Comparison

Physiotutors vs Physio Student

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

Head to head
About

Physiotutors

This app provides physiotherapists with evidence-based education, practical tools, and a community for professional development. Stay updated with research reviews, expert masterclasses, and track your learning progress for CPD documentation.

Highlights
  • Personalized learning feed
  • Practical research reviews
  • Expert-led masterclasses and podcasts
  • Quizzes and knowledge checks
  • Portfolio and CPD tracking
  • Clinical tools and assistant
  • Personalized library with bookmarks
Features
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Physiotutors is a learning app for physiotherapists who want clear, practical, evidence-based education in one place. Whether you are a student or an experienced clinician, the app helps you stay up to date, improve clinical reasoning, and document your professional development. WHAT YOU GET Personal learning feed Your personal feed shows content that fits your interests, including research reviews, blogs, expert-led masterclasses, podcasts, and more. New content is added every week. Research made practical Read short, clear research reviews written for clinical use. The focus is on what the evidence means for daily practice. Expert-led masterclasses and podcasts Learn from experienced clinicians through short masterclasses and podcasts that focus on real clinical questions. Quizzes and knowledge checks Research reviews, podcasts, and masterclasses include short quizzes to test your knowledge. Completed activities are logged automatically in your portfolio and can be used for CPD documentation. Portfolio and certificates Track your learning activities across the app in one clear portfolio. Use it to document CPD or CEU activities and generate certificates for completed content, depending on your country. Clinical tools Use the clinical assistant, assessment tests, manual therapy techniques, and clinical patterns to support clinical reasoning and treatment planning. Personal library Save content to your own library and organize it with custom bookmark folders. Highlight important text and return to key insights anytime. Listen instead of read Use the text-to-speech feature to listen to written content while commuting, training, or between patients. Live learning and community Join live sessions like the expert Q&A, and discussions with physiotherapists from around the world. Online courses Physiotutors also offers in-depth online courses as separate products on our learning platform. Purchased courses can be accessed easily from within the app. Built for real clinical work: Physiotutors is created by physiotherapists and educators with years of clinical and teaching experience. Everything in the app is focused on clarity, relevance, and direct use in practice. The app is updated continuously based on user feedback and new evidence. Terms: https://app.physiotutors.com/terms-and-conditions-of-physiotutors

About

Physio Student

Features
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Physio Student is the timetable, the placement record and the notebook a physiotherapy student needs on one phone, or on an iPad. YOUR TIMETABLE, CALENDAR AND COURSES — FREE Lectures, placement shifts, clinics, study and exams, each in its own colour, with weekly and fortnightly repeats entered once. Today's slots sit at the top of the dashboard, and the one happening now is marked. Your profile holds every course you are on, because more than one can run at once: the university, the year, how you study it, your student number, the dates, your personal tutor and the modules. The timetable and calendar stay free. A student whose subscription has lapsed still has a shift to get to at half past seven. WHAT THE SUBSCRIPTION ADDS The record-keeping you build up over three years: • Study notes: what you saw and learned, typed or dictated, with sketches and handwriting — a body chart, a joint, a movement — and a reminder if you want one • Dictation: say it on the walk back to the office and keep the words • Placements: the hours logged against each placement, day by day, against the hours required, with a note on each day • Observations: pulse, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure and temperature, kept in sets • OSCE practice: stations run against the clock, and how each attempt scored REMINDERS AND NOTIFICATIONS Reminders are set on your phone, from what you have entered: before a timetable slot, to log placement hours, or on a note. Every queued reminder is listed in Settings, and any one can be cancelled. Notifications are off until you turn them on. PRIVACY, PLAINLY Your notes, timetable, courses and records stay on your device, in a database encrypted at rest. They are not uploaded, analysed or shared, and there is no advertising or analytics code in the app. What does leave the device is listed in the privacy policy: an email address if you claim access granted to it, the details needed to send notifications if you turn them on, and your subscription purchases, used only to keep your access in step. A PIN can be set, and is worth setting: this app can hold notes from placement, and a student's phone gets handed round a ward office. NOT A CLINICAL TOOL Physio Student is a study aid. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose anything, and it is not a substitute for your university's teaching, your practice educator, or your professional judgement. Nothing in it should be used to make a decision about a real patient's care. SUBSCRIPTION The timetable, the calendar and your profile are free. Physio Student Full Access unlocks everything else. Two lengths: Monthly (one month) and Quarterly (three months). New subscribers get the first month free; the trial becomes a paid subscription unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends. The price is shown in the app before anything is bought, and varies by country. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before that period ends. Manage or cancel it from the Manage subscription button in the app, or in your App Store account settings; cancelling stops the next renewal and leaves the current period running. Terms of Use (EULA): https://howarthgames.co.uk/terms Privacy Policy: https://howarthgames.co.uk/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Physiotutors4 screens
Physio Student4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Physio Student at none against Physiotutors's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Physiotutors sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Physio Student asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Physiotutors versus Physio Student: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhysiotutorsPhysio Student
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (136 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings136 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB60 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperPhysiotutorsDeviceboxMedia

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Physiotutors

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Premium (1 month)14 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
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  • Premium (1 year)14 Days trial$149.991 Year
None

Physio Student

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Physiotutors free?
Physiotutors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Physio Student free?
Physio Student is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Physiotutors or Physio Student have ads?
Neither Physiotutors nor Physio Student shows ads.

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