X vs WellBeam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
X
This medical education app offers a vast library of narrated tutorials covering numerous specialties. It's designed for healthcare settings to help patients understand medical conditions and treatments through interactive learning.
- Narrated educational tutorials
- Interactive quizzes with feedback
- Covers 35 medical specialties
- Over 1100 English titles
- Over 500 Spanish titles
- Self-paced learning
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X-Plain® is patient education software used in hospitals, clinics and other healthcare settings. It provides educational tutorials that are self-paced, narrated and have questions with corrective feedback for better comprehension. X-Plain has approximately 1100 English titles and 500 Spanish titles covering 35 medical specialties.
WellBeam
This HIPAA-compliant platform modernizes healthcare communication, replacing fax and voicemail for physician authorizations and patient deterioration alerts. It aims to improve clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, and revenue for care organizations.
- HIPAA compliant platform
- Streamlines patient care workflows
- Replaces fax and voicemail
- Physician authorization management
- Patient deterioration alerts
- Improves clinical outcomes
- Enhances operational efficiency
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WellBeam is the leading HIPAA compliant platform that streamlines workflows along the patient care continuum. Replacing the use of fax and voicemail with modern solutions for physician authorizations and communicating patient deteriorations between care organizations, WellBeam drives improved clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, revenue and reimbursement -- all from one app. Customer support is available in-app or by email at support@well-beam.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: X at every 8 days against WellBeam's every 2 months. WellBeam's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.5). 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 — 5.0 for X against 4.9 for WellBeam. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WellBeam has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
X ships an update every 8 days, WellBeam every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X | WellBeam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | PATIENT EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC | WellBeam Inc. |
Customer experience
X
WellBeam
In-app purchases
X
No in-app purchases
WellBeam
No in-app purchases
