TECNIS® Vision Simulator vs ModMed Kiosk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TECNIS® Vision Simulator
This app helps medical professionals educate patients about eye conditions and intraocular lens (IOL) options. It features a vision simulator to demonstrate the benefits of different lens types, aiding in patient understanding of vision correction.
- Patient education on eye conditions
- Overview of IOL types
- Vision simulator for lens benefits
- Country-specific content selection
- Information on medical devices
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The TECNIS Family of IOLs Vision Simulator is designed to assist physicians and their staff in educating patients about the common eye conditions that they may be experiencing, as well as an overview of the different type of IOLs available to address these conditions, and a vision simulator that helps illustrate the different performance benefits of each lens type. Content within this app is intended for residents of a particular country or region. The application will prompt you to select the available country that applies to your location on launch. It may contain information on medical devices and products that are not approved in other countries or regions.
ModMed Kiosk
Streamline patient check-ins with this iPad application. Patients can update their information and sign forms directly on the device, saving data to EMA™ automatically. This reduces front office workload and eliminates manual data entry.
- Digital patient check-in
- Form signing on iPad
- Direct data sync to EMA™
- Reduces front office workload
- Eliminates paperwork
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The iPad check-in app that relieves your front office What if you could speed up check-in and stop the paperwork shuffle? Kiosk lets patients use an iPad to update their info and sign forms fast, then save that data directly to EMA™ – no need for staff to enter it. It’s a win-win for your practice and your patients.
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TECNIS® Vision Simulator at 67% against ModMed Kiosk's 0%. TECNIS® Vision Simulator also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). ModMed Kiosk's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). 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.
ModMed Kiosk holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of TECNIS® Vision Simulator's written reviews are positive against 0% of ModMed Kiosk's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TECNIS® Vision Simulator ships an update every 9 months, ModMed Kiosk every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TECNIS® Vision Simulator | ModMed Kiosk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (8 ratings) | 4.3 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 173 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | Modernizing Medicine, Inc. |
Customer experience
TECNIS® Vision Simulator
ModMed Kiosk
In-app purchases
TECNIS® Vision Simulator
No in-app purchases
ModMed Kiosk
No in-app purchases
Questions
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