Elsevier eBooks+ vs AAP Campus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elsevier eBooks+
Access your medical textbooks offline and enhance your learning with tools for note-taking, highlighting, and flashcard creation. Sync your progress and annotations across devices for a seamless study experience.
- Offline book access
- Note-taking and highlighting
- Flashcard creation
- Cross-device syncing
- In-book search
- Figure viewing and zooming
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The Elsevier eBooks+ Bookshelf companion app provides on and offline access to the books in your eBooks+ account on the Content Library page. Enhance your reading experience with tools designed to build and improve your medical knowledge; making and sharing notes, highlighting key text, and creating flashcards. Elsevier eBooks Features: • Download books to your iOS device for easy online or offline reading. • Simple, user-friendly navigation and a clean reading experience. • Search inside your current book or across your full library. • Select text to create notes or highlights from your mobile device. • Tap to open figures, view captions, and pinch to zoom. • Sync your bookmarks, last page read, and all of your notes and highlights between your iOS device and our desktop or web-based eBooks+ apps. Requirements: • Elsevier eBooks+ account • One or more books available in your eBooks+ Bookshelf account • iOS 17+
AAP Campus
Access exclusive learning content and professional development programs on the go. This mobile app provides members with flexible access to educational materials, allowing for learning anytime, anywhere.
- Exclusive learning content
- Professional development programs
- Mobile learning access
- On-the-go learning
- Curated educational materials
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AAP Campus offers exclusive learning opportunities through expertly curated content and programs designed to boost your professional development. AAP Campus mobile app offers members flexibility to access their learning materials directly on their mobile device and take learning on the go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Elsevier eBooks+ at every 2 months against AAP Campus's every 19 months. Elsevier eBooks+ also leads on ratings volume (1.9K vs 4). AAP Campus's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). 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
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 — 4.8 for Elsevier eBooks+ against 4.8 for AAP Campus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elsevier eBooks+ has 1.9K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Elsevier eBooks+ ships an update every 2 months, AAP Campus every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Elsevier eBooks+ | AAP Campus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.9K ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 183 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Elsevier Inc. | Association of Academic Physiatrists, Inc |
Customer experience
Elsevier eBooks+
AAP Campus
Bugs and requests
Elsevier eBooks+
Reported bugs
5 issues- Figures placed at the end of chapters
- Search function only works for single words
- Inability to clear search history
- Freezing and crashing issues
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
8 requests- More highlighting and note-taking options
- Ability to write, draw, or paste images on pages
- Separate flashcard option integration with Anki/Quizlet
- More font size options
- Streamlined text selection for voiceover
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- Page turning instead of scrolling
- Ability to write on pages
- Interactive features
AAP Campus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Elsevier eBooks+
No in-app purchases
AAP Campus
No in-app purchases
Questions
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