# Cholecystectomy AI — user reviews > 16 indexed App Store user reviews of Cholecystectomy AI by Best Surgical Education, LLC, rated 4.00/5 from 4 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cholecystectomy-ai/id1519271391/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cholecystectomy-ai/id1519271391.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (5 of 16) ### 5/5 — The future! *2020-07-16* Is accurate most of the time, but slight motion of the camera or organs can skew the results. Also, the app identifies anatomy well only when the gb is lifted up and retracted laterally. This technology is probably one of the biggest advances of our times. Glad to be a part of it. ### 5/5 — Great tool! *2020-07-16, version 1.3* The app identifies anatomy as well as how well a critical view is obained. What I found most useful is that it tells you which components of the critical view are deficient. AI has gotten better in the 3 days since I downloaded the app, God knows what these guys will accomplish in the next year! ### 5/5 — Goodwin *2020-06-27, version 1.0* This app is awesome ### 5/5 — Cholecystectomy *2020-06-27* This is an incredible App for step by step learning of surgeries. The luminous video guide is awesome and the stepwise explanation is flawless. ### 5/5 — Greatest app ever *2020-06-27* I really LOVE it?when I’m working with it, I just feel like I’m in a real cholecystectomy room doing a real cholecystectomy? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Waste of your time, money and effort *2020-06-23* This app will look at a still or video image and tell you the percent chance that it contains a critical view. Doesn’t tell you how to improve the view or your dissection. What can you do with a single number telling you that your image is 63% likely to be a critical view. In addition, the user interface would not get a passing grade in an Intro to CS course. Bad idea, bad interface, bad implementation. Don’t make the same $9.99 mistake I made. **Developer response:** The app recognizes live videos as well. In fact, we recommend that you use live videos as the AI gets more context. Also, the app recognizes anatomy as well - gallbladder, cystic duct, CBD (when seen), duodenum and Rouviere’s sulcus. The app is not just about critical view. 63% critical view means it’s a pretty bad critical view. If you look at the app description, we don’t tell the app teaches you how to get or improve a critical view. You should get numbers close to 100%, ideally above 80-90%. You are supposed to know how to get a critical view as a surgeon. But we will tell you how to get it - by clearing more of the Calot’s triangle and more of the gallbladder off its bed so you see only two structures entering the gallbladder and no structure going from the gallbladder to the liver. We also say the app needs more data before it can perform better than experienced surgeons. But it still does a good job. Your comment is only a discouragement to emerging technologies. Apart from that, we did not realize there would be a need for the AI to help improve the critical view as we thought the surgeon should be able to figure this out. We will think of this as an interesting addition for subsequent versions, if others feel the same way. We have the capability to add this. Overall, this review poorly defines or evaluates the function of the app but we will let it stand to clear any misconceptions. BSE ### 5/5 — Great for resident education *2020-07-16, version 1.3* Helps residents learn and improve the technique for obtaining a critical view of safety. ### 5/5 — A great companion for the surgen *2020-07-16, version 1.3* This app identifies important anatomy as well as whether a critical view of safety has been obtained. Both models are pretty good at identifying anatomy. Poor images or instruments in the way result in wrong results but overall very helpful. Truly the way to the future! ### 5/5 — Great app *2020-07-16* Predictions work nicely with real time videos. The CV model has been greatly improvised. ### 5/5 — Way ahead of our times *2020-07-16* The future of surgery is here! ### 5/5 — Does well *2020-07-16, version 1.3* I agree with the predictions most of the time and it proves me wrong at times. Great companion in the OR ### 5/5 — Incredible! *2020-07-16, version 1.3* It was insane enough to see my Tesla drive itself, but this..is simply unbelievable! ### 5/5 — The future is here *2020-07-16, version 1.3* Machine learning in surgery..wow never thought this day would come too soon ### 5/5 — Unique innovation *2020-07-16, version 1.3* AI is quite good at recognizing anatomy and critical view. Glad to be a part of this project. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Great job *2020-07-16, version 1.3* Identifies anatomy quite well. Now shows me how to improve critical view ## Most praised reviews (1 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Insanely great! *2020-07-16, version 1.3* The app identifies live anatomy on a laparoscopic monitor. The latest version actually is giving me pointers to do better dissection. I don't usually post App Reviews but this app is just too good. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-12.*