APIC Events vs GIDEON platform
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
APIC Events
Access presentations and slides from the APIC annual conference. Enhance your learning by drawing, highlighting, and taking notes directly on slides. Your notes are saved online for later retrieval.
- Search presentations
- Access presentation slides
- Draw and highlight on slides
- Take notes on slides
- Online note saving
- Access conference posters
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*** FOR ATTENDEES ONLY *** The APIC Events mobile application allows you to search through the presentations from the APIC annual conference and access all the available presentation slides. You can draw and highlight directly on the slides using your fingers, and you can take notes on each slide. All your notes are saved online for you so you can access them later through your online personal summary. The annual conference posters are also included in the app. Search by number or title and see high resolution versions of each poster.
GIDEON platform
This app provides a comprehensive infectious diseases database for clinicians and students. It features dynamic comparison tables, Bayesian analysis for diagnosis, and historical outbreak data. Access information on diseases, drugs, pathogens, and epidemiological surveys.
- Dynamic comparison tables
- Bayesian analysis for diagnosis
- Differential diagnosis tools
- Historical outbreak data
- Epidemiological database
- Pathogen identification
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GIDEON is ideally suited to save time in Point-of-Care settings while empowering clinicians to consider all possible scenarios. It is a powerful learning tool for Microbiology, Public Health, and Medical students and Residents. Unique features: * Dynamic comparison tables for diseases, drugs, and pathogens * Bayesian analysis-based differential diagnosis (DDx) and pathogen identification tools * First Case Scenario, developed in consultation with the WHO to identify initial cases of known diseases in new settings * Why Not feature, explaining why a given disease did not appear on the list * Interactive historical disease outbreaks and distribution maps, with data going back as far as 1348 AD * A vast epidemiological database covering 230+ geographical areas, updated daily What's inside? 360+ infectious diseases 30,000+ anti-infective drug trade names 75+ vaccines 2,000+ pathogens 235 countries and territories 99,000+ prevalence and seroprevalence surveys 38,000+ graphs 3,200+ images 27,000+ outbreaks 24,000+ country-specific notes 300,000+ references
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: APIC Events at 699 against GIDEON platform's 2. GIDEON platform's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GIDEON platform holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: APIC Events has 699 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | APIC Events | GIDEON platform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (699 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 699 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. | GIDEON Informatics Inc |
Customer experience
APIC Events
GIDEON platform
In-app purchases
APIC Events
No in-app purchases
GIDEON platform
No in-app purchases
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