SIMPL vs CatchUpPeds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SIMPL
This app facilitates workplace-based assessments for medical professionals, enabling the evaluation of entrustable professional activities within medical education settings.
- Workplace-based assessments
- Entrustable professional activities
- Medical education implementation
- Professional development tracking
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SIMPL: Society for Improving Medical Professional Learning makes it feasible to implement workplace-based assessments, including assessment of entrustable professional activities, across medical education.
CatchUpPeds
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CatchUpPeds helps pediatricians and other healthcare professionals stay up to date with recent pediatric literature. The app searches PubMed and Europe PMC daily across a carefully curated selection of leading pediatric, related and general medical journals. Choose the topics, study designs and journals that matter to you and receive a personal overview of new articles. With CatchUpPeds you can: • Quickly review new pediatric publications • Filter by clinical topics and pediatric subspecialties • Select study designs and research phases • Open articles with a clear overview of objective, methods, results and conclusion • Read summaries in Dutch, English or Spanish • Search by title, author, abstract, topic, study design and journal • Save articles of interest • Receive notifications when new articles match your preferences Summaries are based solely on information in the article itself. CatchUpPeds does not add findings or alter reported numbers or results. CatchUpPeds is intended to help follow the literature and does not replace reading the original article or clinical decision-making.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CatchUpPeds at every 3 days against SIMPL's every 2 weeks. SIMPL's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SIMPL ships an update every 2 weeks, CatchUpPeds every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SIMPL | CatchUpPeds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc | Sven van Egmond |
In-app purchases
SIMPL
No in-app purchases
CatchUpPeds
No in-app purchases









