The Medical Letter vs Core Workflows
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Medical Letter
Provides critical, evidence-based appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews for common conditions. This resource helps healthcare providers make informed treatment decisions with concise, authoritative drug information.
- Critical appraisals of new drugs
- Comparative drug reviews
- Drug comparison tables
- Full archive access
- CME/CE exams on-the-go
- Unbiased, independent information
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The Medical Letter publishes critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common conditions in its biweekly newsletter The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics. It is an indispensable tool that provides concise, critical, and authoritative drug information, giving healthcare providers the expertise to make challenging treatment decisions. With over a quarter-million subscribers, as well as many of the leading academic and clinical institutions in the world, The Medical Letter is a trusted source for drug information. With a rigorous and thorough editorial review process, The Medical Letter offers a detailed yet succinct analysis of drugs and therapeutics. Evidence-based and peer-reviewed, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics relies on a consensus of experts to evaluate drugs in order to help healthcare providers choose the most appropriate drug treatment. The Medical Letter is a crucial resource for unbiased and objective drug information that is completely independent of any industry influence. What does The Medical Letter app include? The Medical Letter on Drugs & Therapeutics: With this free app, subscribers to The Medical Letter on Drugs & Therapeutics get full access to their paid subscription. Subscribers can also take CME/CE exams on-the-go from their mobile device. After downloading the free app, simply login using your username and password and receive: - Unbiased critical evaluations of newly approved FDA-approved drugs - Comparative reviews of all of the drugs available for treatment of common disorders such as diabetes, hypertension, pain, and insomnia - Tables for comparison and quick reference - 26 issues per year and full archive access back to 1988 - Ability to earn up to 52 CME/CE credits annually The Medical Letter – Essential to your practice
Core Workflows
This medical app synchronizes patient care and clinical progress information between mobile and desktop devices. It provides specialty-specific visual presentations of EHR data, enabling efficient team communication, rounds organization, and discharge readiness assessment. Smart notifications and secure messaging ensure timely information delivery for critical decision-making.
- Mobile-to-desktop synchronization
- Specialty-specific data visualization
- Team communication and coordination
- Smart notifications
- Secure messaging
- Patient status tracking
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Streamline patient care, clinical progress and team communication with this EHR-embedded application that synchronizes information from mobile-to-desktop. Rich, actionable EHR information is visually presented in a format unique to each specialty’s priorities. Clinical teams caring for a patient have what they need, when they need it, to organize rounds, convey discharge readiness, and conduct hand offs. As status and situations change, smart notifications and secure messaging ensure the right information is provided to act.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Core Workflows at 3.9 against The Medical Letter's 2.6. Core Workflows also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 12 months). The Medical Letter's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Core Workflows holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of The Medical Letter's written reviews are positive against 50% of Core Workflows's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Medical Letter ships an update every 12 months, Core Workflows every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Medical Letter | Core Workflows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (8 ratings) | 3.9 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Medical Letter, Inc. | TransformativeMed Inc |
Customer experience
The Medical Letter
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In-app purchases
The Medical Letter
No in-app purchases
Core Workflows
No in-app purchases
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