CPS by CPhA vs Antibiograms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CPS by CPhA
Access essential, evidence-based drug information for healthcare professionals. Choose between drug monographs or full access with therapeutic guidance and tools. Stay updated with critical warnings and advisories.
- Evidence-based drug monographs
- Therapeutic information
- Non-prescription therapy guidance
- Drug tables and algorithms
- Medical calculators
- Critical updates and warnings
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CPS (formerly RxTx) has a new appearance. CPS is still the reliable, evidence-based drug resource it has always been and provides essential drug information at the point-of-care for health care practitioners. Now offering two subscription options – CPS Drug Information or CPS Full Access. CPS Drug Information is the Canadian standard for drug monographs, containing thousands of products including monographs for drugs, vaccines, natural health products and medical devices, approved by Health Canada. CPS Full Access includes all content from CPS Drug Information and the most current, evidence-based therapeutic information and non-prescription therapy for most common conditions, with cross-referenced drug tables and algorithms and DC condition-based drug tables. Both subscriptions types provide critical updates such as warnings and advisories; and useful tools such as medical calculators.
Antibiograms
This app provides healthcare professionals with local antibiotic susceptibility data to guide empirical treatment of infections. Users can select bacteria and patient groups to view antibiotic effectiveness based on local laboratory testing.
- Local susceptibility patterns
- Select bacterium and patient group
- View antibiotic effectiveness
- Download and switch databases
- Customizable drug/organism fields
- Distribute databases via email
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Antibiograms help healthcare professionals and clinical microbiologists choose the most effective antibiotics to empirically treat infections, based on local susceptibility patterns. Now this valuable information can be available to them on iPhone/iPad mobile devices. With the Antibiograms app, you simply select a bacterium, select a patient group, and you are given the proportion of susceptible organisms for each antibiotic tested in your local laboratory. Features: - download multiple databases and switch between them quickly and easily - customizable fields for each drug or organism, which can be populated with treatment recommendations, drug dosing and costing information, or clinical alerts specific for your hospital/health region - easy to update by emailing new databases to users To learn how to create an Antibiograms database for your laboratory, hospital, or health region, contact our support. You can distribute your database via email, and then open it in this app. DISCLAIMER: This app has been developed for use by qualified healthcare professionals only. Neither the app developer nor the database publisher shall be liable for any loss or damage which may arise from its use. The Antibiograms database pre-loaded in this app is fictitious and for example purposes only. It should not be used for any diagnostic or medical purposes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Antibiograms at free against CPS by CPhA's subscription. CPS by CPhA's advantage is review sentiment (10% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (14.2 vs 16.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
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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 — 1.0 for CPS by CPhA against 1.0 for Antibiograms. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 10% of CPS by CPhA's written reviews are positive against 0% of Antibiograms's.
CPS by CPhA ships an update every 4 months, Antibiograms every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CPS by CPhA | Antibiograms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 9.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.2 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 177 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) | Portable Databases |
Customer experience
CPS by CPhA
Antibiograms
In-app purchases
CPS by CPhA
No in-app purchases
Antibiograms
No in-app purchases
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