Comparison

ONCOassist vs Physicians’ CPD

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ONCOassist

This app provides oncology professionals with a comprehensive suite of decision-support tools. It offers access to treatment protocols, survival rates, medical calculators, toxicity criteria, staging information, drug details, and news, all designed to aid in patient care and save time.

Highlights
  • NCCN Treatment Protocols
  • Adjuvant Survival Rate Calculators
  • Medical Formula Calculators
  • CTCAE Toxicity Criteria
  • AJCC TNM Staging
  • Prognostic Scores
  • Oncology Drug Information
  • Drug Interaction Checker
Features
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Please note: This application, as a decision-support aid, is to be used  by a practicing healthcare professional(“HCP”) and does not replace clinical judgement. It is not designed for use by patients and does not replace the advice of a doctor. ONCOassist is a comprehensive suite of decision support tools developed by oncology professionals, for oncology professionals. It includes a range of breakthrough tools designed to manage patient care effectively. Let's take a closer look at some of the features available: • NCCN Treatment Protocols: Developed in collaboration with the NCCN, this tool provides information on regimens taken from the NCCN template database. • Adjuvant Tools: These tools offer 5 and 10-year overall survival rates for patients with and without chemotherapy in an adjuvant setting. Breast cancer, colon cancer, and GIST tools are among the many adjuvant decision support tools available. • Useful formulas: Body Surface Area, Chemotherapy Dose Calculator, QTc, ECOG Performance Score, Khorana Score, MASCC Risk Index, and many more are included. These calculators simplify medical calculations and include frequently needed conversions and dosage calculations. • Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v4.0 & 5.0): This tool provides a standardized classification of adverse effects of drugs used in cancer therapy. CTCAE versions 5.0 and 4.0 are available in an easy-to-use and interactive format. • AJCC TNM staging: The tool provides criteria for every malignancy and includes the AJCC 7th, 8th, and 9th edition staging criteria. • Prognostic Scores: This tool offers over 17 prognostic scores for a range of specialties. It helps with prognostication, risk stratification, and determining eligibility for specific treatments or clinical trials. • Drug info section: Over 200 oncology drugs are available in an easy-to-use and interactive format. • Drug interaction checker: This tool helps users quickly check for potential drug interactions. • IO toxicity management tool: This tool is designed to manage immune-related adverse events. • ONCOnews: From breaking news to in-depth analysis, ONCOnews brings together all oncology news sources in one place. • ONCOvideos: This offers access to the most recent videos from Oncology Spotlight, which provides insights into the experiences of oncology professionals. Additionally, users can watch OncoAlert and Oncology Brother videos. ONCOassist offers oncology professionals the following benefits: Saves Time Oncology professionals no longer waste time searching through the internet for safe validated information to aid them with their decision making, all of the tools and information they need is available within ONCOassist and is available without the need for internet access. Improves quality of care ONCOassist promotes the use of evidence-based medicine. It is also the only CE approved oncology app on the market. Helps Empower Patients Adjuvant decision support tools contain patient-friendly information to allow for a more collaborative decision-making process. Regularly updating ONCOassist will be updated regularly with new prognostic tools and calculators. We will listen to your feedback and update accordingly. Email us at any time using feedback@oncoassist.com. ONCOassist is regulated by the Irish Health Products Regulatory Authority and is CE marked for conformance as a medical device.

About

Physicians’ CPD

Record and reflect on your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities on the go. This app syncs with a web-based system and offers offline capabilities, voice transcription, and easy report generation for physician appraisals.

Highlights
  • Record CPD activities on the go
  • Syncs with web-based CPD diary
  • Access approved activities list
  • Offline capability
  • Voice transcribe reflections
  • Add attachments and assign to GMP domains
  • Generate annual appraisal reports as PDF
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The Physicians’ CPD app enables you to record and reflect on your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) at the point of learning in order to prepare for your appraisal. It’s been designed to complement the established web-based CPD diary system which is used by over 17,000 Consultant and SAS grade physicians. Benefits include: - Syncs with the existing web-based CPD diary system. - Access to our list of approved activities (over 5000 events) reviewed by a network of consultant physicians. - Add educational activities whilst ‘on the go’ with online/offline capability. - Voice transcribe your development needs and reflections instantly. - Add attachments as supporting information to your activities (such as a certificate of attendance.) - Add personal development needs and assign activities to Good Medical Practice (GMP) domains. - E-mail yourself your annual appraisal report as a PDF file at the press of a button. If you are already a CPD diary user, simply download the Physicians’ CPD app on your device and use your log-in details. After an initial first time sync to corroborate your data and settings (internet connectivity recommended) you can then begin entering your educational activities. (Please note that all users would need to already be registered with the web-based CPD diary system in order to use the Physicians’ CPD app.)

Screenshots

ONCOassist4 screens
Physicians’ CPD3 screens

Verdict

The call

ONCOassist and Physicians’ CPD both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ONCOassist's written reviews are positive against 42% of Physicians’ CPD's. ONCOassist also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (116 vs 1). Physicians’ CPD's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for ONCOassist against 5.0 for Physicians’ CPD. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ONCOassist has 116 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of ONCOassist's written reviews are positive against 42% of Physicians’ CPD's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ONCOassist ships an update every 10 days, Physicians’ CPD every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ONCOassist versus Physicians’ CPD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterONCOassistPhysicians’ CPD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (116 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better42.1% of reviews
Number of ratings116 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 6 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size244 MB28 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPortable Medical Technology LtdRoyal College of Physicians

Customer experience

ONCOassist

All ratings116 ratings
Positive98.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Physicians’ CPD

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive42.1%
Neutral21.1%
Negative36.8%

Bugs and requests

ONCOassist

Requested features

3 requests
  • Radiation oncology topics
  • Option in Spanish
  • Russian language

Physicians’ CPD

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ONCOassist

No in-app purchases

None

Physicians’ CPD

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ONCOassist free?
ONCOassist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Physicians’ CPD free?
Physicians’ CPD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ONCOassist or Physicians’ CPD?
Physicians’ CPD is rated higher. ONCOassist averages 4.9 out of 5 from 116 ratings, while Physicians’ CPD averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ONCOassist or Physicians’ CPD have ads?
ONCOassist shows ads; Physicians’ CPD does not.
Which is updated more often, ONCOassist or Physicians’ CPD?
ONCOassist ships an update every 10 days, and Physicians’ CPD every 6 months. Most recently, ONCOassist was updated on October 16, 2026 and Physicians’ CPD on October 11, 2026.

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