ViTrac™ vs Thyroid Navigator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ViTrac™
This medical app provides healthcare professionals with remote, view-only access to patient data from central and bedside monitors. It displays waveforms, vital signs, and stored information like full disclosure and trend data securely on iOS devices.
- Remote patient data access
- View waveforms and vital signs
- Access full disclosure data
- Review arrhythmia history
- View trend and hemodynamic data
- Secure iOS device viewing
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ViTrac™ is intended to be used as an accessory for use by medical professionals to provide remote access to data from primary monitors such as Nihon Kohden central nurse stations or bedside monitors. ViTrac is intended for use as an on-demand – view only device. ViTrac™ provides a robust and easy-to-use user interface, which allows viewing of multiple patients’ waveforms, vital signs and stored patient information such as: - Full disclosure data - Arrhythmia history - Trend data - Hemodynamics data - 12 lead ECG interpretations - Ventilator settings The ViTrac™ application provides a secure method for viewing a wide range of Nihon Kohden generated patient data that can be viewed on iOS devices within the hospital network or remotely, via a VPN connection. IMPORTANT: ViTrac™ should not be used as the primary method for monitoring patients.
Thyroid Navigator
This app provides a detailed 3D model of the thyroid and surrounding structures. It's designed as a communication and educational tool for medical professionals to explain thyroid diseases and conditions to patients and students.
- Detailed 3D thyroid model
- 360-degree rotation
- Multiple display patterns (skin, vessels, nerves)
- Tumor symptom samples
- Pre- and post-operative images
- Communication tool for medical scenes
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The Thyroid Navigator is the 3D graphics model of around the thyroid. It developed to be utilized on the various medical scenes as the communication tool in any kind of disease of the thyroid. It displays clearly the perspective from the skin, the benign tumor, the thyroid cancer, the lymph node metastasis, tracheal invasion, the chronic thyroiditis, relationship of thyroid and trachea, recurrent laryngeal nerve, artery, and vein, a postop condition, a parathyroid-tumor. Please use for description to the patient, education scene, in a variety of medical scene. - The three dimensional model which specialized at the thyroid. - It displays 360 degrees rotated. - It displays a thyroid in 3 patterns, states of the skin, vessels and nerves, only nerve. - It displays some symptoms of tumor sample. - It introduces the image of the preoperative, the postop on each case basis. - It is ideal for teaching physicians, nurses, laboratory technicians to that aims to thyroidology. - Compatible language is English and Japanese. <詳細> サイロイド・ナビゲーターは、甲状腺とその周辺組織を詳細に再現した3Dグラフィックスモデルです。拡大、縮小、回転により容易に細部まで観察することができます。 甲状腺疾患の診療におけるコミュニケーションツールとして、患者様への説明や甲状腺を学ぶ医療従事者への教育など、さまざまな医療現場でご活用いただくことを目的として開発しました。 皮膚からの透視図、甲状腺の良性腫瘍、甲状腺癌、リンパ節転移、気管浸潤、慢性甲状腺炎、甲状腺と気管、反回神経、動静脈との関係、術後の状態、副甲状腺腫瘍などをわかりやすく表示し、さらに理解を深めることができます。 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * 甲状腺に特化した3Dグラフィックスモデル * 360度回転させて表示 * 甲状腺を“皮膚のある状態”、“血管と神経”、“神経のみ”の3パターンで表示 * 腫瘍の症状サンプルを数パターン表示 * 症例ごとに術前、術後のイメージを表示 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ViTrac™ at every 6 months against Thyroid Navigator's every 21 months. ViTrac™ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
ViTrac™ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.
ViTrac™ ships an update every 6 months, Thyroid Navigator every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and June 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ViTrac™ | Thyroid Navigator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions Inc. | Kuma Hospital |
Customer experience
ViTrac™
Thyroid Navigator
In-app purchases
ViTrac™
No in-app purchases
Thyroid Navigator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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