ISMA Online vs Elsevier eBooks+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ISMA Online
Access the latest continuing medical education content on the go. Physicians and nurses can find and complete courses anytime, anywhere, with the ability to start, stop, and return to learning sessions.
- On-the-go learning
- Access up-to-date CME content
- Find and complete courses
- Start, stop, and resume learning
- Available for physicians and nurses
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ISMA's (Indiana State Medical Association) fast and easy way to learn on the go. Our mobile app, built by ProLearn, allows physicians, nurses and other users around the world to access the latest and most up-to-date CME content anywhere. You can find great courses and start, stop and return to your learning anytime, anywhere!
Elsevier eBooks+
Access your medical textbooks offline and enhance your learning with tools for note-taking, highlighting, and flashcard creation. Sync your progress and annotations across devices for a seamless study experience.
- Offline book access
- Note-taking and highlighting
- Flashcard creation
- Cross-device syncing
- In-book search
- Figure viewing and zooming
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The Elsevier eBooks+ Bookshelf companion app provides on and offline access to the books in your eBooks+ account on the Content Library page. Enhance your reading experience with tools designed to build and improve your medical knowledge; making and sharing notes, highlighting key text, and creating flashcards. Elsevier eBooks Features: • Download books to your iOS device for easy online or offline reading. • Simple, user-friendly navigation and a clean reading experience. • Search inside your current book or across your full library. • Select text to create notes or highlights from your mobile device. • Tap to open figures, view captions, and pinch to zoom. • Sync your bookmarks, last page read, and all of your notes and highlights between your iOS device and our desktop or web-based eBooks+ apps. Requirements: • Elsevier eBooks+ account • One or more books available in your eBooks+ Bookshelf account • iOS 17+
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Elsevier eBooks+ at 4.7 against ISMA Online's 4.0. Elsevier eBooks+ also leads on ratings volume (1.9K vs 8). ISMA Online's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Elsevier eBooks+ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elsevier eBooks+ has 1.9K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of ISMA Online's written reviews are positive against 43% of Elsevier eBooks+'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ISMA Online ships an update every 3 months, Elsevier eBooks+ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ISMA Online | Elsevier eBooks+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (8 ratings) | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 1.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elite Tech Systems, LLC | Elsevier Inc. |
Customer experience
ISMA Online
Elsevier eBooks+
Bugs and requests
ISMA Online
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Elsevier eBooks+
Reported bugs
5 issues- Figures placed at the end of chapters
- Search function only works for single words
- Inability to clear search history
- Freezing and crashing issues
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
8 requests- More highlighting and note-taking options
- Ability to write, draw, or paste images on pages
- Separate flashcard option integration with Anki/Quizlet
- More font size options
- Streamlined text selection for voiceover
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- Page turning instead of scrolling
- Ability to write on pages
- Interactive features
In-app purchases
ISMA Online
No in-app purchases
Elsevier eBooks+
No in-app purchases
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