# Clinical Sense — Improve your diagnosis skills

> Medical diagnosis and patient management simulation for healthcare professionals and students. (iPhone/iPad app by Medical Joyworks LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/clinical-sense/id856082326 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Medical Joyworks LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/803816939)
- Category: Medical, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 254 App Store ratings · 129 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 117 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2014-05-08
- Data updated: 2026-08-13
- Monetization: ad-supported
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/clinical-sense/id856082326/reviews.md

## What is Clinical Sense?

With Clinical Sense, you can improve your ability to appropriately manage a patient over time: from presentation, to admission, to discharge and follow-up. Assume the role of a physician navigating a plethora of challenging clinical situations and make critical medical decisions in real time.

Clinical Sense is designed for practicing physicians, medical students, nursing professionals, and other healthcare practitioners who want to learn and have fun while doing so. After all, practice makes perfect; and practice can be fun!

Our scenarios offer a wide range of medical specialties, which can be played in minutes. They are also accompanied by a concise yet comprehensive discussion of the diagnostic reasoning, including insights into the ideal management of complications that may arise.

The scenarios in this award-winning app are all based on the actual case-management experiences of more than 200 physicians across 30 specialties from all over the world.

New scenarios are released every week, often in keeping with global endemic and epidemic trends, to help you brush up on the management skills that are the need of the hour! 

Achievements:
• #1 ranked app in 40+ countries.
• Top ranked free medical app in 120 countries.
• 1,000,000+ downloads worldwide.

## Key features

- Patient management simulation
- Real-time medical decision making
- Diverse medical specialties
- Concise diagnostic reasoning discussions
- Weekly new scenarios
- Based on real physician experiences

## What do users think of Clinical Sense?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Excellent app
- 👍 Amazing app
- 👍 Wonderful way for teaching
- 👍 Great cases
- 👍 Engaging and informative
- 👍 Unique and helpful app
- 👍 Nice application
- 👍 Great for students
- 👍 Entertainment
- 👍 Clinical sense is fantastic
- 👍 Fantastic app
- 👍 Beautiful stories
- 👍 Learning with fun
- 👍 Great for learning medical diagnosis
- 👍 Thought-provoking

**Cons**

- 🤔 So hard
- 🐛 Crashes right away
- 🐛 Crashes repeatedly
- 🤔 Incomplete history
- 🤔 Too long
- 🤔 Scenarios not always in line with recommendations
- 🤔 Unable to choose 'yes' for treatment

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes on iPad
- Crashes on iPhone 7
- Crashes after a few pages into a scenario

**Most requested features**

- More pain scenarios
- More psychiatrist medicine
- Imaging results
- More questions about differential diagnosis and history/physical exam
- Unlock all learning topics
- More cases
- Randomization of cases
- Cases with more vague/conflicting clinical findings

## Recent user reviews (10 of 129)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/clinical-sense/id856082326/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Excellent app

*2026-01-12, version 6.0.17*

I don’t often review apps or stick with them but this is my favourite. Really enjoying this app, it’s three in one - study-related, game-adjacent in a way that feels suspenseful and engaging, plus it is well written narratively - the stories are warm and human-feeling gentle enough in being about learning for next time whilst being realistic about consequences of gaps in knowledge, lack of vigilance or poor judgement - loads of nostalgia of choose your own adventure books.

### 4/5 — Good cases

*2025-10-19*

Would love to see more

**Developer response:** Hi 1colonator, thank you for your review. Clinical Sense is a free app. Please note our free apps have a limited selection of content only. Our full library, including more new and updated content, is available in a for-pay product: Clinical Odyssey. Please visit https://clinicalodyssey.com/ to learn more. Keep playing & learning!

### 5/5 — Amazing app

*2023-07-08*

Really this is an amazing app and very educational informative and extremely scientific and very uptodate

**Developer response:** Hello Hmaher, that's great to hear. Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful feedback. We're pleased to hear that you find our app is educational and useful. Please note our free apps have a limited selection of content only. Along with Clinical Sense, we have 3 other great titles with 700+ learning modules, available at: Clinical Odyssey. To find out more, please visit http://clinicalodyssey.com/ or download the app from the Apple App Store. There is a lot to learn there. Hope you'll continue enjoying our apps. Regards!

### 3/5 — So hard

*2023-02-10*

It’s really interesting but it’s so hard because of all the long scientific research and words

**Developer response:** Hi Mundhz, thank you for your review. We're glad that you find our app is interesting. Our apps are designed for practicing physicians, medical students, nursing professionals, and other healthcare professionals keen on evidence-based knowledge. Please visit https://clinicalodyssey.com/ to find out more information. Regards!

### 5/5 — Truly a work of genius!

*2022-02-17*

Very realistic scenarios that stick with you for a long time. Rate this app more than 5 stars!

**Developer response:** Hello Dr. Visionary, thank you for your valuable feedback. We're pleased to hear that you like our app. Now all our apps available as a single product: Clinical Odyssey with 700+ learning modules. There is a lot to learn there. Simply visit https://clinicalodyssey.com/ to find out more. Hope you'll continue enjoying our apps. Regards!

### 5/5 — AMAZING!!!

*2022-01-27*

I’ve never written an app review before, but I thought that this app deserved it. It’s an amazing app and realistic. I’m an aspiring doctor and I have learned so much from this app. It’s the best medical app I’ve downloaded. This app makes learning fun and exciting plus it’s realistic. I love everything about this app. I also love that it is kept updated. They come out with new cases weekly. Sometimes it’s even a couple times a week. I have no complaints. I love all medical joyworks apps including Prognosis. These apps were very well done and I never get old playing them. I’ve had both apps for years now. Thank you for such amazing apps!

**Developer response:** Hi Nickshdjdkdjkandnn, thank you so much for taking the time out to share your wonderful thoughts with us. We're pleased to hear that our apps are useful to you. Now all our apps available as a single product: Clinical Odyssey with 700+ learning modules. There is a lot to learn there. Simply visit https://clinicalodyssey.com/ to find out more. Hope you'll continue enjoying our apps. Regards!

### 4/5 — Not as scary as before.

*2021-12-25, version 3.1.3*

When I first picked up this game on android years ago, it had scary bad endings and such uncertainty for a medical noob such as I that I often bailed on some scenarios, afraid that I’ll get emotionally hurt again by someone figuratively screaming in my face.

Now, it’s not so bad. Idk if it was my review on the google play store that made this change, but some of the bad endings have been dumbed down and just feel different.

On another note, I’ve yet to see the return of “tummy trouble” in English. I remember going far into the give medications route before backing out, but in the foreign version it just cuts to the bad ending of “see me in my office Por favor”

So did tummy trouble get bugged in the English version? Or was the original bad ending for giving medications instead of draining the abscess much worse?

Thanks for the app,
Andrew Hood.

### 5/5 — Excellent teach

*2021-05-25*

Wonderful way for teaching

**Developer response:** Hi waelahmedh, thank you for your comment. We're pleased that you like our app. Last year we've been removing cases and updating them to ensure their quality and relevance. Now all our apps with new and updated content are available as a single product: Clinical Odyssey. Simply visit https://www.medicaljoyworks.com to find out more. Regards!

### 4/5 — Scenarios not always in line with recommendations

*2021-05-06*

It’s a great little Ap to catch a quick review, but be cautious as some of the treatments in the scenarios are not in line with current recommendations.  For example, the scenario with cat scratch disease (Bartonella) recommended withholding antibiotics despite the patient having over a week of fever and lymphadenopathy.  The scenario also recommended a lymph node biopsy with PCR testing to confirm the diagnosis despite a very clear history. The research on antibiotics vs no antibiotics is pretty clear and the expert consensus is that any patient with a clear history and lymphadenopathy be treated with azithromycin.  The consensus is that lymph node biopsy should be reserved for cases that do not respond to appropriate antibiotics.  UpToDate has a great review of cat scratch disease.

**Developer response:** Hi soldierDoc2, we are glad you enjoyed the app. Thank you for sharing your recommendations re: the cat scratch disease scenario—I have passed them on to our editorial team.

Please note: our editors keep updating our scenarios to be in line with the latest reviews and clinical guidelines. Unfortunately, the vast breadth of our catalogue (700+ learning modules across multiple apps) means that this takes time.

We hope you continue to enjoy our apps!

### 4/5 — Thank you

*2021-04-11*

It is such a user-friendly program. I like it.

**Developer response:** Hi Shghba, that's great to hear. We're glad that you like our it. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to write to us at penelope@medicaljoyworks.com. We hope that you'll continue enjoying our products. Regards!

## Frequently asked questions about Clinical Sense

### What does Clinical Sense do?

Clinical Sense is a mobile application designed to help users improve their diagnostic and patient management skills. It simulates challenging clinical situations, allowing users to make critical medical decisions in real-time from patient presentation to discharge and follow-up.

### What are the key features of Clinical Sense?

Key features include simulating patient management over time, offering a wide range of medical specialties in playable scenarios, providing concise discussions on diagnostic reasoning, and offering insights into managing complications. New scenarios are released weekly.

### Is Clinical Sense free to use?

The application is free to download and use. However, it does display advertisements. There are no in-app purchases or subscription fees mentioned.

### Who is Clinical Sense designed for?

This app is specifically designed for practicing physicians, medical students, nursing professionals, and other healthcare practitioners who want to enhance their diagnostic abilities and patient management skills in a fun and engaging way.

### What kind of medical scenarios are available?

The scenarios are based on actual case-management experiences from over 200 physicians across 30 specialties worldwide. They cover a broad spectrum of medical conditions and are updated weekly, often reflecting current global endemic and epidemic trends.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 6.0.24 — 2026-08-01

Minor bug fixes and app updates.

### 6.0.23 — 2026-07-01

Minor bug fixes and app updates.

### 6.0.22 — 2026-05-23

Minor bug fixes and updates.

### 6.0.21 — 2026-05-01

Minor bug fixes and improvements.

### 6.0.20 — 2026-04-03

Minor bug fixes and improvements.

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