Comparison

EM vs Qpath Mobile

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

Head to head
About

EM

Access a comprehensive suite of medical education resources, including audio podcasts, HD videos, board review courses, and literature summaries. This platform offers content for emergency medicine, urgent care, and primary care professionals, aiming to be a one-stop shop for career-long learning.

Highlights
  • Audio podcasts for emergency, urgent, and primary care
  • HD procedure videos with expert commentary
  • Board review courses for various medical professionals
  • LLSA exam preparation
  • Summarized medical literature reviews
  • Comprehensive primary care audio series
  • Urgent care educational products
Features
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Join 65,000 of your colleagues and subscribe to the #1 online medical education platform in the world. Gone are the days when you had to buy multiple products from different vendors. With EM:RAP you gain access to everything you will ever need throughout your career, all for one low price. Because what you do matters! AUDIO PODCASTS Our emergency medicine, urgent care, and primary care audio programs have something for everyone. Just starting out? Our Comprehensive Core Curriculum (C3) has you covered for all of the most common presentations to the Emergency Department and Urgent Care. More of a seasoned vet? There is a reason our flagship EM:RAP podcast is the #1 EM audio program: it is full of cutting-edge updates from the specialty’s leading voices. Looking to expand your Urgent Care knowledge? UC Max has you covered! HD VIDEOS Can’t remember exactly how to execute that tricky procedure? Have no fear, our HD video section is filled with expertly-shot procedure videos and expert commentary. We also regularly host live shows to cover topics of interest. Additionally, we are building a robust library of video courses and lectures so you visual learners can deep dive into specific topics of interest. BOARD REVIEW Our Crunch Time audio product is a comprehensive board review course for MDs, RNs, PAs, NPs, and students of all types. We even have separate versions for both Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine! LIFELONG LEARNING AND SELF-ASSESSMENT (LLSA) Our reviews of LLSA papers cut straight to the chase. Listen to the audio and take the attached quiz, and you’ll be ready to ace the ABEM LLSA exam! LITERATURE REVIEWS Our Emergency Medical Abstracts team analyzes over 600 papers each month, so you don’t have to! And we dissect and summarize the best of these abstracts so you have the very best-available information for your practice. PRIMARY CARE Right on Prime is our comprehensive monthly audio series for the generalist. Primary care, urgent care, low-risk obstetrics, pediatrics, rural, remote and international medicine, paper reviews, and much more! URGENT CARE UC Maximus has revolutionized Urgent Care education. Your membership unlocks exclusive access to a comprehensive suite of UC educational products. ABOUT EM:RAP For twenty years, Emergency Medicine: Reviews and Perspectives (EM:RAP) has provided the EM community with the highest-quality medical education resources. Now the leaders in the field, the name EM:RAP has become synonymous with EM education. EM:RAP’s UC Maximus platform will do the same for Urgent Care. Our goal is to provide you with a one-stop for all your educational needs. With your EM:RAP subscription you gain access to everything you will ever need throughout your career, all for one low price.

About

Qpath Mobile

This medical app allows physicians to view and document studies, sign exam worksheets, and perform quality assurance remotely. It supports creating external camera DICOM exams to document patient symptoms, with seamless transfer to the main solution for workstation or mobile access.

Highlights
  • View and document studies
  • Sign exam worksheets
  • Perform QA remotely
  • Create external camera DICOM exams
  • Document patient symptoms
  • Transfer exams to Qpath E instance
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Qpath Mobile is an extension to Qpath solution that allows physicians to view and document their studies, sign exam worksheets and perform QA on the go! In addition to ultrasound exams, physicians can now create external camera DICOM exams in order to document patient symptoms. To create a new Camera DICOM exam, User can select an existing patient from a worklist, scan a patient barcode with an embedded application scanner or add a patient to the worklist manually. With the camera mode enabled, User may select an exam type and department to send an exam to. Exams with camera pictures and videos are transferred to Qpath instance and can be accessed from any workstation or a mobile device.

Screenshots

EM4 screens
Qpath Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Qpath Mobile at free against EM's subscription. EM's advantage is ratings volume (4.4K vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Qpath Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EM has 4.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EM ships an update every 6 weeks, Qpath Mobile monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
EM versus Qpath Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEMQpath Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews34.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.4K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB62 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperEM:RAP, Inc.Telexy

Customer experience

EM

All ratings4,330 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews124 reviews
Positive34.7%
Neutral24.2%
Negative41.1%

Qpath Mobile

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

EM

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Download function doesn't work
  • Downloads Still Don't Work
  • Downloads do not work
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

8 requests
  • Need ipad version
  • Needs CarPlay compatibility
  • CME needs to be in the app
  • Ability to continue playing what was most recently played by default upon opening the app
  • Skip forward/backward 15 seconds button on media display
Show 3 more
  • CarPlay!!!
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

Qpath Mobile

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

EM

No in-app purchases

None

Qpath Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EM free?
EM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Qpath Mobile free?
Qpath Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EM or Qpath Mobile?
Qpath Mobile is rated higher. EM averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4.4K ratings, while Qpath Mobile averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do EM or Qpath Mobile have ads?
Neither EM nor Qpath Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EM or Qpath Mobile?
EM ships an update every 6 weeks, and Qpath Mobile monthly. Most recently, EM was updated on November 1, 2026 and Qpath Mobile on October 29, 2026.

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