Comparison

PatienTrials vs PI

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

Head to head
About

PatienTrials

This platform facilitates virtual clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies and clinicians, enhancing efficiency and patient adherence. It leverages instant messaging, HealthKit, AI, and bots to capture high-quality patient data and monitor for adverse events, reducing study risk and development costs.

Highlights
  • Virtual clinical trial management
  • HIPAA & GDPR compliant platform
  • Patient adherence improvement
  • AI-powered adverse event monitoring
  • High-quality patient-generated data
  • Instant messaging integration
Features
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PatienTrials helps pharma companies and clinicians run global clinical trials virtually, more efficiently in a closed community setting over HIPAA & GDPR compliant collaboration platform. PatienTrials aims to improve patient adherence by empowering participants with information on the progress of treatment at their fingertips in a community setting, that promotes self-care. PatienTrials captures high-quality patient generated data through solutions based on instant messaging, HealthKit, AI and bots, is poised to make a positive impact on drug development. Monitored by proprietary AI agent for adverse events, PatienTrials reduces study risk and lowers development costs. Founded in 2016, PatienTrials is the first company to bring clinical trials on to a HIPAA & GDPR compliant instant messaging platform.

About

PI

Features
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PI-Support is a mobile platform designed by senior Principal Investigators (PIs) to accomplish the following tasks: * save PIs and their site teams time and effort, * support Junior Investigators and trainees, * increase patient engagement and retention, * limit screen failures, * broaden study awareness, * integrate local HCPs and * improve data quality. It largely achieves these goals by empowering PIs and maximizing their involvement. Specifically, it enables PIs to select and prioritize which study criteria they want displayed on their colleagues’ cell phones or mobile devices (making pre-screening in busy office clinics and/or hospital ward rounds much easier for all concerned); it extracts from study protocols the answers to common patient queries (obviating the need for PIs and Sub-Is to locate and review extensive study protocols); it helps to ensure the right patients are enrolled into the right trial by offering side-by-side comparisons of each competing trial; and increases study awareness by enabling site teams to share selected study information with their community-based referral networks. Finally, intra- and inter-site bulletin boards allow PIs and SCs to discuss their local and study-wide concerns/solutions with other site PIs and SCs, CRAs and study sponsors. Overall, PI-Support can be used as a stand-alone tool or seamlessly integrated into existing CTMS to provide broad spectrum, site support.

Screenshots

PatienTrials4 screens
PI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PI at fortnightly against PatienTrials's every 6 weeks. PI also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, 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

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

PatienTrials ships an update every 6 weeks, PI fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 24, 2026 and June 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
PatienTrials versus PI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatienTrialsPI
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB21 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPatienTrials IncRefuah Solutions Ltd

In-app purchases

None

PatienTrials

No in-app purchases

None

PI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PatienTrials free?
PatienTrials is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PI free?
PI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PatienTrials or PI have ads?
Neither PatienTrials nor PI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PatienTrials or PI?
PatienTrials ships an update every 6 weeks, and PI fortnightly. Most recently, PatienTrials was updated on June 24, 2026 and PI on June 20, 2026.

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