Blueprint MCAT Prep vs Addendum.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blueprint MCAT Prep
This app offers AI-powered practice questions and explanations for the MCAT exam. It provides personalized study recommendations, offline access, and detailed performance analytics to help pre-med students prepare efficiently.
- AI-powered personalized practice sets
- AI tutor for instant explanations
- Offline Qbank access
- Timed practice sections
- Customizable practice sets
- Cross-device sync
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Blueprint MCAT® Qbank – Smarter, Personalized MCAT Prep Ace the MCAT with AI-powered practice that goes where you go. Built by MCAT experts and powered by cutting-edge AI, the Blueprint MCAT Qbank app delivers customized practice sets, on-demand explanations, and seamless mobile access—making it the best MCAT prep app for busy pre-meds. Whether you’re brushing up on biochem at the gym, running timed sections between classes, or reviewing in the lab where wi-fi is nonexistent, this app helps you get more practice done—and get more out of it. Why Students Love It: AI-Recommended Practice No more decision fatigue. Our smart system recommends question sets by section and topic, based on your unique needs and performance. Blueprint's AI MCAT Tutor Bot: Blue Think ChatGPT, but trained by MCAT experts. Whether you need a formula walk-through, content deep dive, or quick concept check, Blue delivers the explanation you need, when you need it. Offline Mode No Wi-Fi in the lab? No problem. Download Qbank sets ahead of time and crush practice questions without an internet connection. Truly Mobile MCAT Practice Build, complete, and review MCAT-style practice questions anytime, anywhere—with full sync to your Blueprint desktop account. Study More Efficiently Switch between Tutor Mode and Exam Mode, filter by flagged/incorrect/unused, and get actionable performance data after every set. Built for Comfort Dark mode, adjustable font sizes, multi-color highlighting, and intuitive navigation help you study longer—with less fatigue. App Features: • Create fully customized MCAT practice sets • AI-powered section and topic recommendations • Instant, tailored explanations from our expert-trained AI tutor • Full explanations with images and reasoning skills • Timing modes (unlimited, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x) • Mobile-only perks: 1.25x timing, Tutor Mode, Offline Mode • Resume across devices with automatic desktop sync • Score summaries and peer comparison Your time is limited—make every minute count. Download the Blueprint MCAT Qbank app and prep smarter today.
Addendum.
This private journal helps medical students capture clinical moments for residency applications. It allows for quick note-taking, tagging by theme, and drafting ERAS experiences. The app prioritizes privacy with on-device encryption and offline functionality.
- Capture clinical moments quickly
- Tag entries by interview archetypes
- Draft ERAS experiences with character counts
- Prepare for interviews with STAR stories
- Track letters of recommendation
- Private, on-device encryption
- Offline functionality
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Rounds today. ERAS tomorrow. You will write your residency application out of things you have already seen. Addendum is where you put them down while they are fresh: a deidentified line about the case, the feedback, the procedure, the moment you would otherwise lose by Friday. A year later those notes are the raw material for your MyERAS experiences, your personal statement and your interview answers, and you retype none of it. Private, encrypted on your device, offline by default. No account, no analytics. ON THE WARDS • Capture first. The app opens to a box. Type it, or dictate it. Speech is transcribed on your phone and the audio never leaves it. • Deidentified by construction. Addendum never asks for a patient's name, date of birth, record number, location or photo. Ages are broad bands, and no date of service is asked for. A check runs as you write, and again before anything leaves the app. • Mark what mattered. One tap flags an entry standout, so at year's end you review a shortlist. • Tips, Tricks, & Tests. Bank what you get asked on rounds, and what you wish someone had told you about the rotation. Spaced review brings it back before the shelf. • Gap Check. Which interview themes still have no entry behind them. WHEN YOU APPLY • ERAS composer. The MyERAS structured fields, with live character budgets, a blocking deidentification scan, and prose ready to paste. • Programs and evidence. Keep your own program list and link entries to it. Open a program and see what substantiates it. • Letters. Track each writer from "to ask" to "uploaded", and export a packet for each writer with the patient details stripped. • Signals. A budget, not a list, because a signal spent on one program cannot be spent on another. It records why you spent each one. • Rank worksheet. Weighted fit beside your gut read, with the divergence surfaced for a written reason. • Interview season. Your real moments mapped onto the classic "tell me about a time" prompts as STAR stories, plus invitations, debriefs and thank you notes. • If your specialty uses ResidencyCAS, the SF Match or the urology match, the app says so. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO • Write for you. There is no model in the app and no generated prose. The words are yours. • Invent a cycle fact. Character limits, signal counts and deadlines ship empty. You verify each against the source named on screen, and unverified means the app says so. • Tell you your odds. Fit, never probability. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Offline. The journal makes no network requests. Its Content Security Policy blocks them, and a Settings screen shows you that policy and the check passing on your own copy. • AES encryption in GCM mode, with a key derived from your passphrase (PBKDF2, 600,000 iterations). Optional Face ID or Touch ID unlock via the Secure Enclave. • Kept out of device and iCloud backups: a restored phone will not restore your journal. Export an encrypted backup, or turn on sync, before you switch. • Optional iCloud sync, off by default, carries only the encrypted vault. Apple cannot read it. The one purchase goes through the App Store, which sees nothing you wrote. • Save the recovery key shown at setup. It is how you get back in if you forget your passphrase. • Optional reminders on this device, off by default. Notifications carry no journal content. Your journal is free forever: writing, searching, printing, exporting, backing it up, Tips, Tricks, & Tests and Gap Check. No subscription, no tiers. When application season arrives, the Apply tab (ERAS composer, Letters, Interview, Season) unlocks with one purchase. Already using it? It stays yours, free. Addendum is a personal reflective journal. It is not an electronic health record, not clinical decision support, and not a substitute for any patient encounter log your school requires. You are responsible for keeping every entry deidentified and for following your institution's policies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Addendum. at 5.0 against Blueprint MCAT Prep's 4.2. Addendum. also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Blueprint MCAT Prep's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Addendum. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blueprint MCAT Prep has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Blueprint MCAT Prep ships an update monthly, Addendum. weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blueprint MCAT Prep | Addendum. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BLUEPRINT TEST PREPARATION LLC | Steven Ermer |
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Blueprint MCAT Prep
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Blueprint MCAT Prep
No in-app purchases
Addendum.
No in-app purchases
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