Comparison

webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App vs STAT EM

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

Head to head
About

webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App

Get expert guidance for potential poisoning incidents. This app helps you determine if an exposure is dangerous and requires immediate medical attention, or if it's safe to manage at home. It provides personalized recommendations based on the substance, amount, and individual factors.

Highlights
  • Expert poisoning advice
  • Determine need for medical attention
  • Guidance for swallowed poisons
  • Skin, eye, inhalation, and injection exposures
  • Bites and stings advice
  • Barcode scanner for product identification
  • Symptom checker
Features
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The webPOISONCONTROL® mobile app provides expert help for a possible poisoning. It helps users determine if an exposure is dangerous and requires medical attention. Did the baby eat a berry, a flower or a cigarette? Did you take the dog’s medicine? Did your toddler eat pills from grandma’s purse? Did you swallow something that might be poisonous? Did you splash a product in your eye or on your skin? Are you coughing from irritating fumes? Were you bitten by a spider? Did you take a double dose of your medicine? Don’t guess what you should do. Get accurate answers prepared by poison experts. Use the webPOISONCONTROL app to find out if you need to call your poison center or go to an ER, or what to do if it’s safe to stay home. This free, confidential app will guide you. Just enter the age, substance, amount taken (if swallowed), weight, and time since the exposure to get an immediate recommendation. A barcode reader allows you to scan the product instead of typing or searching for the product name. Next tell us whether you have symptoms, and if so, the app will check to see if they are common, expected symptoms, or more serious. Often, it’s safe to stay home, but the app will tell you what symptoms to expect and when to call your poison center or go to an ER. Help is available for swallowed poisons, skin, eye, inhalation and injection exposures, and bites and stings. Users can get immediate guidance for medications taken in double dose or too close together. The app was developed by poison experts and has been safely used by more than one million people seeking help for a poison emergency.

About

STAT EM

This medical app provides medication calculations for patients from neonates to adults, featuring updated evidence-based algorithms and emergency medication dosing. It includes pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines, neonatal resuscitation management, and an augmented reality feature for weight estimation. Future updates will allow users to save favorite content.

Highlights
  • Medication calculations (neonates to adults)
  • Pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines
  • Updated evidence-based algorithms
  • Neonatal resuscitation management
  • Adult emergency medication calculations
  • AR weight estimation feature
Features
Currently charting
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We’re excited to offer STAT EM, an enhanced version of Pedi STAT, providing medication calculations for neonates to adults. To keep giving you the most up to date content, we’ve moved to a subscription model to keep our app free of advertising. This new version contains pediatric oral antibiotic guidelines and dosing, updated evidence-based algorithms, and neonatal resuscitation management. It also includes adult emergency medication calculations including both weight-based and fixed dosing volumes. We’ve added an AR feature allowing you to use your device to measure the length of child to assist in weight estimations. Finally, you will soon have the ability to save favorites to assist you in finding the content you use most frequently. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App4 screens
STAT EM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App at 83% against STAT EM's 33%. webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). STAT EM's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months) and chart position (#192 vs unranked). On price, ads and device support 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. STAT EM sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App's written reviews are positive against 33% of STAT EM's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App ships an update every 7 months, STAT EM every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App versus STAT EM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterwebPOISONCONTROL® Poison AppSTAT EM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (36 ratings) — better4.1 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings36 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
Best chart rank—#192 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB34 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPoison Control CentersJames M Kempema MD PA

Customer experience

webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App

All ratings36 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

STAT EM

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral22.2%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

STAT EM

Subscriptions2
  • STAT EM Monthly$0.991 Month
  • STAT EM Annual$7.991 Year

Questions

Is webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App free?
webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is STAT EM free?
STAT EM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App or STAT EM?
webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App is rated higher. webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App averages 4.6 out of 5 from 36 ratings, while STAT EM averages 4.1 from 9 ratings.
Do webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App or STAT EM have ads?
Neither webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App nor STAT EM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App or STAT EM?
webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App ships an update every 7 months, and STAT EM every 6 weeks. Most recently, webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App was updated on October 7, 2026 and STAT EM on October 8, 2026.

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