Comparison

Nails Exam vs MedPrimed

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

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About

Nails Exam

Prepare for the updated California nail technician exam with comprehensive lessons and practice questions. This app features AI-powered explanations, mock exams, and content tailored to the new exam outline, available in English and Vietnamese.

Highlights
  • Updated exam content
  • AI-powered explanations
  • Bilingual (English/Vietnamese)
  • Mock exams
  • Practice by blueprint
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Pass the California nail technician exam — first try. California rewrote this exam on April 1, 2026. Safety and Infection Control went from 38% to 50% of the paper, and Skin Care is an entirely new category. Material written before then drills the wrong half of the test. Every question and lesson in this app is weighted to the new outline. BUILT TO THE REAL PAPER • 60 scored questions, 90 minutes, 75% to pass — the mock exam matches it exactly • The same weighting the Board publishes: Safety 50%, Nail Care 22%, Client Consultation and Nail Analysis 18%, Skin Care 10% • The real paper also carries 5 unscored trial questions. The app tells you what to expect. 1,973 QUESTIONS, EVERY ONE EXPLAINED • 1,070 questions in English, 903 in Tiếng Việt • No bare right-or-wrong. Each answer explains why it is right, why the tempting one is wrong, and which state rule decides it • Wrong answers are built from the misconceptions the exam actually traps — not filler TWO LANGUAGES, WRITTEN SEPARATELY • The Vietnamese track is authored for this exam, not machine-translated • It keeps the English term beside each Vietnamese one, because the exam is sat in English • Progress on each track is kept separately 84 LESSONS THAT ACTUALLY STICK • Short readings you can finish between clients, each followed by review questions • Covers pathogens, decontamination levels, implement handling, product safety, nail and skin conditions, and client consultation ASK AI, ON ANY LESSON OR QUESTION • Stuck on a lesson or a wrong answer? Ask, and get it explained in plain language • It answers for CALIFORNIA — where the national textbooks differ, it follows the state • It will tell you when a rule does not exist rather than invent one: California sets no implement soak time, and the tutor says so instead of making a number up • Ask in Vietnamese and it answers in Vietnamese PRACTICE HOWEVER YOU LIKE • Full timed mock exam • Practice by blueprint area • Random sets of 10 to 100 • Every question you got wrong, in one place ABOUT THE SUBSCRIPTION Nails Exam offers auto-renewing subscriptions that unlock every lesson and practice test. Depending on the plan shown to you: • Weekly with a 3-day free trial: $7.99 per week after the trial • Monthly with a 3-day free trial: $26.99 per month after the trial • Weekly: $8.99 per week, no free trial Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.trueprepai.net/privacy-policy Not affiliated with the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology or PSI.

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MedPrimed

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Stop memorizing the body. Start understanding how it works. Anatomy and physiology fails more future nurses than almost any course — not because it is too hard, but because it is studied the wrong way. Students memorize eleven body systems as eleven separate piles of parts, then hit questions that ask them to reason across those systems and have nothing to reason with. MedPrimed teaches the rules that generate the material instead. TWELVE MECHANISMS, ELEVEN SYSTEMS At the center of MedPrimed is the Medical Primer: a nine-unit course built on twelve mechanisms. Gradients drive flow. Pressure sets flow rate. Negative feedback holds a setpoint. Learn a mechanism once and it keeps reappearing — receptor-ligand signaling alone explains the nervous, endocrine, immune and reproductive systems. That is why the course gets easier as you go. By the time you reach the eleventh body system, you are not learning new machinery. You are recognizing rules you already own, wearing a different costume. A mechanism only counts as mastered once you have applied it in three different body systems. Not once you have passed a quiz on it. WHAT IS INSIDE • The Medical Primer — 9 units, 40 lessons, from decoding word parts to tracing a full physiological chain • 12 mechanisms with worked examples, the misconceptions that trip students up, and a transfer meter that tracks where you have applied each one • 11 body systems, each taught as a remix of mechanisms you already know • 133 word parts — prefixes, roots and suffixes — so unfamiliar terms become readable instead of memorized • 700+ medical terms across 56 study lists • 3,800+ NCLEX-RN practice questions with timed practice tests LEARN BY PLAYING, REVIEW BY SCHEDULE Word search puzzles by category turn terminology into something you actually do rather than reread. Solve a term and it opens with pronunciation, audio and meaning — one tap adds it to your flashcards, so your deck builds itself as you play. Flashcards use spaced repetition. Rate a card once and MedPrimed schedules it for the moment you are about to forget it, then stretches the interval each time you get it right. Study term to definition, or flip it and recall the term. Mixed order or a straight alphabetical walk-through. Head-to-head races, brand battles and a sixty-second blitz are there when you want to study against someone instead of alone. BUILT FOR WHERE NURSING IS GOING The Next Generation NCLEX arrived on April 1, 2023 and stopped testing recall. It tests clinical judgment: recognizing cues, analyzing them, generating solutions. Nursing's finish line moved to reasoning — but A&P, the on-ramp, is still being studied like a vocabulary list. That gap is what MedPrimed is built to close. Anatomy and physiology is the product. The TEAS and the NCLEX are what it prepares you for. TRACK WHAT ACTUALLY MOVED Cards mastered, words found, puzzles completed and a daily streak, with a mastery ring that shows exactly where every card stands — mastered, learning, new, or due now — plus a focus list pointing at whatever you keep missing. Phone, tablet, desktop, and web. SUBSCRIPTIONS Additional content is available through the following purchases: • Premium — $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year • All Access (Premium + NCLEX-RN Prep) — $5.99 per month or $39.99 per year A one-time Lifetime purchase is also available and does not renew: Premium $49.99, All Access $59.99. Payment is charged at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your account settings. Privacy Policy: https://medprimed.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://medprimed.com/terms MedPrimed is a LadderMed app. https://laddermed.com

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MedPrimed at 13.0 against Nails Exam's 15.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nails Exam sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and MedPrimed sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Nails Exam versus MedPrimed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNails ExamMedPrimed
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (492 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings492 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB78 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLineCenturyAndrew Lee Martin

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Nails Exam

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Access3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Weekly Access$8.997 Days
  • Monthly Access3 Days trial$26.991 Month
One-time1
  • Buy All Questions$14.99
6 purchases

MedPrimed

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • All Access Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$29.991 Year
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  • All Access Annual$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium Lifetime$49.99
  • All Access Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Nails Exam free?
Nails Exam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MedPrimed free?
MedPrimed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nails Exam or MedPrimed have ads?
Neither Nails Exam nor MedPrimed shows ads.

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