Comparison

EyesHaveIt vs CorePendium

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

Head to head
About

EyesHaveIt

This medical app aids students and healthcare professionals in diagnosing and managing eye care issues. It features detailed information on 134 eye conditions, supplemental images, narrated animations, and videos for comprehensive learning and assessment.

Highlights
  • Diagnose and manage eye care problems
  • Learn about 134 eye conditions
  • View supplemental images, animations, and videos
  • Test knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes
  • Develop differential diagnoses
  • Review eye anatomy
Features
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The Eyes Have It (TEHI) app is designed to teach medical and optometric students, and to assist physicians, optometrists, ophthalmic technicians, nurses and other health care providers in diagnosing and managing eye care problems. Written by respected University of Michigan ophthalmologist Jonathan D. Trobe, MD, the text contains hyperlinks to supplemental images, narrated animations, and videos that illustrate the clinical and teaching points. A picture-based multiple-choice quiz allows users to assess their knowledge. With 134 eye conditions, 410 images, more than 40 narrated animations and patient videos, 6 screening examination videos and an eye anatomy review section, this pocket resource can be your go-to source for eye information! A quiz of multiple-choice questions allows users to test themselves on their knowledge of eye conditions and their management. The quiz can also be used by instructors to assess the proficiency of their trainees. The web product by the same name, on which this app is based, has become the favored worldwide resource in this field. Highlights: • Learn about an eye condition through concise bulleted text that addresses What is it? How does it appear? What else looks like it? What to do? and What will happen? • View supplemental images with highlighting arrows, narrated animations, and videos • Develop a differential diagnosis using the links to candidate conditions • Find out what happens if you correctly or incorrectly diagnose or manage a condition • Discover the structures of the eye and visual pathway through pop-up cross sectional drawings and ophthalmoscopic images • Watch videos to learn how to conduct the common screening eye exams and interpret what you find • Search title and text to find a feature of interest to you • Favorite a condition to get back to it easily • Test your proficiency by answering multiple-choice questions

About

CorePendium

This app provides a comprehensive, continuously updated, and peer-reviewed clinical reference for Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine. It features integrated multimedia, offline access, intuitive navigation, and medical calculators, making it an essential tool for medical professionals on the go.

Highlights
  • Expert-backed, continuously revised content
  • Integrated media library (ECGs, X-rays, videos, audio)
  • Offline access to all content
  • Intuitive navigation with Rapid Access and Deep Dive sections
  • Integrated medical calculators
  • Links to EM:RAP knowledge base content
Features
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The textbook is dead. Long live CorePendium! CorePendium is the first truly comprehensive, continuously updated, peer-reviewed, multimedia clinical reference for Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine. Download the CorePendium App and bring the best clinical reference text with you anywhere in the world, regardless of connectivity. With your EM:RAP account, the CorePendium App allows you to join over 65,000 members of the CorePendium community. The CorePendium App gives you… • EXPERT-BACKED CONTENT — Written, edited, and peer-reviewed by a team of over 800 leading academics and practitioners, every CorePendium chapter is continuously revised by leading experts in emergency medicine and beyond. • INTEGRATED MEDIA — Comprehensive learning requires more than just words. Dive into our constantly growing media library of ECG’s and X-rays, as well as expertly-produced videos and audio segments. Look, listen, and learn, all without leaving the CorePendium App. • OFFLINE MODE — With new chapters being added and updated frequently to reflect the latest literature and practice guidelines, the CorePendium App makes sure you always have the newest information at your fingertips, 24 hours a day. The app looks for updates to its offline database every time you’re active online, so that you have the answers you need, no matter what. Do you want access to our skillfully-shot procedure videos and expert commentary away from a wireless connection? You can choose to download our audio and video content to ensure access when you need it most. • INTUITIVE NAVIGATION — Designed to prioritize all of the crucial information and media needed for the critical patient, CorePendium’s ‹Rapid Access› section gives you the quick insights you’ll need at the bedside. If you are looking for more background, the ‹Deep Dive› section provides all the information you’ll need to know about a topic. Sleek chapter sidebars, internal searches, search filters, and curated tabs ensure you can find what you need when you need it. • MEDICAL CALCULATORS — Get all of the commonly used clinical scoring and decision tools you need, with important interpretation data compiled by some of medicine’s foremost experts just a thumb slide away. Our calculators are also integrated with the content that uses it most. • PART OF THE EM:RAP KNOWLEDGE BASE — CorePendium is just one piece of the EM:RAP universe. The CorePendium App takes full advantage of its special connection to the most listened to programs in Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine by integrating that content. With continuously updated links to video, conference content, and podcasts you’ll always get the most cutting-edge answers. • INTERNATIONAL — CorePendium is for the whole world. We have an international advisory board that aims to address emergency care for patients and practitioners in all of the various environments where it is practiced. • EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE — CorePendium is written by clinicians for clinicians, without the support of advertising or industry. With the CorePendium App you just get the best information, current and expertly reviewed. • THE REFERENCE OF RECORD — Accessed millions of times, CorePendium is already the reference textbook used by residency training programs and frontline clinicians the world over.

Screenshots

EyesHaveIt4 screens
CorePendium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CorePendium at Free against EyesHaveIt's $4.99. CorePendium also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.8) and update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). EyesHaveIt's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.1). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CorePendium is free to download; EyesHaveIt costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CorePendium holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CorePendium has 1.4K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of EyesHaveIt's written reviews are positive against 67% of CorePendium's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EyesHaveIt ships an update every 6 months, CorePendium monthly. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
EyesHaveIt versus CorePendium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEyesHaveItCorePendium
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (4 ratings)4.9 (1.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings41.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB49 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperThe University of MichiganEM:RAP, Inc.

Customer experience

EyesHaveIt

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

CorePendium

All ratings1,435 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

EyesHaveIt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

CorePendium

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on launch
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • iPad version
  • Ability to track progress and bookmark content
  • Video playback controls (speed, rewind)

In-app purchases

None

EyesHaveIt

No in-app purchases

None

CorePendium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EyesHaveIt free?
EyesHaveIt costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CorePendium free?
CorePendium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EyesHaveIt or CorePendium?
CorePendium is rated higher. EyesHaveIt averages 3.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while CorePendium averages 4.9 from 1.4K ratings.
Do EyesHaveIt or CorePendium have ads?
Neither EyesHaveIt nor CorePendium shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EyesHaveIt or CorePendium?
EyesHaveIt ships an update every 6 months, and CorePendium monthly. Most recently, EyesHaveIt was updated on September 28, 2026 and CorePendium on September 28, 2026.

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