Thyroid Navigator vs Clinical Practice Guidelines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thyroid Navigator
This app provides a detailed 3D model of the thyroid and surrounding structures. It's designed as a communication and educational tool for medical professionals to explain thyroid diseases and conditions to patients and students.
- Detailed 3D thyroid model
- 360-degree rotation
- Multiple display patterns (skin, vessels, nerves)
- Tumor symptom samples
- Pre- and post-operative images
- Communication tool for medical scenes
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The Thyroid Navigator is the 3D graphics model of around the thyroid. It developed to be utilized on the various medical scenes as the communication tool in any kind of disease of the thyroid. It displays clearly the perspective from the skin, the benign tumor, the thyroid cancer, the lymph node metastasis, tracheal invasion, the chronic thyroiditis, relationship of thyroid and trachea, recurrent laryngeal nerve, artery, and vein, a postop condition, a parathyroid-tumor. Please use for description to the patient, education scene, in a variety of medical scene. - The three dimensional model which specialized at the thyroid． - It displays 360 degrees rotated. - It displays a thyroid in 3 patterns, states of the skin, vessels and nerves, only nerve. - It displays some symptoms of tumor sample. - It introduces the image of the preoperative, the postop on each case basis. - It is ideal for teaching physicians, nurses, laboratory technicians to that aims to thyroidology. - Compatible language is English and Japanese. ＜詳細＞ サイロイド・ナビゲーターは、甲状腺とその周辺組織を詳細に再現した3Dグラフィックスモデルです。拡大、縮小、回転により容易に細部まで観察することができます。 甲状腺疾患の診療におけるコミュニケーションツールとして、患者様への説明や甲状腺を学ぶ医療従事者への教育など、さまざまな医療現場でご活用いただくことを目的として開発しました。 皮膚からの透視図、甲状腺の良性腫瘍、甲状腺癌、リンパ節転移、気管浸潤、慢性甲状腺炎、甲状腺と気管、反回神経、動静脈との関係、術後の状態、副甲状腺腫瘍などをわかりやすく表示し、さらに理解を深めることができます。 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ＊ 甲状腺に特化した3Dグラフィックスモデル ＊ 360度回転させて表示 ＊ 甲状腺を“皮膚のある状態”、“血管と神経”、“神経のみ”の３パターンで表示 ＊ 腫瘍の症状サンプルを数パターン表示 ＊ 症例ごとに術前、術後のイメージを表示 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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 ratings volume: Clinical Practice Guidelines at 448 against Thyroid Navigator's 5. Clinical Practice Guidelines also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 21 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Thyroid Navigator against 4.8 for Clinical Practice Guidelines. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clinical Practice Guidelines has 448 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Thyroid Navigator ships an update every 21 months, Clinical Practice Guidelines every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thyroid Navigator | Clinical Practice Guidelines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (448 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 448 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kuma Hospital | The Endocrine Society |
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Thyroid Navigator
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In-app purchases
Thyroid Navigator
No in-app purchases
Clinical Practice Guidelines
No in-app purchases
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