ApoThera vs Screening Compass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ApoThera
This app provides clinical decision support for healthcare professionals. It offers treatment recommendations, disease management tools, drug information, interaction checkers, medical calculators, and patient savings programs. Content is updated daily and covers a wide range of medical specialties.
- Clinical guidelines and treatment recommendations
- Disease management and drug information
- Drug interaction checker
- Medical calculators and conversion tools
- Patient Rx savings and discounts
- PDF document archiving
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ApoThera - Clinical Decision Support - Mobile Application ApoThera - features the following seven medical applications: 1) Clinical Guidelines • Treatment recommendations provided by peer-reviewed journals and manufacturers based on evidence-based medicine to optimize patient care 2) Disease Management • Providing treatment options for thousands of diseases and conditions based on manufacturers drug database provided by pharmaceutical manufacturers. 3) Drug Information • Providing drug information and medical reference for thousands of FDA-approved brand, generic, and OTC medicines based on drug database provided by pharmaceutical manufacturers. • Search by brand, generic or pharmacologic class names. • Drug monographs updated continuously with the latest information. 4) Drug Interaction Checker • Providing mutli-drugs interaction check with accurate clinical answers for any possible drug-drug interactions at the point of care with detail information about onset, severity warning management, mechanism, and references for all FDA-approved mechanisms. 5) ApoThera Medical Calculators & Conversion Tools • Processing clinical algorithms, calculating medical scores, scales, classifications • Cardiovascular Conversion Tool - Beta-Blockers Conversion Tool - ACE Inhibitors Conversion Tool - Angiotensins Receptor Blockers (ARBs) Conversion Tool - HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors (Statins) Conversion Tool - Diuretics Conversion Tool - Vasodilators Conversion Tool • Endocrinology Conversion Tool - Antidiabetics Conversion Tool - Insulin Conversion Tool - Thyroids Conversion Tool - Epoetin alfa Conversion Tool • Opioids Conversion Tool • Corticosteroids Conversion Tool • Benzodiazepines Conversion Tool • Psychoneurology Conversion Tool - Antipsychotics Conversion Tool - Antidepressants Conversion Tool - Antiepileptics Conversion Tool • Gastroenterology Conversion Tool - Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) Conversion - H2 Blockers Conversion Tool • Total Parenteral Nutrition 6) PDF Box • Uploading and archiving PDF documents. 7) Patient Rx Savings • Discounts and coupons available through manufacturers for expensive biotechnology specialty medications. Medical Specialties: Anesthesiology, Cardiology & Vascular Medicine, Critical Care & Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Hematology - Oncology, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pediatric, Psychiatric, Pulmonary Medicine, Surgery, Toxicology and Urology. • ApoThera content is updated daily.• ApoThera Premium monthly auto-renewable subscription allows full access to all calculation tools for 1 month. Payment will be charged to the user's iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. After successful purchase, all disabled calculation tools and drug info will become active. After exactly 1 month from the subscription purchase date, the monthly subscription will renew automatically for another month at the subscription price on the date of the renewal. To cancel auto renewal, users must turn off the auto-renewal 24 hours before the renewal date by going to their iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. For ApoThera End User License Agreement, please visit: http://www.apothera.com/WS/GetAppInfo.aspx?Type=1
Screening Compass
This app helps you create a personalized medical screening schedule based on your personal health information and US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines. It calculates when your next screenings are due and highlights overdue tests.
- Personalized screening schedule
- User health information input
- USPSTF guideline integration
- Calculates next due dates
- Highlights overdue screenings
- Tracks past screening dates
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Screening Compass guides users through a simple three-step process to generate a personalized screening schedule. The app starts by collecting basic user information such as Age, Weight, Height, Sex (Male, Female, or Other), Pregnancy status, Smoking history, Sexual activity status, and Diabetes status. This information is crucial in determining which screenings are relevant to the user. Once the user enters their details, they are prompted to log the last date they had specific screenings tailored to them according to the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines. For users who have never had a certain screening, a toggle labeled “Never” allows them to indicate this. If selected, the app assumes the test should be scheduled as soon as possible and marks it as "Get tested today" in the list of upcoming screenings. After the user has logged their past screenings (or indicated “Never”), Screening Compass calculates when their next medical screening is due. It does this using the ScreeningManager.swift file. This determines the recommended frequency for each screening (e.g., every 10 years for colorectal cancer). Swift's Calendar API is used to calculate the next due date. If a user’s next screening is overdue, the app displays “Get tested today!” in bold red text to indicate urgency. Otherwise, the app highlights the next recommended date in blue for easy reference.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Screening Compass at 5.0 against ApoThera's 4.2. Screening Compass also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). ApoThera's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months) and chart position (#194 vs unranked). On price and device support 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. ApoThera sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Screening Compass asks for nothing beyond the download.
Screening Compass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ApoThera has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of ApoThera's written reviews are positive against 100% of Screening Compass's.
ApoThera ships an update every 2 months, Screening Compass every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ApoThera | Screening Compass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #194 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Apothera Inc. | Paula Ramirez |
Customer experience
ApoThera
Screening Compass
In-app purchases
ApoThera
- ApoThera Monthly$2.991 Month
- ApoThera 1 year Auto-Renew7 Days trial$59.991 Year
Screening Compass
No in-app purchases
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