Elsevier eBooks+ vs OphthoCards
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+
OphthoCards
This app provides ophthalmology flashcards and study guides designed for exam preparation. It features progress tracking and offline access to help users learn efficiently.
- Exam-focused flashcards
- Step-wise study guides
- Progress tracking with streaks
- Offline access
- Covers multiple ophthalmology subspecialties
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OphthoCards helps you learn ophthalmology faster with concise, exam-focused flashcards and step-wise study guides. Track progress, build streaks, and focus on the highest-yield facts for OKAP, boards, and daily practice. What you’ll get: • Expert-crafted flashcards across glaucoma, retina, cornea, neuro-ophthalmology, uveitis, pediatrics, oculoplastics, cataract, optics, anatomy • Structured study guides for rapid review • Activity tracker with streaks and daily goals • Offline access on mobile Coming soon • AI-generated custom flashcards, study guides, and audio review Terms of Use - https://content.ophthocards.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OphthoCards at 100% against Elsevier eBooks+'s 43%. OphthoCards also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). Elsevier eBooks+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (1.9K vs 14). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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. OphthoCards sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Elsevier eBooks+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
OphthoCards holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elsevier eBooks+ has 1.9K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Elsevier eBooks+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of OphthoCards's.
Elsevier eBooks+ ships an update every 2 months, OphthoCards every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Elsevier eBooks+ | OphthoCards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 183 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elsevier Inc. | OphthoGenie |
Customer experience
Elsevier eBooks+
OphthoCards
User reviews
Elsevier eBooks+
From 1.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Student / Study friendly
- 🚀 Enhances content
- 👍 Ebooks from Elsevier
- 👍 Great app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unable to view images/tables
- 🐛 Useless for medical textbooks
- 🐛 Positioning issues
- 🐛 Scrolling and zooming problems
- 🐛 Slow loading times
OphthoCards
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great tool to learn on the go
- 👍 Handy and very practical information
- 👍 Slick and fast app
- 👍 Easy to use and helps retain information
- 👍 Perfect for studying on the go
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
OphthoCards
No bugs or feature requests surfaced in reviews.
In-app purchases
Elsevier eBooks+
No in-app purchases
OphthoCards
- Monthly$7.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
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