# Skeleton System Pro III — user reviews > 100 indexed App Store user reviews of Skeleton System Pro III by 3D4Medical from Elsevier, rated 4.50/5 from 57 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skeleton-system-pro-iii/id364694031/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skeleton-system-pro-iii/id364694031.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 49 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Skeleton System Pro III? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 📚 Excellent educational resource for anatomy students - 🎨 High-quality, detailed 3D graphics and rendering - 🔄 Smooth rotation and multiple viewing angles - 📌 Customizable pins for personalized learning - ✍️ Drawing and annotation tools for patient education - 🎯 Built-in quiz functionality for self-testing - 📖 Comprehensive bone landmark information - 🔊 Audio pronunciation of anatomical terms - 💾 Offline functionality without internet required - 🎬 Video animations demonstrating joint movements - 👥 Excellent customer service and support - 📱 Intuitive user interface and navigation **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and stability issues - 📉 Poor image resolution on retina displays - 🖼️ Grainy, low-quality images difficult to manipulate - 🔀 Glitchy skeleton rotation and blurry views - 💰 Expensive pricing for the feature set - ⚠️ Incomplete labeling of anatomical structures - 🚫 Cannot disarticulate individual bones - ⏱️ Slow app loading times - 🎯 Limited quiz options and customization - 🔍 Inadequate zoom clarity when magnified - 🖱️ Unintuitive pin placement and controls - 📍 Missing anatomical landmarks and details - 🔧 Drawing tool malfunctions **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when screen is touched - Incompatible with iOS 11 and newer versions - Pins disappear when rotating skeleton - Quiz screen switches too quickly for corrections - Incorrect anatomical information in quizzes (e.g., metatarsal vs metacarpal) - Radius and ulna consistently confused in program - Interphalangeal joint of thumb appears on pinky in quiz - App freezes during navigation - Slow performance and loading issues - Stability problems on certain devices - Image resolution degrades when zoomed in **Most requested features** - Ability to separate and isolate individual bones - Proper anatomical labeling (e.g., 'scapula' instead of 'shoulder') - Individual skull bone disarticulation and viewing - Ability to rotate cross-sections and partitioned segments - Hide/Fade functionality for layers - Customizable quiz with unlimited questions - Slower video animations for detailed bones - Quiz statistics and spaced repetition algorithms - More cross-sectional views beyond coronal and sagittal - Integrated nervous system and muscle information - Movable and customizable pins at various angles - Better controls for zooming and navigation - Complete body systems integration - Abbreviated app name to fit device displays - Universal app purchase (iPad and iPhone together) ## Newest reviews (12 of 100) ### 2/5 — Not the best *2021-03-10, version 3.8.2* It’s okay, there are lots of details on bone features but it would be more useful if they actually labelled the bones by their names (e.g. scapula rather than shoulder), therefore you need to already know the skeletal system to use this app, which doesn’t seem worth the almost $14. Furthermore the moving of the skeleton to view it from different angles is pretty glitchy and blurry. ### 2/5 — ALMOST great for health students *2014-01-18, version 3.7* This app has many bony landmarks and are able to isolate individual bones but... Not that great for studying/ testing oneself. Wish I could determine the landmarks individually myself and the individual bones that I wanted to be tested on. Essential skeleton let you touch a bone and it told you what it was. NOT HERE it's all pins... Which disappear if you try to rotate the skeleton. It's the best app out there that I've tried but still has a way to go. ### 4/5 — Needs one more thing! *2013-07-01, version 3.3* I wish there was a way to "Hide/Hide Others" and "Fade/Fade Others" like in the Essential Anatomy App. Other than that, I love it! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2013-03-29, version 3.3* It is the best Skeleton App out there. There are plenty of them but this one has just the greatest amount of info about every single bone. well..great work people. great app- great developer!! ### 5/5 — Great app *2013-02-24, version 3.3* The only thing that would make this app better is if we were able to view the individual bones of the skull- at any view/ rotation (like how an exploded skull is, but be able to view each bone on their own. ### 5/5 — Crazy good *2013-02-18, version 3.3* Love this app! It helped me out alot in my anatomy class and really reinforced a lot of the names when I did the quizzes. The detail is nice because it lets you see superior and inferior angles, just as if you had our own set of bones at home! Doesn't have every sinle structure but it allows you to make your own pin. I would recommend this app! ### 5/5 — Indespensable *2013-02-05, version 3.3* I'm really glad I came suitably armed to my first year of med school with some great apps to help me study. I have a few 3d4medical apps and this is one of my favorites -- along with Muscle System Pro III. The app's graphics are amazing and the information contained has helped me immensely. I'd recommend to anyone studying the skeletal system. ### 3/5 — A little disappointed *2013-02-02, version 3.3* In the context of a medical student, this app is very interactive but falls short when detailed structured such as foramens of the skull are needed. It would also be great if some of the structures that can be seen are labeled. I would finally love to be able to cut the specimen at more levels than just the coronal ad saggital sections available. Overall I'm a little disappointed that I purchased this app but I can see its potential. I focused on the major negatives for me because there are so many reviews about the positives. ### 3/5 — Its OKAY.... *2013-01-18, version 3.3* The navigation needs some work. Like when I was viewing the Pectoral girdle it was very hard to view the Sternal end of the clavicle. The only way to view it was medially. I think a good idea would to be able to "pull out a specific bone" so you can isolate it and view it however you want. ### 4/5 — Great *2012-10-20, version 3.3* This app would be even better if you could separate the bones otherwise its awesome!! Well done. But warning for students if you have a hard time learning bones that you can't separate than I would recommend searching for a different app that allows you to do that :-/ ### 4/5 — Awesome....Except:( *2012-10-19, version 3.3* I love this app! It helped tremendously when i was still in school. My only major issue is you are not able to separate the bones individually. They are always connected to the adjoining bone. I would love to be able to pull out, let's say, the humerus and see it individually without any other bones. A minor issue is it is missing some key pins when it comes to some of the bone structures. But all in all this is a wonderful app and would, and have, recommended it to anyone needing to know the skeletal system! ### 5/5 — Awesome for the student of medicine *2012-10-18, version 3.3* This thing helps to map out and visualize the body in a way previously unavailable without a cadaver. I am a student and having this as an auxiliary "cadaver" outside of lab/class has been invaluable. Terrific work 3Dmedical images... ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Poor quality + functionality *2023-10-08, version 3.8.3* I really expected this to have higher resolution Images but instead they are grainy and impossible to manipulate. The drawing tool malfunctions as well. Save your money. ### 1/5 — Missing details *2019-09-15, version 3.8.2* The clavicle details are missing, unless we type the names we are looking for. THAT DOES DEFEAT THE PURPOSE ### 1/5 — Can’t use with ios11 *2017-09-22, version 3.8* Really I’ve been using the app for years and now that I’ve got the new update I can’t use it. Update please ### 1/5 — Hello? iOS 11 on Sept 19th, but app still needs update to run! *2017-09-13, version 3.8* This is a great app that I paid a lot of money for, but it will not run on iOS 11 if it does not receive an update by the app developer! ### 1/5 — Needs update *2017-07-25, version 3.8* Please update this app ### 1/5 — I can't work with this app *2016-09-06, version 3.8* They need to be more choices on the test side of things, I am learning sport therapy, and I played better apps then this. When learn the test they need to allow more selections and cover small areas at a time, would maker it easier to taken things in when learning. it only give you a little time to choose your choice of answer, if you don't it tell you the answer ### 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 — Needs a lot of work; not as prestigious as they boast *2013-10-06, version 3.7* Zooming in/out is less convenient than their other programs. Looking at a specific point on a bone can be tedious; for example, can only view tibial tuberosity with pin in one view. Pins are always disappearing. Colored bones have less pins. It is far more difficult to maneuver skeletal body around to get alternative views. ### 1/5 — Not a good a app *2012-09-27, version 3.2* You can't pull some bones apart! ### 1/5 — Poor *2011-10-31, version 2.4* The graphics are good but the language is poor instead of scapula they used shoulder, for medial they use R. Lateral. When you are looking at the left humerus in anterior view and you switch to posterior view in the skeleton it switches from the left to the right bone. It's acceptable if your just getting it for interest but if you are studying bones it is inadequate. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent for radiography students *2026-03-11, version 3.8.3* Terrific for radiography students anatomy, and particularly good for radiographic positioning. ### 5/5 — Great app to learn with!! *2016-08-09, version 3.8* Learn names of bones & their landmarks, and go into descriptions of each. Add your own notes and draw on the skeleton; which I do to show clients various muscle attachments, and include your own pins with relevant notes. Rotate with a swipe or swipe up or down for either inferior or superior view. At this price it can't be beat! ### 5/5 — Most helpful *2015-12-02, version 3.8* Most helpful in undergrad and will help in grad school ### 5/5 — Great Study Tool *2015-09-17, version 3.8* This is helping me get thru Anatomy! ### 5/5 — Worth it. *2015-07-03, version 3.8* Anatomical essential. Brilliant for reference. ### 5/5 — Fabulous! *2015-06-21, version 3.8* I use this, Muscle System 3 & Essential Anatomy 5 all the time. Each is useful and the company is doing a pretty good job of fixing their labeling mistakes (which are few). The animations and I/O maps on Muscle System 3 are very useful. ### 5/5 — Great Program! *2015-03-04, version 3.8* I truly like this program. It's the best I have came across. I had to add some names of bones areas that we're missing and it had a stick pin to do that. It has helped me learn the bones quicker and I test myself daily. No internet need to operate the app. :-) Great! ### 5/5 — Hands down The BEST *2014-09-29, version 3.8* The details and precision of this app is perfection, get the free demo.....try it out after using it with in minutes you will buy it, guaranteed! Every medical student should have this app ### 5/5 — Really Helpful *2014-04-07, version 3.7* A must have for those students involved in anatomy, the muscle pro also a must have. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2013-11-30, version 3.7* This is an upgrade for me. I loved the original version. But this is polished more professional and as my title says awesome. --- *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 2026-06-10.*