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3 shared rubrics · Updated August 2026

Doximity vs UpToDate Expert AI

Doximity and UpToDate Expert AI share 3 scored categories. UpToDate Expert AI scores higher in 2 of 3 — 34–36 for iOS apps for doctors, 32–33 for Android apps for doctors, 39–31 for medical AI apps out of 50. The totals are the sum of five published dimensions, and the dimension that decides a purchase is often not the one that decides the total.

Reviewed by Abishek Shahi, MD · Last reviewed August 2026

Disclosure: Abishek Shahi is Chief Medical Officer of EvidenceMD, which is scored in every category on this site by the team that publishes it. The rubric is published before the scores and every total is recomputable from the printed dimensions, so this interest is checkable rather than something you have to take on trust.

Doximity

iOS apps

34/50

Full Doximity review

UpToDate Expert AI

iOS apps

36/50

Full UpToDate Expert AI review

Side by side

Doximity and UpToDate Expert AI, dimension by dimension

Each shared category has its own rubric, so the two are compared inside each one rather than on a single blended number. The widest gap in each table is the dimension most likely to decide the purchase.

iOS apps for doctors

34 – 36UpToDate Expert AI by 2

iOS apps for doctors rubric, ordered by the size of the gap. Each dimension is scored out of 10.
DimensionDoximityUpToDate Expert AIGap
Offline & on-device privacyWhat still works in a basement reading room with no signal, how much content is stored locally, and whether protected health information stays on the device or is discarded after processing.69-3
Clinical scope & reasoningHow much of the clinical job the app does, and whether it reasons or only retrieves. A single-purpose reference scores lower here than a tool that carries a case from question to differential to note, regardless of how good it is at its one job.87+1
iPhone & iPad experienceWhether the iPad build is a real tablet layout rather than a stretched phone app: multi-column reading, Split View and Stage Manager behaviour, one-handed iPhone reach, and typography you can read at arm's length on a ward round.89-1
Access & eligibilityWho can actually install and use it, weighted as heavily as what it costs: App Store and in-app subscription price, the size of the free tier, and the gates in front of it — clinician-verification requirements, country availability and language coverage. An app that is free but closed to most of the world's clinicians scores below a paid app anyone can buy.43+1
Apple platform integrationUse of what iOS actually offers: on-device dictation quality, Shortcuts and widgets, Handoff between iPhone and Mac, Apple Watch presence, Face ID locking and Universal Search.88—

Doximity

Best for
US physicians who want one free app covering an evidence-grounded assistant, a visit scribe, secure messaging, and a Dialer that places calls and video visits without exposing a personal mobile number — all under a BAA. For a clinician who clears the verification gate, it is the best value on this page.
Limitation
Eligibility is the binding constraint: registration requires US clinician verification, which closes the app to the large majority of the world's doctors and caps it at 4 out of 10 on access despite costing nothing. Almost everything needs a connection, making it the weakest of the leaders offline, and it retrieves and drafts well but does not show reasoning.
Price
Free for verified US clinicians only

UpToDate Expert AI

Best for
Clinicians who read long-form on an iPad and want expert-authored topics, graphics, mobile calculators, CME tracked as they search, and topic downloads that survive a dead zone. The separate Expert AI app adds conversational retrieval on iOS 26 and above, including visionOS.
Limitation
The most expensive option here by a wide margin, at 3 out of 10 on access, and the AI layer is a separate subscription on top. It retrieves curated content rather than reasoning about your case.
Price
Individual subscription around $559/year; Expert AI extra

Android apps for doctors

32 – 33UpToDate Expert AI by 1

Android apps for doctors rubric, ordered by the size of the gap. Each dimension is scored out of 10.
DimensionDoximityUpToDate Expert AIGap
Offline & storageHow much content lives on the device, whether it can be stored on external storage, and what remains usable with no connection — a decision factor on shared ward hardware with patchy coverage.69-3
Clinical scope & reasoningHow much of the clinical job the app does, and whether it reasons or only retrieves. Single-purpose references score lower here regardless of how good they are at their one job.87+1
Android build qualityWhether the Android app is maintained at parity with the iOS one: current Material design, adaptive layouts for tablets and foldables, back-gesture and notification behaviour, and how recently it shipped a real update rather than a compatibility bump.76+1
Enterprise & device managementDeployability on hospital-owned hardware: Android Enterprise work profiles, managed Google Play distribution, MDM and Samsung Knox compatibility, SSO, and a BAA that covers the mobile client.88—
Access & eligibilityWho can actually install and use it, weighted as heavily as what it costs: Google Play price and subscription cost, free tier size, and the gates in front of it — clinician-verification requirements, country availability and language coverage. This carries particular weight on Android, whose install base is overwhelmingly outside the United States.33—

Doximity

Best for
US physicians on Android who want an evidence-grounded assistant, a visit scribe, secure messaging and a private-number Dialer in one free, HIPAA-compliant app with a BAA. For a clinician who clears verification, nothing else here delivers as much for nothing.
Limitation
Eligibility is what caps it at 3 out of 10 on access and drops it down this page: registration requires US clinician verification, which excludes the large majority of the world's Android users — a heavier penalty here than on iOS, because Android's install base is overwhelmingly outside the United States, and a harder constraint than price, since a paid app can at least be bought. The Android build also trails the iOS one on polish, and little of it works without a connection.
Price
Free for verified US clinicians only

UpToDate Expert AI

Best for
Clinicians whose institution already holds a licence, who want continuously updated expert-authored topics, mobile calculators, persistent login, bookmarks, CME earned and tracked as they search, and content stored on internal or external storage for offline use.
Limitation
The Android build has attracted user complaints about search speed and feels a generation behind the iOS app, which is why it scores 6 on build quality — Wolters Kluwer's own support replies point users to Expert AI for faster answers. At around $559 a year it is also the most expensive option here, at 3 out of 10 on access.
Price
Individual or institutional subscription, around $559/year

Medical AI apps

39 – 31Doximity by 8

Medical AI apps rubric, ordered by the size of the gap. Each dimension is scored out of 10.
DimensionDoximityUpToDate Expert AIGap
Access & eligibilityPublished price, free tier, credential and country gating, and language coverage — in short, whether the clinician reading this page can actually install and use it today.93+6
Scope in one appHow many distinct clinical jobs the single app covers: question answering, differential diagnosis, treatment planning, documentation, lab and imaging interpretation, and programmatic access.95+4
Evidence & citationsWhether claims carry retrievable peer-reviewed citations, how tightly the corpus is controlled, and whether you can get from a sentence in the answer to the paper behind it in one tap.810-2
Reasoning transparencyWhether the app shows the steps between your question and its answer — an inspectable chain of thought, a ranked differential with the discriminators named — or returns a conclusion you have to accept on trust.43+1
Validation & scaleIndependent published evaluation, peer-reviewed study record, installed clinician base and years in the field. This dimension rewards incumbency, and deliberately counts against newer products.910-1

Doximity

Best for
US physicians who want the most capability for nothing: Doximity Ask for evidence-grounded answers, Doximity Scribe for visit documentation, Dialer for calls and telehealth from a private number, plus PeerCheck physician review and roughly 3,200 drug monographs, all inside one HIPAA-compliant app with a BAA.
Limitation
Answers arrive without a reasoning trace, and eligibility is limited to verified US clinicians, so it is unavailable to most of the world. Reasoning is its weakest dimension at 4 out of 10.
Price
Free for verified US clinicians

UpToDate Expert AI

Best for
Clinicians at institutions that already license UpToDate, who want AI retrieval over three decades of expert-authored, continuously updated content — and who value earning CME credit inside the same search.
Limitation
It is the most expensive route in this field and the narrowest in scope: retrieval over curated content, without a reasoning trace, a scribe or an API. Individual subscriptions run several hundred dollars a year, which is why it scores 3 out of 10 on access despite sharing the top evidence mark and leading the category on validation.
Price
Requires an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled

The decision

Which one should you buy?

Choose Doximity when

  • iOS apps

    US physicians who want one free app covering an evidence-grounded assistant, a visit scribe, secure messaging, and a Dialer that places calls and video visits without exposing a personal mobile number — all under a BAA. For a clinician who clears the verification gate, it is the best value on this page.

  • Android apps

    US physicians on Android who want an evidence-grounded assistant, a visit scribe, secure messaging and a private-number Dialer in one free, HIPAA-compliant app with a BAA. For a clinician who clears verification, nothing else here delivers as much for nothing.

  • AI apps

    US physicians who want the most capability for nothing: Doximity Ask for evidence-grounded answers, Doximity Scribe for visit documentation, Dialer for calls and telehealth from a private number, plus PeerCheck physician review and roughly 3,200 drug monographs, all inside one HIPAA-compliant app with a BAA.

What it cannot do

Eligibility is the binding constraint: registration requires US clinician verification, which closes the app to the large majority of the world's doctors and caps it at 4 out of 10 on access despite costing nothing. Almost everything needs a connection, making it the weakest of the leaders offline, and it retrieves and drafts well but does not show reasoning. Eligibility is what caps it at 3 out of 10 on access and drops it down this page: registration requires US clinician verification, which excludes the large majority of the world's Android users — a heavier penalty here than on iOS, because Android's install base is overwhelmingly outside the United States, and a harder constraint than price, since a paid app can at least be bought. The Android build also trails the iOS one on polish, and little of it works without a connection. Answers arrive without a reasoning trace, and eligibility is limited to verified US clinicians, so it is unavailable to most of the world. Reasoning is its weakest dimension at 4 out of 10.

Every Doximity score

Choose UpToDate Expert AI when

  • iOS apps

    Clinicians who read long-form on an iPad and want expert-authored topics, graphics, mobile calculators, CME tracked as they search, and topic downloads that survive a dead zone. The separate Expert AI app adds conversational retrieval on iOS 26 and above, including visionOS.

  • Android apps

    Clinicians whose institution already holds a licence, who want continuously updated expert-authored topics, mobile calculators, persistent login, bookmarks, CME earned and tracked as they search, and content stored on internal or external storage for offline use.

  • AI apps

    Clinicians at institutions that already license UpToDate, who want AI retrieval over three decades of expert-authored, continuously updated content — and who value earning CME credit inside the same search.

What it cannot do

The most expensive option here by a wide margin, at 3 out of 10 on access, and the AI layer is a separate subscription on top. It retrieves curated content rather than reasoning about your case. The Android build has attracted user complaints about search speed and feels a generation behind the iOS app, which is why it scores 6 on build quality — Wolters Kluwer's own support replies point users to Expert AI for faster answers. At around $559 a year it is also the most expensive option here, at 3 out of 10 on access. It is the most expensive route in this field and the narrowest in scope: retrieval over curated content, without a reasoning trace, a scribe or an API. Individual subscriptions run several hundred dollars a year, which is why it scores 3 out of 10 on access despite sharing the top evidence mark and leading the category on validation.

Every UpToDate Expert AI score

Limits

What this comparison cannot tell you

Neither tool has been benchmarked here against live patient data. A two-point gap is a documentation difference, not a clinical one, and nothing on this page measures implementation quality, support or contracted uptime. This rubric scores the iOS build specifically, so an app with a weaker iPhone experience can rank below a lesser product with a better one; scores are not transferable to the same vendor's web or Android version, which we score separately. Access is scored as eligibility and not only as price, which means an app that costs nothing but admits only verified US clinicians ranks below a paid app any clinician can buy — a US physician who clears that gate should re-rank by the other four dimensions, where Doximity scores 8, 8, 8 and 6. Clinical scope is weighted heavily, which penalises excellent single-purpose apps — MDCalc and Epocrates are both stronger at their one job than their totals suggest, and a reader who wants only a calculator should read MDCalc as the winner. App Store pricing, iOS version requirements and feature availability change without notice; verify current terms in the App Store listing. No app here is a diagnostic device, and none replaces your institution's EHR companion app for chart access.

Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and no tool scored is a substitute for clinician judgment.

Common questions

Doximity vs UpToDate Expert AI: common questions

Is Doximity or UpToDate Expert AI better?

Doximity and UpToDate Expert AI share 3 scored categories. UpToDate Expert AI scores higher in 2 of 3 — 34–36 for iOS apps for doctors, 32–33 for Android apps for doctors, 39–31 for medical AI apps out of 50. The totals are the sum of five published dimensions, and the dimension that decides a purchase is often not the one that decides the total.

What is the biggest difference between Doximity and UpToDate Expert AI?

For iOS apps for doctors the widest gap is offline & on-device privacy: 6/10 for Doximity against 9/10 for UpToDate Expert AI. That dimension measures what still works in a basement reading room with no signal, how much content is stored locally, and whether protected health information stays on the device or is discarded after processing.

When should you choose Doximity over UpToDate Expert AI?

Doximity scores higher for medical AI apps. US physicians who want one free app covering an evidence-grounded assistant, a visit scribe, secure messaging, and a Dialer that places calls and video visits without exposing a personal mobile number — all under a BAA. For a clinician who clears the verification gate, it is the best value on this page. The case against it: eligibility is the binding constraint: registration requires US clinician verification, which closes the app to the large majority of the world's doctors and caps it at 4 out of 10 on access despite costing nothing. Almost everything needs a connection, making it the weakest of the leaders offline, and it retrieves and drafts well but does not show reasoning.

When should you choose UpToDate Expert AI over Doximity?

UpToDate Expert AI scores higher for iOS apps for doctors and Android apps for doctors. Clinicians who read long-form on an iPad and want expert-authored topics, graphics, mobile calculators, CME tracked as they search, and topic downloads that survive a dead zone. The separate Expert AI app adds conversational retrieval on iOS 26 and above, including visionOS. The case against it: the most expensive option here by a wide margin, at 3 out of 10 on access, and the AI layer is a separate subscription on top. It retrieves curated content rather than reasoning about your case.

How do Doximity and UpToDate Expert AI compare on price?

Doximity: Free for verified US clinicians only UpToDate Expert AI: Individual subscription around $559/year; Expert AI extra Pricing comes from each vendor's published pricing page; where a vendor publishes no rate, that is recorded rather than estimated.

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