Comparison

Evidencio vs Access

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

Head to head
About

Evidencio

Features
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With the Evidencio App you can quickly access and use medical prediction models and calculators from Evidencio.com. Evidencio.com hosts the world's first open and transparent library of online medical prediction models and calculators, created by and for medical professionals and researchers. The Evidencio App allows guest users to navigate and use all public models available from Evidencio.com. Registered users can configure favorite models for quick access. As a registered user you're also able to create your own models on Evidencio.com and subsequently use them as private or privately shared models in the App.

About

Access

Access medical learning resources like videos, podcasts, and textbooks on the go. Search for specific topics, save content to collections, and personalize your dashboard. Offline viewing and specialty-specific content are available for subscribed institutional users.

Highlights
  • Search diverse medical resources
  • Save and organize content
  • Refine by content type
  • Offline viewing
  • Personalized dashboard
  • Specialty-specific content
Features
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Learn when you want, where you want, and how you want. Access is your personal medical resource that makes studying easier and more efficient. Search across a number of medical resources such as videos, podcasts, images, infographics, and textbooks, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine or Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, so that you can learn in a way that suits your style and time constraints. • Find and save resources - search anything from symptoms to procedures and then favorite, or save to a collection. • Refine by content type - get the type of content you want to suit your learning style or time constraints. • Search within content - find the fine details you need. • View figures and tables - view content in its entirety, or just the images and tables. • View content offline - whether it’s a case of bad wifi, or you are traveling, you can always take your content with you. • Curate new collections - save content into your own personal reference library, so you always know where your favorite resources are. • Personal dashboard - create and personalize your own dashboard, allowing you to tailor the Access experience to your needs. • Caters to your specialty - This app has content from the full Access suite of sites, which cater to the following specialties; general medicine, anesthesiology, biomedical science, cardiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, hematology medicine, neurology, advanced practice nursing, ObGyn, pediatrics, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and surgery. This app's content is only fully accessible to users that are linked to an institution that subscribes to a McGraw Hill Access product. All users are offered seven days to link their profile to their subscribing institution.

Screenshots

Evidencio4 screens
Access4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Evidencio at 13.0 against Access's 26. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Evidencio ships an update every 5 weeks, Access monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Evidencio versus Access: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvidencioAccess
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.2 (134 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—8.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—134 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB59 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperEvidencio B.V.McGraw-Hill

Bugs and requests

Evidencio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Access

Reported bugs

32 issues
  • Infinite login loop
  • App won't log in
  • App broken or glitched
  • Unable to access content
  • Appendix and introduction absent
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  • Cannot search all chapters at once
  • Cannot access last sections of chapters
  • Text-to-speech mispronounces words
  • Text-to-speech requires app to be open
  • Does not remember last read position
  • Search function unusable
  • Accounts do not sync properly
  • Books, collections, and favorites not added appropriately
  • Crashes and logs out
  • Hard to navigate within textbook
  • Flash cards won't load
  • Cannot open books
  • Search bar shows technical difficulties
  • Cannot log in after password reset
  • App crashes when highlighting content
  • Copying text crashes the app
  • Lost highlight data after update
  • Lost keyword search ability after update
  • Favorites are erased
  • Books show error message of item not available
  • Search function won't find books
  • Favorites don't sync from desktop
  • Top bar heading obstructs reading
  • Book does not appear in the whole screen
  • Cannot find books by author or ISBN
  • No robotic audio option
  • Username difficult to find

Requested features

10 requests
  • Option to search all chapters at once
  • Improve text-to-speech functionality
  • Allow text-to-speech to continue when app is in background
  • Remember last read position
  • Sync favorites across devices
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  • iPad optimization
  • Browse all books by subscribed module
  • Toggle option for top bar heading
  • Full screen book display
  • Implement robotic audio option

In-app purchases

None

Evidencio

No in-app purchases

None

Access

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Evidencio free?
Evidencio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Access free?
Access is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Evidencio or Access have ads?
Neither Evidencio nor Access shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Evidencio or Access?
Evidencio ships an update every 5 weeks, and Access monthly. Most recently, Evidencio was updated on October 26, 2026 and Access on November 3, 2026.

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