STAT News vs ModioMD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
STAT News
Access in-depth journalism covering health, medicine, life sciences, and the business of pharmaceuticals. Explore exclusive stories, track scientific advancements, and understand industry strategies with critical analysis.
- In-depth health and medicine journalism
- Coverage of life sciences and biotech
- Analysis of pharmaceutical business
- Exclusive stories
- Save articles for later
- Follow reporters on the go
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STAT delivers fast, deep, and tough-minded journalism about health, medicine, life sciences and the fast-moving business of making medicines. We take you inside academic labs, biotech boardrooms, and political backrooms. We cast a critical eye on scientific discoveries, scrutinize corporate strategies, and chronicle roiling battles for talent, money, and market share. We examine controversies and puncture hype. Follow our reporting and reporters on the go; read exclusive stories or save them for later.
ModioMD
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Healthcare professionals of all kinds routinely rely on medical reprints to stay up to date on the latest research in their field. In fact peer-reviewed journal articles are routinely recognized as the most effective source for impacting clinical decisions to improve patient care. Using our patented system where we engage medical students to perform the narrations, ModioMD converts medical reprints to a word-for-word, human-narrated, audio format; thereby making them significantly more convenient to access and giving busy HCPs approximately 268 additional hours per year to consume the underlying text, without forgoing office time that can otherwise be devoted to seeing patients or conducting research. FEATURES: -Listen to word-for-word HUMAN narrations -Automatically update to the most recent releases and access content by Source or Specialty -Select the content you want to listen to with the same article-specific topic selectivity you enjoy with the text version -Download content for offline listening -Share the audio files with colleagues and others -Create customized playlists for hands-free listening -Seamlessly access the text version of the content -Customize your narration speed -Connect with the Student Narrators via email and/or LinkedIn -Track how much more content your are consuming and how much office-time your are saving by viewing your Listening Statistics
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ModioMD at none against STAT News's shown. ModioMD also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
STAT News ships an update every 6 weeks, ModioMD every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | STAT News | ModioMD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (21 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 18.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +4 |
| Developer | BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC | Modio Information Group |
In-app purchases
STAT News
No in-app purchases
ModioMD
No in-app purchases









