Comparison

avoMD vs AIM Clinical Cases

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

Head to head
About

avoMD

This app offers interactive guidance for clinicians evaluating adult patients for noncardiac surgery. It incorporates co-morbidities, medications, and medical calculators based on established guidelines and literature reviews. Enhance your learning with evidence-based references and detailed explanations.

Highlights
  • Interactive patient evaluation
  • Preoperative risk assessment
  • Medical calculators (RCRI, MICA, etc.)
  • Evidence-based references
  • Literature review integration
  • Co-morbidity and medication tracking
Features
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avoMD: Preoperative Eval provides quick, interactive, and educational guidance to help clinicians evaluate and prepare adult patients for noncardiac surgery. The app is based primarily on the 2014 ACC/AHA Perioperative Guidelines but also includes additional comments from reviews of the literature up to September 2020. It was developed in conjunction with Dr. Steven Cohn, a leading expert in Perioperative Medicine. The app incorporates co-morbidities, patient medications, interactive medical calculators (like RCRI, MICA, ACS-SRC, DASI), and other information and tools to help clinicians assess the risk of surgery. avoMD provides links to the evidence-based references and best practices, as well as more detailed explanations on the recommendations, so that clinicians can enhance their learning experience. Dr. Steven Cohn is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, having served as the Medical Director of the UHealth Preoperative Assessment Center (UPAC) and the Medical Consultation Services at the University of Miami Hospital and Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was the former Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate and the Director of the Preoperative Medical Consultation Clinic and Medical Consultation Service at Kings County Hospital Center. avoMD transforms clinical guidelines and content into interactive, next-gen apps. The team is led by physicians and informaticians from Columbia, Yale, and Harvard, while current partners include leading academic medical centers, urgent care providers and a growing number of residency programs and medical schools across the US. The company won the 2020 pitch competitions at Columbia Engineering and Penn Medicine and recently joined StartUp Health and 500 Startups. Interested in customizing avoMD for your department/institution? Contact info@avomd.io for more information.

About

AIM Clinical Cases

Access the latest case reports, series, and clinical reflections from a leading peer-reviewed medical journal. Published in partnership with major medical organizations, this open-access resource covers a wide spectrum of medicine.

Highlights
  • Latest articles from AIMCC
  • Peer-reviewed open access journal
  • Case reports and series
  • Medical image/video cases
  • Clinical reflections
Features
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The Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases (AIMCC) app gives you easy access to the latest articles from AIMCC. AIMCC is published in partnership between the American College of Physicians and the American Heart Association. It is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes case reports, case series, medical image/video cases, and clinical reflections across the spectrum of medicine.

Screenshots

avoMD4 screens
AIM Clinical Cases4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AIM Clinical Cases at none against avoMD's 4. avoMD's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. avoMD sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. AIM Clinical Cases asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for avoMD against 5.0 for AIM Clinical Cases. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: avoMD has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

avoMD ships an update every 9 days, AIM Clinical Cases every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
avoMD versus AIM Clinical Cases: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteravoMDAIM Clinical Cases
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (15 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB34 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperavoMD, IncAmerican College of Physicians

Customer experience

avoMD

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AIM Clinical Cases

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

In-app purchases

4 purchases

avoMD

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Year Assitance 1 month trial1 Month trial$9.991 Year
  • 1 year assistance 3 month free3 Months trial$9.991 Year
  • Institutional Plan$14.991 Year
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  • 1 year assistance 6 month free6 Months trial$19.991 Year
None

AIM Clinical Cases

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is avoMD free?
avoMD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AIM Clinical Cases free?
AIM Clinical Cases is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, avoMD or AIM Clinical Cases?
avoMD and AIM Clinical Cases are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 15 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do avoMD or AIM Clinical Cases have ads?
AIM Clinical Cases shows ads; avoMD does not.
Which is updated more often, avoMD or AIM Clinical Cases?
avoMD ships an update every 9 days, and AIM Clinical Cases every 3 months. Most recently, avoMD was updated on November 7, 2026 and AIM Clinical Cases on November 4, 2026.

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