cTrials vs PatienTrials
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
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.
- Virtual clinical trial management
- HIPAA & GDPR compliant platform
- Patient adherence improvement
- AI-powered adverse event monitoring
- High-quality patient-generated data
- Instant messaging integration
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | cTrials | PatienTrials |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Visual Soft Inc. | PatienTrials Inc |
Customer experience
cTrials
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In-app purchases
cTrials
No in-app purchases
PatienTrials
No in-app purchases
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