VertiGuide vs Thumbslate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VertiGuide
This medical app offers clinicians comprehensive, offline resources for diagnosing dizziness and vertigo. It features instructional videos, animations, flowcharts, and highlights relevant guidelines to aid decision-making. Designed for educational purposes, it provides easy access to clinical sources and is completely ad-free.
- Step-by-step diagnosis algorithms
- Instructional videos and animations
- Flowcharts for decision-making
- Highlights GRACE-3 guidelines
- Offline functionality
- Easy access to clinical sources
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VertiGuide is the app for all a clinician's dizzy needs. Learn the diagnosis algorithms with instructional videos, animations, and flowcharts, all in one offline app. • VertiGuide provides step-by-step educational guides to optimize diagnoses of dizziness and vertigo. • Flow diagrams are joined with instructional animations and videos to help aid your decision-making. • Relevant GRACE-3 guidelines are highlighted. • Clinical sources are easily accessed. • The app's full functionality is available offline to help facilitate easy access anywhere. • VertiGuide is completely ad-free and is offered as an educational tool for clinicians everywhere. This app is intended to be used solely for educational purposes by clinicians and should not be used for medical advice. Any maneuvers demonstrated should not be attempted except by a trained professional. If you or a loved one are suffering from dizziness or any other health concern, please contact your physician.
Thumbslate
This HIPAA-compliant medical app facilitates communication between healthcare providers and hearing-impaired patients. Providers can speak, and the app converts it to text for the patient. Patients can then type responses that the app speaks aloud.
- HIPAA-compliant
- Speech-to-text for patients
- Text-to-speech for patient replies
- Real-time communication
- Facilitates provider-patient interaction
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This free app for the hearing-impaired and their health care providers is private, HIPAA-compliant, and free. From the makers of Innaslide, now without sign language or lip reading, providers can speak aloud to their hearing impaired but literate patients! Patients will see our medically-fluent speech to text in real time, and the patient can type a reply and decide when it is ready to be spoken aloud by the device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: VertiGuide at 3 against Thumbslate's 1. VertiGuide also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 — 5.0 for VertiGuide against 5.0 for Thumbslate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
VertiGuide ships an update monthly, Thumbslate every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VertiGuide | Thumbslate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 292 MB | 454 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rodney oMRON | Anescribe, LLC |
Customer experience
VertiGuide
Thumbslate
In-app purchases
VertiGuide
No in-app purchases
Thumbslate
No in-app purchases
