Comparison

EyesHaveIt vs Pocket ICU

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

Pocket ICU

This app offers concise critical care guidance written by attending physicians. It covers diagnosis, treatment, and management across various subspecialties, including detailed images and decision algorithms. Quickly find information, bookmark entries, and take notes for efficient ICU rounds and consultations.

Highlights
  • Concise guidance by attending physicians
  • Diagnosis, treatment, and management details
  • Subspecialty coverage
  • Detailed images and algorithms
  • Statistics and EBM overview
  • Pharmacological data and formulas
  • Full text search and bookmarking
Features
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New topics address bioweapons, disaster preparedness and critical care challenges of an air-transmissible, pandemic-causing pathogens like COVID-19. POCKET ICU FEATURES • Concise guidance written by attending physicians for everyone in critical care • Entries with diagnosis, treatment, and management details • Coverage of subspecialty areas including pediatric, neuro, cardiac, transplant, burn, and more • Detailed images, figures, and decision support algorithms • Overview of Statistics and Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) • Helpful appendices provide pharmacological data, respiratory formulas, and cardiopulmonary relationships • Advanced Full Text Search helps find topics quickly • “Favorites” for bookmarking important entries • Highlighting and note-taking MORE ABOUT POCKET ICU With content from the highly regarded Pocket Notebook series, Pocket ICU provides users with an essential tool for quickly locating information from every subspecialty area of critical care. Entries have been written by attending physicians and are presented in brief but broad format so anyone in an ICU setting can quickly find answers and save time. This powerful resource can be downloaded to your smartphone and tablet and is great for preparing for rounds or consulting expert recommendations while on the ICU floor. Editors: Gyorgy Frendl, MD, PhD; Avery Tung, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Powered by: Unbound Medicine

Screenshots

EyesHaveIt4 screens
Pocket ICU4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pocket ICU at Free against EyesHaveIt's $4.99. Pocket ICU also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (317 vs 4). EyesHaveIt's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (80% vs 64%). On update cadence, ads 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

Pocket ICU is free to download; EyesHaveIt costs $4.99 up front. Pocket ICU sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. EyesHaveIt asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pocket ICU holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket ICU has 317 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 64% of Pocket ICU'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, Pocket ICU every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
EyesHaveIt versus Pocket ICU: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEyesHaveItPocket ICU
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (4 ratings)4.6 (317 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better64.3% of reviews
Number of ratings4317 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB9 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperThe University of MichiganUnbound Medicine, Inc.

Customer experience

EyesHaveIt

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

Pocket ICU

All ratings317 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative35.7%

Bugs and requests

EyesHaveIt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pocket ICU

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • No information loads after purchase
  • Issues with download/access

In-app purchases

None

EyesHaveIt

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Pocket ICU

One-time2
  • Pocket ICU2 variants$69.99
  • Pocket ICU 2023$69.99

Questions

Is EyesHaveIt free?
EyesHaveIt costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket ICU free?
Pocket ICU is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EyesHaveIt or Pocket ICU?
Pocket ICU is rated higher. EyesHaveIt averages 3.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Pocket ICU averages 4.6 from 317 ratings.
Do EyesHaveIt or Pocket ICU have ads?
Neither EyesHaveIt nor Pocket ICU shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EyesHaveIt or Pocket ICU?
EyesHaveIt ships an update every 6 months, and Pocket ICU every 9 months. Most recently, EyesHaveIt was updated on October 23, 2026 and Pocket ICU on October 24, 2026.

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