BROKE vs Core Anesthesia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BROKE
Experience the challenges of poverty through a realistic simulation. Make critical life decisions as various characters facing financial hardship, dealing with simulated communications that reflect the stress of limited resources.
- Multiple character scenarios
- Realistic decision-making
- Simulated communication updates
- Stress simulation
- Educational gameplay
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Play Broke as a new college grad, a person experiencing homelessness, a rural farmer, an older adult, a migrant, or someone experiencing suburban poverty. Receive texts, emails, and news updates that force you to make real-life decisions in rapid-fire succession, simulating the brain-drain that comes from the stress of high-stakes decisions and not enough money to make ends meet.
Core Anesthesia
This app offers a curriculum of audio episodes for CRNAs and students to earn CEUs, pass tests, and review for boards. Designed for busy schedules, episodes can be listened to anywhere and include printed outlines and sources.
- Continuing education episodes
- Board review content
- Podcast format for on-the-go learning
- Printed outlines and sources included
- Designed for CRNAs and students
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Core Anesthesia is continuing education and board review built for nurse anesthetists, made by CRNAs who remember how little time there is. Learn by listening. The curriculum is delivered as podcast episodes you can take anywhere: the commute, the gym, the drive between clinical sites. Every episode comes with learning objectives, a printed outline, cited sources, and a read-along transcript. EARN AANA CE CREDIT • Class A credits logged as you listen • Certificates ready to download when you need them • No paperwork and no separate reporting STUDY WITH PURPOSE • 1800+ practice questions with rationales that explain the answer • Custom quizzes across 19 anesthesia categories • See which topics are strong and which need work • High-yield cheat sheets and procedure videos • Search that finds the episode, sheet, or clip you meant TAKE IT OFFLINE Download episodes and cheat sheets for flights, commutes, and dead zones. Anything you save stays available with no signal. For SRNAs preparing for boards and CRNAs maintaining certification. End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BROKE at none against Core Anesthesia's 10. BROKE also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 90%) and device support (3 vs 1). Core Anesthesia's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 31 months) and ratings volume (537 vs 22). On price, rating and ads 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. Core Anesthesia sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. BROKE asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BROKE against 4.9 for Core Anesthesia. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Core Anesthesia has 537 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of BROKE's written reviews are positive against 90% of Core Anesthesia's.
BROKE ships an update every 31 months, Core Anesthesia every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | BROKE | Core Anesthesia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better | 4.9 (537 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 537 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Broke the Game, Inc. | Student Nurse Anesthesia LLC |
Customer experience
BROKE
Core Anesthesia
Bugs and requests
BROKE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Core Anesthesia
Reported bugs
5 issues- Episodes won't play offline or without Wi-Fi despite having data
- Premium subscription doesn't always unlock premium-labeled episodes
- Home screen categories don't display all available episodes
- Inconsistent episode visibility between app and podcast platforms
- Playback buffering and connectivity issues in the car
Requested features
6 requests- Chronological episode listing (1 to most recent)
- Better filtering and sorting options
- Episode download capability for offline listening
- Improved search functionality for specific topics
- Clearer distinction between free and premium content
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- Enhanced navigation to reduce confusion about available episodes
In-app purchases
BROKE
No in-app purchases
Core Anesthesia
- Student Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- CRNA Premium Monthly3 Days trial$64.991 Month
- Student Premium Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
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- CRNA Premium Quarterly$179.003 Months
- CRNA Premium Yearly3 Days trial$599.001 Year
- Airway Core Module$49.99
- Equipment Core Module$49.99
- Pharmacology Core Module$49.99
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- Anatomy Core Module$149.99
- core_crna_60$599.00
