CHEST Education vs NACFC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CHEST Education
Access cutting-edge chest medicine knowledge from a world-renowned faculty. This app offers advanced clinical training and keeps your expertise at the forefront of the field.
- World-renowned faculty
- State-of-the-art training facility
- Advanced clinical curriculum
- Cutting-edge knowledge updates
- Chest medicine specialization
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With a world-renowned faculty, state-of-the-art training facility, and an advanced clinical training curriculum, you can trust that CHEST will keep your knowledge set on the cutting-edge of chest medicine.
NACFC
Access event schedules, presentations, exhibitors, and speaker details for NACFC events. Enhance your learning by taking notes directly on presentation slides, posters, and exhibitor information. Connect with other attendees through in-app messaging, tweeting, and emailing.
- View event schedule
- Access presentations and speaker details
- Take notes on slides, posters, and exhibitors
- Draw directly on presentation slides
- In-app messaging with attendees
- Share information via tweeting and emailing
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****FOR ATTENDEES ONLY**** The NACFC mobile application allows you to view the schedule, presentations, exhibitors and speaker details from NACFC events. Users can take notes adjacent available presentation slides and draw directly on slides inside the app. Note-taking is also available in the posters and exhibitors modules. Additionally, users can share information with attendees and colleagues with in app messaging, tweeting and emailing.
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Verdict
CHEST Education and NACFC both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of CHEST Education's written reviews are positive against 0% of NACFC's. CHEST Education also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months). NACFC's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 4.6 for CHEST Education against 4.6 for NACFC. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 133 and 221 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of CHEST Education's written reviews are positive against 0% of NACFC's.
CHEST Education ships an update every 2 months, NACFC every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CHEST Education | NACFC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (133 ratings) — better | 4.6 (221 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 133 | 221 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | American College of Chest Physicians | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
Customer experience
CHEST Education
NACFC
In-app purchases
CHEST Education
No in-app purchases
NACFC
No in-app purchases
Questions
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