ShockLink vs Mission Critical Protocols
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShockLink
This application facilitates realistic defibrillator training by allowing users to control pad placement, CPR artifact, and various heart rhythms. It supports multiple defibrillator models and offers customizable training scenarios for adult, child, and infant simulations.
- Live defibrillator integration
- Control pad placement
- CPR artifact simulation
- Eight selectable heart rhythms
- Customizable training scenarios
- Measure shock energy
- Record training time
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ShockLink enables users to safely integrate live defibrillators into the training environment, creating more realistic and impactful training sessions. ShockLink is compatible with a range of defibrillator models; Philips, Zoll, Physio-Control, Corpuls, Mindray and Schiller. With the ShockLink app, users have control over ShockLink pad placement, two pre-set scenarios, CPR artifact, and eight rhythms for adult, child, and infant: VF, PEA, Brady, Asystole, VT slow, VT fast, SVT and Sinus The ShockLink app allows the user to change heart rhythms, training scenario, measure shock energy and record time.
Mission Critical Protocols
Streamline emergency medical services with advanced AI chat, medication calculations, and a 3D burn tool. This toolkit helps healthcare professionals manage protocols efficiently, improve accuracy, and focus on patient care.
- AI chat service
- Medication calculators
- 3D burn tool
- Integrated scores
- Protocol management
- Risk management tools
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Saving lives shouldn’t come with a side of paperwork headaches. In EMS and Healthcare, every second counts. Time should be your ally, not spent wrestling with protocols. Enter Mission Critical Protocols: your superhero toolkit. With state-of-the-art AI chat service, sophisticated medication calculators, a 3D burn tool, and integrated scores, all wrapped in a user experience that glides, we’re not just tech — we’re your secret weapon for better risk management, policy accuracy, and stellar patient care. Protocols? They’re now your trusty sidekicks, not obstacles. Let's get your time and focus back to the things that matter most.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShockLink at none against Mission Critical Protocols's 4. ShockLink also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Mission Critical Protocols's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 5). On price, ads and device support 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. Mission Critical Protocols sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ShockLink asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShockLink holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of ShockLink's written reviews are positive against 75% of Mission Critical Protocols's.
ShockLink ships an update every 3 months, Mission Critical Protocols every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | ShockLink | Mission Critical Protocols |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | 4.3 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Laerdal Medical AS | Mission Critical Protocols, Inc. |
Customer experience
ShockLink
Mission Critical Protocols
In-app purchases
ShockLink
No in-app purchases
Mission Critical Protocols
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$2.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Annual Subscription1 Month trial$29.991 Year
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