Acupuncture Assistant vs TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint for "acupuncture points"
Acupuncture Assistant
The app for acupuncture professionals and students.
TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint
TCM Acupuncture index, or acupoints for Android. 20 meridians, 422 points!
Rank
7
For keyword
Rank
1
English (United States)The app for acupuncture professionals and students.
TCM Acupuncture index, or acupoints for Android. 20 meridians, 422 points!
Acupuncture Assistant opens with a branded hero, "ACUPUNCTURE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS", then quantifies the atlas ("390 POINTS") and shows symptom search returning LU7/LI4 for "headache". TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint repeats one header, "Handy Acupuncture Index", over four dense device frames captioned as screen names ("List of meridians", "Detail of the point"), so the content depth is visible but the benefit is not. Acupuncture Assistant leads on first impression; the two are level on showing what the app actually does.
Scanned screenshots4 a · 4 b
Only the first 4 screenshots from each side are sent to the AI. These are what users see in App Store and Google Play search results, so they carry most of the conversion weight.
App A
App B
Value Proposition
A leadsAcupuncture Assistant's hero states "ACUPUNCTURE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS", and screenshot 3 quantifies it: "390 POINTS", "12 ORDINARY MERIDIANS".
TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint repeats "Handy Acupuncture Index" on all four shots; the "422 points" claim sits only in the short description.
Clarity
TiedScreenshot 4 shows a real query, "headache", returning LU7, LI4, ST8; screenshot 3 shows meridians with organ clock hours.
Four screens walk index to point detail: Zhongfu/LU1 with anatomical diagram and "English Name: Central Palace", plus a five-element grid.
Emotional Hook
A leadsInk-brush styling and "AT YOUR FINGERTIPS" carry tone, but no practitioner or student appears using Acupuncture Assistant in clinic.
TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint pairs device frames with captions naming screens, "List of points in one meridian", on a blue backdrop.
Trust Signals
A leadsScreenshot 2's ribbon badge "ONE-TIME PAYMENT LIFETIME ACCESS" is self-claimed; the 30 day money back guarantee stays buried in the description.
No badge, testimonial, or credential in any of the four screenshots; "one of the most popular on the play store" appears only in description text.
Reviews of Acupuncture Assistant repeatedly praise its symptom-based point search, editable personal notes and responsive developer, but the same sample carries recurring reports of crashes and of missing or incomplete points across meridians. Reviews of TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint are dominated by praise for clear, accurate point-location illustrations and for daily use as a clinic and study reference, with only scattered requests for extra content such as auricular or sujok points and for video or 3D guidance. Neither review set shows a high-frequency complaint, but stability and data completeness surface far more often for Acupuncture Assistant than any single issue does for TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint.
App A
Pain points
Repeated crashes during normal reading
MediumMissing or incomplete point data
MediumNo way to save favourites, searches or custom lists
MediumStrengths
Symptom-based search for finding points
MediumPersonal notes attached to points
MediumResponsive developer support
MediumApp B
Pain points
Requests for extra point systems such as sujok and auricular
LowRequests for video and 3D point-location guidance
LowStrengths
Clear, accurate point location illustrations
MediumFast reference for students and clinic practice
MediumDetailed content offered free with unobtrusive ads
LowAcupuncture Assistant stakes out clinical decision support, opening with a refund guarantee, then "more than an Acupuncture Point Atlas" and symptom-to-point suggestion search for "acupuncture professionals and students". TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint stakes out reference breadth and free access, leading with "20 meridians, 422 points!", WHO images and multilingual point detail funded by rewarded video. The mismatch is decision support sold up front versus a larger free lookup index, so a searcher for "acupuncture points" meets a paid assistant and a free atlas that claims more points.
App A
Positioning
Clinical decision-support atlas
Target audience
Practising acupuncturists and acupuncture students in training
Value promise
Search symptoms and patterns, get the right points, plus private notes
Tone
feature-focused, professional, commerce-forward
App B
Positioning
Comprehensive free point index
Target audience
Anyone learning or looking up acupuncture points
Value promise
Learn and locate 422 points across 20 meridians, easily and free
Tone
friendly, catalogue-driven, community-thankful
Gap
Acupuncture Assistant leads with professional decision support and paid ownership ("suggestions of the most adequate points for the treatment", "Buy once and use in all your Android phones"), while TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint leads with catalogue size and free access ("422 acupuncture points", rewarded video instead of a price).
Opportunity
Because TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint frames itself as a place to "Learn and locate" points one at a time, Acupuncture Assistant can own the opposite direction of travel: start from the patient's symptom or pattern and arrive at the point list, which is the working clinician's actual task.
Risk
The listing opens with "30 day money back guarantee" and later gates patient annotations behind a subscription, so the first thing a browsing student reads is a price conversation, not a capability one. Against a free index advertising more points, that ordering invites the undecided to install the free option first and never return.
Strategic advantage
The symptom-to-point search plus syncing personal notes and patient protocols is a workflow tool rather than a reference, which matters to practitioners who bill for treatment time and to students building their own case notes. Point count is a weak battleground against a listing claiming 422; treatment reasoning is not.
Missed opportunity
Neither listing addresses board exam preparation, despite both naming or implying students: no recall drills, point-location testing, or NCCAOM-style study framing appears in either description. A study-and-retention angle is adjacent to both products and currently unclaimed.
App A
55
Acupuncture Assistant
Slight lead
A wins
App B
45
TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint
Slight gap
TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint holds rank 1 for acupuncture points on listing strength and review trust, while Acupuncture Assistant sits at 7 with the stronger conversion and positioning story. That rank looks held rather than locked: it rests on catalogue size and free access, not on a capability Acupuncture Assistant lacks.
Why it wins
Acupuncture Assistant sells decision support to someone searching acupuncture points rather than lookup, opening with a branded hero and "390 POINTS" and showing symptom search returning LU7/LI4, where TCM Acupuncture Index/Acupoint repeats "Handy Acupuncture Index" across four dense frames that show depth but not benefit. The lead is fragile, because recurring crash and missing-point reports pull its review standing below a listing praised for accurate point illustrations and daily clinic use.
Biggest opportunity
Neither the title nor the short description of Acupuncture Assistant names acupuncture points, so it ranks 7 on description signals alone while the symptom-to-point workflow, the one thing a free 422-point index does not answer, never appears above the fold.
Next priority
The remaining test is whether leading the short description with the workflow and the term itself, such as "Search a symptom, get the acupuncture points. 390-point atlas, buy once.", moves Acupuncture Assistant up for acupuncture points better than the current audience label does. Pairing that with the stability work reviewers keep raising protects the decision-support promise the copy would then be making.
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