Quesmed vs PLAB2App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quesmed
Prepare for medical exams and advance your career with this comprehensive revision tool. Access thousands of articles, practice with various question types, and track your progress. Features include offline access, simulated exam modes, and Anki-style flashcards.
- Full range of question types
- Progress trackers
- Session filters
- Offline functionality
- Test mode simulation
- Image-based questions
- Knowledge Library access
- Anki-style flashcards
- Video revision for OSCE/PACES
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Excel at your exams and medical career with Quesmed. Use the Quesmed App to revise for your medical exams, anytime and anywhere. You can use it on the wards, during your commute or whenever you find a spare moment to revise! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Our dedicated offline function allows you to load hundreds of questions onto your device to access offline. Here's some of our key features: - Full range of question types for each exam - Dedicated progress trackers - Detailed session filters - Offline functionality - Dedicated 'Test' mode to simulate exam timing - Image based questions - Full coverage Knowledge Library access with thousands of articles per platform - Anki-style flashcards - Video functionality for OSCE/PACES revision Our app and associated web platform cover the following exams: - Anatomy - Medical Sciences - UKMLA AKT Qbank - UKMLA CPSA/OSCE Qbank - MRCP Part 1 Qbank - MRCP Part 2 Qbank - Multi-Specialty Recruitment Assessment (MSRA) Qbank - MRCP PACES Platform
PLAB2App
This app simulates the PLAB 2 (OSCE) exam for medical professionals. It helps reduce exam anxiety by familiarizing users with the test structure and timing. Practice with realistic timers and sounds, and add your own questions for each station.
- PLAB 2 (OSCE) exam preparation
- Realistic mock station simulation
- Integrated timer and sounds
- Customizable question addition
- Anxiety reduction through practice
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PLAB2App helps doctors to prepare for PLAB 2 (OSCE) exam. Most of examinees experience anxiety during the exam because of the unique and specific way this exam structured, our app will prepare you to the test and train you to shave precious seconds that usually gone because of confusion. The Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test, or the PLAB test, helps GMC to make sure doctors who qualified abroad have the right knowledge and skills to practice medicine in the UK. PLAB 2 is an objective structured clinical exam (OSCE). It's made up of 16 scenarios, each lasting eight minutes and aims to reflect real life settings including a mock consultation or an acute ward. - You can make a mock station with real timer and real sounds from PLAB test to prepare you to the actual test environment. - You can add your questions (text or image) for the station. IMPORTANT: we are not affiliated with The General Medical Council in UK, this is just a tool to help doctors with the test, for support Please contact us at info@sp-apps.com Developed by: SP-Apps.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Quesmed at none against PLAB2App's shown. Quesmed also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). PLAB2App's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 41%) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Quesmed sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and PLAB2App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Quesmed ships an update monthly, PLAB2App every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quesmed | PLAB2App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sysmed LTD | Abduljabbar AlFaqih |
Customer experience
Quesmed
PLAB2App
Bugs and requests
Quesmed
Reported bugs
44 issues- App bugs and crashes
- Constantly logs you out
- Unable to format to landscape mode on an iPad
- App struggling since last iOS update
- App is a total mess, constantly logs me out and doesn’t save progress
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- Unable to gain access to account
- No replies to customer support emails
- Getting cardio questions when renal questions are requested
- Significant issues with formatting of words on the website
- App doesn’t work at all, shuts down as soon as it opens
- Knowledge library is broken, displays code
- App isn’t opening on iPhone and iPad
- Can’t access clinical questions on the app
- No option for offline download
- App won’t even open onto dashboard
- Keeps crashing every time an answer is wrong
- Diagrams don’t show
- Marks questions answered correctly as incorrect
- Can’t view any diagrams since update
- Recent interface update is awful, makes it difficult to read questions/obtain lab values
- App only supports one orientation on iPad
- Bug that doesn’t let you select/deselect difficulty
- App is sooo buggy
- Very poorly designed app, keeps crashing
- App doesn’t save your progress and times you out
- Takes so long to load
- App inconsistent and often down
- App doesn’t work 9/10 times
- App is awful, better to use desktop version
- Loads for too long, randomly times out and logs you out, doesn’t save question answers sometimes
- Used to be able to do quizzes without being online, offline mode taken away?
- Timed tests automatically mark when you hit go
- OSCE function won’t load
- Unable to login after changing password
- Takes so long to load exams
- Problematic login, unable to login despite no change of password
- App keeps crashing when trying to change password
- App doesn’t work great, randomly logging you out at times, jumping around quizzes and randomly showing the correct answer on unanswered questions
- App does not work offline, constantly crashes if there is no internet
- Persistent problems with login
- Terrible search feature
- Stretched out on iPad
- App says please wait and nothing happens
- No glitches/lags (contradicted by many other reviews)
Requested features
4 requests- Improve user interface of the app
- Add offline download option
- Make an iPad app
- Add offline mode
PLAB2App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quesmed
- AMS Anatomy$9.991 Month
- AMS Bundle$14.991 Month
- Cm Ukmla Qbank 1 Month$14.991 Month
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- Cm Ukmla Bundle Monthly$19.991 Month
- AMS Anatomy$29.991 Year
- AMS Medical Sciences$29.991 Year
- Cm Ukmla Osce 1 Year$39.991 Year
- AMS Bundle$39.996 Months
- MRCP Part 2$39.991 Month
- AMS Bundle$49.991 Year
- Cm Ukmla Qbank Annual$50.001 Year
- Cm Ukmla Bundle 6 Months$65.006 Months
- MRCP Part 2$69.993 Months
- Cm Ukmla Bundle Annual$75.001 Year
- MRCP Part 1$84.993 Months
- MRCP Part 2$99.996 Months
- MRCP Part 1$119.996 Months
- MSRA$59.99
- MSRA Questions$59.99
- MRCP PART 2$69.99
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- MSRA$79.99
- MSRA Questions$79.99
- MRCP PART 1$80.00
- MRCP PART 2$99.99
- MRCP PACES$119.99
- MRCP PART 1$125.99
- MRCP PACES$199.99
PLAB2App
- Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
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