Pointโ€™ and applying it to a 3D human body model. A total of 952 acupoints. - It is an application that allows you to easily get detailed information about โ€˜The Extra Pointโ€™, by comparing with โ€˜Main Acupuncture Pointโ€™ and โ€˜Extra-Acupuncture Pointโ€™ expressed at the same time. - It contains complete texts such as the location, source, treatment, operation method, etc. of about a thousand extra acupuncture points. - It is made in three languages, Korean, English and Chinese, so that everyone can use it. - It contains 3D anatomical models (muscles, bones, organs, brain, etc), and various functions (transparency, enlargement, reduction, interactive editing such as notepad, drawing, hiding, writing, etc.) are operated. If you use the display option, you can choose to display only the skin of the anatomical model, only the muscles, or only the meridians and acupuncture points. - This application is based on โ€˜WHO/WPRO Standard Acupuncture Point Positionsโ€™, โ€˜University Meridian Acupuncture Pointsโ€™, โ€˜Emperorโ€™s Internal Medicine Yeongchuโ€™, and referenced various other books. It was supervised by professors and Korea medical doctors at University of Korea Medicine. * Old extra Point -> Acupoints handed down in past textbooks. In Korean called as โ€˜Gi-hyeolโ€™ * New Point -> A new acupoint that has been recently proven. In Korean called as โ€˜Shin-hyeolโ€™ * Main Acupuncture Point -> 12 Main Acupuncture Point, Governor Vessel (GV) Acupuncture Point, Conception Vessel(CV) Acupuncture Point.. - Please refer to โ€˜Acupointsโ€™ application. * For Main Acupuncture Points (such as 12 Main Acupuncture Point, Governor Vessel (GV) Acupuncture Point, Conception Vessel(CV) Acupuncture Point, lung, large intestine, etc.), refer to โ€˜Acupointsโ€™ application. For Meridian and collateral (12 meridians, 14 meridians, eight extra meridians, twelve meridian divergences, twelve meridian sinews, twelve cutaneous regions, etc.) please refer to โ€˜Meridian Insideโ€™ application. For Extra acupuncture points, please refer to โ€˜Extra Acupointsโ€™ application. For Tung โ€™s family acupunture(In korean called as Dongssihyeol) (Dongssi, Master tung), refer to โ€˜Master Tung Acupointโ€™ application. * This product does not have complete text descriptions of Main Acupuncture Points, Meridian and collateral, and Tung โ€™s family acupunture point. - Meet our(verderoot, acumonster, medimonster) various products (Meridian, Meridian Inside, Master Tung, Extra-Acupuncture Point, Combination Point, Hand Acupuncture, Foot Acupoint, Head Acupuncture, etc.) look. www.verderoot.com www.acumonster.com

About

AcupointDG

This educational app provides detailed information on acupoints, including their location, effects, and related anatomical structures. Users can explore different views, search for specific acupoints, and create custom prescriptions. It's designed for learning and research in acupuncture.

Highlights
  • Acupoint location, effects, and indications
  • Related anatomical structures (muscles, vessels, nerves)
  • Research paper search links
  • Custom acupoint prescription creation
  • View mode and color toggling
  • Search by acupoint name, effect, or indication
  • Meridian and special acupoint toggling
Features
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๊ฒฝํ˜ˆํ•™ ๊ต์œก์šฉ APP ACUPOINTDG์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™๊ตญ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ํ•œ์˜๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆํ•™๊ต์‹ค์—์„œ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฉ”์ธํ™”๋ฉด์—์„œ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ์„ ํด๋ฆญํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ์˜ ํ˜ˆ์œ„, ํšจ๋Šฅ, ์ฃผ์น˜, ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด๋ถ€ํ•™๊ตฌ์กฐ(๊ทผ์œก, ํ˜ˆ๊ด€, ์‹ ๊ฒฝ), ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋…ผ๋ฌธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋งํฌ, ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด์—์„œ View๋ชจ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ์„ ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌํ† ๊ธ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ๋ช…, ํšจ๋Šฅ, ์ฃผ์น˜, ํ•ด๋ถ€ํ•™๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋œ ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ์˜ ํ† ๊ธ€์ด ์ด๋ค„์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๋งฅํ† ๊ธ€, ํŠน์ˆ˜๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ๋“ค์„ ํ† ๊ธ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ˆ๋‹จ๋ฉด๋ชจ๋“œ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ์˜ ํ•ด๋ถ€๋‹จ๋ฉด์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ ๋‹จ๋ฉด์˜ ์ดˆ์ŒํŒŒ ์‚ฌ์ง„(ํŒ”/๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์ œ๊ณต)์„ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋งฅ๋ถ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์‹œ ์Šคํฌ๋กค -> ์คŒ, ํด๋ฆญ ์ด๋™ -> ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผํšŒ์ „, Cmd+ํด๋ฆญ ์ด๋™ -> ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ์ด๋™ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ACUPOINTDG 2์—์„œ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋“ค์— ๋”ํ•ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ถ„์•ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Screenshots

Extra Acupoints4 screens
AcupointDG4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AcupointDG at $19.99 against Extra Acupoints's $44.99. AcupointDG also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 17 months). Extra Acupoints's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Extra Acupoints costs $44.99 and AcupointDG $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Extra Acupoints ships an update every 17 months, AcupointDG every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Extra Acupoints versus AcupointDG: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExtra AcupointsAcupointDG
Price$44.99$19.99 โ€” better
Positive reviewsโ€”50.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 6 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size462 MB285 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperKim June-HyunSeung-Nam Kim

In-app purchases

None

Extra Acupoints

No in-app purchases

None

AcupointDG

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Extra Acupoints free?
Extra Acupoints costs $44.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is AcupointDG free?
AcupointDG costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Extra Acupoints or AcupointDG have ads?
Neither Extra Acupoints nor AcupointDG shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Extra Acupoints or AcupointDG?
Extra Acupoints ships an update every 17 months, and AcupointDG every 6 weeks. Most recently, Extra Acupoints was updated on October 7, 2026 and AcupointDG on October 15, 2026.

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