Hippo Education vs STAT EM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hippo Education
Access high-yield medical content through a podcast player designed for efficient learning. Earn CME credits by listening to practice-changing information and the latest research, saving you time and keeping you updated.
- Monthly RAP episodes
- Practice-changing information
- Searchable content
- Bookmark and download
- Earn CME credits
- Lifelong learning
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Straight talk about medicine in a groundbreaking podcast player from Hippo Education. High yield. No nonsense. This app includes monthly RAP episodes that cover everything you need to know, including practice-changing information, and the latest papers for lifelong learning. Save time by listening on any device, anytime. Search for specifics or browse relevant topics. Bookmark and download content for quick reference. Automatically earn up to 42 AMA Category 1™ CME credits per year just by listening; it's that easy. *Content availability is dependent on the subscription package.
STAT EM
This medical app provides medication calculations for patients from neonates to adults, featuring updated evidence-based algorithms and emergency medication dosing. It includes pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines, neonatal resuscitation management, and an augmented reality feature for weight estimation. Future updates will allow users to save favorite content.
- Medication calculations (neonates to adults)
- Pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines
- Updated evidence-based algorithms
- Neonatal resuscitation management
- Adult emergency medication calculations
- AR weight estimation feature
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We’re excited to offer STAT EM, an enhanced version of Pedi STAT, providing medication calculations for neonates to adults. To keep giving you the most up to date content, we’ve moved to a subscription model to keep our app free of advertising. This new version contains pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines and dosing, updated evidence-based algorithms, and neonatal resuscitation management. It also includes adult emergency medication calculations including both weight-based and fixed dosing volumes. We’ve added an AR feature allowing you to use your device to measure the length of child to assist in weight estimations. Finally, you will soon have the ability to save favorites to assist you in finding the content you use most frequently. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hippo Education at none against STAT EM's 2. Hippo Education also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 9). STAT EM's advantage is chart position (#156 vs unranked) and review sentiment (33% vs 22%). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. STAT EM sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Hippo Education asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hippo Education holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hippo Education has 1.3K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of Hippo Education's written reviews are positive against 33% of STAT EM's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hippo Education ships an update fortnightly, STAT EM every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hippo Education | STAT EM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better | 4.1 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.7% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | — | #156 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hippo Education, Inc. | James M Kempema MD PA |
Customer experience
Hippo Education
STAT EM
Bugs and requests
Hippo Education
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on launch
- Playback stops unexpectedly
- Inconsistent episode tracking
- Search results do not match content
- Difficulty accessing downloaded content
Requested features
5 requests- Allow streaming on other apps
- Improve search and sorting functionality
- Add ability to mark episodes as played
- Implement CarPlay support
- Streamline login and session management
STAT EM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hippo Education
No in-app purchases
STAT EM
- STAT EM Monthly$0.991 Month
- STAT EM Annual$7.991 Year
