Comparison

The ENTSHO.com Mobile App vs Virtual Bones

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

Head to head
About

The ENTSHO.com Mobile App

This app provides quick access to medical information for Ear, Nose, and Throat diseases. Developed by clinicians, it offers offline access to expert advice and treatment guidelines for healthcare professionals, especially those on call or in emergency settings.

Highlights
  • Offline access to ENT medical information
  • Searchable treatment guidelines
  • Red flag identification for urgent conditions
  • Advice on patient work-up
  • Content reviewed by senior doctors
  • Lifetime free updates
Features
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"ENTSHO.com represents having a safe and sensible registrar opinion in your pocket!" - ENT & AUDIOLOGY NEWS Search for medical treatment of various Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) diseases at the speed of thought! Built by a small doctor-led charity of clinicians who are donating their time, this app exists to help you help patients (especially when you're on-call and alone). It provides accessible ENT advice for doctors and nurses. It is especially targeted at resident doctors covering ENT (hence 'SHO' โ€“ senior house officer) and professionals in emergency and primary care. Best feature? It's all offline! Why pay? โ—ˆ All-in-one guide at the tip of your nose (sorry, finger) โ—ˆ Get access to medical content that's written and reviewed by senior doctors with decades of collective experience โ—ˆ One-time purchase; buy it once and own it forever (with free lifetime updates)! โ—ˆ Highlighted red flags to make it easier for you to spot and escalate urgent conditions โ—ˆ Advice on when is it a good time to get help from a senior โ—ˆ Lightweight and easy to use โ—ˆ Advice on how to work-up a presenting complaint โ—ˆ Learn more about what treatment works best for various common ENT presentations โ—ˆ Help a charity โ—ˆ Learn ENT tips and practical skills to help save lives โ—ˆ Search for content at the speed of thought โ—ˆ Manage your patients using up-to-date treatment guidelines โ—ˆ Show off your knowledge to your seniors โ—ˆ The content is written in a manner that would make it easy for you to quickly find the relevant information โ—ˆ After downloading it, no internet access is required! Your one-time purchase keeps this project alive and supports great education for ENT colleagues!

About

Virtual Bones

Features
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Your local hospital musculoskeletal injuries management and referral pathway at your fingertips! Virtual bones enables specialist clinicians to digitalise and reform fracture management and referral pathway to enhance efficiency and patient care. The IT service solution is accessible via a web viewer AND a mobile device so that health workers always have the latest guidance available at the point of care. The system have multiple innovative modules that will aid health worker in decision making, assessing and managing patients in efficient, effective and safe manner. This includes: - Fully tailored, customised, interactive digital skeleton to match each hospital needs and demands - Concise and tailored content that will aid Emergency Department (ED) care provider to make the appropriate assessment, key documentation and deliver high quality standardised management care plan. - Uses pedagogical feature such as illustration, diagrams, clinical photographs, radiographs and videos to ensure the same high quality care is given all the time by ED health worker. - Deliver the guidelines while educating ED health worker how to effectively assess and manage musculoskeletal injuries. - Provide cloud based solution to digitalise all patient information leaflets with built in QR code generator and email option to enhance patient access to key information about their injury. - Tailored hospital-based content on how to apply splints and casts to allow ED care provider deliver high standardised care while reducing ED waiting time. - Tailored hospital-based splints and cast locator to minimise time wasted by ED care provider to find the right resources in the department. - Direct two way channel feedback between primary ED care provider and admin users including ED and T&O consultants - Push notification to keep end users always updated with the latest guidelines and departmental changes. - Dynamic, able to deal with emerging problems/ recurrent themes identified in emergency department or fracture clinic. - Minimise ED waiting time, ensure standardised high quality care consistently delivered, enhance patient access to key patient information leaflets and increases safe discharge rate both in ED and (virtual) fracture clinic. If you have any query about Virtual Bones IT service solution or would like to sign up your organisation, please contact info@virtualbones.com

Screenshots

The ENTSHO.com Mobile App4 screens
Virtual Bones4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Virtual Bones at Free against The ENTSHO.com Mobile App's $3.99. Virtual Bones also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 64 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Virtual Bones is free to download; The ENTSHO.com Mobile App costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The ENTSHO.com Mobile App ships an update every 64 months, Virtual Bones every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
The ENTSHO.com Mobile App versus Virtual Bones: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe ENTSHO.com Mobile AppVirtual Bones
Price$3.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 64 monthsEvery 6 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size37 MB45 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAndrew LauOrthobones ltd

In-app purchases

None

The ENTSHO.com Mobile App

No in-app purchases

None

Virtual Bones

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The ENTSHO.com Mobile App free?
The ENTSHO.com Mobile App costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Virtual Bones free?
Virtual Bones is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The ENTSHO.com Mobile App or Virtual Bones have ads?
Neither The ENTSHO.com Mobile App nor Virtual Bones shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The ENTSHO.com Mobile App or Virtual Bones?
The ENTSHO.com Mobile App ships an update every 64 months, and Virtual Bones every 6 weeks. Most recently, The ENTSHO.com Mobile App was updated on September 14, 2026 and Virtual Bones on September 16, 2026.

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