Comparison

NextStep vs MedTrack

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

Head to head
About

NextStep

This app helps pre-med students organize their academic and extracurricular activities. It allows users to log hours, track progress towards goals, and manage application milestones efficiently. Designed by former students, it aims to reduce stress in the med school application process.

Highlights
  • Experience logging for various activities
  • Hour tracking and statistical visualization
  • Customizable goals and reminders
  • Offline functionality
  • AI-powered insights (coming soon)
  • Built by pre-med students
Features
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Ready for med school? NextStep helps pre-med students log hours, track experiences, and hit application milestones—without the stress. Whether you're shadowing, volunteering, doing research, or prepping for the MCAT, NextStep keeps you organized and on track. Key Features: • Experience Tracker – Log clinical, research, volunteer, and extracurricular activities • Hour Tracking & Stats – Visualize your time, find your gaps, stay balanced • Guided AI Insights – Coming soon! • Custom Goals & Reminders – Set targets, get notified, stay accountable • Offline First – Works without Wi-Fi, syncs when you're back online • Built for Pre-Meds – Created by students who’ve been there Stop guessing. Start progressing. Download NextStep and take control of your med school journey today.

About

MedTrack

This app helps aspiring medical students assess their competitiveness for medical school. It allows users to input GPA, MCAT scores, and various experience hours to compare their stats against accepted students and build a tailored school list. Features include AI-powered interview practice and personalized advice.

Highlights
  • GPA and MCAT score comparison to accepted students
  • Personalized medical school list generation
  • Track clinical, research, volunteering, and shadowing hours
  • AI-powered mock interviews
  • Personalized application advice
  • MCAT practice questions
Features
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Are your stats good enough for med school? MedTrack tells you. Enter your GPA, science GPA and MCAT and see exactly where you stand against the students who actually got accepted, at every MD and DO school in the country. Above median, below median, or right on it, you'll know in under a minute. Then build a school list that fits. Every school is sorted into Reach, Target or Safety based on your real numbers, with accepted averages, tuition, acceptance rates and prerequisites on each one. Your MedTrack Score One number, 0 to 100, measured against the median matriculant. Academic, experience and readiness, weighted the way admissions committees weight them. It updates as you add things and shows you what to work on next. Track everything applications ask for • Clinical, research, volunteering and shadowing hours, sorted into real AMCAS categories • Prerequisite coursework • MCAT practice by section, with a weakness heatmap and projected score • Personal statement, secondaries and letters of recommendation • Daily MCAT questions with a streak Practice interviews out loud A real voice conversation with an AI interviewer, not a text box. Five included every month. Scored against the AAMC Core Competencies, the same framework schools use. An advisor that knows your file Ask anything about your stats, your school list or your timeline, and get an answer about your application, not a generic premed. Built by premeds. Every school stat comes from publicly published AAMC and AACOM data. MedTrack Pro is $29.99 a year or $4.99 a month, with a free trial. The school database is free to browse without an account. Subscription details: subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://medtrackapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

NextStep3 screens
MedTrack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NextStep at none against MedTrack's 7. NextStep also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 85%). MedTrack's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On price, update cadence, 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. MedTrack sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. NextStep asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MedTrack holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 23 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of NextStep's written reviews are positive against 85% of MedTrack's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NextStep ships an update fortnightly, MedTrack weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
NextStep versus MedTrack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextStepMedTrack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings)4.6 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better84.6% of reviews
Number of ratings523 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better16
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJosh HoffmanMEDTRACK LLC

Customer experience

NextStep

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MedTrack

All ratings23 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral8.7%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.7%

In-app purchases

None

NextStep

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

MedTrack

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Pro$4.991 Month
  • Weekly Pro7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Pro3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time4
  • 1 Practice Interview$2.99
  • 5 Practice Interviews$12.99
  • 10 Practice Interviews$19.99
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  • LifeTime$59.99

Questions

Is NextStep free?
NextStep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MedTrack free?
MedTrack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NextStep or MedTrack?
MedTrack is rated higher. NextStep averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while MedTrack averages 4.6 from 23 ratings.
Do NextStep or MedTrack have ads?
NextStep shows ads; MedTrack does not.
Which is updated more often, NextStep or MedTrack?
NextStep ships an update fortnightly, and MedTrack weekly. Most recently, NextStep was updated on October 30, 2026 and MedTrack on November 8, 2026.

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