Comparison

Clinical Skills vs JRCALC PLUS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Clinical Skills

Easily log and manage your clinical skills and interventions. This app helps track competencies, access learning opportunities, and generate professional reports. Customize features to fit your scope of practice.

Highlights
  • Record clinical skills and interventions
  • Manage clinical competencies
  • Access learning opportunities
  • Generate print-ready skills reports
  • Customizable features
  • Note airway interventions, wound management, drug administrations
Features
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The FREE Clinical Skills Log allows you to quickly record your clinical skills and keep an accurate record of your airway and skills interventions. The Clinical Skills App will also help you manage your clinical competencies, access future learning and produce a print ready skills report in just a few steps. The NEW Clinical Skills APP will allow you to accurately record your skills and clinical interventions in a simple, customisable and intuitive mobile app. The research and technology behind the app are designed to monitor and support the clinician and allow access to clinical cases and learning opportunities to encourage professional practice. Easily note airway interventions, wound management or drug administrations with our easy flowing menus. The settings will also allow you to activate new features and skills as we integrate them and also allow you to customise your skills to your own clinical scope of practice. This gives you the ability to customise the features of the app making it feel that its designed just for you. The notification area of the app is where we can post learning and development opportunities and also the latest updates that are available. This will allow you to utilise opportunities and encourage you to take ownership of your development.

About

JRCALC PLUS

Access up-to-date national and regional prehospital care guidelines for UK professionals. This app provides essential clinical information, including medicines tables and algorithms, for registered trust members. It works offline, ensuring access to critical guidance even without a signal.

Highlights
  • Complete JRCALC Guidelines
  • Regional and local guidance
  • Clinical Notices for trusts
  • Medicines tables, algorithms, and advice
  • Offline functionality
Features
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JRCALC Plus JRCALC Plus provides up to date national and regional guidance for prehospital professionals across the UK relevant to their local trust. In order to gain access to JRCALC Plus, you must be part of a registered trust. Trusts maintain authority over the allocation of subscriptions to their staff. Eligibility criteria varies between trusts, so please confirm with your directorate if you are unsure whether you are eligible for access. Developed by Class Professional Publishing, key features of the app are: - Contains the complete JRCALC Guidelines - Contains regional and local guidance - Contains Clinical Notices for registered trusts - Includes all medicines tables, algorithms and advice - Works offline: No signal? No problem! Visit www.classprofessional.co.uk/app-reset to set your password. ------------------------------------------ Class Professional are the exclusive publisher of the JRCALC Clinical Practice Guidelines and have developed JRCALC Plus, a unique app, so clinicians can access local and national guidelines all in one place. Class Publishing have exclusive licence to publish and distribute the national guidelines, which are authored by both the Joint Royal Colleges of Ambulance Liaison Committee and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives. National guidelines complement local guidelines on conveyance, Emergency Departments and other health services.

Screenshots

Clinical Skills4 screens
JRCALC PLUS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clinical Skills at 41% against JRCALC PLUS's 23%. Clinical Skills also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clinical Skills ships an update every 5 weeks, JRCALC PLUS every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Clinical Skills versus JRCALC PLUS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClinical SkillsJRCALC PLUS
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.9% of reviews — better23.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB270 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperThe Clinical Skills Log App LtdClass Publishing Ltd

Customer experience

Clinical Skills

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive40.9%
Neutral18.2%
Negative40.9%

JRCALC PLUS

Written reviews26 reviews
Positive23.1%
Neutral26.9%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Clinical Skills

No in-app purchases

None

JRCALC PLUS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clinical Skills free?
Clinical Skills is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is JRCALC PLUS free?
JRCALC PLUS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clinical Skills or JRCALC PLUS have ads?
Neither Clinical Skills nor JRCALC PLUS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clinical Skills or JRCALC PLUS?
Clinical Skills ships an update every 5 weeks, and JRCALC PLUS every 2 months. Most recently, Clinical Skills was updated on October 9, 2026 and JRCALC PLUS on October 20, 2026.

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