Eponyms vs uCentral™ for Institutions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 1800+ medical eponyms
- Full text search
- Browse by 26 categories
- Star favorite eponyms
- Recently accessed list
- Quick learn mode
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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!
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Eponyms | uCentral™ for Institutions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (3.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ossus GmbH | Unbound Medicine, Inc. |
Customer experience
Eponyms
uCentral™ for Institutions
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
Eponyms
No in-app purchases
uCentral™ for Institutions
No in-app purchases
Questions
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