Comparison

CorePendium vs PediSwipe

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

Head to head
About

CorePendium

This app provides a comprehensive, continuously updated, and peer-reviewed clinical reference for Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine. It features integrated multimedia, offline access, intuitive navigation, and medical calculators, making it an essential tool for medical professionals on the go.

Highlights
  • Expert-backed, continuously revised content
  • Integrated media library (ECGs, X-rays, videos, audio)
  • Offline access to all content
  • Intuitive navigation with Rapid Access and Deep Dive sections
  • Integrated medical calculators
  • Links to EM:RAP knowledge base content
Features
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The textbook is dead. Long live CorePendium! CorePendium is the first truly comprehensive, continuously updated, peer-reviewed, multimedia clinical reference for Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine. Download the CorePendium App and bring the best clinical reference text with you anywhere in the world, regardless of connectivity. With your EM:RAP account, the CorePendium App allows you to join over 65,000 members of the CorePendium community. The CorePendium App gives you… • EXPERT-BACKED CONTENT — Written, edited, and peer-reviewed by a team of over 800 leading academics and practitioners, every CorePendium chapter is continuously revised by leading experts in emergency medicine and beyond. • INTEGRATED MEDIA — Comprehensive learning requires more than just words. Dive into our constantly growing media library of ECG’s and X-rays, as well as expertly-produced videos and audio segments. Look, listen, and learn, all without leaving the CorePendium App. • OFFLINE MODE — With new chapters being added and updated frequently to reflect the latest literature and practice guidelines, the CorePendium App makes sure you always have the newest information at your fingertips, 24 hours a day. The app looks for updates to its offline database every time you’re active online, so that you have the answers you need, no matter what. Do you want access to our skillfully-shot procedure videos and expert commentary away from a wireless connection? You can choose to download our audio and video content to ensure access when you need it most. • INTUITIVE NAVIGATION — Designed to prioritize all of the crucial information and media needed for the critical patient, CorePendium’s ‹Rapid Access› section gives you the quick insights you’ll need at the bedside. If you are looking for more background, the ‹Deep Dive› section provides all the information you’ll need to know about a topic. Sleek chapter sidebars, internal searches, search filters, and curated tabs ensure you can find what you need when you need it. • MEDICAL CALCULATORS — Get all of the commonly used clinical scoring and decision tools you need, with important interpretation data compiled by some of medicine’s foremost experts just a thumb slide away. Our calculators are also integrated with the content that uses it most. • PART OF THE EM:RAP KNOWLEDGE BASE — CorePendium is just one piece of the EM:RAP universe. The CorePendium App takes full advantage of its special connection to the most listened to programs in Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine by integrating that content. With continuously updated links to video, conference content, and podcasts you’ll always get the most cutting-edge answers. • INTERNATIONAL — CorePendium is for the whole world. We have an international advisory board that aims to address emergency care for patients and practitioners in all of the various environments where it is practiced. • EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE — CorePendium is written by clinicians for clinicians, without the support of advertising or industry. With the CorePendium App you just get the best information, current and expertly reviewed. • THE REFERENCE OF RECORD — Accessed millions of times, CorePendium is already the reference textbook used by residency training programs and frontline clinicians the world over.

About

PediSwipe

This medical reference app provides weight-based pediatric dosing and resuscitation calculations for healthcare professionals. It offers quick access to critical information on medications, equipment, and vital signs, designed for use in emergency situations on a smartwatch.

Highlights
  • Weight-based pediatric dosing
  • Cardiac resuscitation calculations
  • Airway management tools
  • Vital signs monitoring
  • Shock and fluid calculations
  • Seizure management pathways
  • Trauma and burn resuscitation
Features
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PediSwipe brings weight-based pediatric dosing to your Apple Watch — built for the bedside, the resus bay, and hands that are too busy for a phone. In a pediatric code, every second matters. Fumbling with a phone, flipping through a paper Broselow tape, or scrolling an app isn't an option when your hands are busy. PediSwipe delivers weight-based medication dosing, equipment sizing, defibrillation settings, and vasopressor infusion calculations to your wrist in 2 taps or fewer. HOW IT WORKS Enter the child's age, weight, or height. PediSwipe estimates weight using validated formulas (Graves et al., 2014) and assigns a Broselow color zone (Grey through Green, covering 3–36 kg). Every screen instantly updates with zone-specific values. WHAT'S INCLUDED - Cardiac Resuscitation — Epinephrine, amiodarone, adenosine, atropine, defibrillation/cardioversion energy, H's and T's - Airway — ETT (cuffed/uncuffed), LMA, i-gel, GlideScope, blade & BVM sizing, RSI sequence, vent settings - Vital Signs — Animated bedside monitor with HR, SBP, SpO₂, RR. Tap any vital for age-adjusted norms, SIPA shock index, MAP targets, urine output, glucose, and defibrillation energy - Shock & Fluids — Crystalloid bolus, blood products, Holliday-Segar maintenance rate - Pressors — 7 vasopressor/inotrope infusions with concentration-based ml/hr calculations - Seizures — ESETT-based benzodiazepine pathway, levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, phenobarbital, valproic acid - Trauma — TXA, massive transfusion protocol (PRBC/FFP/PLT/Cryo), ABCDE primary survey - Burns — Modified Brooke fluid resuscitation, Lund-Browder TBSA, transfer criteria - Calculators — PECARN, CATCH, UTICalc, Wesley croup score, GCS (standard + pediatric) - Post-Intubation — Analgesia, sedation, and paralysis infusions - Plus: Anaphylaxis, Respiratory, Sedation, Analgesia, Toxicology, Fever, Hypoglycemia, Common Meds 17 clinical categories. 11 calculators. All weight-based, all on your wrist. EVIDENCE-BASED All dosing references AHA PALS 2020, Surviving Sepsis Campaign Pediatric Guidelines, AAP clinical pathways, and peer-reviewed literature. Full citations with DOIs accessible in Settings → About → Sources. BUILT FOR THE RESUSCITATION BAY - 2 taps max to critical information - Glove-friendly: large tap targets, Digital Crown navigation - Broselow color-coded interface - 3 entry modes: weight, age, or height - Works offline — no ads, no account, no data collected PediSwipe is a clinical reference tool for licensed healthcare professionals. Not a substitute for clinical judgment. Verify all dosing against institutional protocols.

Screenshots

CorePendium4 screens
PediSwipe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: PediSwipe at free against CorePendium's freemium. PediSwipe also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). CorePendium's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for CorePendium against 5.0 for PediSwipe. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CorePendium has 1.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CorePendium ships an update monthly, PediSwipe weekly. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CorePendium versus PediSwipe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCorePendiumPediSwipe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB6 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperEM:RAP, Inc.Parmjyot Singh

Customer experience

CorePendium

All ratings1,534 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral1.0%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%

PediSwipe

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

CorePendium

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on launch
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • iPad version
  • Ability to track progress and bookmark content
  • Video playback controls (speed, rewind)

PediSwipe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CorePendium

No in-app purchases

None

PediSwipe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CorePendium free?
CorePendium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PediSwipe free?
PediSwipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CorePendium or PediSwipe?
PediSwipe is rated higher. CorePendium averages 4.9 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while PediSwipe averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do CorePendium or PediSwipe have ads?
Neither CorePendium nor PediSwipe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CorePendium or PediSwipe?
CorePendium ships an update monthly, and PediSwipe weekly. Most recently, CorePendium was updated on November 11, 2026 and PediSwipe on November 11, 2026.

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