JournalFeed vs PediSwipe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
PediSwipe
This medical reference app provides weight-based pediatric dosing and resuscitation calculations for healthcare professionals. It offers quick access to critical information on medications, equipment, and vital signs, designed for use in emergency situations on a smartwatch.
- Weight-based pediatric dosing
- Cardiac resuscitation calculations
- Airway management tools
- Vital signs monitoring
- Shock and fluid calculations
- Seizure management pathways
- Trauma and burn resuscitation
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PediSwipe brings weight-based pediatric dosing to your Apple Watch — built for the bedside, the resus bay, and hands that are too busy for a phone. In a pediatric code, every second matters. Fumbling with a phone, flipping through a paper Broselow tape, or scrolling an app isn't an option when your hands are busy. PediSwipe delivers weight-based medication dosing, equipment sizing, defibrillation settings, and vasopressor infusion calculations to your wrist in 2 taps or fewer. HOW IT WORKS Enter the child's age, weight, or height. PediSwipe estimates weight using validated formulas (Graves et al., 2014) and assigns a Broselow color zone (Grey through Green, covering 3–36 kg). Every screen instantly updates with zone-specific values. WHAT'S INCLUDED - Cardiac Resuscitation — Epinephrine, amiodarone, adenosine, atropine, defibrillation/cardioversion energy, H's and T's - Airway — ETT (cuffed/uncuffed), LMA, i-gel, GlideScope, blade & BVM sizing, RSI sequence, vent settings - Vital Signs — Animated bedside monitor with HR, SBP, SpO₂, RR. Tap any vital for age-adjusted norms, SIPA shock index, MAP targets, urine output, glucose, and defibrillation energy - Shock & Fluids — Crystalloid bolus, blood products, Holliday-Segar maintenance rate - Pressors — 7 vasopressor/inotrope infusions with concentration-based ml/hr calculations - Seizures — ESETT-based benzodiazepine pathway, levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, phenobarbital, valproic acid - Trauma — TXA, massive transfusion protocol (PRBC/FFP/PLT/Cryo), ABCDE primary survey - Burns — Modified Brooke fluid resuscitation, Lund-Browder TBSA, transfer criteria - Calculators — PECARN, CATCH, UTICalc, Wesley croup score, GCS (standard + pediatric) - Post-Intubation — Analgesia, sedation, and paralysis infusions - Plus: Anaphylaxis, Respiratory, Sedation, Analgesia, Toxicology, Fever, Hypoglycemia, Common Meds 17 clinical categories. 11 calculators. All weight-based, all on your wrist. EVIDENCE-BASED All dosing references AHA PALS 2020, Surviving Sepsis Campaign Pediatric Guidelines, AAP clinical pathways, and peer-reviewed literature. Full citations with DOIs accessible in Settings → About → Sources. BUILT FOR THE RESUSCITATION BAY - 2 taps max to critical information - Glove-friendly: large tap targets, Digital Crown navigation - Broselow color-coded interface - 3 entry modes: weight, age, or height - Works offline — no ads, no account, no data collected PediSwipe is a clinical reference tool for licensed healthcare professionals. Not a substitute for clinical judgment. Verify all dosing against institutional protocols.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: PediSwipe at free against JournalFeed's subscription. PediSwipe also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 10 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 JournalFeed against 5.0 for PediSwipe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
JournalFeed ships an update every 10 months, PediSwipe weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JournalFeed | PediSwipe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | JournalFeed, LLC | Parmjyot Singh |
Customer experience
JournalFeed
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In-app purchases
JournalFeed
No in-app purchases
PediSwipe
No in-app purchases








