Comparison

Code Runner Pro vs CodeScribe EMS

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

Head to head
About

Code Runner Pro

This app assists healthcare professionals in managing critical cardiac emergencies. It provides essential timers, real-time event logging, and a customizable medication system to ensure organized and efficient care during code blues and CPR.

Highlights
  • Multiple essential timers (Code, CPR, Shock, Epinephrine)
  • Real-time event logging with timestamps
  • Customizable Quick Meds system
  • Redesigned Code Log timeline
  • Built-in CPR metronome
  • Apple Watch control
  • Exportable PDF code logs
Features
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Run every cardiac arrest with confidence. Code Runner Pro is the complete CPR timer, ACLS code log, and resuscitation documentation tool for healthcare providers — built for real code blues in real hospitals, with full Apple Watch support for when every second counts. From the first compressions to ROSC, Code Runner Pro tracks your code, your rhythms, your medications, and your shocks in real time — then exports a clean PDF report for charting, debriefs, and review. Trusted by doctors, nurses, paramedics, and first responders in more than 24 countries. ■ FOUR SIMULTANEOUS CODE TIMERS Track Code Time, CPR cycles, Shock intervals, and Epinephrine dosing — all at once, all visible, all synchronized. No other code blue app gives you this level of real-time timing control. ■ REAL-TIME CODE BLUE LOG Document compressions, rhythms, pulse checks, ACLS medications, defibrillation, and events the moment they happen. Every entry is timestamped automatically for a clean, defensible resuscitation record. ■ QUICK MEDS — LIFE-SAVING ACCESS Customize your own ACLS medications — epinephrine, amiodarone, atropine, bicarb, calcium, magnesium, and more — and place them right on the home screen. Tap once to document. Color-code, reorder, and build the cardiac arrest kit that matches your practice. ■ REDESIGNED FULL CODE LOG A beautiful timeline view of the entire resuscitation event — from initial rhythm to ROSC or NO ROSC. Review every compression cycle, every medication, every shock in one clean chronological report. ■ BUILT-IN CPR METRONOME Deliver high-quality compressions at 100–120 BPM with an adjustable, clinically accurate CPR metronome. Available on iPhone and Apple Watch, with multiple sound options. Plays even when your phone is silent. ■ APPLE WATCH — RUN CODES FROM YOUR WRIST Start CPR, toggle timers, log epinephrine, document shocks, and track rhythms directly from Apple Watch. Perfect for bedside providers whose hands are full or who need discreet documentation during a code. ■ PEDIATRIC CODES SUPPORT Switch to the pediatric list for age-appropriate ACLS medications, rhythms, and events. PALS-ready for NICU, PICU, and pediatric emergency settings. ■ ONE-TAP PDF EXPORT Generate a polished, professional PDF of the entire code — timeline, medications, rhythms, shocks, and outcomes — ready to hand off to the attending, attach to the chart, or submit for code review and quality assurance. ■ CUSTOMIZE YOUR WORKFLOW Adjust metronome sounds, alert styles, timer visibility, medication order, and rhythm options. Code Runner Pro adapts to how your team runs codes. ■ BUILT FOR REAL CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS Used daily in: - Emergency Departments (ED) - Intensive Care Units (ICU, CCU, MICU, SICU, PICU, NICU) - Medical and Surgical Wards - Rapid Response Teams - Code Teams - Prehospital and EMS - Paramedic and first responder settings ■ WHY CODE RUNNER PRO - Four simultaneous timers (most code blue apps give you one or two) - Full Apple Watch support with dedicated shock and epinephrine controls - Pediatric-ready medication and rhythm lists - Clean, exportable PDF code log for documentation and chart closing - Designed by and for clinicians who actually run codes - Trusted in more than 24 countries worldwide Run the code. Log the code. Save the life. Code Runner Pro handles the timing and tracking so you can focus on the patient. Have feedback or feature requests? Visit coderunnerpro.app

About

CodeScribe EMS

This app is a one-tap logging tool for cardiac arrest resuscitations. It allows trained responders to quickly record interventions like rhythm checks, defibrillations, and medications, with timestamps. The app generates a chart-ready narrative and PDF timeline for documentation and quality assurance.

Highlights
  • One-tap intervention logging
  • Editable entries with timestamps
  • Adult and pediatric modes
  • Passive cycle timers
  • Chart-ready narrative export
  • PDF timeline export
  • Utstein-style details
Features
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During a cardiac arrest, one person taps each intervention as it happens. CodeScribe EMS keeps the times, runs the rhythm check and epi timers on the buttons themselves, and writes the narrative for your PCR when the code ends. The record comes from the real timeline, not from memory at the station. FOR THE SCRIBE • One tap per intervention: CPR, rhythm, analyze, shock, epi, amiodarone, airway, IV/IO, EtCO2, ROSC, transport, notes. Every entry can be edited afterward. • Cycle timers you can see. Two-minute rhythm cycles and epi intervals count down on the buttons. Silent, visual only, and set to your protocol. • Chart-ready at the end: duration, time to first compression, shock and epi, a written narrative to copy into your ePCR, or a PDF timeline to share. • Your buttons. Rename, reorder and hide buttons, add your own, and set each timer's interval. • Adult and pediatric, with weight-based defaults for pediatric codes. Every value stays editable. • Works with no signal. No account needed. Records stay on your phone until you share them. FOR DEPARTMENTS (optional, with a department account) • One protocol on every phone. Your training officer sets the buttons, timers and drug list once from a web dashboard, and every member's phone picks it up at its next check-in, never during a code. Lock it so everyone works from the same screen. • QA on every code without pulling charts. After each code, your department receives a summary: time to first compression, first shock and first epi, epi and rhythm check timing against your own protocol, CPR pauses, outcome, and what was left blank. By crew member and year over year, with a printable report for the medical director and a one-page debrief for any code. • No patient information leaves the phone. Summaries never include dates, times, incident numbers, notes or patient details. You see exactly what your department receives before you join. • Mark any code as training and it isn't counted. Delete a code and it's withdrawn. FOR EMT AND PARAMEDIC PROGRAMS • Set up as a training program, every student's mock code reaches the instructor's dashboard the moment it ends, with the scenario name, ready for the debrief. CodeScribe EMS is a documentation aid, not clinical decision support. It never tells you what to give or when, and it has no alarms. Always follow your protocols and medical direction, and record what was actually done. Do not enter patient names or identifiers. Department accounts: codescribeems.org/departments. Training programs: codescribeems.org/training.

Screenshots

Code Runner Pro4 screens
CodeScribe EMS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CodeScribe EMS at 100% against Code Runner Pro's 50%. CodeScribe EMS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). Code Runner Pro's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 5) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases and chart position 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

Code Runner Pro costs $6.99 and CodeScribe EMS $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CodeScribe EMS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Code Runner Pro has 55 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Code Runner Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodeScribe EMS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Code Runner Pro ships an update monthly, CodeScribe EMS every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Code Runner Pro versus CodeScribe EMS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCode Runner ProCodeScribe EMS
Price$6.99$4.99 — better
Rating3.9 (55 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55 — better5
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#37#13 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB2 MB
Age rating17++12
DeveloperAngel VazquezWilliam Lawrence

Customer experience

Code Runner Pro

All ratings55 ratings
Positive67.3%
Neutral5.5%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral11.8%
Negative38.2%

CodeScribe EMS

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Code Runner Pro

No in-app purchases

None

CodeScribe EMS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Code Runner Pro free?
Code Runner Pro costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CodeScribe EMS free?
CodeScribe EMS costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Code Runner Pro or CodeScribe EMS?
CodeScribe EMS is rated higher. Code Runner Pro averages 3.9 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while CodeScribe EMS averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Code Runner Pro or CodeScribe EMS have ads?
Neither Code Runner Pro nor CodeScribe EMS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Code Runner Pro or CodeScribe EMS?
Code Runner Pro ships an update monthly, and CodeScribe EMS every 11 days. Most recently, Code Runner Pro was updated on October 29, 2026 and CodeScribe EMS on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, Code Runner Pro or CodeScribe EMS?
Code Runner Pro currently peaks at #37 in the App Store charts, and CodeScribe EMS at #13. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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