EBMcalc Complete vs Access
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EBMcalc Complete
This comprehensive medical calculator system offers over 720 tools, including formulae, clinical criteria sets, and dose converters. It aids clinicians, educators, nurses, and students in applying Evidence-Based Medicine principles with a vast array of daily-use resources.
- Over 720 medical formulae
- Clinical criteria sets
- Dose and unit converters
- Statistical models
- Embedded data tables
- Decision tree tools
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EBMcalc Complete EBMcalc is the most popular and comprehensive Medical Calculator system on the web. EBMcalc has been highly acclaimed, reviewed and tested over the last 25 years. As a trusted resource it has been integrated into many prestigious websites for Medical Education, Medical Literature, Pharmacology, Nursing and more. Now you can put this invaluable resource in the palm of your hand! EBMcalc users should not make any medical decisions based on app content without seeking their doctor's advice. EBMcalc encompasses over 720 pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets, decision tree tools and dose/unit converters used every day by clinicians, educators, nurses, pharmacologists and students of all types. With the growing emphasis on Evidence-Based Medicine, there has never been a greater need for a system such as EBMcalc. EBMcalc Complete Edition mirrors the web based resource http://EBMcalc.com There you can see the complete list of components you’ll have in the iPhone Edition: There are hundreds of basic calculators and unit/dose converters such as: A-a Gradient Anion Gap “Delta-Delta” Adult and pediatric Creat Clearance and GFR calculators Adult Body Mass Index Burn Injury Fluid Resuscitation (Parkland) Cardiac Output Corticosteroid Medication Dosing Conversions Estimated Date of Delivery Pregnancy Calculator Kappa Measurement of Inter-observer Agreement MELD, MELD-Na and PELD Scores Number Needed to Treat/Harm Opioid Medication Dose Conversions Oxygen Delivery Units Conversions PFT Predicted Values (multiple) Peak Expiratory Flow Prediction Pharmacokinetcs calculators SI Unit Conversions: Body Fluid Chemistries Standard Drink Equivalents Water Deficit in Hypernatremia You also get very complex calculators that utilize statistical models and embedded data tables. Calculators such as: Acetaminophen Toxicity Assessment Blood Pressure Percentiles in Children Body Mass Index Percentiles in Children Height for Age Percentiles for Boys Multiple other Pediatric Growth Assessment calculators There are also Hundreds of Clinical Criteria Sets and Decision Tree modules such as: Apgar Score Asthma Hospitalization One Year Risk TreeCalc Behcet's Syndrome International Study Group Criteria BODE Index for COPD Survival Prediction Cardiac Risk Assessments including Framingham studies CHADS-2 Diabetes Type Predictor DVT and PE predictor models Ectopic Pregnancy Risk Estimation Endocarditis Diagnostic Criteria Gail Models for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Hepatitis scoring systems Influenza Diagnosis and Treatment Jones Criteria Metabolic Syndrome Criteria (multiple) Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Prediction Neurofibomatosis Type 2 Diagnostic Criteria Newborn Hyperbilirubinemia Assessment NIH Stroke Score Ottawa and Pittsburgh Orthopedic Rules Perioperative Cardiac Evaluation Pneumonia morbidity and mortality predictors (multiple) Renal Artery Stenosis Prediction Model. Stroke Risk in Patients 55-84 Years Old (Framingham data) Exploring EBMcalc by Specialty reveals the extensive knowledge base and literature review presented in EBMcalc. Specialty indexes include: Anesthesia Anthropometrics Cardiology Critical Care Dermatology Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Epidemiology Gastroenterology Geriatrics Hematology Infectious Disease Medical Education Medical Statistics Nephrology Neurology Nursing Nutrition Oncology Orthopedics Pain Management Pediatrics Pharmacology Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Psychiatry Pulmonology Rheumatology Smoking Cessation Surgery Women's Health Workers' Compensation To practice, teach and learn medicine based on solid, literature based evidence, EBMcalc provides easy to use, interactive tools for your Evidence-Based Medicine.
Access
Access medical learning resources like videos, podcasts, and textbooks on the go. Search for specific topics, save content to collections, and personalize your dashboard. Offline viewing and specialty-specific content are available for subscribed institutional users.
- Search diverse medical resources
- Save and organize content
- Refine by content type
- Offline viewing
- Personalized dashboard
- Specialty-specific content
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Learn when you want, where you want, and how you want. Access is your personal medical resource that makes studying easier and more efficient. Search across a number of medical resources such as videos, podcasts, images, infographics, and textbooks, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine or Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, so that you can learn in a way that suits your style and time constraints. • Find and save resources - search anything from symptoms to procedures and then favorite, or save to a collection. • Refine by content type - get the type of content you want to suit your learning style or time constraints. • Search within content - find the fine details you need. • View figures and tables - view content in its entirety, or just the images and tables. • View content offline - whether it’s a case of bad wifi, or you are traveling, you can always take your content with you. • Curate new collections - save content into your own personal reference library, so you always know where your favorite resources are. • Personal dashboard - create and personalize your own dashboard, allowing you to tailor the Access experience to your needs. • Caters to your specialty - This app has content from the full Access suite of sites, which cater to the following specialties; general medicine, anesthesiology, biomedical science, cardiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, hematology medicine, neurology, advanced practice nursing, ObGyn, pediatrics, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and surgery. This app's content is only fully accessible to users that are linked to an institution that subscribes to a McGraw Hill Access product. All users are offered seven days to link their profile to their subscribing institution.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Access at Free against EBMcalc Complete's $9.99. Access also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). EBMcalc Complete's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 8%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26). 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
Access is free to download; EBMcalc Complete costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Access holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Access has 134 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of EBMcalc Complete's written reviews are positive against 8% of Access's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
EBMcalc Complete ships an update every 6 months, Access monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | EBMcalc Complete | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 4.2 (134 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 8.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 134 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 26 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Foundation Internet Services, LLC | McGraw-Hill |
Customer experience
EBMcalc Complete
Access
Bugs and requests
EBMcalc Complete
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Access
Reported bugs
32 issues- Infinite login loop
- App won't log in
- App broken or glitched
- Unable to access content
- Appendix and introduction absent
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- Cannot search all chapters at once
- Cannot access last sections of chapters
- Text-to-speech mispronounces words
- Text-to-speech requires app to be open
- Does not remember last read position
- Search function unusable
- Accounts do not sync properly
- Books, collections, and favorites not added appropriately
- Crashes and logs out
- Hard to navigate within textbook
- Flash cards won't load
- Cannot open books
- Search bar shows technical difficulties
- Cannot log in after password reset
- App crashes when highlighting content
- Copying text crashes the app
- Lost highlight data after update
- Lost keyword search ability after update
- Favorites are erased
- Books show error message of item not available
- Search function won't find books
- Favorites don't sync from desktop
- Top bar heading obstructs reading
- Book does not appear in the whole screen
- Cannot find books by author or ISBN
- No robotic audio option
- Username difficult to find
Requested features
10 requests- Option to search all chapters at once
- Improve text-to-speech functionality
- Allow text-to-speech to continue when app is in background
- Remember last read position
- Sync favorites across devices
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- iPad optimization
- Browse all books by subscribed module
- Toggle option for top bar heading
- Full screen book display
- Implement robotic audio option
In-app purchases
EBMcalc Complete
No in-app purchases
Access
No in-app purchases
Questions
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