DynaMed vs Access
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DynaMed
This tool provides clinicians with efficient, evidence-based patient care guidance. It offers timely analysis and synthesis of medical literature, updated daily by medical professionals. Mobile access ensures continuous work with syncing between desktop and mobile devices.
- Evidence-based patient care guidance
- Daily medical literature review
- Objective analysis and synthesis
- Physician-authored content
- Mobile access with syncing
- On-the-go clinical support
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DynaMed is a trusted, evidence-based clinical decision support tool designed by clinicians, for clinicians, to help make faster, more informed decisions at the point of care. Rigorous daily review of medical literature by our editorial team of expert physicians and methodologists ensures timely and objective analysis, synthesis, and guidance are always at your fingertips. Now available with Dyna AI* for faster, trusted answers to your clinical queries. Dyna AI synthesizes DynaMed content into actionable, concise responses with full transparency into source references. What You Can Do with DynaMed • Access clinically relevant answers at the point of care. • Review evidence and expert interpretation with clear transparency. • Stay current with daily updates based on ongoing literature surveillance. • Access content seamlessly across mobile and desktop experiences. • Use content online or offline. Who Can Use This App: This app is designed for physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, trainees, and other healthcare professionals with access to DynaMed through their institution. Why Clinicians Choose DynaMed: DynaMed helps clinicians make informed decisions with confidence by delivering trusted evidence, expert analysis, and practical guidance wherever care happens. *Dyna AI availability is dependent on your subscription and access level.
Access
Access medical learning resources like videos, podcasts, and textbooks on the go. Search for specific topics, save content to collections, and personalize your dashboard. Offline viewing and specialty-specific content are available for subscribed institutional users.
- Search diverse medical resources
- Save and organize content
- Refine by content type
- Offline viewing
- Personalized dashboard
- Specialty-specific content
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Learn when you want, where you want, and how you want. Access is your personal medical resource that makes studying easier and more efficient. Search across a number of medical resources such as videos, podcasts, images, infographics, and textbooks, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine or Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, so that you can learn in a way that suits your style and time constraints. • Find and save resources - search anything from symptoms to procedures and then favorite, or save to a collection. • Refine by content type - get the type of content you want to suit your learning style or time constraints. • Search within content - find the fine details you need. • View figures and tables - view content in its entirety, or just the images and tables. • View content offline - whether it’s a case of bad wifi, or you are traveling, you can always take your content with you. • Curate new collections - save content into your own personal reference library, so you always know where your favorite resources are. • Personal dashboard - create and personalize your own dashboard, allowing you to tailor the Access experience to your needs. • Caters to your specialty - This app has content from the full Access suite of sites, which cater to the following specialties; general medicine, anesthesiology, biomedical science, cardiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, hematology medicine, neurology, advanced practice nursing, ObGyn, pediatrics, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and surgery. This app's content is only fully accessible to users that are linked to an institution that subscribes to a McGraw Hill Access product. All users are offered seven days to link their profile to their subscribing institution.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DynaMed at 55% against Access's 8%. DynaMed also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (3.5K vs 134). On price, update cadence, 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.
DynaMed holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DynaMed has 3.5K ratings behind it against 134, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of DynaMed's written reviews are positive against 8% of Access's.
DynaMed ships an update every 5 weeks, Access monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DynaMed | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (3.5K ratings) — better | 4.2 (134 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.2% of reviews — better | 8.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 134 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 — better | 26 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | EBSCO Publishing | McGraw-Hill |
Customer experience
DynaMed
Access
User reviews
DynaMed
From 3.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Concise and organized information
- 🚀 More up-to-date than UpToDate
- 🚀 Comprehensive and evidence-based
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 👍 Valuable point-of-care tool
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs after updates
- 🐛 Frequent login issues
- 🐛 Downloading and storage issues
- 🐛 Clunky UI, not optimized for larger screens
- 🐛 Search function glitches
Access
From 134 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for quick reads
- 👍 Good for reading on the go
- 👍 Allows downloading chapters
- 👍 Can favorite books/chapters/figures
- 👍 Great idea for an app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Infinite login loop
- 🐛 App broken or glitched
- 🐛 Unable to access content
- 🐛 Chapters missing (appendix, intro)
- 🐛 Cannot search all chapters
Bugs and requests
DynaMed
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on iOS 14 update
- Downloading content gets stuck in loop
- Search function not working properly
- Frequent login issues
- App not opening on some devices
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved search functionality
- Better organization of content
- More patient education resources
- Smoother offline access and content management
Access
Reported bugs
32 issues- Infinite login loop
- App won't log in
- App broken or glitched
- Unable to access content
- Appendix and introduction absent
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- Cannot search all chapters at once
- Cannot access last sections of chapters
- Text-to-speech mispronounces words
- Text-to-speech requires app to be open
- Does not remember last read position
- Search function unusable
- Accounts do not sync properly
- Books, collections, and favorites not added appropriately
- Crashes and logs out
- Hard to navigate within textbook
- Flash cards won't load
- Cannot open books
- Search bar shows technical difficulties
- Cannot log in after password reset
- App crashes when highlighting content
- Copying text crashes the app
- Lost highlight data after update
- Lost keyword search ability after update
- Favorites are erased
- Books show error message of item not available
- Search function won't find books
- Favorites don't sync from desktop
- Top bar heading obstructs reading
- Book does not appear in the whole screen
- Cannot find books by author or ISBN
- No robotic audio option
- Username difficult to find
Requested features
10 requests- Option to search all chapters at once
- Improve text-to-speech functionality
- Allow text-to-speech to continue when app is in background
- Remember last read position
- Sync favorites across devices
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- iPad optimization
- Browse all books by subscribed module
- Toggle option for top bar heading
- Full screen book display
- Implement robotic audio option
In-app purchases
DynaMed
No in-app purchases
Access
No in-app purchases
Questions
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