Comparison

shiftMD vs Vulvar Pain Algorithm

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

Head to head
About

shiftMD

This app allows healthcare providers to easily find and recommend therapeutic products to patients, ensuring they receive the correct items. It provides visibility into patient compliance and helps patients save time and money on their prescribed treatments.

Highlights
  • Find therapeutic products
  • Establish therapy duration
  • Send recommendations to patients
  • Track patient compliance
  • Discover new products
  • Receive product alerts
Features
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As a healthcare provider, you are constantly recommending non prescription, therapeutic, first-line products to your patients. You don’t know if they heed that advice and go to the pharmacy or online to purchase what you recommend. With the literally thousands of products online, your patient may not actually purchase the product with the specific ingredients or affects that you as the healthcare provider actually intended. With the shiftMD app, you can easily find the product, establish the duration of therapy and send it directly to your patient. You will have full visibility to ensure your patient’s compliance, as well as full access to learn about the existing products on the platform and alerted when new ones become available. With shiftMD you’ll provide value to your patients by: • Saving them time wasted with pharmacy visits • Saving them time and confusion spent traversing the online retailers • Saving them money since the products you recommend through shiftMD are usually priced better than anywhere • Convenience since the products are discretely shipped to their home for the allotted time designated

About

Vulvar Pain Algorithm

Features
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Vulvodynia Care is an educational resource designed for licensed healthcare professionals caring for patients with vulvar pain conditions. The app provides structured clinical frameworks to support understanding of vulvodynia, including hormonally mediated vestibulodynia, neuroproliferative pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, and overlapping conditions such as MCAS, POTS, and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Content is organized to help clinicians think through complex, multifactorial presentations using a systems-based approach. Topics include tissue health, hormonal influences, neuromuscular contributors, and pain processing. This app is intended to support clinical education and pattern recognition—not to replace independent medical judgment or establish a standard of care. Treatment decisions should always be individualized based on patient-specific factors and current clinical guidelines. Disclaimer: This application is for educational purposes only and is intended for use by licensed healthcare professionals. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This app is not a medical device and has not been evaluated by the FDA. This application does not provide treatment recommendations or clinical decision support. It is designed solely to present educational concepts and clinical considerations.

Screenshots

shiftMD3 screens
Vulvar Pain Algorithm3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: shiftMD at Free against Vulvar Pain Algorithm's $4.99. Vulvar Pain Algorithm's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

shiftMD is free to download; Vulvar Pain Algorithm costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

shiftMD ships an update every 8 months, Vulvar Pain Algorithm every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
shiftMD versus Vulvar Pain Algorithm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametershiftMDVulvar Pain Algorithm
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (61 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings61 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB2 MB
Age rating17+17+
DevelopershiftMD LLCJennifer Lanoff

In-app purchases

None

shiftMD

No in-app purchases

None

Vulvar Pain Algorithm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is shiftMD free?
shiftMD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vulvar Pain Algorithm free?
Vulvar Pain Algorithm costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do shiftMD or Vulvar Pain Algorithm have ads?
Neither shiftMD nor Vulvar Pain Algorithm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, shiftMD or Vulvar Pain Algorithm?
shiftMD ships an update every 8 months, and Vulvar Pain Algorithm every 3 days. Most recently, shiftMD was updated on July 5, 2026 and Vulvar Pain Algorithm on September 15, 2026.

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