SimuSurg vs Emergency Procedures
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimuSurg
This app offers a virtual surgical environment for practicing minimally invasive techniques. It features four levels of clinical scenarios to progressively challenge users, focusing on instrument familiarity, movement control, and device operation in a simulated gaming setting.
- Virtual surgical environment
- Four progressive clinical scenarios
- Instrument familiarization practice
- Degrees of movement training
- Device control simulation
- Camera scope operation
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Minimally invasive surgery in the palm of your hand… The SimuSurg app, created by surgeons for surgeons simulates minimally invasive surgery. It provides an engaging, fun and interactive way to perform surgical skills in a gaming environment. Work through four levels of clinical scenarios designed to progressively challenge you in a virtual surgical environment. You will practice: ∙ Instrument familiarisation ∙ Degrees of movement ∙ Movement scaling ∙ Device control ∙ Cutting and object manipulation You will use: ∙ Rods ∙ Graspers ∙ Cutters ∙ Irrigation ∙ Scope – move the camera to focus
Emergency Procedures
This app provides clinicians with accessible, evidence-based video guides for performing medical procedures safely and competently. It aims to standardize practice and improve patient care through clear, clinician-produced content.
- Clinician-produced video guides
- Evidence-based methodology
- Reduces practice variation
- Accessible for emergency departments
- Improves procedural safety
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The Emergency Procedures App is free and open access. It is produced clinicians via a not for profit organisation. Our aim is to reduce variation in practise and provide an accessible evidenced based methodology to assists providers in perform procedures safely and competently. We collect application analytical data to improve the for improvements to the app. At sign up we require contact details and basic user information to allow us to target future developments and improve the services are app offers consumers. We request you allow us to occasionally survey you after you use the app so we can better research product use. DISCLAIMER The videos included within this app are intended for clinicians working within the emergency department. Videos contain clear images of surgical procedures which non-medical viewers may find disturbing.All information on the Site and mobile application have been provided in good faith based on extensive evidence review and peer review. This information is for general information purposed and must be tailored to specific patient. Do not perform these procedures unless you are a trained health professional. Seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Emergency Procedures at 5.0 against SimuSurg's 4.0. Emergency Procedures also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 29 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). SimuSurg's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Emergency Procedures holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of SimuSurg's written reviews are positive against 100% of Emergency Procedures's.
SimuSurg ships an update every 29 months, Emergency Procedures every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimuSurg | Emergency Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 153 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Royal Australasian College of Surgeons | Emergency Procedures |
Customer experience
SimuSurg
Emergency Procedures
In-app purchases
SimuSurg
No in-app purchases
Emergency Procedures
No in-app purchases
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