MedicalFactChecker

Check medical facts with AI

$7.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Ever wondered if that health headline is actually true — or funded by the company selling the product? IMPORTANT: You will need an AI provider (for example Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Mistral ...) API key in order to use this app. See below how to get one. MedicalFactChecker takes a question or statement, For patients / general pubic:  - Finally understand what the science actually says — not what headlines claim - Walk into your appointment informed. Walk out actually understanding. - Ask better questions, get better care - Understand your diagnosis in plain language — before and after your appointment - Be an active participant in your own healthcare - feel free to ask any health question without fearing embarrassment, and use the qualified answer as a discussion base with you doctor For help care professionals:  - Save hours of literature review - be able to give an evidenced based answer to questions your training may not have prepared you for ("I read somewhere nACC will help with my ulcerative colitis ...") - verify whether some pharmaceutical rep's claims check out against verifiable quality evidence IMPORTANT: This app requires an AI provider for core functionality. You have to bring your own API key. There are free options (e.g. Mistral AI, cheap (but good!) paid options such as DeepSeek, and more expensive excellent options such as Anthropic's Claude models). How to get an API key is explained here: https://bmlibrarian.org/user-manual/api-keys/ API usage by the medical fact checker may cost from small fractions of a cent to several cents per run. Medical fact checker allows to set budgets. Even with frequent and extensive testing, the program author has not managed to use up a $5 budget in many months of use.

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What's New in v1.5 - Parallel document scoring: documents are now scored concurrently, significantly reducing wait times for large result sets - Parallel citation extraction: key passages and citations are extracted in parallel across scored documents - Study transparency analysis: evaluates funding sources, conflicts of interest, data availability, and clinical trial registration compliance for each study - Improved full-text discovery: Europe PMC added as an additional PDF source, plus manual upload when automatic retrieval fails - Cross-platform sync: sync engine with selective sync and storage management for sharing sessions across iOS and macOS - Checkpointing and resume: long-running workflows checkpoint progress so interrupted sessions can be resumed without losing work - Background processing: fact-checking continues when the app moves to the background - Cancellation support: workflows can be cleanly cancelled mid-run without corrupting session state - Error queue: failed documents are collected in a reviewable queue instead of being silently skipped - Result sorting: sort scored documents by relevance, date, or score - Collapsible query display: the search query is shown in a collapsible header for easy reference - Incremental UI updates: documents appear in the list as they are scored rather than all at once - CloudKit stability fixes: resolved database migration crashes and improved iCloud sync reliability - macOS feature parity: the macOS companion app now matches iOS functionality

The developer, Horst Herb, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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    Seller
    Horst Herb
    Size
    4 MB
    Category
    Medical
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    16+
    • 16+
    • Frequent
      Medical Treatment information

      Contains
      Health or Wellness Topics
    Copyright
    © 2026 Dr Horst Herb