Comparison

Eye Handbook vs Eye Chart HD

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

Head to head
About

Eye Handbook

A comprehensive eye care reference app for ophthalmologists, optometrists, and students. It offers diagnostic tools, treatment references, calculators, educational resources, and community forums to support eye care professionals.

Highlights
  • Diagnostic and treatment reference
  • Eye calculators (visual acuity, diabetic retinopathy, etc.)
  • Medication and pharmacopeia
  • Ophthalmology and optometry journals
  • Patient education tools
  • Peer-to-peer forums
  • Eye atlas and diagrams
Features
Read full description

Eye Handbook (EHB) is an eye care reference book and an all-in-one app for Ophthalmologists, Optometrists as well as Students/Residents pursuing the field of eye care. The Eye Handbook is a smartphone diagnostic and treatment reference app for Ophthalmologists and Optometrists. Below is a list of some of the common features. -Eye Calculators -Transposition Calculator -Visual Acuity Calculator -Age to bifocal -Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Calculator -Dry Eye Disease Calculator -Glaucoma Risk Calculator -Thyroid Eye Disease Calculator -Retinoblastoma Calculator -EHB Indirect Camera -Ocular Trauma Score -Plaquenil Dosing -IOP-CCT -Pupillary Distance -DDX -Testing -ICD9 coding -ICD9 to ICD10 converter -ICD10 coding -Audio, Video downloads -Directory -Eye Atlas -Eye Wiki -Peer-to-peer Forums -Connecting with patients -Ophthalmology and Optometry Journals -Medication and Pharmacopeia -Journals -Eye Diagrams -Patient Education tools -RSS Feeds -Acronym List -Dictionary -Eponyms -Genetics -Mnemonics -Workups -Treatment Reference -Vision Symptoms Cards If you have content that you would like to contribute; please contact us at eyehandbook@gmail.com. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. We are constantly striving to improve this application and welcome your feedback. www.eyehandbook.com The Eye Handbook Team

About

Eye Chart HD

This app provides a clinically evaluated visual acuity screening tool for various settings. It offers randomized Snellen, Tumbling E, and other charts to help assess vision, especially when traditional charts are unavailable or memorized. Additional features are available through a monthly subscription.

Highlights
  • Randomized Snellen charts
  • Tumbling E charts
  • Pocket vision screener
  • Line randomization
  • Chart selector
  • Near vision chart (subscription)
  • Amsler Grid (subscription)
Read full description

Easy to use, clinically evaluated visual acuity screening app. Over 1M people have downloaded our mobile electronic eye charts for iOS. Read below for more information on the clinical evaluations. Useful for: - Triaging - House visits - Hospital rounds - Emergency rooms - Schools - Patients who have memorized the office chart Eye Chart HD is a pocket vision screener: randomized Snellen, Tumbling E, and other charts to offer a rough but useful screen of visual acuity. Simply press a button to randomize the entire eye chart, or touch an individual line of the chart to randomize that line. Swipe right for the chart selector. Eye care professionals around the world use Snellen Eye Charts to measure visual acuity. However, patients often memorize the classic Snellen chart, leading to less accurate vision measurements. Enter Eye Chart HD! Though this unique, pocket-sized randomizable eye chart should not be used as a primary visual acuity measuring tool, it can provide a handy rough vision screen when a chart is not available, or it can be used to complement static, wall-based Snellen charts. Subscription: In addition to our free features, Eye Chart HD offers a subscription to exclusive paid features, including the Randomizable Near Vision Chart, Line Isolation, Amsler Grid, and Single Optotype Charts! The subscription costs $2.99 per month of access and has to be purchased specially within the app. Once purchased, it is available through an auto-renewing subscription which will renew each month for your convenience until you choose to turn it off. Please let us know if you have any questions about your subscription at eyechartapp@gmail.com. Below is further information on clinical evaluations that have been done. Please do check out the papers cited below if you have concerns. We didn't do these tests and can't speak to them, but we are providing them here for transparency and your reference:  Snellen & Tumbling E charts on Eye Chart HD on iPhone: “Comparison of Visual Acuity Measurement Using Three Methods: Standard ETDRS Chart, Near Chart and a Smartphone-Based Eye Chart Application” Clinical Ophthalmology. Conclusion: “VA measurements with the Near Chart and smartphone-based Eye Chart application corresponded well to the standard ETDRS chart, suggesting potential utility of alternative portable VA tests for in-office or remote vision monitoring, particularly during periods of physical distancing such as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era” Sloan Chart on Eye Chart HD on iPhone: “Does the EyeChart App for iPhones Give Comparable Measurements to Traditional Visual Acuity Charts?” The British and Irish Orthoptic Journal. Conclusion: “This study found that the VA scores achieved on the EyeChart app are comparable to those achieved using the gold-standard ETDRS chart in a healthy young adult population. This is a promising finding; however, it is necessary for further large-scale studies to investigate the EyeChart app when used on a variety of patient population groups.” Snellen Chart on Eye Chart HD on iPad Mini: “Comparative Study of the Snellen iPad App versus Traditional Light Box Snellen Chart in Distance Visual Acuity” International Journal of Ophthalmology and Clinical Research. Conclusion: “It showed that the results from Eye Chart HD app used in an iPad Mini 2 agreed with the results of the traditional light-box Snellen Chart when used at the Outpatient Department.“ Rapid Vision Screening Chart on Eye Chart HD on iPhone/iPod: “Assessment of a rapid method to determine approximate visual acuity in large surveys and other such settings.” American Journal of Ophthalmology. Conclusion: “An iPod application requiring about a 1-minute testing time provides an objective, portable, rapid, and low-cost method to determine approximate VA, allowing VA testing to be performed efficiently in large surveys and other settings where approximate VA should be measured.”

Screenshots

Eye Handbook4 screens
Eye Chart HD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Eye Handbook at 82% against Eye Chart HD's 33%. Eye Handbook also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). Eye Chart HD's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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. Eye Chart HD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Eye Handbook asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eye Handbook holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eye Handbook has 1.2K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Eye Handbook's written reviews are positive against 33% of Eye Chart HD's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eye Handbook ships an update every 3 weeks, Eye Chart HD every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Eye Handbook versus Eye Chart HD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEye HandbookEye Chart HD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better4.4 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size480 MB31 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCloud Nine Development LLCDok LLC

Customer experience

Eye Handbook

All ratings1,157 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews163 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral5.5%
Negative12.3%

Eye Chart HD

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral10.0%
Negative56.7%

Bugs and requests

Eye Handbook

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Registration process issues
  • Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
  • Incorrect medication information

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add Tumbling E and Landolt C charts
  • Improve search functionality
  • Provide a paid ad-free version
  • Optimize for larger screens (iPad)

Eye Chart HD

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Eye Handbook

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Eye Chart HD

Subscriptions1
  • Professional Subscription$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Eye Chart HD Full Version$0.99

Questions

Is Eye Handbook free?
Eye Handbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Eye Chart HD free?
Eye Chart HD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Eye Handbook or Eye Chart HD?
Eye Handbook is rated higher. Eye Handbook averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Eye Chart HD averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do Eye Handbook or Eye Chart HD have ads?
Both Eye Handbook and Eye Chart HD show ads.
Which is updated more often, Eye Handbook or Eye Chart HD?
Eye Handbook ships an update every 3 weeks, and Eye Chart HD every 6 months. Most recently, Eye Handbook was updated on October 27, 2026 and Eye Chart HD on October 26, 2026.

Other comparisons