Comparison

Eponyms vs uCentral™ for Institutions

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Eponyms

This app provides a quick reference for approximately 1800 medical eponyms, including common and obscure terms. It features full-text search, categorized browsing, and a learn mode for studying. Star your favorite eponyms for easy recall and practice.

Highlights
  • 1800+ medical eponyms
  • Full text search
  • Browse by 26 categories
  • Star favorite eponyms
  • Recently accessed list
  • Quick learn mode
Features
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Eponyms brings a short description of about 1800 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. A perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym. It uses the beautiful eponym database from Andrew J. Yee (http://www.eponyms.net/). ## Features • About 1800 eponyms • Full text search • Browse by any of the 26 categories • Star eponyms to keep track of the eponyms you tend to forget or with which you want to test your students on • List of recently accessed eponyms • Quick and easy learn mode ## Learn Mode The learn mode allows you to: • swipe to the left to show a random eponym but not its title • swipe to the right to show a random eponym title but not its text • pull down to reveal the hidden info Learn mode displays eponyms from the category you're currently visiting. This means you can either learn eponyms from a given category, only the ones that you've starred or simply all of them. ## Students Look out for the free student version of Eponyms: it's identical to to this version but free for educational purposes!

About

uCentral™ for Institutions

This app provides clinicians and trainees with essential medical references and tools at the point of care. It aggregates trusted medical content, including full-text journal articles and quick-reference guides, directly to mobile devices through institutional subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Prime PubMed with exclusive journal searching
  • Access to over 30 medical references
  • Full-text journal articles with local holdings links
  • Visual literature exploration with Grapherence®
  • Universal index and full-text searching
  • Personalized favorites with tagging
  • Custom notes and highlights
Features
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** Features Prime PubMed with exclusive journal searching tools ** == PLEASE NOTE: This application requires an institutional subscription. == ** CURRENT uCentral subscribers can download content to their iOS device and Mac computer at no cost. ** ** To find out if your institution subscribes to uCentral, please contact your librarian or system administrator ** _________________________________________ uCentral™ uCentral is the only all-in-one app that delivers the information a clinician or trainee needs at the point of care. uCentral gives libraries and institutions the power to deliver trusted medical reference content, valuable tools, and full-text journal articles directly to their patron’s mobile devices. With uCentral, each institution creates a customized aggregation of quick-reference content and makes it available to all of their patrons. uCentral includes Prime PubMed, delivering millions of articles to your iPhone® and iPad®. With links directly to local holdings, uCentral leverages your library’s journal collection by providing patrons direct access to full-text articles. Lastly, explore the literature like never before with Grapherence® - a revolutionary approach to finding relevant articles visually More than 30 references are available through uCentral, including: • Exclusive! Johns Hopkins Guides (ABX, Diabetes, HIV, Psych) • The Washington Manual • 5-Minute Clinical Consult • Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking • Harrison’s Manual of Medicine • Davis’s Drug Guide • Taber’s Medical Dictionary • Red Book from the American Academy of Pediatrics • Cardiothoracic Surgery E-Book from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons FEATURES: • Universal Index and Full Text Searching – quickly find topics across all references • Cross Links for fast navigation between resources • Personalized favorites with tagging • Frequent updates and new editions when they’re published • Create custom notes and highlights within entries • On-device alerts • Recently Viewed feature • Web access _________________________________________ Instructions for current subscribers: • Install this application to your iOS device • Open the application and enter your uCentral username and password, then tap “Login.” • The latest uCentral content will download to your device. Content available through uCentral includes: 5-Minute Clinical Consult, Johns Hopkins Guides, Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Taber’s Medical Dictionary, Davis’s Drug Guide, McGraw-Hill’s Diagnosaurus, Davis’s Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, Diseases and Disorders, Clinical Evidence, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, STS Cardiothoracic Surgery E-Book, APSA Pediatric Surgery NaT, Red Book, and more. Unbound Privacy Policy: www.unboundmedicine.com/privacy Unbound Terms of Use: https://www.unboundmedicine.com/end_user_license_agreement

Screenshots

Eponyms4 screens
uCentral™ for Institutions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: uCentral™ for Institutions at Free against Eponyms's $1.99. uCentral™ for Institutions also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 2). Eponyms's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

uCentral™ for Institutions is free to download; Eponyms costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

uCentral™ for Institutions holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uCentral™ for Institutions has 3.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Eponyms's written reviews are positive against 90% of uCentral™ for Institutions's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eponyms ships an update every 7 months, uCentral™ for Institutions every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Eponyms versus uCentral™ for Institutions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEponymsuCentral™ for Institutions
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.9 (3.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB13 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperOssus GmbHUnbound Medicine, Inc.

Customer experience

Eponyms

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral4.5%
Negative22.7%

uCentral™ for Institutions

All ratings3,080 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

Bugs and requests

Eponyms

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

uCentral™ for Institutions

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more practice questions/quizzes
  • Improve dictionary/definition functionality
  • Provide offline access to more content

In-app purchases

None

Eponyms

No in-app purchases

None

uCentral™ for Institutions

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Eponyms free?
Eponyms costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is uCentral™ for Institutions free?
uCentral™ for Institutions is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Eponyms or uCentral™ for Institutions?
uCentral™ for Institutions is rated higher. Eponyms averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while uCentral™ for Institutions averages 4.9 from 3.1K ratings.
Do Eponyms or uCentral™ for Institutions have ads?
Neither Eponyms nor uCentral™ for Institutions shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eponyms or uCentral™ for Institutions?
Eponyms ships an update every 7 months, and uCentral™ for Institutions every 3 months. Most recently, Eponyms was updated on October 4, 2026 and uCentral™ for Institutions on October 17, 2026.

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