PICU Doctor vs arccMobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PICU Doctor
A comprehensive free guide to pediatric critical care, focusing on congenital cardiac disease management. It covers physiology, pharmacology, specific CICU problems, and resuscitation guidelines, with an emergency drug calculator and linked references.
- Pediatric critical care guide
- Congenital cardiac disease management
- Basic and advanced physiology
- Pharmacology and pharmacokinetics
- Specific CICU problems
- Emergency drug calculator
- Cardiac defect diagrams
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PICU Doctor 5.0 Pediatric Critical Care Guideline for Cardiac Intensive Care * a comprehensive free guide to pediatric intensive care, with a specific focus to management of congenital cardiac disease * basic and advanced physiology * anesthesia, analgesia and sedation in PICU * pharmacology, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics * specific CICU problems and management * Cardiac defects with diagrams and cath laboratory data * Heart Failure, Ventricular Assist and ECMO * Resuscitation Guideline USA, UK, Australia * All references updated and linked to Pubmed + Emergency Drug Calculator for quick and easy calculation of emergency drugs + save cardiac defect pictures to include in your own presentation + updated multi functionality for iPhone, iPad, iPod and other smartphones + preferred reading list to quickly navigate to your topics + improved search function ** This guideline summarises guidelines from different CICUs, but it is only a guideline and does not substitute local clinical experience, clinical evaluation and / or judgement of each individual patient. The guideline is available for free for iPhone, iBook (not updated version 4.0), Smartphones or on the web. *** web: http://www.picudoctor.org Please share if you like it ! Please leave a Feedback !
arccMobile
Securely capture patient clinical photos and videos with a full audit trail. Media is automatically uploaded to a healthcare software solution for patient privacy. Requires login credentials from an Apollo licensee.
- Secure patient media capture
- Full audit trail
- Automatic cloud upload
- HIPAA compliant
- User authentication required
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arccMobile™ is the app that enables a healthcare clinician to capture patient clinical multimedia (photos or video) securely with a full audit trail for patient privacy. Media files are automatically uploaded to the secure clinical multimedia healthcare software solution, Apollo arcc®. While the user does not need to purchase a license for Apollo arcc to utilize arccMobile, they must have a username and password along with the appropriate arcc health server access information provided by an Apollo licensee. Apollo licensees are typically hospitals, physician practices, or other healthcare service providers that utilize arcc within an IT infrastructure for their healthcare practice. There are many use cases which can benefit both clinician and patient by using arccMobile. Some example users of arccMobile are Wound Care nurses, ED Physicians, and Dermatologists. Other physicians and clinicians throughout the healthcare enterprise may find use cases that benefit them greatly throughout their workday.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PICU Doctor at 7.0 against arccMobile's 13.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PICU Doctor against 5.0 for arccMobile. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PICU Doctor ships an update every 9 months, arccMobile every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PICU Doctor | arccMobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc Anders | Apollo Enterprise Imaging Corp. |
Customer experience
PICU Doctor
arccMobile
In-app purchases
PICU Doctor
No in-app purchases
arccMobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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