Firstline vs VOSS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Firstline
Provides healthcare professionals with interactive, point-of-care guidance for optimal patient treatment. Access customizable protocols, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection control information. Updates are rapid and it functions offline.
- Antimicrobial Stewardship guidelines
- Infection Prevention & Control protocols
- Customizable for healthcare organizations
- Antimicrobial formulary information
- Pathogen and antibiogram data
- Offline functionality
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Healthcare organizations worldwide rely on Firstline to deliver free, customized, interactive guidance directly to the point of care, making it easy for healthcare providers to choose the best treatment for their patients. Features: • Antimicrobial Stewardship guidelines • Infection Prevention & Control protocols • Customizable for any hospital or healthcare organization • Antimicrobial formulary information • Pathogen information including local antibiogram data • WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Book • Messaging system with push notifications • Integrated calculators • Surveys and forms • Cloud-based, rapid updates • Works offline
VOSS
This app serves as a health companion for patients and a documentation tool for clinicians. Patients can ask health questions, get summaries, and prepare for appointments. Clinicians can capture encounters, generate summaries, and aid documentation.
- Patient text and voice chat
- Conversation history
- Health conversation summaries
- Clinical transcription
- Note generation
- Specialty-aware summaries
- Privacy-focused consent
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VOSS is a health companion and clinical documentation app designed for both patients and clinicians. Patients can use VOSS to ask health questions in plain language, review conversation summaries, and prepare for doctor visits with text or voice chat. Clinicians can use VOSS to capture encounters, generate structured summaries, and review possible explanations to support documentation. Features include: Patient text and voice chat Conversation history Health conversation summaries Clinical transcription and note generation Specialty-aware clinician summaries Privacy-focused consent and review flows VOSS is not a diagnostic tool. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical advice or treatment decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Firstline at 645 against VOSS's 1. VOSS's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 — 4.9 for Firstline against 5.0 for VOSS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Firstline has 645 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Firstline's written reviews are positive against 100% of VOSS's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Firstline | VOSS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (645 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 645 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Spectrum Mobile Health Inc. | Kalu Ejibe |
Customer experience
Firstline
VOSS
Bugs and requests
Firstline
Reported bugs
4 issues- App will not progress past loading screen
- App crashes constantly on startup after updates
- Requires uninstall and reinstall to resolve crashes
- Crashes return after a few hours or days
Requested features
3 requests- Treatment duration guidelines for pathogens
- Regional data for additional areas (e.g., Southern Ontario/Hamilton/Toronto)
- More specific treatment duration information
VOSS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Firstline
No in-app purchases
VOSS
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Firstline free?
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