Comparison

cTrials vs PatienTrials

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

PatienTrials

This platform facilitates virtual clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies and clinicians, enhancing efficiency and patient adherence. It leverages instant messaging, HealthKit, AI, and bots to capture high-quality patient data and monitor for adverse events, reducing study risk and development costs.

Highlights
  • Virtual clinical trial management
  • HIPAA & GDPR compliant platform
  • Patient adherence improvement
  • AI-powered adverse event monitoring
  • High-quality patient-generated data
  • Instant messaging integration
Features
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PatienTrials helps pharma companies and clinicians run global clinical trials virtually, more efficiently in a closed community setting over HIPAA & GDPR compliant collaboration platform. PatienTrials aims to improve patient adherence by empowering participants with information on the progress of treatment at their fingertips in a community setting, that promotes self-care. PatienTrials captures high-quality patient generated data through solutions based on instant messaging, HealthKit, AI and bots, is poised to make a positive impact on drug development. Monitored by proprietary AI agent for adverse events, PatienTrials reduces study risk and lowers development costs. Founded in 2016, PatienTrials is the first company to bring clinical trials on to a HIPAA & GDPR compliant instant messaging platform.

Screenshots

cTrials4 screens
PatienTrials4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PatienTrials at 5.0 against cTrials's 3.0. PatienTrials also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 12 months) and device support (4 vs 2). cTrials's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 16.4). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PatienTrials holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

cTrials ships an update every 12 months, PatienTrials every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
cTrials versus PatienTrials: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametercTrialsPatienTrials
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS11.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB122 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperVisual Soft Inc.PatienTrials Inc

Customer experience

cTrials

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

PatienTrials

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

cTrials

No in-app purchases

None

PatienTrials

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is cTrials free?
cTrials is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PatienTrials free?
PatienTrials is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, cTrials or PatienTrials?
PatienTrials is rated higher. cTrials averages 3.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while PatienTrials averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do cTrials or PatienTrials have ads?
Neither cTrials nor PatienTrials shows ads.
Which is updated more often, cTrials or PatienTrials?
cTrials ships an update every 12 months, and PatienTrials every 5 weeks. Most recently, cTrials was updated on November 1, 2026 and PatienTrials on November 2, 2026.

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