SIMPL Bedside vs JournalFeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SIMPL Bedside
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SIMPL Bedside, from the Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, is used to support assessment of trainee bedside procedure performance in graduate medical education settings. SIMPL Bedside lets users create evaluations of trainee performance within seconds, and after they are deemed able to perform procedures independently, SIMPL Bedside quickly displays trainee certification status. The Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative is a 501c3 non-profit research collaborative dedicated to quality improvement in medical education. Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com.
JournalFeed
This app delivers curated medical education summaries from PubMed, focusing on Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and POCUS. It provides quick, simple summaries with push notifications for the latest articles. A subscription is required for full content access and CME credits.
- Curated medical article summaries
- Push notifications for new articles
- Covers Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, PEM, POCUS
- Full content access with subscription
- CME credit claiming
- Video content access
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The JournalFeed app brings the best medical education to your iPhone! 1 million new articles are listed on PubMed each year...it's overwhelming. JournalFeed finds the articles that matter and Spoon Feeds them to you. Now, with push notifications - the Spoon Feed just got easier! We cover Emergency Medicine primarily and also Critical Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Quick, simple summaries… delivered. You can view content, but you need a JournalFeed subscription to see it all. On the app, you can view all written posts, and MAX or PREMIUM subscribers can watch all the videos and claim CME credits right from the app. Don't miss any new articles. Allow push notifications to see summaries of the latest articles that will change your practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: JournalFeed at none against SIMPL Bedside's shown. SIMPL Bedside's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (14.5 vs 16.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SIMPL Bedside ships an update every 2 months, JournalFeed every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SIMPL Bedside | JournalFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc | JournalFeed, LLC |
In-app purchases
SIMPL Bedside
No in-app purchases
JournalFeed
No in-app purchases
