Insulin vs Clinical Practice Guidelines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Insulin
This medical app assists healthcare professionals in calculating insulin doses for basal-bolus therapy. It offers efficient input methods and provides key metrics like insulin units/kg/day, carbohydrate ratios, and sensitivity factors. Additional tools include A1C conversion and BMI calculation.
- Insulin dose calculation
- Basal-bolus therapy support
- Patient weight and TDD input via sliders
- Carbohydrate-to-insulin ratio
- Insulin sensitivity factor
- A1C to estimated average glucose converter
- BMI calculator
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Insulin-Rx application is a convenient insulin dose calculator intended for use by healthcare professionals who prescribe basal-bolus insulin therapy. Patient weight and total daily insulin can be efficiently entered in by using sliders instead of typing in the values. The calculator then displays insulin units/kg/day, carbohydrate-to-insulin ratio, insulin sensitivity (correction factor), fixed meal bolus dose, and daily basal dose. A calculator that converts hemoglobin A1C to the estimated corresponding average glucose value is also included as well as a converter of centimeters to inches together with a body mass index calculator.
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
Insulin and Clinical Practice Guidelines both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Clinical Practice Guidelines's written reviews are positive against 33% of Insulin's. Clinical Practice Guidelines also leads on ratings volume (528 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.2). On price, rating, update cadence 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 — 4.7 for Insulin against 4.8 for Clinical Practice Guidelines. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clinical Practice Guidelines has 528 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Insulin's written reviews are positive against 67% of Clinical Practice Guidelines's.
Insulin ships an update every 9 months, Clinical Practice Guidelines every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Insulin | Clinical Practice Guidelines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (528 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 528 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Adam Lyko | The Endocrine Society |
Customer experience
Insulin
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In-app purchases
Insulin
No in-app purchases
Clinical Practice Guidelines
No in-app purchases
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