NREMT vs Combat Medic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NREMT
Manage your EMT certification and account securely from your mobile device. Track recertification, update your profile, add courses, and access agency information. Purchase official merchandise directly within the app.
- Secure sign-in with biometrics
- Verify provider status
- Manage profile and affiliations
- Add and track courses
- Submit recertification applications
- Access agency rosters
- Purchase official merchandise
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Features available to all users • Sign in securely with Touch ID or Face ID • Verify National Registry status for any provider by name or registry number. • Contact the Registry using the Contact Us feature • The National Registry store is available via the app for the first time. Now you can purchase patches, decals, challenge coins and more from inside the app. As a provider, easily maintain your National Registry certification and account from anywhere • Manage your profile, including address, phone number and email updates • Check your Initial Application status as a candidate • View, add and remove your agency affiliations • Add courses, add attachments for courses and view your transcript • Manage your education for recertification, submit your recertification application and check on the status of your recertification application. Add courses on the go • Easily add courses to your Professional Transcript as you complete them. • Never misplace paper certificates: the National Registry Mobile app offers the ability to take a picture or upload a file of any supporting documentation to attach to a course you completed. Track your recertification cycle and submit your recertification application • Easily check your expiration date and recertification application status with just a couple taps on your mobile device. • Manage your education for recertification, fill out, pay for and submit your recertification application all securely from your mobile device. As a Training Officer, access your agency information and keep up to date with your providers • View your agency’s roster and which providers are due to recertify for the upcoming season • Sign off on provider’s skills and education • Approve affiliation requests for your agency • Review Medical Director actions taken against providers in your agency • Approve Inactive to Active requests • Add courses for your agency and assign attendees to the courses As a Medical Director, access your agency information and keep up to date with your providers • View your agency’s roster and which providers are due to recertify for the upcoming season • Sign off on provider’s skills • Approve Inactive to Active requests Disclosure Some features are available for certain accounts only. There is no charge for the National Registry app, but message and data rates may apply. Such charges include those from your communications service provider. For any concerns or issues with the mobile application, please visit https://www.nremt.org/rwd/mobile.
Combat Medic
This app provides tactical combat casualty care field tools and a comprehensive reference for medical professionals and students. It includes features for tourniquet timing, casualty assessment, MEDEVAC requests, and medication references, all accessible offline.
- Tourniquet clock with interval flagging
- Interactive MARCH assessment
- 9-Line MEDEVAC builder
- TCCC Casualty Card export
- Offline medication reference
- Full-text search and bookmarks
- Works 100% offline
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Combat Medic is a set of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) field tools, with the full TCCC reference behind them. NOT A GOVERNMENT APP. This independent app is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the Defense Health Agency, or any government entity. OFFICIAL SOURCES, LISTED IN FULL The medical content in this app comes from these public domain U.S. Government sources: • TCCC Guidelines and TCCC course materials from the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, on Deployed Medicine, the Defense Health Agency platform: https://www.deployedmedicine.com • Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Joint Trauma System: https://jts.health.mil/index.cfm/committees/cotccc • Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guidelines: https://jts.health.mil/index.cfm/PI_CPGs/cpgs • ATP 4-02.2, Medical Evacuation, for the 9 Line MEDEVAC request: https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/Details.aspx?PUB_ID=1007289 • DD Form 1380, TCCC Card, for the casualty card tool: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/forms/dd/dd1380.pdf • Figures: Tactical Combat Casualty Care Handbook, Version 5 (CALL Handbook 17-13), Center for Army Lessons Learned No other U.S. Government source is used. FOR TRAINING & REFERENCE ONLY. This app is not medical advice and is not for use in patient care. Always follow current published guidelines and your own medical direction and scope of practice. FIELD TOOLS • Tourniquet clock: log the time a tourniquet went on, per limb, per casualty. The clock keeps counting while the app is closed and after a restart, and flags the two intervals CoTCCC puts a clock on: reassess for conversion at 2 hours, and do not exceed 6 hours without surgical evaluation. • Interactive MARCH assessment: work through Massive hemorrhage, Airway, Respiration, Circulation and Hypothermia in priority order. • MARCH drill timer: rehearse the sequence and time yourself, marking each step. • 9-Line MEDEVAC builder: fill in the nine lines and share a request that is ready to transmit. • TCCC Casualty Card: capture DD Form 1380 fields and export a formatted document, or share the MIST handoff as text. • Medication reference for common TCCC medications (reference only, not a dosing calculator). Your entries are saved on the device, so a tab switch or a closed app does not lose them. THE REFERENCE • All three phases of care: Care Under Fire, Tactical Field Care, and Tactical Evacuation Care • The full MARCH-PAWS sequence, including Pain, Antibiotics, Wounds and Splinting • Faithful figures and diagrams from the source material • Full-text search and bookmarks • Works 100% offline, with no account, no ads and no internet connection needed Made for military medics, combat lifesavers, EMS and prehospital providers, and students preparing for TCCC training.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NREMT at none against Combat Medic's 1. NREMT also leads on ratings volume (8K vs 2). Combat Medic's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Combat Medic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NREMT asks for nothing beyond the download.
Combat Medic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NREMT has 8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NREMT ships an update every 2 months, Combat Medic every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NREMT | Combat Medic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (8K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians | SEDX LLC |
Customer experience
NREMT
Combat Medic
Bugs and requests
NREMT
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to add payment information
- Fails to generate registry cards for Apple Wallet
- App won't open or load past the logo
- Errors when trying to save changes or upload documents
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Auto-populate continuing education hours
- Ability to input entire refresher courses instead of individual classes
- Improved communication and support
Combat Medic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NREMT
No in-app purchases
Combat Medic
- Pro Tools$0.99









