Pocket ICU vs POCUS 101
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket ICU
This app offers concise critical care guidance written by attending physicians. It covers diagnosis, treatment, and management across various subspecialties, with detailed images and decision support algorithms. Advanced search and bookmarking features allow for quick information retrieval.
- Concise guidance from attending physicians
- Diagnosis, treatment, and management details
- Subspecialty coverage
- Detailed images and algorithms
- Pharmacological data and formulas
- Advanced full-text search
- Bookmarking and note-taking
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New topics address bioweapons, disaster preparedness and critical care challenges of an air-transmissible, pandemic-causing pathogens like COVID-19. POCKET ICU FEATURES • Concise guidance written by attending physicians for everyone in critical care • Entries with diagnosis, treatment, and management details • Coverage of subspecialty areas including pediatric, neuro, cardiac, transplant, burn, and more • Detailed images, figures, and decision support algorithms • Overview of Statistics and Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) • Helpful appendices provide pharmacological data, respiratory formulas, and cardiopulmonary relationships • Advanced Full Text Search helps find topics quickly • “Favorites” for bookmarking important entries • Highlighting and note-taking MORE ABOUT POCKET ICU With content from the highly regarded Pocket Notebook series, Pocket ICU provides users with an essential tool for quickly locating information from every subspecialty area of critical care. Entries have been written by attending physicians and are presented in brief but broad format so anyone in an ICU setting can quickly find answers and save time. This powerful resource can be downloaded to your smartphone and tablet and is great for preparing for rounds or consulting expert recommendations while on the ICU floor. Editors: Gyorgy Frendl, MD, PhD; Avery Tung, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Powered by: Unbound Medicine
POCUS 101
Access all Point of Care Ultrasound courses and download completed certificates. Facilitates direct messaging between learners and group leaders, with progress tracking for group management.
- Access Point of Care Ultrasound courses
- Download completed certificates
- Direct messaging for groups
- Manage learner progress
- Group subscription features
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Easily access all Point of Care Ultrasound Courses from POCUS 101. Download all completed certificates from the App. For group subscriptions, learners and group leaders can message each other directly from this App. Group leaders can also see and manage their learners progress with this App.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: POCUS 101 at 100% against Pocket ICU's 64%. POCUS 101 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Pocket ICU's advantage is ratings volume (317 vs 11). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Pocket ICU sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. POCUS 101 asks for nothing beyond the download.
POCUS 101 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket ICU has 317 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Pocket ICU's written reviews are positive against 100% of POCUS 101's.
Pocket ICU ships an update every 5 months, POCUS 101 every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket ICU | POCUS 101 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (317 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 317 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Unbound Medicine, Inc. | POCUS 101 |
Customer experience
Pocket ICU
POCUS 101
Bugs and requests
Pocket ICU
Reported bugs
2 issues- No information loads after purchase
- Issues with download/access
POCUS 101
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket ICU
- Pocket ICU2 variants$69.99
- Pocket ICU 2023$69.99
POCUS 101
No in-app purchases
Questions
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