Comparison

Navigate eReader vs Platinum Planner

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

Head to head
About

Navigate eReader

Access your digital textbooks from Jones & Bartlett Learning Navigate 2 publications. Read online or offline, utilize interactive learning tools, and create and share personal notes to enhance your studies.

Highlights
  • Read digital textbooks
  • Online and offline access
  • Interactive learning tools
  • Personal note-taking
  • Note sharing
Features
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Navigate eReader: For use with Jones & Bartlett Learning Navigate 2 publications spanning public safety, heath professions, and higher education. Read your digital textbook online or offline, enhance your learning with interactive tools, and make and share personal notes.

About

Platinum Planner

This app allows students and preceptors in EMS, Allied Health, and Nursing to manage clinical documentation, scheduling, and skill tracking. It offers offline capabilities for documenting opportunities, labs, and scenarios, with features for preceptor review and digital signatures.

Highlights
  • Offline clinical documentation
  • Skill tracking and reporting
  • Clinical opportunity sign-up and documentation
  • Lab documentation and peer review
  • Preceptor review and digital signatures
  • Calendar sync for opportunities and labs
  • Progress and skill status reports
Features
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Planner is an easy to use companion app for existing users of Platinum Planner. Students and preceptors can complete documentation from anywhere! Even offline without an internet connection! Planner is for EMS, Allied Health and Nursing Professions, it provides online skill tracking, scheduling, reporting and much more! Student Features: Clinical Opportunities - View, sign up for and create clinical opportunities. - Document a clinical opportunity including entering time, notes, preceptor information, and patient information. - Complete any associated forms. - Upload images from your camera and attach them to an opportunity. - Click on the PIN icon to open clinical sites in location aware applications like maps or driving apps. - Ability for a preceptor to give a digital signature right from the app! Labs - View, sign up for and create labs. - View upcoming labs, document current labs, or review documentation from completed labs. - When documenting labs, students will be able to document their skills and complete any forms associated with the lab. - Peer review other classmates labs. - Upload images from your mobile devices camera. Scenarios - Peer review other classmates scenarios. - Review completed scenarios. Preceptor Features: Training - View and complete training in the app. - Upload documents to your training. Student Documentation Review - Review and complete student documentation. - Return student documentation. - Upload additional documents/images to student documentation. - Sign off using your signature on student documentation. - Preview student documentation during the student's shift. - Manage students from multiple schools. Other Features: - Option to work offline then sync data when you have an internet connection available. - Sync upcoming opportunities and labs directly to your calendar. - View current classes along with their details. - Sign up for any additional classes available for your course. - View your progress report and see your overall skill status of your course. - Badge notifications showing the total number of labs, scenarios, opportunities, and items which need to be sync'd.

Screenshots

Navigate eReader3 screens
Platinum Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Navigate eReader at 8.0 against Platinum Planner's 15.6. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.5 for Navigate eReader against 1.4 for Platinum Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 87 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 6% of Navigate eReader's written reviews are positive against 7% of Platinum Planner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Navigate eReader ships an update every 4 months, Platinum Planner every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Navigate eReader versus Platinum Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNavigate eReaderPlatinum Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.5 (44 ratings) — better1.4 (87 ratings)
Positive reviews5.7% of reviews6.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4487 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB12 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperInformed PublishingPLATINUM EDUCATIONAL GROUP, LLC

Customer experience

Navigate eReader

All ratings43 ratings
Positive7.0%
Neutral7.0%
Negative86.0%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive5.7%
Neutral7.5%
Negative86.8%

Platinum Planner

All ratings72 ratings
Positive11.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative87.5%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive6.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative93.2%

User reviews

Navigate eReader

From 44 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Can read books offline
  • 👍 Loads pages like the physical book
  • 👍 Includes quizzes and exams
  • 👍 Tap for glossary definitions
  • 👍 Opens to last stopped page

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent login issues
  • 🐛 App crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Clunky highlighting and note-taking
  • 🐛 Poor zoom and page turning responsiveness
  • 🐛 UI is cluttered and difficult to use

Platinum Planner

From 87 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Works like the website
  • 👍 Helpful, especially offline
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Documents everything needed

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Takes too long to load
  • 🐛 Unreliable saving of data
  • 🐛 Difficult to use on phone
  • 🐛 Confusing and inconsistent experience

Bugs and requests

Navigate eReader

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Login fails with incorrect credentials error
  • App does not open
  • Server errors during login
  • App shuts down unexpectedly
  • Error code when opening app
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  • Bottom controls cover page content
  • No internet connection error
  • App freezes on configuration page
  • Zoom is unresponsive
  • Search feature crashes app
  • Broken links in books
  • App crashes or freezes on opening
  • App out of date
  • App does not work or allow sign in
  • App closes when trying to open book
  • App freezes up
  • Cannot open book
  • Cannot get past bookshelf
  • App is broken

Requested features

9 requests
  • Ability to write notes and highlights
  • Improved note-taking interface with side tab
  • Apple Pencil support for annotations
  • Split screen compatibility
  • Update for newer iOS versions
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  • Support for iPad Pro 12.9"
  • Support iOS 9 iPad Splitscreen multitasking
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to name bookmarks automatically

Platinum Planner

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App won't open
  • App stuck on 'Syncing preceptors'
  • App won't load past 'Syncing preceptors'
  • Half of submissions don't go through
  • App crashes
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  • App never syncs right
  • App needs an update
  • App is broken after update
  • App says 'syncing' and doesn't work
  • App crashes during sync
  • App freezes during sync
  • App won't sync
  • App gets stuck on syncing
  • App freezes at 'syncing program type options'
  • App won't load anything after update
  • App gets stuck at X% syncing

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to upload documents from iCloud
  • Ability to select multiple documents for upload
  • More filters for scheduling labs on the app
  • Ability to make changes on dates/locations when making opportunities
  • Dark mode option
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  • Advanced analytics dashboard

In-app purchases

None

Navigate eReader

No in-app purchases

None

Platinum Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Navigate eReader free?
Navigate eReader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Platinum Planner free?
Platinum Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Navigate eReader or Platinum Planner?
Navigate eReader is rated higher. Navigate eReader averages 1.5 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while Platinum Planner averages 1.4 from 87 ratings.
Do Navigate eReader or Platinum Planner have ads?
Neither Navigate eReader nor Platinum Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Navigate eReader or Platinum Planner?
Navigate eReader ships an update every 4 months, and Platinum Planner every 2 months. Most recently, Navigate eReader was updated on November 1, 2026 and Platinum Planner on November 2, 2026.

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