ACEP vs JournalFeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ACEP
Access essential medical information and resources for patient care, all consolidated in one convenient location. This application provides the tools and knowledge needed by healthcare professionals, when they need it most.
- All-in-one medical information
- Patient care resources
- On-demand access
- Essential tools for physicians
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ACEP is here for you so you can be there for your patients, everything you need to know, all in one place. The ACEP app is here to give you what you need, when you need it.
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 rating: JournalFeed at 5.0 against ACEP's 4.5. ACEP's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
JournalFeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ACEP has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ACEP ships an update monthly, JournalFeed every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ACEP | JournalFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | American College of Emergency Physicians | JournalFeed, LLC |
Customer experience
ACEP
JournalFeed
In-app purchases
ACEP
No in-app purchases
JournalFeed
No in-app purchases
