Comparison

ACP Clinical Guidelines vs KryptosText

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ACP Clinical Guidelines

Access evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from the American College of Physicians on your mobile device. This app provides internal medicine physicians and other clinicians with convenient access to recommendations, summary tables, and algorithms in an interactive format.

Highlights
  • Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
  • Recommendations and rationale
  • Summary tables
  • Algorithms
  • High value care advice
  • Interactive mobile format
Features
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The American College of Physicians (ACP) produces evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, which means that the guidelines follow a rigorous development process and are based on the highest quality scientific evidence. Internal medicine physicians and other clinicians can now access these clinical recommendations in virtually any setting via the ACP Clinical Guidelines app. Available for free, the ACP Clinical Guidelines app includes recommendations from ACP’s clinical practice guidelines and guidance statements. Users can conveniently access clinical recommendations and rationale, summary tables, algorithms, and high value care advice for all currently active ACP guidelines in an easy to read and interactive mobile format. ACP is a national organization of internists —physician specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness. ACP is the largest medical-specialty organization and second-largest physician group in the United States. Its membership of 133,000 includes internists, internal medicine subspecialists, medical students, residents, and fellows. The mission of the ACP is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine.

About

KryptosText

Secure real-time messaging for clinicians to make quick decisions about patients. Features encrypted messages, group chats, and media sharing for efficient communication across facilities.

Highlights
  • Encrypted real-time messaging
  • Group messaging
  • Message recall and resend
  • Urgent message flagging
  • Media and document sharing
  • Face ID/Fingerprint/MPIN authentication
Features
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KryptosText is a secured real time messaging application to increase the efficiency of clinicians in making the quick clinical decisions regarding the patients across the facilities. The encrypted message feature protects the privacy of the message that it can only be read by the intended recipient and not by anyone. Features of the application: • Messaging: To send and receive the Text messages, Images and Videos etc. to single (or) multiple groups. • Group Messaging: To send a collaborative message where every member in the group can view all the messages in the conversation. • Recall & Resend a Message: Ability to recall and to resend a recalled message. • Mark a Message Urgent: To flag the message priority as urgent. • Archive & Unarchive a Conversation: Ability to Archive & Unarchive the conversation. • Notifications: In-app messaging feature broadcast the alerts directly in the app when the user is using the application whereas Push Notifications pops up on the device when the application is in background. • Drive: To view media files and documents which are shared though the application. • Message Status: To view the message status whether delivered (or) read. • Face Id / Fingerprint / MPIN: To authenticate the user.

Screenshots

ACP Clinical Guidelines4 screens
KryptosText4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ACP Clinical Guidelines at 81% against KryptosText's 0%. ACP Clinical Guidelines also leads on rating (3.0 vs 2.5). KryptosText's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ACP Clinical Guidelines holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of ACP Clinical Guidelines's written reviews are positive against 0% of KryptosText's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ACP Clinical Guidelines versus KryptosText: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterACP Clinical GuidelinesKryptosText
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (12 ratings) — better2.5 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1212
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB62 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAmerican College of PhysiciansPrime Healthcare Services, Inc

Customer experience

ACP Clinical Guidelines

All ratings12 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative41.7%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.5%

KryptosText

All ratings12 ratings
Positive41.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative58.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

ACP Clinical Guidelines

No in-app purchases

None

KryptosText

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ACP Clinical Guidelines free?
ACP Clinical Guidelines is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is KryptosText free?
KryptosText is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ACP Clinical Guidelines or KryptosText?
ACP Clinical Guidelines is rated higher. ACP Clinical Guidelines averages 3.0 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while KryptosText averages 2.5 from 12 ratings.
Do ACP Clinical Guidelines or KryptosText have ads?
Neither ACP Clinical Guidelines nor KryptosText shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ACP Clinical Guidelines or KryptosText?
ACP Clinical Guidelines ships an update every 2 months, and KryptosText every 2 months. Most recently, ACP Clinical Guidelines was updated on October 13, 2026 and KryptosText on October 5, 2026.

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