MCG Mobile vs ACP Audio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MCG Mobile
This app provides healthcare professionals with access to industry-leading clinical guidelines. It supports informed care strategies, ensuring patients receive the appropriate level of care and evidence-based best practices. Access requires employer information, username, and password.
- Access to clinical guidelines
- Informed care strategies
- Evidence-based best practices
- Patient care arc support
- Proactive patient management
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MCG helps healthcare companies implement informed care strategies that proactively and efficiently move patients toward health by ensuring that patients get the right level of care and the right care activities for the right amount of time. MCG care guidelines address the complete arc of patient care and support clinicians with updated, evidence-based best practices. MCG Mobile conveniently places access to industry-leading clinical guidelines at your fingertips. In order to use this application, you will need to have information about your employer (i.e. the healthcare organization licensing MCG content or solutions), your username, and your password.
ACP Audio
Access hundreds of hours of medical education content, including clinical lectures and Q&A sessions from national experts. Listen to audio tracks and playlists on various medical topics, create custom playlists, and download content for offline listening.
- Audio versions of ACP educational products
- Hundreds of hours of medical content
- Clinical lectures and Q&A
- Listen to tracks and playlists
- Download tracks for offline listening
- Create favorite track lists
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Expand your clinical knowledge with select audio versions of ACP educational products, such as Internal Medicine Board Review Course Recordings and recordings from ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting. The ACP Audio app features hundreds of hours of medical education content including clinical lectures and associated Q&A. Listen to tracks and playlists in a variety of topic areas from national experts as they review clinical information and answer targeted questions. You can play audio lectures in any order, create a list of favorite tracks, view your listening history, and download tracks to listen offline. A paid subscription is required to access the content of the app. Privacy Policy: https://www.acponline.org/about-this-site/acp-privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://www.acponline.org/about-acp/who-we-are/get-engaged/acp-member-forums/terms-and-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ACP Audio at 5.0 against MCG Mobile's 2.8. ACP Audio also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 12 months). MCG Mobile's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and review sentiment (33% vs 0%). 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.
ACP Audio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of MCG Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of ACP Audio's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MCG Mobile ships an update every 12 months, ACP Audio every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | MCG Mobile | ACP Audio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MCG Health LLC | American College of Physicians |
Customer experience
MCG Mobile
ACP Audio
In-app purchases
MCG Mobile
No in-app purchases
ACP Audio
No in-app purchases
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