AskMed features
AskMed is an AI medical reference for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers. You ask a medical question, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and references, and an AI model writes an answer from what it found, with a numbered citation after every claim so you can open the source and check it. AskMed never gives drug doses, carries no pharma advertising, and works anywhere in the world with no US license or NPI number.
Each feature below has its own page that explains what it does, how it works, when it helps and where its limits are, with a short FAQ. Start with cited answers to see what every AskMed answer looks like, then Research Mode for evidence questions and source filters to choose the evidence behind an answer.
All features
- Cited answersEvery claim in an answer links to the journal, guideline or drug label it came from.
- Research ModeA mode for evidence questions: it finds studies, reads the most relevant one in full and weighs the evidence.
- Source filtersChoose how many sources to cite and which kinds: journals, guidelines, drug labels, references or study types.
- Guidelines and drug labelsClinical guidelines and FDA and DailyMed drug labels are searched with every question, newest guidance first.
- Guidelines outside the USNICE, ESC, WHO and other non-US guidance, local brand names from national drug registries, no NPI needed.
- Attach PDFs, images and notesAdd a lab report, discharge summary, photo of text or a pasted note, and AskMed answers with it in mind.
- Follow-up questionsAsk "and in pregnancy?" without repeating yourself, or tap one of three suggested follow-ups after each answer.
- No pharma advertisingNo drug company ads or sponsored content next to answers. Sources are chosen by evidence type, not by sponsor.
- History, Saved and Private ModePast answers kept in History, bookmarks in Saved, and Private Mode to keep new questions out of History.
- Share an answerSend a full answer with its sources to a colleague or classmate as text, from any app on your phone or computer.
- Medical calculatorsClinical scores and lab estimates on getaskmed.com, each built from its original paper and linked to it.
- 7 languagesThe apps in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic, with answers in the language you ask in.
- Web appAskMed in any browser at getaskmed.com/app, with History saved to your account and nothing to install.
- Android appAskMed on Google Play, with the same cited answers as iPhone plus home screen widgets.
- iPad appAskMed on iPad in portrait or landscape, with Split View, Stage Manager and a reading column sized for the screen.
- Home screen widgetsAndroid widgets that open a question box in one tap or reopen your last two answers from the home screen.
Where each feature works
AskMed runs on iPhone and iPad from the App Store, on Android from Google Play, and in any browser as a web app, and almost every feature is the same on all of them because every answer comes from the same AskMed server with the same sources and rules. Cited answers, Research Mode, source filters, guidelines and drug labels, coverage outside the US, attachments, follow-up questions, History, Saved and Private Mode, sharing and the no-advertising rule are on all three. A few features belong to one platform. The iPad layout, with Split View and Stage Manager, is part of the App Store app. Home screen widgets are in the Android app today and not in the current iPhone version. The web app's screens are in English, while the iPhone, iPad and Android apps are translated into seven languages, and answers can be written in any of the seven everywhere. The medical calculators are web pages on getaskmed.com rather than part of the apps.
- iPhone and iPad: every answer feature, seven app languages, the iPad layout with Split View and Stage Manager. App Store.
- Android: every answer feature, seven app languages and home screen widgets. Google Play.
- Web: every answer feature in any browser, History saved to your account, screens in English with seven answer languages. Use it on the web.
What every feature has in common
Some things are the same in every AskMed feature, because they are rules of how AskMed answers rather than settings. Every claim in an answer is cited to a source that AskMed's search actually retrieved, and when no usable medical source is found, AskMed shows a fixed reply instead of answering from memory. AskMed never states drug doses, dose calculations or schedules, in answers, follow-ups, attachments or source excerpts, though it explains what a drug is for, how it works, its side effects, interactions and monitoring. Answers are written by an AI model and no person reviews them before you see them, so they can contain errors and the citations are there to be opened. AskMed is for education and reference by people who work or study in medicine; it is not a symptom checker, does not diagnose patients and is not for emergencies. The full rules are on How AskMed answers.
