Navigate eReader vs Platinum Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Read digital textbooks
- Online and offline access
- Interactive learning tools
- Personal note-taking
- Note sharing
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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 — 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.
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.
| Parameter | Navigate eReader | Platinum Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (44 ratings) — better | 1.4 (87 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 5.7% of reviews | 6.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 44 | 87 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Informed Publishing | PLATINUM EDUCATIONAL GROUP, LLC |
Customer experience
Navigate eReader
Platinum Planner
User reviews
Navigate eReader
From 44 App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
Navigate eReader
No in-app purchases
Platinum Planner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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