Accurx vs BMJ Best Practice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Accurx
This app helps healthcare professionals share hospital information efficiently. It offers features like a hospital directory, AI-powered transcription for patient interactions, secure patient messaging, and direct GP messaging to save time.
- Hospital directory
- AI-powered transcription
- Secure patient messaging
- Direct GP messaging
- On-the-go inbox access
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Accurx Switch is now Accurx. The app used by over 120,000 healthcare professionals a month has been upgraded to include a bunch of new time-saving features to help give you time back every day. Features included in the app are: - Hospital directory: get quick contact details for everyone in your trust without needing to go to a switchboard - Accurx Scribe: save time by skipping the typing with this AI powered Scribe that transcribes to all of your patient interactions, instantly generates structured notes from the interaction and can generate your letters and other onward documents in seconds. All of this is saved, ready to review from your computer. - Message patients: message patients securely in the app - Message GP: Get faster responses from your patient’s GP with direct messaging that is quicker than call or email - Inbox: View your Accumail inbox on-the-go
BMJ Best Practice
Access up-to-date, evidence-based clinical guidance for healthcare professionals. This app offers offline access to diagnostic, treatment, and prevention information, along with patient leaflets, calculators, and procedure videos. It also tracks CME/CPD activities.
- Evidence-based clinical guidance
- Offline access
- Patient leaflets
- Medical calculators
- Guidance videos
- CME/CPD tracking
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Instant access to the latest evidence-based guidance for healthcare professionals. Updated daily, BMJ Best Practice provides healthcare professionals with the latest evidence-based clinical decision support information. It's available offline, which means clinical decision support can be accessed anytime, anywhere. This app can be downloaded by those who have access to the BMJ Best Practice website, and have already set-up a username and password. Don’t have a subscription? Download the app and access a free 7 day trial. The app provides: - Fast access to the latest guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention - 500+ patient leaflets - 250+ medical calculators - Guidance videos on common clinical procedures - Automatic CME/CPD activity tracking Your feedback helps to inform future developments. At BMJ, we have a user-centered product development process, which means that we enhance the product based on what our customers, and our users tell us they need and want. As a result, we have introduced features such as ‘night mode’ and patient leaflets to the app. If you have a question or want to provide feedback, please contact us at support@bmj.com. Thank you!
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Verdict
Accurx and BMJ Best Practice both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of BMJ Best Practice's written reviews are positive against 54% of Accurx's. Accurx's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 4.8 for Accurx against 4.7 for BMJ Best Practice. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 322 and 207 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of Accurx's written reviews are positive against 87% of BMJ Best Practice's.
Accurx ships an update every 2 weeks, BMJ Best Practice monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Accurx | BMJ Best Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (322 ratings) — better | 4.7 (207 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.4% of reviews | 86.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 322 — better | 207 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Accurx Limited | BMJ Group |
Customer experience
Accurx
BMJ Best Practice
User reviews
Accurx
From 322 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Saves time bypassing switchboard
- 👍 Useful for finding numbers
- 👍 Good for agency/locum shifts
- 👍 Helpful in busy shifts
- 👍 Reliable software
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constantly asking to confirm role/login
- 🐛 Disruptive advertising unwanted features
- 🐛 Shameful degradation in functionality
- 🐛 No longer useful for hospital doctors
- 🐛 Requires NHS email access
BMJ Best Practice
From 207 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and reliable
- 💡 Comprehensive and up-to-date content
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- 🔍 Excellent resource for healthcare professionals
- 🧠 Helpful for learning and revision
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent mandatory updates and downloads
- 🔌 Issues with offline access and background downloads
- 🤖 Compatibility problems on certain devices
- 🔍 Lack of search functionality for calculators
Bugs and requests
Accurx
Reported bugs
31 issues- Constantly asking to confirm role/login
- Secure code never arrives
- Repeatedly logs you out
- Keeps signing me out
- Text code authentication not received
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- Accurx keeps logging me out
- Doesn't let me download hospital directory
- Can't even get into the app
- Multiple password resets & MS authentication issues
- On a authentication loop
- Continuously attempts to verify mobile number
- Security causes delays
- Not working suddenly
- App not working on new iPhone
- Can't sign in/register
- Dialed number calls wrong number
- No verification code sent to email
- Keeps losing user ID
- Email password prompt does not send
- Refuses to allow new entry setup
- Can't get access after changing phone
- No support received
- Update stopped phone calls from within app
- Call out feature no longer works
- Formatting in FAQs gone
- More clicks to each section
- Not available offline anymore
- Keeps logging me out
- Requires internet connection to log back in
- Confirmation emails don’t send
- Search by phone number broken
Requested features
6 requests- Split into two apps (directory vs. other features)
- Create for all hospitals
- Optimized for iPhone X
- Fix search by phone number
- Unify interchangeable titles (SPR & reg/registrar)
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- Make searching easier
BMJ Best Practice
Reported bugs
3 issues- App getting stuck on download screen
- Inability to open the app on certain devices
- Automatic logout issues
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to save favorites and bookmarks
- Improved support for landscape mode and split-screen
- Author/reference details for content
- Institutional login option
In-app purchases
Accurx
No in-app purchases
BMJ Best Practice
No in-app purchases
