Comparison

Navitus vs Practice with Freeman

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

Head to head
About

Navitus

Access your prescription benefits easily with this app. It offers simple registration, navigation, and a user-friendly design to help you manage medications, find pharmacies, and view coverage information for informed health decisions.

Highlights
  • Medication cost and coverage lookup
  • In-network pharmacy locator
  • Favorite pharmacy saving
  • Digital member ID card
  • Medication management
  • Prescription history viewing
Features
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Navitus Health Solutions’ mobile app provides you with easy access to your prescription benefits. Enjoy greater convenience at your fingertips through easy registration, simple navigation, and an innovative, user-friendly design. Get access to helpful information so you can make informed decisions about your prescriptions and continue on the path to improved health. Key Features: • Get medication cost and coverage • Locate the most convenient in-network pharmacies • Save your preferred pharmacy as a favorite • View your member ID card • Manage and view your current medications • See up to 2 years of your prescription history In order to use this app, you must have a prescription benefit plan managed by Navitus Health Solutions. This app, and individual features of the app, may not be available for all benefit plans managed by Navitus or for every member of each plan.

About

Practice with Freeman

This app provides a safe, simulated environment to practice the precise hand movements required for scanning medical device sensors. It offers spoken guidance and large, forgiving tap targets, designed for individuals with tremors or visual fatigue. The goal is to build confidence and dexterity without interacting with actual medical equipment.

Highlights
  • Simulated sensor scanning practice
  • Spoken guidance
  • Large, forgiving tap targets
  • Haptic feedback
  • Printable practice materials
  • No interaction with real devices
Features
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Freeman was 83. He had type 1 diabetes, and he could not reliably aim his iPhone at the small code on a Dexcom™ sensor applicator. The task is difficult to understand for him. The target is over there. The camera is on the far side of the phone. The picture is on the near side. And the hands have to move the phone in the direction that brings one into the other. Any link in that chain can break on its own. This app is named in his memory, and it does one thing: it practices that movement. It is designed to be used by diabetic patients along with their carers. It was eye-opening for me to realize that, for some, these simple code-scanning procedures were really difficult. PRACTICE, NEVER THE REAL THING in a SAFE ENVIRONMENT (Not a real sensor activation). Freeman has its own practice codes, and recognizes nothing else. Point it at a real sensor and nothing happens — the app is built so that it cannot succeed on anything but its own material. It does not start, activate, configure, control or communicate with any sensor, and it has no Bluetooth, no network connection and no health data of any kind. There is nothing here that can be set off by accident. Every practice session begins with a reminder that this is practice, and ends with a sentence that says so again: "Practice complete. No sensor was started." BUILT FOR HANDS THAT SHAKE, AND EYES THAT TIRE • Spoken guidance, slowed down, in your own language and accent where the voice exists • One instruction at a time, held long enough to act on • Buttons that light up and pause before they do anything, so you can see which one you pressed • Very large tap targets, and a second tap while a button is confirming is ignored rather than queued • Haptics for three moments only — found it, framing is good, finished — because a constantly buzzing phone is one more thing to fight • Nothing anywhere tells you that you got it wrong 3 THINGS TO PRINT A sheet to tape to a wall, where the target holds still and aiming is the only variable. A target you hold, at the angle you would really meet one. And a cut-out practice label, clearly marked, for an applicator that has already been used and finished with. Print them, or send them to whoever is helping. They are a ladder rather than a menu — start at the wall. FOR THE PERSON HELPING Freeman is often installed by somebody else: a partner, a daughter, a carer. It is free, it has no account, no sign-up, no advertising and no analytics. It stores nothing at all — no history, no results, no pictures. Close the app and there is no record that anyone practiced, because a record of somebody's declining dexterity is not a thing this app is willing to keep. PLEASE READ Practice with Freeman is an independent practice and training application. Freeman is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or associated with Dexcom, Inc. Freeman does not start, activate, configure, control, or communicate with a Dexcom G7 sensor. Freeman is not a medical device. It teaches nothing about diabetes, sensors, or treatment, it gives no medical advice, and it does not assess whether anyone is able to use real equipment. Its measurements describe one practice attempt and nothing more. iPhone only, held upright. Requires the back camera. PRIVACY Practice with Freeman does not collect, store, track, or transmit personal information or usage data. Because Practice with Freeman does not collect information about you, there is no personal data to sell, share, or use for advertising or marketing purposes. Practice with Freeman is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or associated with Dexcom, Inc. Freeman does not start, activate, configure, control, or communicate with a Dexcom G7 sensor.

Screenshots

Navitus4 screens
Practice with Freeman4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Practice with Freeman at 5.0 against Navitus's 4.2. Practice with Freeman also leads on update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). Navitus's advantage is ratings volume (240 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Practice with Freeman holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Navitus has 240 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Navitus ships an update fortnightly, Practice with Freeman daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Navitus versus Practice with Freeman: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNavitusPractice with Freeman
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (240 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews8.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings240 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB67 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNavitus Health Solutionshiroshi howell

Customer experience

Navitus

All ratings240 ratings
Positive77.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive8.6%
Neutral11.4%
Negative80.0%

Practice with Freeman

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Navitus

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App freezes on pharmacy map screen
  • Verification code never arrives
  • Find pharmacy not working
  • Error message when filling in DoB during account creation
  • Error logging in, cannot find member
Show 8 more
  • App will not pull up or display any pricing
  • Search doesn't work, nothing happens
  • Location search not working
  • Unexpected errors occur when trying to use the app
  • Error when trying to find a pharmacy
  • Cannot login with user ID, asks for email
  • Digital ID card section almost unreadable
  • App locks up on pharmacy map screen

Requested features

20 requests
  • Ability to see status of PAs or formularys
  • Include information given in the web portal
  • Fix digital ID card readability
  • Show diagnosis for restricted medications
  • Allow login with password manager
Show 15 more
  • Add medication history
  • Show prior authorization expiration
  • Add a contact us option
  • Fix verification code delivery
  • Make pharmacy search work
  • Fix account creation error
  • Make login more persistent
  • Fix medication coverage accuracy
  • Allow ordering/printing prescription cards
  • Fix typing visibility
  • Display medication history
  • Fix location search
  • Fix pharmacy search
  • Allow login with user ID
  • Show health insurance ID number on member card

Practice with Freeman

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Navitus

No in-app purchases

None

Practice with Freeman

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Navitus free?
Navitus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Practice with Freeman free?
Practice with Freeman is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Navitus or Practice with Freeman?
Practice with Freeman is rated higher. Navitus averages 4.2 out of 5 from 240 ratings, while Practice with Freeman averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Navitus or Practice with Freeman have ads?
Neither Navitus nor Practice with Freeman shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Navitus or Practice with Freeman?
Navitus ships an update fortnightly, and Practice with Freeman daily. Most recently, Navitus was updated on November 11, 2026 and Practice with Freeman on October 31, 2026.

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