Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-04 from 955 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
App Store
This analysis describes version 26.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 26.9.1, updated 2026-09-24.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 26.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 26.9.1, updated 2026-09-23.
What the analysis found
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Aggressive ad load
DISAPPOINTING. This has recently gone from my favorite app to do medication checks to unusable. I don't know what you did in the recent update, but the ads are insatiable, ridiculous, and have ruined a brilliant app that I've used for…
It was great but I don't know why I'm paying money to get spammed with fullscreen ads every time I open the app.
Excellent content but too many ads — Epocrates has excellent content for medications, interactionsl, supplements, etc. but the ads can be really annoying particularly after paying $180 per year for the app.
Paywall blocks the basics
Was Free, Now Paid — I am a physician who has been using this app for years. Have loved the app and recommended it to other physicians, mid levels, med students, etc. I use it daily to check dosages or interactions. Randomly hit the free…
Sad — I have used this app for many years. This used to be a must for any provider. Now it’s behind a paywall. So sad.
Not Free Anymore — Used Epocrates for years and always thought it was a great resource. Perfect while I was in pharmacy school and now as a pharmacist. I am extremely disappointed, but frankly not surprised, they now have it behind a…
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
Show 6 more purchases we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.