Clinical Research Trials is a mobile search tool for federal and private clinical trials, available on iOS for patients and healthcare providers.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
It removes the friction of navigating complex government databases by providing a mobile-accessible search interface for specific medical conditions and locations.
For Patients seeking clinical trial participation and healthcare providers looking for patient engagement and management solutions.
What does it look like?
Key features
Search engine for federal and private clinical trials by medical condition, therapeutic area, and geographic location.
Push alerts for new clinical trials matching user-defined criteria or location.
How much does it cost?
The app is free for consumers, with monetization derived from B2B partnerships and enterprise sales for custom hospital and pharmaceutical solutions.
Velocity
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Clinical Research Trials has been inactive for 3,394 days, showing no signs of development or maintenance. The single available release provided only minor bug fixes and no new features. Given the lack of updates for nearly a decade, the app is classified as a zombie project.
Who built it?
iHealth Ventures
2 apps tracked · Medical
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What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for Clinical Research Trials
How's the Medical market?
Clinical Research Trials occupies a niche in the medical information category, but its 9-year update hiatus significantly limits its competitive standing against modern, responsive web-based alternatives.
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Key takeaways for Clinical Research Trials
Where is it heading?
The medical information category is shifting toward responsive, web-first trial discovery tools that do not require app-store maintenance. Clinical Research Trials is currently exposed, and its continued presence as an unmaintained legacy product risks damaging the developer's reputation with potential B2B partners.
- The 9-year update gap signals that Clinical Research Trials is in permanent maintenance mode, which will lead to further user attrition as mobile standards evolve.
The SWOT
- Direct integration with ClinicalTrials.gov database
- Pivot to B2B white-label hospital solutions
Next best moves
Sunset the consumer app because the 9-year update gap indicates it is no longer a strategic priority → reduce brand drag
The counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of updates is not a failure but a strategic choice…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app remains in a state of total stagnation, with no functional or pricing updates recorded over the nine-year period. The primary shift is a change in the developer's strategic outlook, moving from a focus on consumer user churn to the potential for brand damage in B2B partnerships.
Bottom line
Clinical Research Trials is a legacy asset that no longer serves the modern mobile user, and sunsetting it would allow the developer to focus exclusively on the B2B hospital solutions that drive their actual revenue.
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- [1] App Store listing, source
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