Basic course vs Suture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic course
This app offers reference materials and bedside aids for participants of a BASIC course. It serves as a quick resource for essential information and practical assistance.
- Reference material
- Bedside aids
- Course specific content
- Quick access resource
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This Apps provides reference material and bedside aids for BASIC course participants.
Suture
This app provides clinicians with a comprehensive guide to managing lacerations. It offers repair recommendations, closure methods, technique references with visuals, and patient instructions. It also assists with antibiotic prophylaxis and generates procedure notes.
- Laceration repair recommendations
- Suture material and size guidance
- Alternative closure methods
- Technique references with videos
- Patient instruction generation
- Procedure note creation
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Figuring out how to manage a laceration just got a lot easier. With Suture.app, you'll have all the information you could need at your fingertips. Our easy-to-use interface will guide you from start to finish. As soon as you select the laceration location, you'll start getting repair recommendations including suture material and sizes, other closure methods (like staples or hair apposition), technique references with guided videos and illustrations and instructions to share with patients including removal timeframes. And that's just the beginning! Add more detail (like wound depth, shape, and location-specific complications) and you'll get even more information. Facing a deep, linear laceration to the scalp and aren't sure what to do with the galea? What about a high-tension extremity laceration with seawater exposure? Is that an eyelid laceration I shouldn't work on? No problem, in addition to basic repair information, Suture.app can walk you through every step including antibiotic and tetanus prophylaxis and will even generate a pre-populated procedure note. Features: • Comprehensive database of laceration types and complications • Library of repair techniques with videos and illustrations (from Dr. Brian Lin's Closing the Gap) • Generate procedure notes • Patient instruction samples including precautions and removal timeframes • Quick reference on suture types and local anesthetic use Disclaimer: This application is not intended to be used by non-clinicians. If you are not a clinician and have sustained a laceration - please seek professional medical attention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Suture at 5.0 against Basic course's 4.0. Suture also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). Basic course's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Suture holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Suture has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Basic course ships an update every 2 months, Suture every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic course | Suture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Tom Fadial |
Customer experience
Basic course
Suture
In-app purchases
Basic course
No in-app purchases
Suture
No in-app purchases









