VINCasts vs Plumb's | Standards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VINCasts
Access a curated collection of audio content focused on veterinary medicine, practice management, and mental wellbeing. Stay informed with news, insights, and expert discussions on your preferred devices.
- Clinical medicine audio
- Practice management content
- Mental wellbeing resources
- Client education topics
- News and analysis reports
- On-demand audio access
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Catch up on audio offerings from your VIN Community. Topics covered include clinical medicine, practice management, mental wellbeing, and client education -- available whenever you are on your laptop, phone, or tablet. The following content is available: VetzInsight offers an offbeat, inside look at animal issues. Veterinary Partner provides the finest and most accurate pet health information. VIN News Service provides unbiased, accurate, insightful news reports and analyses that explore topics and viewpoints not commonly covered by other media outlets. VIN Rounds for VIN members.
Plumb's | Standards
This app provides trusted veterinary clinical decision support, integrating comprehensive drug information and treatment guidance. It offers tools for diagnosis, treatment, and client education, designed for veterinary professionals.
- Veterinary drug and dosing information
- Drug interaction checker
- Conversion calculator
- Diagnosis and treatment monographs
- Management algorithms
- Differential diagnosis lists
- Client education handouts
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Welcome to Standards of Care, the veterinary clinical decision support tool from the team behind Plumb’s and Clinician’s Brief, with Plumb’s built in. Subscribed to Plumb’s? If you’re subscribed to the veterinary drug reference, Plumb’s, you can access all your prescribing information and tools in this app. Included in Plumb’s: - Comprehensive, continually updated veterinary drug and dosing information - Veterinary drug interaction checker with animal-specific guidance - A conversion calculator for quick math in the app - Notes feature for saving favorite notes and protocols - Convenient favorites feature for making your own quick reference list Visit plumbs.com to learn more. Subscribed to Standards™? If you’re subscribed to Standards of Care™, you can access all your Standards features (including Plumb’s) in this app. Included in Standards: - All the features of Plumb’s (see above) - Practical, peer-reviewed diagnosis and treatment monographs - An extensive library of diagnosis and management algorithms for step-by-step support - Peer-reviewed differential diagnosis lists - Shareable clinical handouts to support client education Visit standards.vet to learn more. DISCLAIMER Standards of Care and Plumb’s are online clinical resources to be used only for information purposes at the discretion of trained veterinary medical and pharmaceutical professionals to support diagnosis and treatment of small animal veterinary conditions. Learn more at standards.vet or plumbs.com. APP SUPPORT If you have feature requests or suggestions or simply need help, please visit help.plumbs.com and click on the chat icon to submit a request. Our responsive support team will be in touch with you. Privacy policy: https://plumbs.com/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://plumbs.com/terms-use Terms & conditions: https://plumbs.com/terms-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: VINCasts at free against Plumb's | Standards's subscription. VINCasts also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Plumb's | Standards's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 45 months) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for VINCasts against 4.9 for Plumb's | Standards. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plumb's | Standards has 3.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
VINCasts ships an update every 45 months, Plumb's | Standards every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VINCasts | Plumb's | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (3.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 45 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | VIN | Brief Media |
Customer experience
VINCasts
Plumb's | Standards
Bugs and requests
VINCasts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Plumb's | Standards
Reported bugs
4 issues- Signing in issues
- Crashing
- Login/password reset problems
- Compatibility issues on iPad
Requested features
2 requests- Add calculator function
- Improve renewal/subscription management
In-app purchases
VINCasts
No in-app purchases
Plumb's | Standards
No in-app purchases
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