Features and Functionalities of Smartphone Apps Related to COVID-19: Systematic Search in App Stores and Content Analysis.

Roberto Collado-Borrell Vicente Escudero-Vilaplana Cristina Villanueva-Bueno Ana Herranz-Alonso María Sanjurjo-Sáez

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)

This paper offers a comprehensive and unique review of all available COVID-19 apps. Governments have adopted these tools during the pandemic, and more than half of the apps were developed by government agencies. The most common purposes of the apps are providing information on the numbers of infected, recovered, and deceased patients, recording of symptoms, and contact tracing.

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