# Brain & Nervous System Pro III — user reviews > 95 indexed App Store user reviews of Brain & Nervous System Pro III by 3D4Medical.com, rated 4.30/5 from 89 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brain-and-nervous-system-pro-iii/id451427448/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brain-and-nervous-system-pro-iii/id451427448.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 60 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of Brain & Nervous System Pro III? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 High-quality, vibrant 3D graphics and rendering - 🧠 Excellent visualization of brain anatomy and spatial relationships - 🔄 Multiple viewing planes and layer transparency options - ✏️ Ability to add custom pins and personal notes - 🎓 Valuable educational tool for medical and anatomy students - 🎬 Helpful animations demonstrating neural processes and disease effects - 📱 Intuitive interface for most users - 🎯 Comprehensive labeling of major brain structures - 👨‍🏫 Useful for teaching and classroom demonstrations **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent freezing and performance issues - 📉 Poor image quality when zoomed in - 🔍 Limited search and navigation functionality - 📊 Insufficient anatomical detail for advanced learners - 🎮 Choppy and unresponsive touch controls - 💾 Large file size relative to content - ⚠️ Outdated and unintuitive user interface - 🔌 Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions - 🎬 Animations lack narration and audio - 💰 Expensive for the limited content provided - 🖼️ Blurry and out-of-focus images **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and freezes frequently - Incompatibility with iOS 11 and newer versions - 32-bit compatibility issues on newer devices - Download functionality not working - Help section displays blank screen with music only - Touch responsiveness lag (several seconds delay) - Uncontrolled object spinning - Labels and pins only work in certain orientations - Corrupted file issues - Volume adjustment triggered by help video clicks - Rotation limited to Y-axis only - Labeling function resets view to pre-programmed angles **Most requested features** - Multiple cross-sectional slices in each plane (currently only 1-3) - More detailed spinal cord anatomy and cross-sections - Additional brainstem structures and detailed sections - Functional information about nerves and their effects - More animations with narration and audio explanations - Ability to hide selective pins by category (e.g., blood vessels) - Continuous slicing capability with labeled structures maintained - Coronal section viewing from anterior perspective - More subcortical nuclei and white matter fascicles - Functional area labels (e.g., prefrontal cortex, limbic system) - Ability to toggle pins on/off selectively - Video narration and landscape view for animations - Cytoarchitecture visualization - Motor and sensory tract pathways - Integration with academic resources like Google Scholar - Physiology information in addition to anatomy - More detailed vascular system representation - Quiz features with physiology questions - Support for video mirroring to projectors ## Newest reviews (13 of 95) ### 2/5 — Not worth the $10 *2022-04-20, version 3.8.3* This app looked promising but it was very disappointing. The quality of the images is terrible, the pin method is ineffective and the interface is not very user friendly. I would not recommend it at all and I’m surprised it has 4.2 stars ### 2/5 — Extremely disappointing... *2020-09-24, version 3.8.3* I got this mainly for a neuroanatomy course and its .. useless.. 1. The “search” option is not good, i can’t just click on the head and have it zoom in on the brain, i have to search up a structure that is inside the skull for it to remove the skull? I can’t even ask it to remove a layer right from the beginning. 2. There are no labels for anything? So essentially if i think maybe that a structure is the corpus callosum, i can’t just click it or see the names of the structures, i again have to search corpus callosum, and see if it points to the same structure. 3. You can tell it to take certain sections but you cannot tell it how. Eg, i want to see coronal sections of the brain but i would prefer to view from an anterior perspective (as if i were looking at the person) which i know is just picky but there is no way.. i have to view it from the back. There is an option to make your own cuts but then when you make your own cuts there isnt an option to slide the cut to fully view all the structures front to back. 4. I just downloaded it on a brand new iPad Pro an its having trouble doing things at an appropriate speed, its buggy. It takes a few seconds for it to register that i swiped or pressed something. 5. I tried going to the question mark (help section) and its just a blank scream that plays music (presumably a video without the image) and when i try to click on a help video it just adjusts the volume....? I have no idea where that came from.. 6. When you are scrolling on the model, it can only go up/down or left/right, it can’t be just toggled to get the view you actually want, which is literally the entire point of having a model instead of a textbook. For $13.99 this app is absolute garbage and i really hope i can get my money back because it has 0 educational value for me. ### 4/5 — Could use a tweek *2017-10-07, version 3.8.2* I purposely have not upgraded to iOS 11 until the update is complete for this app. The issue I have is that pins are in the way of structures. I would suggest being able to turn off selective pins - toggle. Otherwise it is a very nice app. ### 3/5 — Too incomplete *2016-08-13, version 3.8* - many functional areas of the brain are missing. The best you'll get in the cortex is broadmann areas, sulci, and gyri. Nothing like "prefrontal cortex". - sub nuclei in areas like the pons, Amygdala, etc, are not present. For example, no locus coeruleus. - major white matter fasiculla are missing - layers go directly from "brain" to basal ganglia. No way to, for example, hide the gray matter and show the white. In general, layers are not very flexible. - I can't seem to delete my custom pin - rotation is more limited than you'd expect because they seem to be using pre rendered images. - this is probably much better for learning peripheral nerves than it is for learning brain areas. - for some reason there are no public notes on pins. - you can show and hide pins but they are not categorized by type. So for example if you want to hide blood vessel pins there is no easy way to do it I'm only semi-impressed with this app. It's better than anything else I've seen yet but there are still a bunch of little things they could have easily done better. ### 2/5 — Very incomplete *2016-01-10, version 3.8* I bought this app expecting to be able to see and learn more about various structures and areas of the nervous system. I have now used the app for a few days and I am very disappointed. While it is beautiful, half of the stuff I am trying to look up is not there! Pretty basic structures / areas such as "limbic system", "anterior cingulate cortex", "somatosensory cortex", "dorsal horn" are not covered at all. I cannot recommend this app. ### 3/5 — Brain and Nervous System Pro III *2015-09-22, version 3.8* This app is difficult to use. I'm a medical student And I've been using the essential anatomy 5 app for over a year and decided to get this one to help out with neuro. This app is completely different and had I not known it was made by the same company, I wouldn't have guessed because of how rudimentary the interface is. I like the idea of this app but they really need to come up with some major updates to bring it up to speed with their other apps. ### 4/5 — More Animations *2015-05-27, version 3.8* Great graphics and idea, easy to use. More animations would have it much better. From the current ones which are very good I look forward to more! ### 3/5 — Ok - had hoped for a little better *2014-10-12, version 3.8* Bought after the Essential Anatomy App (which is great). This is a bit clunky and the navigation is not as smooth. The "pins" system doesn't work as well as the highlighted area one in the other app either. That said, everything seems to be in the right place and it is pretty comprehensive. The developer is pretty good at updates so maybe we'll see some improvements soon. ### 4/5 — Great for my work *2014-07-08, version 3.7* I teach intro level anatomy for Nia Technique during white belt level trainings. This app as well as the muscle & bone apps provide a springboard for appreciating the complexity and beauty of our anatomy. Functional, friendly, and fascinating. I agree with another who wanted more brain slices and more precision up close. ### 4/5 — Excellent resource *2014-05-01, version 3.7* This app is a fantastic resource for someone trying to conceptualize three dimensional structures in the nervous system. I only give it 4/5 stars for 2 main reasons: the resolution is quite poor when trying to zoom in on some of the smaller landmarks in the CNS, and there are too few slices of the brain to be able to follow particular structures in their internal courses. That being said, I absolutely recommend this app to be used as an adjunct to higher resolution 2D resources, like a neuroanatomy atlas. It has served me well as a medical student, and the cost is absolutely worth it! ### 2/5 — Needs Spinal Cord Details *2014-04-13, version 3.7* Needs more spinal cord details (anatomy, slices, pathways) and more animations to be a truly resourceful nervous system reference. ### 5/5 — More spinal cord *2014-02-20, version 3.7* The app is great. The only thing I could say is that it could use more layers and maybe even cross sections of the spinal cord. ### 4/5 — Medical Student *2014-02-19, version 3.7* I’m a medical student going into neurology. This app is very helpful for visualization of the anatomy. I hope 3D4Medical comes out with an app dedicated to the Brainstem, as this is a really complicated anatomical structure that could use 3D4Medical’s touch. Thanks! Jonny ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Download issues *2022-02-21, version 3.8.3* Won’t let me download the app…. N I need help ### 1/5 — It’s a real stinker *2020-12-15, version 3.8.3* To be avoided as it appears to be made for a much smaller screen . Everything is blurry and it freezes constantly. Wish I could get my money back. ### 1/5 — Needs update *2017-09-25, version 3.8* Does not work with IOS 11. ### 1/5 — Will be dead soon *2017-06-24, version 3.8* On first launch on iOS 10, a dialog tells me the app may not work soon. Presumably because it is 32 bit or something. Besides that, the UI is horribly unintuitive. I can't imagine using this for demonstration with patients and fumbling through the UI. Also the cuts on the scans are super thick - like a total of 10 transverse cuts. Not a whole lot of detail over just getting some images off google. ### 1/5 — No updates for > year *2015-12-15, version 3.8* This app and its series seems to have been abandoned by 3D4. They seem to be heading towards subscriptions model. ### 1/5 — Don't buy it *2014-04-27, version 3.7* The pictures look out of focus and the way it is set up is awkward. Booooooo. ### 1/5 — Basic *2014-03-08, version 3.7* As a medical student taking neuroscience I found this app to be extremely basic in nature. It tends to lack detail and the ability to view a single structure at one time. If you were taking a basic gross anatomy class in this app may be of use. But realistically I believe matters is a better option ### 1/5 — Dr Rolez *2013-10-25, version 3.7* Very hard to use , sadly not a patch on the essential 2 version. Would not recommend , do not waste your time or money. 3D come on get your apps together ! ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2013-07-19, version 3.3* This app is far inferior to their brilliant Essential Anatomy app. Clumsy interface, blurry images and lack of detail. Do not buy until they improve this awful app. ### 1/5 — Very useless *2013-04-04, version 3.3* Don't even waste your money. Very useless ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome for Teaching Neuro Basics *2020-08-31, version 3.8.3* I use this app to show directional terms, planes of dissection, lobes etc. Very easy to use and great tools like slicing, pen to write on screen\images, and short clips to detail disease effects such as myelin degradation in MS. Love it! ### 5/5 — Know my enemy! *2017-03-12, version 3.8* Awesome! I'm using it to explore my brain. I had a stroke two years ago and want to learn! ### 5/5 — Great App for Med School *2017-02-17, version 3.8* This app helped me understand the neuro spatial relationships for med school. I especially like how the brain can be oriented in different planes and dimensions, and each view has the option to show pins on the various structures. It also offers the option to add notes onto individual pins, or to add your own pins. It's well worth the money--just wish I would have found this app sooner. ### 5/5 — Excellent!!! *2015-08-12, version 3.8* Just Excellent!!!! Used in class to help demonstrate some very difficult concepts. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2015-07-17, version 3.8* I was lucky enough to catch the entire package of 3d4Medical's apps on sale a few months ago and can't say enough about how they've helped me understand A&P. I'm both an EMT instructor and paramedic student and Essential Anatomy 5 helps me on both fronts. Great job! ### 5/5 — Buy this App - great graphics & animation of brain!!! *2015-06-11, version 3.8* This app has a cool layers feature where each layer is a fairly detailed and well rendered surface of the brain, dura,vascular, cortex, ventricles, limbic, thalamus. It has lots of good resolution slices in all 3 directions, good UI, and several animations, including a totally awesome nerve firing and transmission thru synapse. While 3D Brain has good graphics and lots of info and links, this 3D4Medical app has frickin great graphics! ### 5/5 — Well worth the cost *2015-05-08, version 3.8* $10 is considered a lot on the App Store, but it's a bargain for what you get. Not only does this app offer multiple layer and cut views, but it lets you customize which pins show up so that you can get as detailed or as general as you like. In spite of a complex feature set, the controls and settings are relatively easy to use, letting get to the business of educating and learning very quickly. That being said, the app is not perfect. There is always more it could offer in terms of features and views. For example, it provides several images of the circle of Willis, but it does not--as far as I have figured out so far--allow you to see a labeled view of the circle in the context of the rest of the brain. Additionally, while there appears to be a handy social feature allowing for community discussion of different parts of the brain, either no one ever uses it or the feature is not actually functional, as no public comments are ever available. These, and other, imperfections mean there is always room for improvement. Nevertheless, this app is incredible and likely the best brain anatomy tool for iOS. I highly recommend any student or educator splurge for the sake of knowledge and skip a few days of coffee to buy this app. You won't regret it. ### 5/5 — Just wonderful *2014-05-22, version 3.7* It has wonderful details that show almost everything. You can see every thing that you want from diffrent angles. I was trying reading neurophysiology and this app helps me really lot. ### 5/5 — Great! *2014-05-12, version 3.7* Physio student! I love these apps! Wet labs are not accessible for personal study, and these apps provide the same opportunities! Amazing! Only feedback is to have a link that group muscles/areas. I.e. Limbic lobe, hamstrings, quadriceps etc! ### 5/5 — Great Educational Tool *2014-04-29, version 3.7* We run a body work school and we have loved this app to assist our students learn and visualize the anatomy of the Brain and the Nervous System. I am waiting for them to add more systems and apps to keep the educational factor so incredible in our Center. We work with all this in Ortho Bionomy and I feel it is really assisting learning and our skill level. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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