# UWorld Medical Exam Prep — user reviews > 210 indexed App Store user reviews of UWorld Medical Exam Prep by UWorld LLC, rated 4.70/5 from 4,130 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/uworld-medical-exam-prep/id991621303/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/uworld-medical-exam-prep/id991621303.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,591 · 4★ 262 · 3★ 87 · 2★ 48 · 1★ 142 ## What do users think of UWorld Medical Exam Prep? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Helpful content - 💡 Flexible study tools - 👍 Convenient mobile access - 🌙 Dark mode support **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🔌 Unreliable syncing and data loss - 👎 Clunky and unintuitive interface - 🤯 Frustrating bugs and glitches **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to log in or access subscription - Answers not saving or syncing properly - Highlighting and annotation features not working - Compatibility issues with newer devices and OS **Most requested features** - Offline question bank access - Improved Apple Pencil and trackpad support - Ability to write notes directly in the app - Customizable text and display settings ## Newest reviews (17 of 210) ### 3/5 — Authentication problem *2026-05-28, version 11.1* Everytime I am facing problem to enter. It says authentication problem. ### 4/5 — two suggestions *2026-05-26, version 11.1* 1. please add a option to enlarge flash cards text size. It’s super tiny even on ipad. 2. On iphone, it keeps showing ‘error authenticating users’, I have to try to login multiple times, after 4-5 tries it will work. On computer web no such problem. ### 2/5 — Program lags too much *2026-05-23, version 11.1* I am trying to study then suddenly the app stops responding and lags ### 1/5 — Not Practical for Efficient Studying *2026-05-06, version 11.0.2* The app is focused on everything except being practical for efficient studying. UWorld Medical users need to be able to do questions on the go, review them thoroughly, highlight key information, and move through study sessions without unnecessary interruptions. The app interface is frustrating, poorly designed, slow, glitchy, and not user-friendly. It is so irritating to use that it makes you not want to use the app, even though we absolutely need to. Highlighting is one of the biggest problems. It should be fast, simple, seamless, and easy to control, but instead it interrupts both answering questions and reviewing them. It glitches with every highlight, wastes time, and the annotation pop-up continues to appear even when annotation is turned off in settings. Annotation is already listed as a separate toggle, so there is no reason for that pop-up to appear while highlighting. The multi-color highlight option makes it worse by blocking the content and making highlighting nearly unusable. Double-tapping or selecting text both glitch. Highlighting should be seamless and should not require extra clicks just to mark important information. UWorld Medical users do not have time for this. In 2026, there is no excuse for ongoing glitches or an app interface that slows users down. Every update barely fixes one issue but never fails to create another. Before this, the issue was text not fitting properly on the screen. Please focus less on screenshots and preventing content repurposing, and more on making the app practical, smooth, fast, reliable, and efficient for paying users. For the price we pay for UWorld Medical, the app should be nothing less than perfection. ### 1/5 — Old App was much better, this one is not working *2026-05-02, version 11.0.2* Old app forced me to download this one which is not working and wont allow me to sign in. ### 2/5 — Add annotation option *2026-04-08, version 10.10.3* Can we please add an option to remove adding an annotation option like adding to notebook option so double clicking the text only highlights it ### 1/5 — The app doesn’t have *2026-04-01, version 10.10.2* The same categories as the web version. It only includes the step 1-3 for the USMLE but not the other stuff like for the PAs and NPs etc. would have been nice to have this for on the go especially for $300+ ### 1/5 — Glitching over and over *2026-03-06, version 10.10.2* If you go in and out of the app or spend too long doing questions it just doesn’t save your progress in a block. You have to go back and redo the questions. This is not some kind of banking app that needs to be this secured to be kicking you out every few minutes like this. ### 1/5 — Super glitchy *2026-03-04, version 10.10.2* I don’t know what’s been going on lately with this app but its super glitchy. Images refuse to load, screen gets frozen over and i see the same question despite hitting next, unable to submit exam due to “error.” ### 4/5 — Add Definitions *2026-02-06, version 10.10* Would be the perfect studying tool for the NCLEX if they didn’t use only medical terms with no way to look up definitions on the app ruins the flow of studying and note taking when I constantly have to stop the video to look up what I don’t understand ### 1/5 — Отвратительный эпл стор и приложение *2026-01-24, version 10.9* Купила подписку на 180 дней за 59тыс рублей. Ее нет нигде: ни в личном кабинете, ни на официальном сайте. Подписки нет, денег нет. Возврат денежных средств отклонили. Нет никакой клиентоориентированности, только списание денег. Видимо придется идти в суд . Всем своим знакомым врачам передам информацию об этом, чтобы не покупали в эпл стор ### 1/5 — Too much off days *2025-11-27, version 10.9* The app is having a maintenance day every other month which is wasting a lot of valuable time for preparation. This issue is especially effecting Indians because they do the maintenance at peak hours. The worst part is that they aren’t even willing to compensate for the lost time ### 1/5 — Worst!! *2025-11-26, version 10.9* Would give it a zero star if possible. ### 3/5 — Screenshots *2025-11-25, version 10.9* Why so dramatic about screenshots? No one is going to steal the material over this platform. I’m taking a screenshot to show a tricky question to a friend, who will be more likely to use uworld afterwards. Shooting yourselves in the foot. ### 1/5 — Error while submitting review *2025-10-26, version 10.8.3* UWorld content is helpful, I’ve used it over multiple years as the primary study tool for STEP 1-3 and shelf exams. But I have to say I’m disappointed in the app’s functionality for on-the-go studying. The amount of times I’ve had issues with my answers not being saved if I start an untimed question block on the app, then later try to finish it on a web browser (or vice-versa), is baffling. I started using the app in 2023 — it’s now 2025 and I’m still getting “error while submitting test” when I try to suspend, and more often than not. Please fix it one of these years. ### 1/5 — Too clunky to highlight *2025-10-17, version 10.8.3* Highlighting is a two step process on the mobile app. Very tedious to select text and then hit highlight after that. This is not a unified, streamlined experience. This simply makes the mobile experience inferior to the desktop/browser one. ### 4/5 — Icon *2025-10-13, version 10.8.3* Please black icon for ios 26 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Login issues *2026-06-03, version 11.1.1* After the update I issues login in or using FaceId. Sometimes no matter what i try i can not get in via app but works fine online. Please fix this i use this during downtime to get studying done. ### 1/5 — Complete Disaster! *2026-06-03, version 11.1.1* I even bought a new iPad thinking something was wrong with my old one, but turns out it was always the app! It has so many bugs, glitches, malfunctions! The app turns off automatically and gets hung up often. Sometimes I am doing a test and it crashes midway then I lose all my progress! It has been like that for several months now! An app that is so widely used by people all over the world and they are doing nothing to fix it is unacceptable! I draw attention of the team that deals with this! ### 1/5 — Crashes a lot on iPad *2026-05-31, version 11.1.1* The app works fine on my iPhone but shows “error authenticating” every time i use it on my iPad. I have to delete it and then install it again everyday. Please fix this. I never had this issue before it has started since last 2 weeks ### 1/5 — Unable to login *2026-05-29, version 11.1* I am very disappointed that this application does not let me log into my account. I use my username and password that works on my computer then the app shows an error message saying that the account details do not match. ### 1/5 — Bug fix needed *2026-05-29, version 11.1* It doesn’t let me in even if my password is correct - shows “unknown” error. Tried reinstalling the app but same. Website login works fine. ### 1/5 — Login Errors *2026-05-29, version 11.1* The app is excellent for exam prep, as long as it lets you log in. I have had significant trouble logging into the app for several weeks. Often it just spins and spins and doesn’t work. Very frustrating when you have limited time between seeing patients, rounding, or doing other tasks and trying to slip some studying in. Needs significant improvement in that aspect. ### 1/5 — Poorly designed app with frustrating security features *2026-05-28, version 11.1* The app is incredibly frustrating to use. It’ll routinely log users out (presumably for “security” reasons), forget previously answered questions (requiring users to re-answer), and is very unintuitive for navigation (you have to through like four to five different windows just to reach your qbank). ### 1/5 — App will not load *2026-05-28, version 11.1* Every time I try to sign in, it just keeps buffering and nothing ever shows up. They made us (PAs) move to this app and it even doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Great product, horrible app *2026-05-28, version 11.1* App is borderline useless. Amazing product, works perfectly on a computer or web browser. But this App works less than 1 in 10 attempts. Constant “authenticate” errors, or the wheel just spins when I go to log in and never advances. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times trying to fix the issue, with absolutely no improvement. This is NOT a negative review of Uworld test bank and study materials, which are 5/5 phenomenal. But the app needs A LOT of work. ### 1/5 — Not working properly *2026-05-23, version 11.1* Since 2 weeks this app isn’t working properly nor it is smooth to use like before, idk what update u guys did and this is happening but please fix it!! And whenever I try to log in, it shows “error authentication” and doesn’t just let me log in sometimes ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Test Prep *2026-08-16, version 11.2* Passed the nclex with 85 questions!! The test looked a lot like this app it helped immensely. Thank you Uworld. ### 5/5 — Great product, horrible app *2026-07-10, version 11.1.1* Update July 2026: An update fixed this issue completely! The last 4+ weeks the app has been flawless. Props to the developers for addressing whatever the issue was! Previous review: App is borderline useless. Amazing product, works perfectly on a computer or web browser. But this App works less than 1 in 10 attempts. Constant “authenticate” errors, or the wheel just spins when I go to log in and never advances. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times trying to fix the issue, with absolutely no improvement. This is NOT a negative review of Uworld test bank and study materials, which are 5/5 phenomenal. But the app needs A LOT of work. ### 5/5 — Good tool *2026-05-28, version 11.1* Amazing app but just a kind request to developers. It breaks my continuity just doing 40 questions at a time. Can you please increase the number of questions I can do in a block. Or don’t put a definitive number on it. It’s quite frustrating ### 5/5 — Nclex-Pn *2024-08-02, version 10.4.5* I loved the format of the app and it’s flexibility with the time and the lay out of the explanation of the questions and answers. This app really boosted my confidence and I performed well in my exam :) ### 5/5 — Good start *2024-06-17, version 10.4.5* I have been using this app for two days. I think that it is good because it has a lot of tools that help us in our achievements. I recommend it to people who wants to prepare the USMLE steps and to improve the medical knowledge ### 5/5 — Best platform to study for NCLEX! *2024-04-25* I bought the 90 day uWorld with three practice assessments. There’s videos and flashcards you could make. I suggest using this platform in the computer as it is easier to control and manage but I passed my LPN NCLEX on the first time thanks to their varied study bank of questions and videos! In my first assessment i got a very high chance of passing and the CAT exams also said I had a high chance of passing. I got to question 105 in my NCLEX. ### 5/5 — Great Qbank! *2023-11-22, version 10.3.1* Passed both STEP1 and STEP2CK with it! ### 5/5 — Issue in using step 1 qbank *2023-07-03* I recently purchased the step 1 & step 2 CK’s 2 years subscription but I am finding an error in using step 1’s qbank as it shows the subjects of step 2 CK & then I am unable to create the test for step 1. This issue with new version of UWORLD MEDICAL needs to be addressed upon with immediate effect. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2023-01-04, version 9.11.4* Now has dark mode ### 5/5 — Thanks for app.. *2022-12-22, version 9.11.4* Thank you so much for your help for us ! I wish your company continued success and prosperity! --- *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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