COPD Pocket Consultant Guide vs Clinical Practice Guidelines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
COPD Pocket Consultant Guide
This educational resource provides information for patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers related to COPD. It serves as a guide and should not be interpreted as medical advice.
- Patient and caregiver information
- Healthcare provider resources
- Educational content
- COPD management guide
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This is the COPD Foundation's Pocket Consultant Guide (PCG) app. The latest version of the app has sections devoted to 1) patients & caregivers and 2) healthcare providers. This app is an educational resource only and should not be considered as offering medical advice.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Access endocrine society clinical practice guidelines directly on your device. Utilize interactive tools like risk calculators and diagnostic algorithms. Save important information, take notes, and share resources with colleagues.
- Point-of-care guideline access
- Interactive risk calculators
- Diagnosis and treatment algorithms
- Medication charts
- Bookmark and note-taking
- Shareable PDFs
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Access the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Practice Guidelines at the point of care and use interactive tools such as risk calculators, diagnosis and treatment algorithms, and medication charts. The app allows users to bookmark important pages, take notes on key information, and share the PDF with colleagues. The Endocrine Society develops clinical practice guidelines on a variety of topics related to endocrine conditions; the app currently includes the Society’s guidelines on diabetes and obesity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: COPD Pocket Consultant Guide at 100% against Clinical Practice Guidelines's 67%. COPD Pocket Consultant Guide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Clinical Practice Guidelines's advantage is ratings volume (533 vs 11) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
COPD Pocket Consultant Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clinical Practice Guidelines has 533 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of COPD Pocket Consultant Guide's written reviews are positive against 67% of Clinical Practice Guidelines's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | COPD Pocket Consultant Guide | Clinical Practice Guidelines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | 4.8 (533 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 533 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | COPD Foundation | The Endocrine Society |
Customer experience
COPD Pocket Consultant Guide
Clinical Practice Guidelines
In-app purchases
COPD Pocket Consultant Guide
No in-app purchases
Clinical Practice Guidelines
No in-app purchases
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