UpToDate vs Peds Clue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Expert AI conversational guidance
- Gold standard clinical content
- Practice-changing updates
- Patient education materials
- Drug reference and interactions
- Clinical calculators
- Kidney dosing guidance
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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.
Peds Clue
This medical reference app provides emergency and urgent care clinicians with essential information on pediatric diagnoses. It covers presentations, evaluations, and management tailored for children across six age groups, featuring interactive tools and concise clinical cards.
- Pediatric diagnoses and management
- Six age groups (neonates to adolescents)
- Interactive body maps for differentials
- Red flag identification
- Concise clinical cards
- Offline cached content
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Peds Clue is a focused pediatric reference for emergency and urgent care clinicians. Explore pediatric diagnoses and the presentations, evaluation, and management considerations that differ in children. Features: - Six age groups, from neonates through adolescents. - Interactive body maps for symptom-focused differentials. - Red flags to narrow the differential. - Concise clinical cards with pediatric presentation, evaluation, management, and references. - Search and light or dark mode. - Cached content available offline after an initial download. Peds Clue is an educational reference for clinicians. It does not replace clinical judgment, local protocols, or specialist consultation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: UpToDate at 3.6 against Peds Clue's 3.0. UpToDate also leads on ratings volume (585 vs 1). Peds Clue's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
UpToDate holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UpToDate has 585 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | UpToDate | Peds Clue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (585 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 585 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | UpToDate, Inc. | Tom Fadial |
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
Peds Clue
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
UpToDate
No in-app purchases
Peds Clue
No in-app purchases
