QARRD vs PHM Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QARRD
This app helps health professions educators ask higher-order questions to learners. It uses Bloom's Taxonomy verbs to encourage critical thinking and application of knowledge. Use it in clinical or educational settings to enhance learning discussions.
- Higher-order question generation
- Bloom's Taxonomy verb integration
- Enhances critical thinking
- Designed for health professions education
- Real-time discussion aid
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The Questioning Aid for Rich, Real-Time Discussion (QARRD) app was designed to assist health professions educators in asking higher-order questions of our learners using verbs from Bloom’s Taxonomy. Higher-order questions push learners to apply, analyze, evaluate, create and drive enhanced critical thinking skills. Download the QARRD. Use it tomorrow on rounds or in the clinic. You owe it to your learners.
PHM Events
Navigate educational activities and access conference offerings for pediatric hospitalists. Customize your schedule, find exhibit booths, and connect with other attendees via social media.
- Conference schedule customization
- Exhibit booth locator
- Attendee networking
- Social media integration
- Access to educational activities
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The PHM Conference app helps you navigate through PHM’s educational activities and provides comprehensive, direct access to conference offerings that are available to you. The Pediatric Hospital Medicine conference is the premier educational conference for pediatric hospitalists and other professionals involved in the care of hospitalized children. The largest meeting of the year for hospitalists, the conference is co-sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the AAP Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM), the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). Customize your conference schedule, locate the exhibit booths you want to visit and more. Get interactive with social media or locate and message other conference attendees.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: QARRD at 5.0 against PHM Events's 4.6. PHM Events's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). 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.
QARRD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PHM Events has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
QARRD ships an update every 3 months, PHM Events monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QARRD | PHM Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (30 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | University of Louisville | Society of Hospital Medicine |
Customer experience
QARRD
PHM Events
In-app purchases
QARRD
No in-app purchases
PHM Events
No in-app purchases
