Grades vs Rounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grades
Calculate the exact scores needed on future assignments to achieve desired grades and overall GPA. Customize your experience with icons and colors, and manage assignments with flexible grading options.
- Grade Calculator
- GPA Calculator
- Custom icons and colors
- Grouped assignments
- Weighted or Points grading
- Supports all GPA scales
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Grades shows what you need on your next test to hit your target grades and GPA. Features: - Grade Calculator - GPA Calculator - Custom icons and colors - Grouped assignments and extra credit - Weighted or Points grading - Supports all GPA scales - Light and dark modes - Super fast customer support Hope you find my app helpful! - Seth Radman, Georgia Tech ---------- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/50447321
Rounds
This app helps bedside nurses manage timed tasks and patient care with customizable reminders and a clear overview of due activities. It prioritizes patient privacy by not collecting any personal data and operates entirely offline.
- Customizable unit setup
- Condition-based task timing
- Delivery and postpartum transition
- Shift timeline log
- PIN lock for privacy
- Offline operation
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I'm a bedside nurse with ADHD, which is a genuinely bad combination on a busy floor. A shift throws off more small timed tasks than I can hold in my head, and the ones that slip are never the ones you'd have chosen to drop. For years my answer was a paper brain sheet — scribbled at 0700, folded into a scrub pocket, and no help at all at 1400 when the recheck was actually due. Rounds is that brain sheet, except it keeps time for you. I built it for me first, which is why it works the way it does: reminders that make a noise instead of sitting quietly as a badge you'll notice at 1530. A list that lives outside your head so you're not spending working memory guarding it. And a screen that tells you plainly when there's genuinely nothing due, because "am I forgetting something?" is its own kind of exhausting. WHAT IT DOES • Set up your unit once. Your tasks, your timings. Every patient you admit after that starts from your setup — not someone else's idea of a shift. • Add a condition, get its checks. Magnesium, epidural, GBS, a fresh post-op — the timing comes with it, and you can change any of it. • Deliveries handled. Record a delivery and the labour reminders stop, the postpartum ones start, and you don't have to think about the switchover in the middle of everything else. • A timeline of what you actually did, in case report goes sideways. • PIN lock, so a phone left on the counter stays shut. Seven units, each with its own starting task list: Labor & Delivery, Postpartum, Antepartum, Med-Surg, ED, ICU, and Telemetry. ABOUT YOUR PATIENTS' PRIVACY — THE SHORT VERSION There is no field for a patient's name. There isn't going to be one. Patients are a room label and a cartoon avatar, and that's deliberate. Rounds has no accounts, no cloud, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no ads. It does not have permission to use the internet at all. That isn't a promise in a policy somewhere — it's in the app's manifest, and your phone enforces it. Nothing you type can leave your device, because there is nowhere for it to go and no way to send it. Uninstall the app and it's all gone. There's no copy anywhere, because there was never anywhere to put one. Some fields let you type free text. Please don't type patient names into them. Whatever your workplace's rules about protected health information are, they apply here too. WHAT ROUNDS IS NOT Rounds is not a medical device and it is not clinical decision support. It doesn't tell you what care to give, it doesn't interpret anything, and it isn't a substitute for your own judgement, your unit's policies, or the chart. It keeps track of your tasks and reminds you when you asked to be reminded. That's the whole job. It's also not a documentation system. Nothing in Rounds goes in the record. THE PRICE Free to download and use. No ads, no subscription, and nothing about you is for sale — "nothing leaves your phone" and "we sell your data" can't both be true, and I picked the first one. Nothing due right now? Good. Go drink some water.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rounds at none against Grades's 7. Rounds also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Grades's advantage is ratings volume (13K vs 5). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Grades sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Rounds asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Grades against 5.0 for Rounds. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grades has 13K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grades | Rounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (13K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plutonium Apps, LLC | Ashley Rorke |
Customer experience
Grades
Rounds
Bugs and requests
Grades
Reported bugs
3 issues- Courses and assignments disappearing after using the app
- Incorrect grade calculations when using grouped assignments
- Crashes after recent app updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add more than 4 classes in free version
- Ability to customize grade scales (e.g. GCSE, WAM)
- Option to add bonus points or extra credit
- GPA calculator that accounts for credit hours
- Calendar integration for assignment tracking
Rounds
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Grades
- Grades Premium$3.991 Month
- Grades Premium$5.991 Month
- Grades Premium$7.991 Month
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- Grades Premium$9.991 Year
- Grades Premium$14.991 Year
- Grades Premium$19.991 Year
- Grades Premium$8.99
Rounds
No in-app purchases









