Comparison

VINCasts vs OpenVet

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Clinical medicine audio
  • Practice management content
  • Mental wellbeing resources
  • Client education topics
  • News and analysis reports
  • On-demand audio access
Features
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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.

About

OpenVet

This AI-powered tool assists veterinarians and veterinary students with clinical decision-making by providing quick access to patient records, drug information, and diagnostic guidance. It helps manage cases, look up drug monographs, and answer urgent questions, all within a unified workspace.

Highlights
  • AI clinical decision support
  • Patient record integration
  • Veterinary drug reference
  • Weight-based dose calculations
  • Emergency & Critical Care room
  • Voice dictation
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For the patients who keep you on your toes. OpenVet brings clinical questions, patient records, and veterinary drug reference into one workspace for veterinarians and veterinary students. WORK THROUGH THE CASE Ask about differentials, diagnostic workups, and treatment considerations. Review the answer and inspect the references provided before deciding what comes next. BRING THEIR HISTORY WITH YOU Link a patient to a case so their weight, medications, allergies, diagnoses, and recorded lab results can inform the discussion. Keep supported PDFs and images with the chart, including the original documents. KEEP YOUR FORMULARY CLOSE Look up drug monographs, review interaction warnings, and use weight-based dose tools with displayed reference ranges. Check the primary source before prescribing or administering any medication. MAKE ROOM FOR URGENT QUESTIONS Open the Emergency & Critical Care room for triage, stabilization, and toxicology questions. A CPR metronome provides a pacing tool. SAY THE QUESTION Dictate into the question box, review the transcription, and send when you’re ready. WHO IT’S FOR Accounts are available to licensed veterinarians and veterinary students. US veterinarians provide a state license number. Students and internationally licensed veterinarians can begin while credentials are reviewed. Veterinary technicians and other non-DVM staff cannot create accounts yet. OpenVet provides AI clinical decision support. It can make mistakes and does not replace professional judgment. Verify clinical information, doses, and species-specific guidance against primary sources before acting. Dose calculations are not prescriptions.

Screenshots

VINCasts2 screens
OpenVet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: OpenVet at every 5 days against VINCasts's every 45 months. OpenVet also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). VINCasts's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.2). 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for VINCasts against 5.0 for OpenVet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VINCasts ships an update every 45 months, OpenVet every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
VINCasts versus OpenVet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVINCastsOpenVet
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 45 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB3 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperVINOpenVet Inc.

Customer experience

VINCasts

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

OpenVet

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

VINCasts

No in-app purchases

None

OpenVet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VINCasts free?
VINCasts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenVet free?
OpenVet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, VINCasts or OpenVet?
VINCasts and OpenVet are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do VINCasts or OpenVet have ads?
Neither VINCasts nor OpenVet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VINCasts or OpenVet?
VINCasts ships an update every 45 months, and OpenVet every 5 days. Most recently, VINCasts was updated on October 21, 2026 and OpenVet on October 25, 2026.

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