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Built only from these 106 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] WebMD 2/5 · US Why am I always DYING?: So I have used this app for many years and when it tells me I’m dying or tells me my kids are dying I delete it!! But I am having some very troubling symptoms so I thought I’d try it again! I’m not dying, but it’s not recognizing the answers to the questions it asked! I’m having abdominal pain and I marked the box that says prior appendix surgery, and then when I went to go
2. [R40] WebMD 1/5 · US Very Narrow Symptom Checker: If you have ONE symptom, this app may help you. If you need to include several symptoms for an illness, it gives you results for only one symptom. For example, a very young child with several concerning symptoms, rash/fever/pain, it gives you you “grass allergy,” or “injury”, or “eczema”. And the answers are common sense that you already would have ruled out.
3. [R42] WebMD 3/5 · GB Poor developer upgrade: What had been a user friendly and reliable app for years has overnight become an absolute joke. Symptoms are now so vague they are of no use and tend to give you the same few possible outcomes regardless..... Then the listed Conditions given after the vague symptoms have been entered no longer load when you click for further information you just get the wheel of doom and gi
4. [R3] WebMD 3/5 · US “Save your sex for faster symptom checker”: The app will not save my sex! Bug. Please fix. Thanks
5. [R6] WebMD 3/5 · US Won’t always open: I love this app and have used it for many years to track medication and check symptoms, but it is getting really frustrating. That half of the time I try to open it it won’t open. Please fix this!!
6. [R8] WebMD 5/5 · US Slow loading: I love this app. I use it every day for my reminders and notifications. The articles are also helpful ind interesting BUT when opening the app it loads slowly. Hope it can be fixed 🤞🏼
7. [R9] WebMD 3/5 · US Saved Medication information: I was really loving this app. But all of a sudden, all of my saved information for dosage for everything is now gone. I don’t understand why it’s not saving my saved information anymore.
8. [R18] WebMD 3/5 · US Medication Reminders: The medication reminders will automatically move on to the future if you are an hour behind in taking the medication. You have to be really careful or you will end up “Taken” a medication that it is not time for. There is no way to undo the error. The app then becomes absolutely pointless for the medications for the remaining of the day. I’m only giving this app three stars b
9. [R21] WebMD 3/5 · US I like the app.: I like the app but I don’t love it. The medication reminder needs to have a different notification tone from other apps to make it stand out. It also sends me a ton of notifications that I don’t want even tho I have them turned off. I only want med reminder notifications. Please fix. Otherwise, the app is great. I like pill identifier, symptom checker, as well as that I can save
10. [R26] WebMD 5/5 · US Not easy to make changes: It’s not easy to add/ delete meds
11. [R45] WebMD 3/5 · GB Okay, but...: ... not so good for the UK market. When I saw that this app had medication reminders and also for the Apple watch, I thought great I'll have that. Four of my med's however aren't listed as the drugs database is for the US. So the one thing that sold me one this app made it unsuitable for me.
12. [R16] WebMD 2/5 · US clunky layout, no face id: The user interface is sloppy and all over the place and hard to navigate. And they don’t offer Face ID so you constantly have to put in your password.
13. [R28] WebMD 1/5 · US Too much activity: Pop ups click this click that no scroll but then asks if I love it. I’ve opened this app twice in idk how long and it takes longer to get info here than google. Also a dark screen option would be nice
14. [R37] WebMD 1/5 · US Poor Website: Poor Website Design
15. [R19] WebMD 1/5 · US Failure to define: I went to WebMD for a simple definition of “Dyslipidemia”. The result was a blank screen. I had to Google it. I had always used WebMD for med info because I trusted it, but I guess that won’t always work now.
16. [R22] WebMD 1/5 · US Glucose Testing Results: My glucose test results was 104 slightly out of range on the high side. I signed up for WebMD to learn more about the glucose test and how to interpret the results and got no information about the test or how to understand the results. I am deleting this app because my very first time in using the app it delivers zero information.
17. [R27] WebMD 3/5 · US Not helpful: Asked a question in several different ways trying to get answers. Couldn’t not get a response remotely close to my question. Useless !
18. [R30] WebMD 3/5 · US Finding conditions: Unable to find problem my doctor has told me, had to go to google to find description and hope it is reliable
19. [R52] My Pollen Forecast 5/5 · US Accurate: Great to know what to expect allergy wise before going out
20. [R58] My Pollen Forecast 5/5 · US Love it!!!: I like this and this helps so much with my allergies it also reminds me to take my meds thank you very much for this.
21. [R61] My Pollen Forecast 5/5 · US Great Resource!!!: Great way to keep up with allergies and plan out a course of action for the day!!!
22. [R64] My Pollen Forecast 4/5 · US Love the app, BUT: This app is great. However, I wish you would allow me to log more previous days in my diary. I constantly forget to log days. You only allow yesterday and today logs. The unfortunate aspect is, I don’t know exactly how my allergies are doing for the day until the evening. The app should let you log yesterday’s and then the day before yesterday. Not today I don’t know how today’s
23. [R66] Drugs.com Medication Guide 5/5 · US Love this app: As a medical assistant, this app is wonderful. When you have patience come in and they have something at the bottom of their purse, but they don’t know what it is. It’s wonderful and helpful to find out what it is.
24. [R72] Drugs.com Medication Guide 5/5 · US Excellent app: Drugs.com has been my go to app to keep my extensive medical history all in one place. I have tried many but this is the best app I have used!
25. [R76] Drugs.com Medication Guide 5/5 · US Awesome: This app is exactly what I needed. It helps me with my medications. I use it frequently to add or remove my medications. When going to a doctor and they need me to give them my medications it is always on my phone so I can give them an accurate account. It can also be printed out. You can also add each of your family’s meds. Highly recommend.
26. [R80] Ada 5/5 · US La mejor aplicación: Excelente para tener una idea de lo que le puede estar pasando a uno
27. [R86] Ada 5/5 · US Great app: Has always genuinely helped me identify what’s going on with me so that I can share with my doctor. It’s a wonderful way to keep track of what’s going on and have reference for past occurrences. I definitely praise the creator(s). Used it for years and will undoubtedly continue to.
28. [R88] Ada 5/5 · US Game changer for worrier: I love this app for its ability to help me know how much to worry about symptoms and those around me. The statistics are really meaningful as it says how likely things are instead of a online search saying something without context. I know it’s not perfect but it has helped significantly in my understanding of my symptoms and health.
29. [R90] Ada 5/5 · US Awesome App: I love this app. It puts my mind at ease.
30. [R93] epocrates 1/5 · US 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 paywall. I only looked up a few medications (maybe like 4) and get the pop up that I “reached my free amount of look ups for the week.” For the week? It’s literally th
31. [R94] epocrates 3/5 · US Was great: This has been a trusted resource for years, including dosing and interaction checking. The decision to hide it behind a paywall was unfortunate. Will use a different resource going forward.
32. [R95] epocrates 1/5 · US Are You Kidding Me!?: I have used epocrates for years, so imagine my surprise when I go to calculate a dose for a pediatric patient and get a notification I have exceeded my free views! What the actual heck are you guys thinking!?
33. [R96] epocrates 3/5 · US Shame: Had my account since 2015 as Paramedic to be able to find out what medications people were on when found at home and for the purposes of being prescribed. It was free and now, it isnt. Lame
34. [R97] epocrates 1/5 · US SHOULD STAY FREE!: Many of us have gotten used to this app and use it several times a day. It is unfair to take what was marketed as a FREE app and suddenly start charging to use it. If you are going to charge, there should be different tiers so that it doesn’t cost so much money. I have UpToDate free from my job, and open evidence is free for US clinicians. Guess those will be my “go to” fro
35. [R65] Drugs.com Medication Guide 1/5 · US Mental Health app: I’m really kinda irritated with the app! It says that they are gonna charge you for $2, and then before you can blink, you have another charge for $14.99 and another after that, fortunately my credit card blocked the third transaction before it could go thru!!! This is very unbelievably rude and unprofessional in my opinion! I will definitely be changing the settings on my iPhon
36. [R68] Drugs.com Medication Guide 1/5 · US Sad to see it happen to this app: This is a great app, or was I should say now. To go from paying five dollars to remove ads to now you gotta pay $8.99 a month to remove ads just shows how many developers and companies are going to greed immediately. I definitely pay to move ads and I don’t need all the other extra stuff as much but to go from five dollars a year to now have to pay nine bucks a mo
37. [R73] Drugs.com Medication Guide 1/5 · US Scam: Used to be great years ago! I paid $2.99 to remove ad’s, now they have Plans up to $29.99! I’ve tried to contact them through support and they give me an error message!
38. [R77] Drugs.com Medication Guide 1/5 · US Get rid of the ads easier: It was nice to pay $5 a year for your product. Now it’s not easy to subscribe and get no ads. Have to find an alternative for those that actually use these apps.
39. [R48] WebMD 3/5 · GB UK and Europe: Please could you include UK and European medication names in database as unable to enter medicines on reminder