Comparison

UpToDate vs Dawn Health Intelligence

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

Head to head
About

UpToDate

This clinical decision support tool provides healthcare professionals with evidence-based guidance to improve patient care. It features AI-powered conversational answers, continuously updated medical content, and tools for drug reference, calculations, and patient education.

Highlights
  • Expert AI conversational guidance
  • Gold standard clinical content
  • Practice-changing updates
  • Patient education materials
  • Drug reference and interactions
  • Clinical calculators
  • Kidney dosing guidance
Features
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UpToDate is the clinical decision support solution trusted by over 3M healthcare professionals to help improve care delivery and patient outcomes. Now powered by UpToDate Expert AI, a generative AI experience built on rigorously maintained UpToDate clinical intelligence to delivers fast, clinically grounded answers through a conversational interface. Expert AI, available in select packages and applications, brings together the latest evidence and real-world clinical expertise and provides transparent sourcing, embedded guardrails, and oversight, supporting clinical reasoning and helping clinicians make confident, informed decisions. Key features include: • Expert AI: Conversational guidance that mirrors how clinicians think. • Gold Standard Clinical Content: Clinician-authored clinical intelligence and graded recommendation, enriched with clinical algorithms, graphics, videos, and continuously updated to reflect the latest evidence and clinical care experience. • Practice-Changing Updates: Timely insights that reflect the latest evidence and how it impacts patient care. • Patient Education: Thousands of patient education leaflets in up to 19 different languages to improve patient understanding and support care plan adherence. • Key Points Panels: Quick, clinically actionable guidance to help clinicians avoid common diagnostic and treatment errors embedded in UpToDate search results. • Drug Reference & Interactions: Evidence-based drug monographs and interaction analysis to support safe and informed prescribing decisions. • Clinical Calculators: Over 200 tools to support dosing, risk scoring, and patient assessments. • Rx Transitions: Step-by-step support for switching antidepressants safely. • Kidney Dosing: Drug dosing guidance for patients with renal impairment. Available on mobile, desktop, and integrated into EHRs, ensuring you can access UpToDate’s trusted guidance where and when you need it. Access to features will vary depending on your UpToDate account. Expert AI is now available in personal trainee subscriptions and UpToDate Pro Plus subscriptions in the US, and through select Enterprise Edition accounts. To get access, explore personal subscription options on the UpToDate website or contact your Enterprise account lead. This app is designed for use by medical professionals. If you are not a medical professional, please consult a qualified healthcare provider before making any medical decisions.

About

Dawn Health Intelligence

This AI-powered medical scribe assists clinicians by automatically generating structured SOAP notes, suggesting ICD-10 codes, and providing E&M billing recommendations. It allows for custom template creation and voice editing, freeing up more time for patient interaction.

Highlights
  • AI-generated SOAP notes
  • ICD-10 code suggestions
  • E&M billing recommendations
  • Patient visit summaries
  • Customizable templates
  • Voice editing
Features
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Dawn is an AI medical scribe built for clinicians who'd rather spend time with patients than their keyboard. Record a visit, and Dawn delivers: A structured SOAP note, organized and ready to edit. Suggested ICD-10 codes you can accept, edit, or search. E&M billing recommendations with MDM-based justification. A plain-language visit summary to share with your patient. Build your own templates by describing what you want. No syntax, no setup. Organize patients cleanly, revisit past notes in a tap, and edit any note by voice. Dawn fits the way you already work. Faster documentation. Cleaner coding. Better notes. More time for the part of medicine that matters.

Screenshots

UpToDate4 screens
Dawn Health Intelligence4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dawn Health Intelligence at 100% against UpToDate's 28%. Dawn Health Intelligence also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and monetization model (free vs subscription). UpToDate's advantage is ratings volume (586 vs 3). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dawn Health Intelligence holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UpToDate has 586 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of UpToDate's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dawn Health Intelligence's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UpToDate ships an update every 5 weeks, Dawn Health Intelligence every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
UpToDate versus Dawn Health Intelligence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUpToDateDawn Health Intelligence
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (586 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings586 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB31 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperUpToDate, Inc.Rakan Armoush

Customer experience

UpToDate

All ratings579 ratings
Positive60.4%
Neutral10.4%
Negative29.2%
Written reviews386 reviews
Positive28.2%
Neutral9.6%
Negative62.2%

Dawn Health Intelligence

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

UpToDate

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to download offline content
  • Constant need to re-authenticate
  • Incompatibility with recent iOS updates

Requested features

3 requests
  • Highlight and annotate content
  • Improved institutional login support
  • Dark mode and font size options

Dawn Health Intelligence

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

UpToDate

No in-app purchases

None

Dawn Health Intelligence

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UpToDate free?
UpToDate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dawn Health Intelligence free?
Dawn Health Intelligence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, UpToDate or Dawn Health Intelligence?
Dawn Health Intelligence is rated higher. UpToDate averages 3.6 out of 5 from 586 ratings, while Dawn Health Intelligence averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do UpToDate or Dawn Health Intelligence have ads?
Neither UpToDate nor Dawn Health Intelligence shows ads.
Which is updated more often, UpToDate or Dawn Health Intelligence?
UpToDate ships an update every 5 weeks, and Dawn Health Intelligence every 8 days. Most recently, UpToDate was updated on November 6, 2026 and Dawn Health Intelligence on October 24, 2026.

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