Comparison

Ostheimer Lecture vs Sleepemon

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

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Ostheimer Lecture

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The Ostheimer Lecture is the most prestigious annual lecture in obstetric anesthesia, delivered at the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) Annual Meeting. Endowed in honor of Gerard W. Ostheimer, MD, it distills the prior year's peer-reviewed literature into a single hour-long synthesis. This is a native iPhone study companion to the Stanford Anesthesia Informatics & Media (AIM) Lab's curation of the Ostheimer Lecture series. NATIVE STUDY TOOLS โ€ข Per-article notes โ€” annotate any article, stored privately on your iPhone. โ€ข Read tracking โ€” checkmarks on articles you've opened, with year-level progress bars. โ€ข Bookmarks โ€” save articles for later via a Saved filter. โ€ข Unread filter โ€” narrow the list to what's still ahead. โ€ข Calendar โ€” add upcoming SOAP Annual Meetings (2026 Montreal, 2027 Palm Springs) to your iPhone Calendar. โ€ข Haptic feedback on flip-cards, bookmarks, and filters. LECTURES A profile for each year's lecturer with biography and credentials, plus the full lecture video embedded inline. ARTICLES The lecturer's complete curated reading list, organized by year and topic, with citations and take-aways. Native search and filter chips for Saved, Unread, and topic. FOLLOW ALONG A focused study mode that walks you through one card at a time. Tap to flip a card in 3D and reveal the lecturer's take-away โ€” the single-sentence summary they wrote for that paper. SYLLABUS The lecturer's complete written syllabus, rendered offline using Apple's native PDF engine. The 2023, 2024, and 2025 syllabi are bundled for fully offline reading. YEARS โ€ข 2026 โ€” David T. Monks, MBChB (Washington University): Postpartum Hemorrhage: From Prediction to Action โ€ข 2025 โ€” Emily E. Sharpe, MD (Mayo Clinic) โ€ข 2024 โ€” Melissa E. Bauer, DO (Duke) โ€ข 2023 โ€” Pervez Sultan, MD (Stanford) ABOUT THE AIM LAB The Stanford AIM Lab builds tools and curricula that make anesthesia education more accessible, evidence-based, and clinically useful. CREDITS Curated content provided by SOAP and the annual Ostheimer lecturers.

About

Sleepemon

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Sleepemon is a gamified anesthesia education app for medical students and residents. Open booster packs to collect cards featuring commonly used anesthesia medications, then test your knowledge with quizzes to earn coins and unlock more packs. Track your progress with detailed stats, grow your collection, and unlock holographic card variants as you study.

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Ostheimer Lecture4 screens
Sleepemon4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ostheimer Lecture and Sleepemon are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Ostheimer Lecture versus Sleepemon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOstheimer LectureSleepemon
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB23 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperStanford Anesthesia Informatics And Media LabMichael Johnson

In-app purchases

None

Ostheimer Lecture

No in-app purchases

None

Sleepemon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ostheimer Lecture free?
Ostheimer Lecture is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sleepemon free?
Sleepemon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ostheimer Lecture or Sleepemon have ads?
Neither Ostheimer Lecture nor Sleepemon shows ads.

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