About Herbs vs iMedics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
About Herbs
Access objective, scientifically referenced information on herbs, botanicals, and supplements. Explore purported benefits, side effects, and drug interactions. Save favorites for offline use and discuss with your physician for safe integration into your health plan.
- 290+ entries on herbs, botanicals, supplements
- Purported benefits, side effects, drug interactions
- Scientifically referenced information
- Formatted for professionals and consumers
- Search by herb or supplement
- Save favorites for offline access
- Weekly updates
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About Herbs is presented by the Integrative Medicine Service of Memorial Sloan Kettering. Key features: • 290 Entries on herbs, botanicals, and supplements with purported benefits, side effects, drug interactions & more • Objective information backed by scientific references • Formatted for both healthcare professionals and consumers • Search by herb or supplement • Save favorites for offline availability or to discuss them with your physician for safe use • Explore featured products and services • Updated weekly • Original art renderings Memorial Sloan Kettering is one of the world’s premier cancer centers, committed to exceptional patient care, leading-edge research, and outstanding educational programs. In this app, our Integrative Medicine Service, under the leadership of a pharmacist and botanicals expert, provides comprehensive, objective information about herbs, botanicals, and supplements, as well as links that educate on the evidence for integrative therapies and programs offered by our Integrative Medicine Service. Medical Disclosure This content is provided as general health information only. It is not to be used as a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment of any health condition or problem. Any questions regarding your own health should be addressed to your own physician or other health care provider. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center makes no warranties or express or implied representations whatsoever regarding the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, comparative or controversial nature, or usefulness of any information contained or referenced in this app. Memorial Sloan Kettering does not assume any risk whatsoever for your use of the information contained herein. Health-related information changes frequently and therefore information contained above may be outdated, incomplete, or incorrect. Statements made about products have not been evaluated by the US Food and Drug Administration. You are hereby advised to consult with a physician or other professional health care provider prior to making any decisions, or undertaking any actions or not undertaking any actions related to any health care problem or issue you might have at any time, now or in the future. In using this information, you agree that neither Memorial Sloan Kettering nor any other party is or will be liable or otherwise responsible for any decision made or any action taken or any action not taken due to your use of any information provided herein.
iMedics
Access comprehensive information on various medical disciplines, including Ayurveda, herbal, homeopathic, and allopathic medicines. Explore detailed descriptions of drugs, medical tests, and medical terminology with text-to-speech functionality.
- Ayurveda medicine information
- Herbal and Homeopathic medicine details
- Allopathic drug uses and side effects
- Medical and lab test descriptions
- Medical and pharmacy term definitions
- Text-to-speech for descriptions
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iMedics App provides 1. Ayurveda Medicine (Indian medicine): list of Ayurveda medicine and their uses (detailed description) 2. Herbal Medicine: List Herbal medicine from from India and of other parts of world along with National Institute of Health (NIH), USA 3. Homeo Medicine: List of Homeopathic medicine and their uses (detailed description) 4. Drugs : Allopathic pharmacy (Modern/Western medicine), uses of medicine, which diseases, side effects and many more (detailed description) 5. Medical Tests: Thousands of medical tests and their descriptions and many more parameters 6. NIH Lab Tests: This section contains laboratory tests list from NIH, contains, comprehensive information about lab tests 7. Medical Terms (Dictionary): Thousands of medical words and their meanings 8. Pharmacy Terms (Dictionary): Thousands of pharmacy words and their meanings 9. Every description is available to text speech 10. Connect Us: contact us, other apps from us Term of use: www.omeletteinc.com/privacy privacy: www.omeletteinc.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iMedics at 5.0 against About Herbs's 4.0. iMedics also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). About Herbs's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (83 vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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.
iMedics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: About Herbs has 83 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of About Herbs's written reviews are positive against 100% of iMedics's.
About Herbs ships an update every 14 months, iMedics every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | About Herbs | iMedics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (83 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Omelette, Inc |
Customer experience
About Herbs
iMedics
Bugs and requests
About Herbs
Reported bugs
21 issues- Search tab not functioning
- Selecting letters on right sidebar does not jump
- Search doesn't work
- When clicking alphabetized index letters, no results are returned
- App not functioning, gives an error
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- App not opening on iPad 7
- Bookmarking crashes app
- Add bookmark crashes app
- Bookmark function doesn't work on iOS 14
- App crashes on startup
- Latest update crashes
- Update is crap, won't open
- After update the app crashes at opening
- Crashes on startup after latest upgrade
- Updated. Won't open. Deleted.
- Keeps crashing after update
- Crashes upon opening
- Won't open after update
- Slight glitch in navigating back to main menu
- App would crash and close as soon as opened (after iOS update)
- Once I hit 'Agree' it shuts off
Requested features
15 requests- Continue updating the program
- Update the app
- Bring back offline mode
- Fix for landscape mode
- Search by symptoms
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- Add more content
- Search by illness
- Add font size options
- Allow searching within entries for drugs
- Add sage & white tea
- Add vitamins and minerals
- Make available in landscape mode for iPad
- Search by symptom, not just herb names
- Add poisonous plants with dosage info
- Search by use instead of name
iMedics
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
About Herbs
No in-app purchases
iMedics
No in-app purchases









