Three Medical Apps Drive 623 Negative-Review Mentions of 'Hearing Aids'

As of 18 October 2026, 'hearing aids' was the most frequent two-word phrase found in negative reviews across Appeye's Medical category. It appeared 623 times, and every one of those mentions came from the same 3 apps.

The singular form, 'hearing aid', added another 177 mentions, also confined to those same 3 apps. Together the two phrases account for 800 mentions in negative reviews, all tied to one small cluster of apps rather than spread across the category.

That pattern looks different from the category's third most common phrase. 'Test results' appeared 169 times, less than a third of the 'hearing aids' count, but it showed up in 11 different apps. It is the phrase with the widest reach on this list, even though its raw mention count is lower.

'Test results' turns up in 11 apps; 'hearing aids' turns up in just 3, with four times the mentions.

The same 3 apps behind the hearing aid complaints also account for most of the next tier of phrases. 'Apple health' drew 103 mentions across 3 apps, 'blood pressure' drew 101 mentions across 3 apps, and 'technical difficulties' drew 50 mentions across 3 apps. 'Android phone' added 44 mentions, again from 3 apps. The overlap suggests reviewers of these apps are naming the same set of connected-device and data-sync problems, not three separate issues.

The gap between 'hearing aids' and 'test results' shows two different shapes of complaint. A phrase with 623 mentions in 3 apps points to a severe problem at a handful of apps. A phrase with 169 mentions in 11 apps points to a smaller irritation shared across the category.

A phrase in 3 apps with 623 mentions points to a severe problem at a handful of apps, not a category-wide one.

Stepping back to the full category gives the other half of the picture. Google Play's own star ratings for Medical, covering 1,365 apps as of 18 October 2026, show 85.9% of ratings at 4 or 5 stars, 11.2% at 1 or 2 stars, and 2.9% at 3 stars.

That histogram covers every rating on Google Play, not written reviews, and it isn't available for the App Store. It also measures something different from the phrase counts above: one is the shape of all ratings across 1,365 apps, the other is the wording inside the negative reviews of a few of them. The 623 mentions of 'hearing aids' are evidence that 3 apps have a problem worth naming, not that the Medical category as a whole does.

800combined mentions of 'hearing aid' and 'hearing aids'