Visualmed vs ACP Audio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Visualmed
This app transforms complex clinical trials into easy-to-understand visual abstracts. It's designed for busy healthcare professionals and students to quickly grasp key research findings across various medical specialties.
- Visual abstracts of clinical trials
- 2,000+ clinical trials across specialties
- Search by trial, disease, or treatment
- Discover landmark and new research
- Concise study summaries
- Designed for busy clinicians
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Read less. Understand more. Visualmed turns landmark and newly published clinical trials into clear, high-yield visual abstracts designed for busy healthcare professionals and medical students. Instead of spending hours working through dense research papers, quickly understand the studies that are shaping modern medicine. WHY VISUALMED? • 2,000+ clinical trials across major medical specialties • Clear visual abstracts that make complex research easier to understand • Quickly review study design, patient population, interventions, outcomes, and key findings • Search by trial, disease, treatment, or specialty • Discover landmark studies that changed clinical practice • Stay current with newly published research • Designed for physicians, residents, fellows, medical students, and other healthcare professionals CLINICAL TRIALS — VISUALIZED Visualmed transforms important medical research into concise visual summaries that help you understand the evidence quickly. Whether you're preparing for rounds, reviewing evidence before clinic, studying for an exam, teaching trainees, or simply trying to stay current, Visualmed puts key clinical research at your fingertips. EXPLORE MEDICINE ACROSS SPECIALTIES Discover important studies across cardiology, internal medicine, oncology, neurology, endocrinology, nephrology, pulmonology, infectious disease, critical care, and more. BUILT FOR BUSY CLINICIANS Medical literature moves quickly. Visualmed helps you focus on the studies that matter and understand their key findings without having to read every paper from beginning to end. VISUALMED PRO Unlock full access to Visualmed's growing library of visual abstracts and newly added clinical trials with Visualmed Pro. Download Visualmed and make keeping up with medical evidence part of your daily routine. Visualmed is intended for educational and informational purposes only. It does not provide medical advice and is not a substitute for independent clinical judgment or review of the original research.
ACP Audio
Access hundreds of hours of medical education content, including clinical lectures and Q&A sessions from national experts. Listen to audio tracks and playlists on various medical topics, create custom playlists, and download content for offline listening.
- Audio versions of ACP educational products
- Hundreds of hours of medical content
- Clinical lectures and Q&A
- Listen to tracks and playlists
- Download tracks for offline listening
- Create favorite track lists
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Expand your clinical knowledge with select audio versions of ACP educational products, such as Internal Medicine Board Review Course Recordings and recordings from ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting. The ACP Audio app features hundreds of hours of medical education content including clinical lectures and associated Q&A. Listen to tracks and playlists in a variety of topic areas from national experts as they review clinical information and answer targeted questions. You can play audio lectures in any order, create a list of favorite tracks, view your listening history, and download tracks to listen offline. A paid subscription is required to access the content of the app. Privacy Policy: https://www.acponline.org/about-this-site/acp-privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://www.acponline.org/about-acp/who-we-are/get-engaged/acp-member-forums/terms-and-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visualmed at 63% against ACP Audio's 0%. Visualmed also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (201 vs 8). ACP Audio's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Visualmed sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ACP Audio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Visualmed holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visualmed has 201 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Visualmed's written reviews are positive against 0% of ACP Audio's.
Visualmed ships an update every 3 months, ACP Audio every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visualmed | ACP Audio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (201 ratings) — better | 3.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 201 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | #163 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Usama Nasir | American College of Physicians |
Customer experience
Visualmed
ACP Audio
Bugs and requests
Visualmed
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes on opening
- Visual summaries not loading
- Only cardiology content showing up
- App keeps shutting down
- Cannot pass the logo screen
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- App doesn't fit the screen
- Technical problems after updates
- Typographical errors in AI-generated content
Requested features
5 requests- Consider grandfathering in users who paid previously
- Refund for users who paid and now can't access content
- Improve app structure and layout
- Department-specific approach (medicine, critical care, etc.) instead of disease-specific
- Developer response to user comments about issues
ACP Audio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Visualmed
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
ACP Audio
No in-app purchases
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