MBS Search vs iTransfuse
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.
iTransfuse
Provides healthcare professionals with evidence-based resources for safe blood transfusions. Access educational tools, diagnostic information on transfusion reactions, and guidance for prescribing red cells and platelets at the bedside.
- Bedside transfusion education
- Evidence-based transfusion guidance
- Red cell and platelet prescription support
- Transfusion reaction diagnostics
- Access to transfusion resources
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Developed by Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, iTransfuse provides clinicians with easy access to transfusion resources to help support safe and appropriate transfusion practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iTransfuse at 100% against MBS Search's 49%. iTransfuse also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). MBS Search's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
MBS Search holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iTransfuse has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of MBS Search's written reviews are positive against 100% of iTransfuse's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MBS Search ships an update every 6 weeks, iTransfuse every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MBS Search | iTransfuse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.3 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Umbrella Network Pty Limited | Australian Red Cross Society |
Customer experience
MBS Search
iTransfuse
In-app purchases
MBS Search
No in-app purchases
iTransfuse
No in-app purchases
