Burn Area vs JournalFeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Burn Area
This medical application assists doctors in accurately assessing the percentage of body surface area affected by burns. It leverages an extensive database of adult laser body scans to calculate sex and body shape-specific %TBSA burns for improved clinical evaluation.
- Accurate burn area assessment
- Body surface area calculation
- Sex and body shape-specific data
- Large database of laser body scans
- Clinical evaluation tool
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This app is designed to help doctors make more accurate assessment of the body surface area covered by burns. We use the largest available database of adult laser body scans to help clinicians compute sex and body shape-specific %TBSA burns.
JournalFeed
This app delivers curated medical education summaries from PubMed, focusing on Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and POCUS. It provides quick, simple summaries with push notifications for the latest articles. A subscription is required for full content access and CME credits.
- Curated medical article summaries
- Push notifications for new articles
- Covers Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, PEM, POCUS
- Full content access with subscription
- CME credit claiming
- Video content access
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The JournalFeed app brings the best medical education to your iPhone! 1 million new articles are listed on PubMed each year...it's overwhelming. JournalFeed finds the articles that matter and Spoon Feeds them to you. Now, with push notifications - the Spoon Feed just got easier! We cover Emergency Medicine primarily and also Critical Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Quick, simple summaries… delivered. You can view content, but you need a JournalFeed subscription to see it all. On the app, you can view all written posts, and MAX or PREMIUM subscribers can watch all the videos and claim CME credits right from the app. Don't miss any new articles. Allow push notifications to see summaries of the latest articles that will change your practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Burn Area at free against JournalFeed's subscription. Burn Area also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Burn Area against 5.0 for JournalFeed. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Burn Area ships an update every 12 months, JournalFeed every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Burn Area | JournalFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 10 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Edward Vendrow | JournalFeed, LLC |
Customer experience
Burn Area
JournalFeed
In-app purchases
Burn Area
No in-app purchases
JournalFeed
No in-app purchases
