cTrials vs Epic Pill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
cTrials
This app provides a mobile interface for searching clinical trials listed on clinicaltrials.gov. It offers user-friendly navigation with basic, advanced, and country-specific search options. Users can save trials to favorites, email listings, and contact investigators.
- Clinical trial search
- Basic and advanced search options
- Search by country/state
- Save trials to favorites
- Email trial listings
- Contact investigators
- Search history
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• A mobile front end for searching clinical trials listed on www.clinicaltrials.gov by National Library of Medicine (NLM/NIH) • All of the features of www.clinicaltrials.gov website are incorporated in this app. • Incorporates user friendly navigation schemes with Basic, Advanced, Refine Search and Search by Country /State features • Predictive Text feature for Basic Search screen • Customizable individual personal profile feature • Empowers the end users to save a clinical trial listing to favorites folder, e-mail the clinical trial, contact an investigator • Save the ‘Search History’ and many more… • Attach a personal profile with voice memo to an Clinical Study Investigator via e-mail • Contact a Clinical Study Investigator through the app
Epic Pill
Discover and participate in clinical trials worldwide. Search for studies, review detailed information, and find clinic locations on an interactive map. Access data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Search global clinical trials
- Review study details
- Locate clinics on map
- Data from ClinicalTrials.gov
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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If you have been looking for a way to participate in clinical trials, you just found it. On both iPhone and iPad this app allows you to search for studies across the planet. Review the study details and locate the clinic on a map. The source of this clinical trial data is ClinicalTrials.gov, a US database.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Epic Pill at 100% against cTrials's 0%. Epic Pill also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months). cTrials's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 16.6). 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.
Epic Pill holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of cTrials's written reviews are positive against 100% of Epic Pill's.
cTrials ships an update every 12 months, Epic Pill every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | cTrials | Epic Pill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Visual Soft Inc. | Gigabit LLC |
Customer experience
cTrials
Epic Pill
In-app purchases
cTrials
No in-app purchases
Epic Pill
No in-app purchases
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