Comparison

ACLS & CPR Trainer vs DART Sim for iPhone

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

Head to head
About

ACLS & CPR Trainer

This educational tool helps you train for CPR and ACLS megacode scenarios. Improve your time management to minimize breaks in chest compressions for better outcomes.

Highlights
  • CPR and ACLS megacode preparation
  • Excellent time management
  • Track compression time
  • Minimize breaks
  • Educational training tool
Features
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This app is designed as an educational CPR and ACLS Training tool! * Be Prepared for CPR and ACLS Megacode! * Have excellent time management! * Track your time to minimize breaks in chest compressions! This app is designed as an educational tool to assist you while you train. Better training = better outcomes.

About

DART Sim for iPhone

This educational application simulates a cardiac monitor and ECG rhythm simulator, allowing users to practice various medical procedures like defibrillation, capnography, and x-rays. It's designed for instructors and students to hone their skills using their iPhone.

Highlights
  • 26 cardiac rhythms
  • 12-lead rhythm viewing/printing
  • 18 capnography waveforms
  • 20 trauma/medical x-rays
  • ACLS, PALS, and NRP scenarios
  • Defibrillation simulation
  • Medication administration practice
Features
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Turn an iPhone into a realistic cardiac monitor and defibrillator for simulation training. DART Sim gives instructors a patient they can control, and gives learners a device that looks, sounds and behaves like the one in the room. Now completely rebuilt for the phone. WHY INSTRUCTORS CHOOSE DART SIM • Realistic from the first beat. Four waveform lanes with ECG, arterial pressure, pulse oximetry and capnography. Pulse tone that drops in pitch with saturation. Alarms that blink and sound. Values that read "--" until the patient is connected, and go flat when the rhythm is pulseless. • 37 rhythms at your fingertips. From normal sinus to VF, torsades, heart blocks, pacing capture and post-shock conversion. Choose the rhythm the patient converts to after the next shock, or keep them in arrest. • A real defibrillator workflow. Press THERAPY and the monitor becomes a defibrillator: select energy, charge, stand clear, shock. Synchronized cardioversion with sense markers that waits for the R wave. Press MONITOR to go back to the full-screen monitor. • Transcutaneous pacing you control. Demand pacing with a capture threshold you set: decide the output at which the patient captures, or make them refuse to capture at any output. Learners have to find capture on the ECG, not assume it. • AED mode. Push ANALYZE and the device talks learners through STAND CLEAR, SHOCK ADVISED or NO SHOCK ADVISED, charging, and a CPR interval with metronome, following manufacturer energy protocols. • CPR feedback. Compression rate, chest compression fraction, depth and release, with a code timer that keeps running through pauses so debriefs have numbers to point at. Pair a SimCPR chest pad over Bluetooth to see the learner's real rate and depth live. • Teach rhythm interpretation on screen. Tap the ECG for a true-scale paper grid or a printed-strip view, freeze the trace, then measure intervals with on-screen calipers and march lines. • Made for the phone. Full-width waveforms, large energy and pacer keys you can work with a thumb, and a monitor-only screen that fills the display until you call up the therapy controls. BUILT FOR THE CLASSROOM • 122 built-in scenarios covering ACLS, PALS and NRP, each stepping rhythm, vitals, capnogram and chest X-ray on a timer or at the instructor's pace. Change the rhythm by hand at any point and the scenario carries on. Build and save your own in the scenario editor. • Medication log with 38 drugs, routes and doses, plus an automatic code record of every rhythm change, shock, pacing change and NIBP reading for debriefing. Add your own medications or actions, and organize them in tabs by course. • 12-lead tracings for 26 rhythms, 20 chest X-rays, and your own photos from the camera roll attached to any rhythm. • Instructor controls that stay out of sight. A discreet gear menu, a hardware keyboard shortcut card, and the free DART Sim Remote app so you can run the patient from across the room over Bluetooth. • Built-in User Manual and keyboard shortcut card that you can read in the app, print, or share. • In English or Spanish, following the phone's language, with units by country: °F or °C, mmHg or kPa, cm or inches. • Works on any iPhone, in landscape, with no account, no subscription and no internet connection required. DART Sim is used by fire departments, EMS agencies, nursing programs and hospital education teams to run codes without a $20,000 simulator. One phone, one app, every rhythm. FOR TRAINING AND EDUCATION ONLY. DART Sim is a simulator, not a medical device. It does not measure anything from a real person and must not be used for clinical diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of patients.

Screenshots

ACLS & CPR Trainer4 screens
DART Sim for iPhone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ACLS & CPR Trainer at Free against DART Sim for iPhone's $79.99. ACLS & CPR Trainer also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.3) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ACLS & CPR Trainer is free to download; DART Sim for iPhone costs $79.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ACLS & CPR Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ACLS & CPR Trainer versus DART Sim for iPhone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterACLS & CPR TrainerDART Sim for iPhone
PriceFree — better$79.99
Rating4.0 (3 ratings) — better3.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequency—Every 56 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB21 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWilliam WyattSTAR CPR San Diego

Customer experience

ACLS & CPR Trainer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

DART Sim for iPhone

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

ACLS & CPR Trainer

No in-app purchases

None

DART Sim for iPhone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ACLS & CPR Trainer free?
ACLS & CPR Trainer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DART Sim for iPhone free?
DART Sim for iPhone costs $79.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ACLS & CPR Trainer or DART Sim for iPhone?
ACLS & CPR Trainer is rated higher. ACLS & CPR Trainer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while DART Sim for iPhone averages 3.3 from 4 ratings.
Do ACLS & CPR Trainer or DART Sim for iPhone have ads?
Neither ACLS & CPR Trainer nor DART Sim for iPhone shows ads.

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