Smokin'Notes vs GIDEON platform
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smokin'Notes
Access a vast library of study materials and notes created by fellow students. Improve your academic performance with resources tailored for University of Florida courses. Join a community of over 100,000 students who have already benefited.
- UF student notes
- Study materials
- Grade improvement
- Community resources
- Course-specific content
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Get better grades at UF! Smokin’Notes has helped more than 150,000 UF students get great grades. We can help you too!
GIDEON platform
This app provides a comprehensive infectious diseases database for clinicians and students. It features dynamic comparison tables, Bayesian analysis for diagnosis, and historical outbreak data. Access information on diseases, drugs, pathogens, and epidemiological surveys.
- Dynamic comparison tables
- Bayesian analysis for diagnosis
- Differential diagnosis tools
- Historical outbreak data
- Epidemiological database
- Pathogen identification
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GIDEON is ideally suited to save time in Point-of-Care settings while empowering clinicians to consider all possible scenarios. It is a powerful learning tool for Microbiology, Public Health, and Medical students and Residents. Unique features: * Dynamic comparison tables for diseases, drugs, and pathogens * Bayesian analysis-based differential diagnosis (DDx) and pathogen identification tools * First Case Scenario, developed in consultation with the WHO to identify initial cases of known diseases in new settings * Why Not feature, explaining why a given disease did not appear on the list * Interactive historical disease outbreaks and distribution maps, with data going back as far as 1348 AD * A vast epidemiological database covering 230+ geographical areas, updated daily What's inside? 360+ infectious diseases 30,000+ anti-infective drug trade names 75+ vaccines 2,000+ pathogens 235 countries and territories 99,000+ prevalence and seroprevalence surveys 38,000+ graphs 3,200+ images 27,000+ outbreaks 24,000+ country-specific notes 300,000+ references
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GIDEON platform at every 12 months against Smokin'Notes's every 60 months. GIDEON platform also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Smokin'Notes's advantage is ratings volume (122 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
GIDEON platform holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smokin'Notes has 122 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Smokin'Notes ships an update every 60 months, GIDEON platform every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smokin'Notes | GIDEON platform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (122 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 98.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 60 months | Every 12 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Smokin'Notes Inc. | GIDEON Informatics Inc |
Customer experience
Smokin'Notes
GIDEON platform
Bugs and requests
Smokin'Notes
Requested features
1 request- Ability to highlight or write notes on PDF documents using a stylus
GIDEON platform
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Smokin'Notes
No in-app purchases
GIDEON platform
No in-app purchases
Questions
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