Thalamus vs Awesome Review Live Stream
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thalamus
This app offers a real-time system for scheduling interviews and coordinating travel for medical residency and fellowship applicants. It streamlines communication and allows applicants to self-schedule, manage confirmations, cancellations, and waitlists, giving them control over their interview dates.
- Real-time interview scheduling
- Travel coordination
- Self-scheduling for applicants
- Automated confirmations and cancellations
- Waitlist management
- Streamlined communication
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Thalamus is developed through a collaboration of trainees, administrators, coordinators, directors and GME leadership to provide comprehensive online interview scheduling and travel coordination via a real-time scheduling system – online and mobile. Thalamus streamlines communication and interview scheduling for medical residency and fellowship applicants by facilitating self-scheduling, thereby eliminating unnecessary phone calls and emails. The software manages all confirmations, cancellations, rescheduling, and wait lists, so that applicants can instantaneously confirm interview dates and take full control of their schedules. Now featured nationally at 125+ institutions and used by >75% of applicants, Thalamus is the most comprehensive and preferred interview management solution in GME.
Awesome Review Live Stream
Prepare for Internal Medicine board certification and recertification with this comprehensive review course. Complex concepts are simplified using animations to aid understanding, with a reported 100% pass rate for past users. Get board-certified ready in approximately 63 hours.
- Board certification and recertification preparation
- Simplified complex concepts
- Animations for understanding
- 100% reported pass rates
- 63-hour certification readiness
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Leading Internal Medicine board review course that helps you towards your goal of certification and recertification.We Simplify Complex Concepts Using Animations That Will Help You Understand Abstract & Tedious Topics with 100% Pass Rates For Countless Physicians & Programs. It makes you board certified ready in 63 hours.
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Verdict
Thalamus and Awesome Review Live Stream both sit at 3.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of Awesome Review Live Stream's written reviews are positive against 6% of Thalamus's. Awesome Review Live Stream also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Thalamus's advantage is ratings volume (491 vs 6). 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 — 3.8 for Thalamus against 3.7 for Awesome Review Live Stream. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thalamus has 491 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 6% of Thalamus's written reviews are positive against 50% of Awesome Review Live Stream's.
Thalamus ships an update every 3 months, Awesome Review Live Stream every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.
| Parameter | Thalamus | Awesome Review Live Stream |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (491 ratings) — better | 3.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 491 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SJ MedConnect, Inc. | Imran Khan |
Customer experience
Thalamus
Awesome Review Live Stream
Bugs and requests
Thalamus
Reported bugs
4 issues- App won't load or open
- Frequent logout issues
- Compatibility problems with newer OS versions
- Unreliable notification system
Requested features
4 requests- Allow access via mobile browser
- Improve login persistence
- Add more calendar and scheduling features
- Provide better visibility into interview details
Awesome Review Live Stream
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Thalamus
No in-app purchases
Awesome Review Live Stream
No in-app purchases
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