MedAbbreviations vs MedicalTerms dictionaryE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MedAbbreviations
Instantly access and understand over 14,000 medical abbreviations. This app helps medical professionals and anyone reading healthcare notes decipher cryptic shorthand. Search, scroll, and bookmark terms for quick reference.
- 14,079 medical abbreviations
- Searchable database
- Alphabetical index
- Bookmark favorites
- Wikipedia integration
- Live updating search
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MedAbbreviations provides instant access to over *fourteen thousand* abbreviations. If you are a medical professional, or if you ever read what a healthcare professional writes, you need to be able to understand those cryptic shorthand scrawls. MedAbbreviations is your solution. Over 14,000 medical abbreviations: scrollable, searchable, and bookmarkable. Why pay more or get less? A tool like this is only as good as its consistency. MedAbbreviations is the right tool for the job; competing applications, with significantly smaller databases, have 1/10th the chance of providing you with the explanation you seek every time. Search by abbreviation via the instant search bar, or scroll with the alphabetical index on the right side. Find what you need, the way you want to find it. You can add abbreviations to your Favorites list by just double-tapping an entry; a star then appears by its name. Your Favorites list is yours to control, ordered how you want. Tapping an abbreviation shows a details screen, with the term and its meaning in large print. MedAbbreviations automatically determines whether a Wikipedia article is available for the meaning. Just tap "View in Wikipedia" or "Search in Google" to do so directly from MedAbbreviations. FEATURES • 14,079 abbreviations, including medical terms, common shorthand, and professional associations and organizations • Definitions shown directly in the main list • View explanations in Wikipedia, with automatic article verification and iPhone-friendly formatting • Fast search, always available and live updating • Fast scanning via the alphabetical index • Favorites list The abbreviations and definitions will be expanded via free updates. Please email support@regularrateandrhthym.com with any requests, reports, or comments, including any other abbreviations you would like to see included!
MedicalTerms dictionaryE
This offline dictionary app provides quick access to over 57,000 English and Chinese medical terms. Easily search and bookmark words for efficient reference on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
- Offline access
- 57,000+ medical terms
- English/Chinese translation
- Search by prefix or partial match
- Bookmark and history functions
- Quick word lookup
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If your job involves English/Chinese words about Medical, maybe this application can help you to finish your work quickly and correctly, because it is an application running on iPhone/iPod Touch, not a heavy book, you can take it out, and look up your words quickly as long as you want to do. This application collected 57061 well-used words about Medical and so on. Features: 1, Easy to use and offline. Just input the word(English/Chinese) in the searching field and the searching result will be displayed. User can set searching mode to prefix or partial. Drag the screen up and new words in the searching result will be showed automatically. 2, Bookmark & history function. You can put the important word to bookmark by touching the '+' button on detail screen. Every word you referenced will be add to history automatically. 3, English, Chinese are displayed on the detail screen at the same time. Tap the word on detail screen, it will be inputed into searching field, so you can perform a new searching. 4, 57061 terms are collected in this application. Supported language(UI): English, Japanese, Chinese Notice: 1, This application only give a quick reference for a word in English and corresponding Chinese, NOT the explanation of the word.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MedAbbreviations at 82% against MedicalTerms dictionaryE's 17%. MedAbbreviations also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). 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
MedAbbreviations costs $0.99 and MedicalTerms dictionaryE $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MedAbbreviations ships an update every 2 months, MedicalTerms dictionaryE every 13 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | MedAbbreviations | MedicalTerms dictionaryE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (272 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 272 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | +4 |
| Developer | Evan Schoenberg | AOBO Co.,Ltd |
Customer experience
MedAbbreviations
MedicalTerms dictionaryE
Bugs and requests
MedAbbreviations
Reported bugs
5 issues- Search bar disappears after viewing first result
- App performance warning on iPhone 7 and newer devices
- Incompatibility with iOS 11 and newer versions
- Occasional search functionality glitches requiring app restart
- Medication identification feature returns no results despite complete information
Requested features
10 requests- Ability to add and save custom abbreviations
- Reverse reference lookup (search by meaning to find abbreviation)
- Flashcard export functionality for bookmarked abbreviations
- Navigation between bookmarked abbreviations without closing
- Proper capitalization support for case-sensitive abbreviations
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- JACHO approved abbreviations indicator
- Expanded alternative medicine terminology (chiropractic, acupuncture)
- NHS UK protocols and terminology section
- Prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms reference
- Better search narrowing and alphabetization options
MedicalTerms dictionaryE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MedAbbreviations
No in-app purchases
MedicalTerms dictionaryE
No in-app purchases
Questions
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