Medely is a specialized healthcare marketplace for nurses and allied professionals to book per diem and travel shifts on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Medical
Sentiment
4.9
3k reviews
Nemesis
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The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Clinicians hire Medely to access credentialed, high-quality medical assignments that provide more stability and professional relevance than generalist gig-labor platforms.
For Nurses and allied healthcare professionals seeking flexible per diem, local, or travel work assignments.
What does it look like?
Key features
Real-time browsing of shifts across 7,000+ facilities.
Screening and support provided by RNs with 16 years of experience.
How much does it cost?
The platform functions as a free-to-use marketplace for clinicians, while the business model relies on B2B staffing fees charged to healthcare facilities.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentUX improvementsShow more...
The app ships at a maintenance-level cadence, with only two releases identified in the observed data spanning from late April to May 2026. While the latest release includes a functional update regarding scheduling preferences, the overall development pace is slow. There is no evidence of a high-frequency release cycle or a live-ops strategy. Development appears focused on targeted feature additions rather than rapid iteration.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate flexible per diem scheduling allows healthcare professionals to supplement income between travel assignments and real-time shift booking provides immediate confirmation without waiting for facility approval, but report technical instability and frequent application crashes prevent users from accessing available shifts.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Flexible per diem scheduling allows healthcare professionals to supplement income between travel assignments
- Real-time shift booking provides immediate confirmation without waiting for facility approval
- Technical instability and frequent application crashes prevent users from accessing available shifts
57 of 57 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Medely: Find healthcare shifts
How's the Medical market?
Medely operates as a niche clinical marketplace, maintaining a 4.88 rating on iOS with 2,321 reviews. The gap between its clinical focus and the high-volume liquidity of generalist rivals like Shiftsmart defines its primary competitive tension.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Shiftsmart
Shiftsmart competes directly by providing a high-volume, on-demand labor marketplace that captures the same gig-economy workforce seeking flexible scheduling and rapid payout cycles.
- Massive scale in shift volume provides superior liquidity for workers compared to Medely's niche focus
- Advanced shift matching engine optimizes for worker proximity and reliability better than manual booking systems
- Aggressive 'Fast Pay' marketing captures users prioritizing immediate liquidity over long-term career assignment stability
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Key takeaways for Medely: Find healthcare shifts
Where is it heading?
The clinical staffing market is consolidating around platforms that offer both flexibility and professional stability. Medely's current technical instability leaves it exposed to rivals like IntelyCare that offer integrated benefits, so the PM must bridge the performance gap to prevent user migration.
- Frequent app crashes during shift booking erode the daily active habit, which compounds the rating drag already visible on Android.
- The RN-led support model continues to drive high user satisfaction among clinical professionals who value domain-specific expertise over automated generalist support.
The SWOT
- Clinical-specific credentialing functions as a B2B distribution barrier
- RN-led support team builds domain-specific trust
- Wearable-based shift alerts could reduce time-to-book
- Professional perks program could increase stickiness
Next best moves
Rebuild shift-booking flow because crashes during booking are the top-cited churn driver → reduce user churn.
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The 'gig-economy' label obscures that Medely's true moat is the RN-led screening process…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Transparent facility details (available in AMN Passport but missing here) +1
Since the last report: Medely's competitive outlook moved to mixed as the platform pivots to defend its clinical-niche against high-volume generalist competitors while struggling with persistent technical instability.
Bottom line
Medely secures its niche through clinical-specific trust, but technical instability in the latest release creates a churn risk that competitors will exploit, so the PM must prioritize stability and booking transparency to protect the core user base.
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