Comparison

Nurse Assess vs TaskRN

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

Head to head
About

Nurse Assess

This app digitizes patient assessments for nurses and students, streamlining data collection and calculations. It guides users through multi-step evaluations, preparing information for electronic health record systems.

Highlights
  • Digital patient assessment recording
  • Guides through multi-step evaluations
  • Automated calculations
  • EHR system integration readiness
  • 30+ nursing assessments included
Features
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Hundreds of working nurses and nursing school students have used NurseAssess to conveniently (and digitally) record patient assessments to their smartphones, ready for uploading to their electronic health record systems (EHRs). This nursing app makes it easy and accurate to perform multi-step patient assessments. The app guides you through the required measurements, collects them, and does all the calculations for you. Assessments include: • Morse Fall Risk • Glasgow Coma Scale • Braden Skin Risk • Mini Nutritional • Sleepiness Scale • SpO2 • Norton Pressure Ulcer Risk Scale • LACE Readmission Scale • ...and many others

About

TaskRN

This app helps nurses manage their patient care tasks efficiently. It allows for creating reminders, receiving automated notifications, and organizing patient information to improve charting accuracy and reduce stress during shifts.

Highlights
  • Patient care reminders
  • Automated push notifications
  • Task prioritization
  • Patient list management
  • Accurate charting reference
  • HIPAA compliant
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FREE 2-WEEK ACCESS – Create unlimited patient care reminders and receive automated push notifications before the task is due. Stay on task and group your cares with ease. **Designed for CNAs, nursing students, new graduates (BSN, LPN, RN), and experienced nurses. **Trusted by hundreds of nurses across the country. **Extremely easy & effective to use. **HIPAA compliant! Hospital and clinic computers lock you down. Manage your tasks and group your cares as you move freely around your clinical location. Completed tasks are stored so you can reference them in your patient charting. ABOUT TASKRN We know you want to regain control of your shift. In order to do that, you need a reliable tool that helps you prioritize your patient cares. The problem is, there is never enough time to get everything done. This makes you feel stressed, scatterbrained, and unsure of what to do first. We believe you shouldn’t be focused on tasks alone, but instead, focused on providing the best care possible for your patients. We understand it’s paralyzing when you lose your paper brain, which is why we worked with hundreds of nurses to develop a digital tool that organizes your tasks, reminds you when things are due, and allows you to focus on your patients. Here's how it’s done: 1. Download taskRN 2. Plan your work 3. Work your plan 4. Go home on time So, download taskRN today and go from your tasks controlling you, to you controlling your tasks. FEATURES taskRN will keep you on track as you complete your shift. Schedule tasks with ease and sort them to prioritize patient cares. • Add, Delete, Edit Patients – change your patient list as your shift evolves. • Scheduled, PRN, and Departmental Tasks – create single event, repeatable, or departmental specific tasks. • Push Notification Reminders – automatically receive reminders at 60 minutes and 15 minutes prior to the task due time. • Prioritize Tasks – multiple sorting options allow users to prioritize what tasks should be completed first. • Accurate Charting – reference your completed tasks list to improve the accuracy of your charting. **ALL NURSES, click the developer section under this description for a link to the plusRN app. NexGen Clinical Education Privacy Policy: https://www.nexgenclinicaleducation.com/privacy-policy NexGen Clinical Education Terms of Use: https://www.nexgenclinicaleducation.com/terms-of-use-apple

Screenshots

Nurse Assess4 screens
TaskRN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nurse Assess at none against TaskRN's 3. Nurse Assess also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. TaskRN sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Nurse Assess asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Nurse Assess against 3.9 for TaskRN. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Nurse Assess's written reviews are positive against 67% of TaskRN's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nurse Assess ships an update every 10 days, TaskRN every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Nurse Assess versus TaskRN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNurse AssessTaskRN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (22 ratings) — better3.9 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB58 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperNurse Tech, Inc.Intuitive RN LLC

Customer experience

Nurse Assess

All ratings19 ratings
Positive63.2%
Neutral15.8%
Negative21.1%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative12.5%

TaskRN

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Nurse Assess

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

TaskRN

Subscriptions3
  • full access to ClockWise RN14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Nurse Assess free?
Nurse Assess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TaskRN free?
TaskRN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Nurse Assess or TaskRN?
Nurse Assess is rated higher. Nurse Assess averages 4.0 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while TaskRN averages 3.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Nurse Assess or TaskRN have ads?
Neither Nurse Assess nor TaskRN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nurse Assess or TaskRN?
Nurse Assess ships an update every 10 days, and TaskRN every 2 months. Most recently, Nurse Assess was updated on October 20, 2026 and TaskRN on October 24, 2026.

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