MBS Search vs ARF RHD Guidelines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MBS Search
Access the Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule on your iPhone to quickly find item numbers and calculate bills. It offers fee descriptions with Gap Cover rates and allows for easy bill emailing and creation of favorite item lists.
- Find Medicare item numbers quickly
- Calculate bills for multiple item numbers
- View Gap Cover rates
- Automatic Assistant fee calculations
- Email bills and item numbers
- Create favorite item lists
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Get the latest Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule free on your iPhone: Find items numbers super fast. Automatically calculate bills for cases with multiple item numbers. Fee descriptions include Gap Cover rates for 60 different fee schedules. Automatic Assistant fee calculations. Email bills and item numbers to your rooms: simple out of pocket expense calculations. Create your own favourites for commonly used items or groups of items.
ARF RHD Guidelines
This app provides clinicians with up-to-date evidence and guidance for diagnosing and managing acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. It includes a diagnostic calculator based on global criteria to simplify complex algorithms.
- Diagnosis and management of ARF/RHD
- Up-to-date evidence-based information
- ARF Diagnosis Calculator
- Global diagnostic criteria compliance
- Published by RHDAustralia
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Rheumatic heart disease represents the greatest cardiovascular inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. From 2013 to 2017, 94% of all new rheumatic heart disease cases were among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This app assists clinicians in the diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. Published by RHDAustralia, based at Menzies School of Health Research, the app contains the most up-to-date evidence and details various aspects of patient care. It is informed by the 2020 Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (3rd edition), available at https://www.rhdaustralia.org.au/arf-rhd-guideline. The app also contains an ARF Diagnosis Calculator which embeds the lengthy and complex ARF diagnosis algorithms into a series of simple questions that assist clinicians to diagnose ARF. The algorithms comply with the 2015 American Heart Association revision of the Jones Criteria for diagnosis of ARF, which has been endorsed by the World Heart Federation, making the Diagnosis Calculator now able to be used globally.
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Verdict
MBS Search and ARF RHD Guidelines both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ARF RHD Guidelines's written reviews are positive against 49% of MBS Search's. ARF RHD Guidelines also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). MBS Search's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 16 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MBS Search against 5.0 for ARF RHD Guidelines. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of MBS Search's written reviews are positive against 100% of ARF RHD Guidelines's.
MBS Search ships an update every 6 weeks, ARF RHD Guidelines every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MBS Search | ARF RHD Guidelines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Umbrella Network Pty Limited | Menzies School of Health Research |
Customer experience
MBS Search
ARF RHD Guidelines
Bugs and requests
MBS Search
Reported bugs
20 issues- Crashes after latest update
- Item numbers difficult to find for GP
- Medicare rebate calculation incorrect
- Crashing frequently
- No ability to change insurance details
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- Items only show Medicare rates
- Item numbers not updated
- Lost favorites after updates
- Favorites reset randomly
- Crashes with iPhone X
- Crashes when changing anesthesia billing times
- Crashing with iOS update
- Excision section broken
- Favorites wiped on upgrade
- Calculation for 51303 not accurate
- Cannot scan patient label
- Not working with iPhone 5
- Crashes on start up
- Hangs and crashes on skin procedures menu
- No listing of fees for visits
Requested features
7 requests- Update insurance covers
- Update with July release codes
- Add landscape orientation for iPad
- Improve sorting of categories
- Easier favorite adding
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- Ability to mail log book
- Differentiate GP vs Specialist procedures
ARF RHD Guidelines
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MBS Search
No in-app purchases
ARF RHD Guidelines
No in-app purchases
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