Navigate eReader vs EMCE
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.
EMCE
This platform streamlines EMS education by enabling educators and students to record performance evaluations and patient encounters. It facilitates simulations, tracks progress, and manages scheduling for a comprehensive learning experience.
- Capture performance evaluations
- Record patient encounters
- Facilitate simulations
- Accurately report progress
- Manage scheduling
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EMCE is the ultimate platform for EMS education. It helps educators and students capture performance evaluations, record patient encounters, facilitate simulations, accurately report progress, and manage scheduling.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EMCE at 2.7 against Navigate eReader's 1.5. EMCE also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 6%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Navigate eReader's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, 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.
EMCE holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 49 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Navigate eReader's written reviews are positive against 43% of EMCE's.
Navigate eReader ships an update every 4 months, EMCE every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Navigate eReader | EMCE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (44 ratings) | 2.7 (49 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 5.7% of reviews | 43.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 44 | 49 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Informed Publishing | S2N Ventures, LLC |
Customer experience
Navigate eReader
EMCE
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
EMCE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Navigate eReader
No in-app purchases
EMCE
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Navigate eReader free?
Is EMCE free?
Which has better reviews, Navigate eReader or EMCE?
Do Navigate eReader or EMCE have ads?
Which is updated more often, Navigate eReader or EMCE?
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