Lancet Labs Mobile vs Ampath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lancet Labs Mobile
Access and manage laboratory results directly from your mobile device. This intuitive application offers patient-centric electronic results, secure access, and offline viewing capabilities for healthcare professionals.
- Patient-centric electronic results
- Secure pin entry
- Offline result caching
- Alphabetical and chronological sorting
- Cumulative patient and test views
- Sharing and printing of reports
- Graphical result data
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An application that assists doctors with the delivery and viewing of laboratory results from their mobile devices. The application is easy to download, intuitive and clearly laid out Features - Patient-centric electronic results - Easy enrolment and registration - Secure pin entry to unlock application - Automatic updating of patient data - Result caching for offline availability - Sorting of patient lists alphabetically and chronologically - Easy search facility - Cumulative patient view - Cumulative test view - Sharing of reports - Printing of reports - Graphical result data
Ampath
Access your personal pathology test results directly on your mobile device as soon as they are ready. Secure registration requires your South African ID or passport number and mobile number verification.
- View test results
- Results available as soon as ready
- Secure registration
- ID/Passport number verification
- Mobile number verification
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The Ampath app displays your personal Ampath pathology test results as soon as they are available. You need your South African ID number or a valid passport number to register. You also need to verify your mobile number to complete the app registration process.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ampath at 5.0 against Lancet Labs Mobile's 1.3. Ampath also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (15% vs 6%). Lancet Labs Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 1). 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.
Ampath holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lancet Labs Mobile has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Lancet Labs Mobile's written reviews are positive against 15% of Ampath's.
Lancet Labs Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Ampath every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lancet Labs Mobile | Ampath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (32 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 5.9% of reviews | 14.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lancet Laboratories | Ampath Laboratories |
Customer experience
Lancet Labs Mobile
Ampath
In-app purchases
Lancet Labs Mobile
No in-app purchases
Ampath
No in-app purchases
