Contraception vs Basic Emergency Care
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contraception
This app provides comprehensive guidelines on contraceptive method use based on medical eligibility criteria and selected practice recommendations. It assists healthcare providers in counseling individuals and couples on family planning choices, covering over 60 medical conditions and numerous clinical situations.
- U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC)
- U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations (SPR)
- Covers over 60 characteristics/conditions
- Addresses numerous clinical situations
- Aids healthcare provider counseling
- Based on CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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The U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use comprises recommendations for the use of specific contraceptive methods by patients who have certain characteristics or medical conditions. The U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use addresses a select group of common, yet sometimes controversial or complex, issues regarding initiation and use of specific contraceptive methods. The app is developed directly from the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) by the Division of Reproductive Health and covers more than 60 characteristics or medical conditions (U.S. MEC) and numerous clinical situations (U.S. SPR). These recommendations are intended to assist healthcare providers when they counsel women, men, and couples about contraceptive method choice and use. Although these recommendations are meant to serve as a source or clinical guidance, healthcare providers should always consider the individual clinical circumstances of each person seeking family planning services.
Basic Emergency Care
This app guides users through resuscitation skills learned in a medical course. It features a chatbot for progression and a search function to find information on managing specific conditions.
- Resuscitation skill guidance
- Chatbot for progression
- Condition management search
- BEC course integration
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The ABCDE app is designed to help guide you through the resuscitation skills you have learned from the Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course. Progress through the pathway with a chatbot, search for specific conditions and how to manage them.
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Verdict
Contraception and Basic Emergency Care both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 64% of Contraception's written reviews are positive against 0% of Basic Emergency Care's. Contraception also leads on ratings volume (27 vs 5). Basic Emergency Care's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Contraception against 4.2 for Basic Emergency Care. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contraception has 27 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Contraception's written reviews are positive against 0% of Basic Emergency Care's.
Contraception ships an update every 7 months, Basic Emergency Care every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contraception | Basic Emergency Care |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (27 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Centers For Disease Control and Prevention | University of California at San Francisco |
Customer experience
Contraception
Basic Emergency Care
In-app purchases
Contraception
No in-app purchases
Basic Emergency Care
No in-app purchases
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