ABEMPrep vs Nerve Block
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABEMPrep
This educational app helps emergency physicians and medical students prepare for various certification exams. It offers a concise review of key concepts with award-winning faculty and a high pass rate.
- ABEM exam preparation
- In-training exam prep
- Shelf exam preparation
- Didactic review of concepts
- Peer-reviewed courses
- Award-winning faculty
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Welcome Emergency Physicians! Keeping up the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Requirements is easier than ever! Let us help you make it PAINLESS! Over 99% pass rate! For Medical Students - Shelf Exam Preparation for Medical Emergency Medicine Rotation For Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians - ABEM InTraining Exam Preparation For Emergency Medicine Written Board Exam - ABEM Qualifying Exam Preparation Why Use ABEMPrep? ABEMPrep provides emergency medicine physicians and medical students with a succinct, didactic review of key Emergency Medicine concepts for the different certification exams throughout a physician’s career. These elegantly designed peer-reviewed courses are intended to strengthen your Emergency Medicine knowledge and prepare you for all of your exams. Award winning faculty with 50+ years of combined experience are eager to help you improve your performance on all Emergency Medicine exams. Dr. Bose scored #1 in the nation on his ABEM In-Training Exam. Together, Dr. McManus and Dr. Bose have helped tens of thousands of emergency physicians through online board reviews for over 20 years.
Nerve Block
This app simplifies pain management by providing a quick reference for anesthesia and analgesia nerve blocks. Users select the body area, find eligible blocks, and follow step-by-step visual guides for precise procedures.
- Select body area for anesthesia
- List of eligible nerve blocks
- Simplified reference for each block
- Step-by-step guides
- Includes images for guidance
- Aggregated content from medical resources
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Getting your patient’s pain under control shouldn’t be so hard! With Nerve Block, all you need to do is select the area that you need anesthesia or analgesia and you’ll get a list of eligible nerve blocks. For each nerve block, we’ve created a simplified reference with exactly what you’ll need, where to go, and images to guide you along the way. 1. Select the part 2. Find the block 3. Follow the guide Nerve Block is a #FOAM project aggregating content from The POCUS Atlas, Denver Ultrasound, WikEM and Highland Ultrasound
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Nerve Block at 4.9 against ABEMPrep's 3.3. Nerve Block also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 3). ABEMPrep's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nerve Block holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nerve Block has 31 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of ABEMPrep's written reviews are positive against 78% of Nerve Block's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ABEMPrep ships an update every 3 months, Nerve Block every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABEMPrep | Nerve Block |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 4.9 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | LLSA Prep, LLC | Tom Fadial |
Customer experience
ABEMPrep
Nerve Block
In-app purchases
ABEMPrep
No in-app purchases
Nerve Block
No in-app purchases
