SafeDosePro vs publica.la Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SafeDosePro
This electronic medication reference tool provides pre-hospital and hospital workers with essential drug information. It offers mixing instructions, dosing, and administration details on a single page, instantly calculating doses based on patient weight and clinical need. The app aims to improve medication safety and clinical outcomes by eliminating the need for manual calculations.
- Automated medication dosing calculations
- Mixing and administration instructions
- Dose calculation by weight and clinical need
- Medically reviewed content
- Eliminates manual calculations
- Reduces medication errors
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SafeDose® is an electronic medication reference tool. It contains acute medications provided for pre-hospital and hospital workers by SafeDose as a public service. SafeDose provides mixing instructions, dosing, and drug administration information on a single, actionable page. Choose the patient’s weight and clinical need, and instantly see the dose in mg, volume in mL, dilution, delivery information, and dangers. The content is tailored to remove irrelevant information and to eliminate the need for math or memorization by the caregiver. This improves medication safety, reduces the cost of care, and improves clinical outcomes. iMedicalApps’ review describes SafeDose as "useful and well designed... Undoubtedly, the potential for medication errors would be reduced if practitioners were to rely on the information provided by this app". A university research study published in the Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics found that after less than 10 minutes of training, the use of the SafeDose system increased the accuracy of medication doses prepared during simulated pediatric emergencies by nearly 25 percent, and completely eliminated clinically significant errors. The research also showed that use of the hospital version of SafeDose, as compared to traditional processes, reduced the time required to prepare medication during an emergency. Used by hundreds of hospitals and many thousands of practitioners, all SafeDose medical content is medically reviewed for accuracy.
publica.la Reader
Access all your purchased books and audiobooks from various creators in one place. Download titles for offline reading, customize your reading experience, and enjoy features like adjustable playback speed for audiobooks.
- Access content from multiple creator stores
- Download for offline reading
- Adjustable text size and layout
- Zoom for magazines and comics
- Word and phrase translation
- Adjustable audiobook playback speed
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Around the world, thousands of content creators offer millions of their books and audiobooks through their own stores with publica.la. With publica.la Reader you can access your favorite content from a single app and without an Internet connection. • Explore all the content of all the stores you are part of • Borrow and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines • Download titles to read offline and save data • Keep your reading position automatically synced across all your devices In our beautiful and intuitive ebook reader: • Adjust the text size, background color and layout of the book • Zoom on magazines and comics • Translate words and phrases • Add bookmarks, notes and highlights In our innovative audio player: • Reduce or speed up audio (0.6 to 3.0x) • Add bookmarks, notes and highlights Happy reading!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SafeDosePro at 59% against publica.la Reader's 17%. SafeDosePro also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (138 vs 24). publica.la Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 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.
SafeDosePro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SafeDosePro has 138 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of SafeDosePro's written reviews are positive against 17% of publica.la Reader's.
SafeDosePro ships an update every 2 months, publica.la Reader every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SafeDosePro | publica.la Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (138 ratings) — better | 3.4 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.5% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 138 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | SafeDose, Incorporated | QueryLoop Inc. |
Customer experience
SafeDosePro
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In-app purchases
SafeDosePro
No in-app purchases
publica.la Reader
No in-app purchases
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