Join vs MDmind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Join
This app facilitates secure communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals. It allows for the sharing of patient information, high-resolution medical images, and diagnostic data, integrating with hospital IT systems to streamline care delivery.
- Secure patient information sharing
- DICOM image viewer
- Integration with PACS and EMR
- 1-on-1 and group chatting
- Live streaming video from clinical areas
- Anonymity processing for patient data
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Join is the hub for healthcare professionals and providers. It simplifies communication and collaboration between clinicians and healthcare providers through its secure and compliant patient information sharing technology. Join also enables clinicians to view high-resolution CT/MRI images via a DICOM viewer anywhere, reducing the need for them to switch between sites and helping speed up care delivery without sacrificing quality. Join easily integrates into internal IT systems such as PACS and EMR*, enabling users to view and share EHR information*, various diagnostic images, laboratory data*, and prescriptions*. * This feature is optional and currently limited to a few specific EMRs Join is also certified as a software medical device by PMDA (Japan), FDA (United States), CE (European Economic Area), and ANVISA (Brazil). Functions: - Connect to internal systems in hospitals such as PACS - Support private 1 on 1 chatting and group chatting - Use as medical cooperation tool between hospitals - Send and receive DICOM images in a chat, within a hospital, and between hospitals - Watch live streaming video from ICU, operation rooms, and patients’ room Security: - Anonymity processing for patients' personal information by gateway server - Encrypting chat data which was saved on device - Encrypting by using VPN connection between Inner-hospital system and Cloud - TLS/SSL encryption between devices and Cloud - Preventing unauthorized access by requiring passcode at application startup - Non-downloadable medical images (clearing cache each time) - ISMS (ISO27001) certified Note - Continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
MDmind
An AI-powered medical companion for physicians and students. Discuss cases, explore differentials, and get evidence-based answers with literature support. It also allows on-demand literature searches and document uploads for enhanced clinical reasoning.
- AI-powered clinical reasoning
- Discuss clinical cases
- Evidence-based answers
- On-demand literature search
- Document and image upload
- Audio-to-text dictation
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MDmind is an AI-powered education and clinical reasoning companion for physicians and medical students. Discuss cases, explore differentials and management options, and get structured answers backed by a targeted literature search. You can also request an on-demand search on any topic. MDmind supports your thinking—it doesn’t replace professional judgment. It does not provide medical diagnosis or emergency guidance. Use MDmind to: Discuss clinical cases (symptoms → differentials → workup → management). Get evidence-informed answers aligned with medical literature and guidelines. Request an on-demand literature search with concise takeaways. Upload documents (PDF/text) and add images for extra context. Dictate questions with audio-to-text.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MDmind at 100% against Join's 25%. MDmind also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Join's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MDmind holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Join has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Join's written reviews are positive against 100% of MDmind's.
Join ships an update monthly, MDmind weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Join | MDmind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Allm Inc. | Tiago Costa Carnin |
Customer experience
Join
MDmind
In-app purchases
Join
No in-app purchases
MDmind
No in-app purchases









