STAT EM vs JournalFeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
STAT EM
This medical app provides medication calculations for patients from neonates to adults, featuring updated evidence-based algorithms and emergency medication dosing. It includes pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines, neonatal resuscitation management, and an augmented reality feature for weight estimation. Future updates will allow users to save favorite content.
- Medication calculations (neonates to adults)
- Pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines
- Updated evidence-based algorithms
- Neonatal resuscitation management
- Adult emergency medication calculations
- AR weight estimation feature
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We’re excited to offer STAT EM, an enhanced version of Pedi STAT, providing medication calculations for neonates to adults. To keep giving you the most up to date content, we’ve moved to a subscription model to keep our app free of advertising. This new version contains pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines and dosing, updated evidence-based algorithms, and neonatal resuscitation management. It also includes adult emergency medication calculations including both weight-based and fixed dosing volumes. We’ve added an AR feature allowing you to use your device to measure the length of child to assist in weight estimations. Finally, you will soon have the ability to save favorites to assist you in finding the content you use most frequently. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
JournalFeed
This app delivers curated medical education summaries from PubMed, focusing on Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and POCUS. It provides quick, simple summaries with push notifications for the latest articles. A subscription is required for full content access and CME credits.
- Curated medical article summaries
- Push notifications for new articles
- Covers Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, PEM, POCUS
- Full content access with subscription
- CME credit claiming
- Video content access
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The JournalFeed app brings the best medical education to your iPhone! 1 million new articles are listed on PubMed each year...it's overwhelming. JournalFeed finds the articles that matter and Spoon Feeds them to you. Now, with push notifications - the Spoon Feed just got easier! We cover Emergency Medicine primarily and also Critical Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Quick, simple summaries… delivered. You can view content, but you need a JournalFeed subscription to see it all. On the app, you can view all written posts, and MAX or PREMIUM subscribers can watch all the videos and claim CME credits right from the app. Don't miss any new articles. Allow push notifications to see summaries of the latest articles that will change your practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JournalFeed at 5.0 against STAT EM's 4.1. JournalFeed also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). STAT EM's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. STAT EM sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. JournalFeed asks for nothing beyond the download.
JournalFeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.
STAT EM ships an update every 6 weeks, JournalFeed every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | STAT EM | JournalFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | James M Kempema MD PA | JournalFeed, LLC |
Customer experience
STAT EM
JournalFeed
In-app purchases
STAT EM
- STAT EM Monthly$0.991 Month
- STAT EM Annual$7.991 Year
JournalFeed
No in-app purchases
