Antibiograms vs iCCS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Antibiograms
This app provides healthcare professionals with local antibiotic susceptibility data to guide empirical treatment of infections. Users can select bacteria and patient groups to view antibiotic effectiveness based on local laboratory testing.
- Local susceptibility patterns
- Select bacterium and patient group
- View antibiotic effectiveness
- Download and switch databases
- Customizable drug/organism fields
- Distribute databases via email
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Antibiograms help healthcare professionals and clinical microbiologists choose the most effective antibiotics to empirically treat infections, based on local susceptibility patterns. Now this valuable information can be available to them on iPhone/iPad mobile devices. With the Antibiograms app, you simply select a bacterium, select a patient group, and you are given the proportion of susceptible organisms for each antibiotic tested in your local laboratory. Features: - download multiple databases and switch between them quickly and easily - customizable fields for each drug or organism, which can be populated with treatment recommendations, drug dosing and costing information, or clinical alerts specific for your hospital/health region - easy to update by emailing new databases to users To learn how to create an Antibiograms database for your laboratory, hospital, or health region, contact our support. You can distribute your database via email, and then open it in this app. DISCLAIMER: This app has been developed for use by qualified healthcare professionals only. Neither the app developer nor the database publisher shall be liable for any loss or damage which may arise from its use. The Antibiograms database pre-loaded in this app is fictitious and for example purposes only. It should not be used for any diagnostic or medical purposes.
iCCS
Access comprehensive cardiovascular guidelines and knowledge translation tools. This app provides the full text of key guidelines, along with supplementary resources like infographics, webinars, and pocket guides. New guidelines and tools will be added periodically.
- Comprehensive CCS Guidelines
- Knowledge Translation Tools
- Infographics and Webinars
- Pocket Guides and Summary Sheets
- Regularly Updated Content
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The iCCS app provides users with top CCS Guidelines. Read and use CCS Guidelines in practice, for teaching, and self-guided learning. Click on a topic in the app to view the table of contents, then navigate by chapter and section. iCCS includes Guidelines on: - Fitness to Drive (2023) - Peripheral Arterial Disease (2022) - Cardiorenal Risk Reduction (2022) - Heart Failure (2017, 2020, 2021) - Dyslipidemia (2021) - Atrial Fibrillation (2020) Visit www.ccs.ca/guidelines for many more Guidelines, Clinical Practice Updates, clinical decision support tools and resources including infographics, educational webinars, slide sets and pocket guides.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iCCS at 3.7 against Antibiograms's 1.0. iCCS also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 0%) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
iCCS holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Antibiograms's written reviews are positive against 25% of iCCS's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Antibiograms | iCCS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Portable Databases | Canadian Cardiovascular Society |
Customer experience
Antibiograms
iCCS
In-app purchases
Antibiograms
No in-app purchases
iCCS
No in-app purchases








