Trust vs AHA PALS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trust
This app helps healthcare professionals securely store and manage all their professional credentials, including licenses and certifications. It provides timely expiry alerts to prevent lapses and allows easy sharing of documents with employers, ensuring you're always prepared to work.
- Securely store licenses and certifications
- Set expiry alerts for credentials
- View credential status at a glance
- Export and share credentials
- Track multiple credential types
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The free credential wallet for nurses and EMTs. Keep your licenses, BLS, ACLS, PALS, and NREMT credentials securely on your device, protected by Face ID or Touch ID. Get reminders 90, 60, 30, and 7 days before expiration, so nothing lapses. Add a license or card in about 30 seconds. Set your own expiry alerts. Export a PDF when a facility or agency asks. No account required. We never see what’s inside. What you can store • State RN, LPN, and compact (NLC) licenses • EMT, paramedic, and NREMT cards • BLS, ACLS, PALS, and other AHA cards • Specialty certs (CCRN and the rest of the stack) Built for the people who actually reviewed it: “licenses and other documents,” “notifications before they expire,” “export a PDF.” Not a quiz app. Not an employer dashboard. Free. No in-app purchases. On-device. Face ID. Need the renewal rules for your board? Find guides and a compact renewal checker at https://gettrustapp.com/renew
AHA PALS
This app provides pediatric advanced life support (PALS) protocols and tools for healthcare professionals at the point-of-care. Developed by physicians and vetted by the American Heart Association, it offers intuitive access to algorithms, drug information, and timers for critical care situations.
- PALS pathways and algorithms
- Drug therapy and dosing
- CPR and intervention timers
- Metronome for compression accuracy
- Critical care references
- Vetted by AHA and physicians
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We continue to iterate based on real-time clinician feedback so that you will have the best experience providing life-saving care at the bedside. The AHA PALS app was developed by Harvard-trained physicians, in collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA), to help fellow physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and emergency medical technicians (EMT) deliver the highest level of pediatric advanced life support (PALS) at the point-of-care. This project was inspired by the tremendous success of our AHA ACLS app, which has thousands of clinician users in over 180 countries. Importantly, real-time feedback from our clinician users continuously drives improvements in app design, features, and function. AHA PALS is the only app to have all content vetted by both the American Heart Association (AHA) science team (with license to use PALS content) and practicing Harvard-affiliated physicians. We owe it to our patients to use the best digital health tools to give them the highest chance of surviving acute life-threatening illnesses. To this end, we have developed an intuitive and rigorously vetted mobile app to assist healthcare clinicians—at any stage of training—navigate PALS at the bedside. You can purchase a yearly subscription which begins with a 3-day free trial. After completing the free trial, you will be charged for an annual subscription automatically. Features: - Intuitive design to rapidly access PALS pathways (i.e. cardiac arrest , tachycardia with pulse, bradycardia with pulse, post cardiac arrest care, and critical care references) - Includes all PALS content including drug therapy and dosing, reversible causes, etc. - Easy-to-read timers and ability to log rounds of CPR, epinephrine, and defibrillations. There are additional functionalities to log PALS Cardiac Arrest interventions beyond EPI, CPR , and shocks such as lidocaine and more. - We also added a new metronome feature to improve compression accuracy as well as a ROSC button. - Button within cardiac arrest algorithm that allows for rapid transition to post cardiac arrest care checklist once patient achieves ROSC - Relevant critical care references: (1) drugs used in PALS (i.e., medication names, indications, and doses); (2) vital signs in children; (3) pediatric color-coded length-based resuscitation tape (adapted from Breslow tape) ; (4) pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale - All content rigorously vetted by AHA science team and practicing Harvard-affiliated physicians - Regularly updated with the most up-to-date PALS content
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trust at none against AHA PALS's 1. Trust also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 55%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). AHA PALS's advantage is chart position (#163 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. AHA PALS sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Trust asks for nothing beyond the download.
Trust holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trust has 701 ratings behind it against 53, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Trust's written reviews are positive against 55% of AHA PALS's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Trust | AHA PALS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (701 ratings) — better | 4.5 (53 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 701 — better | 53 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | — | #163 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | VectorCare Inc. | Massachusetts General Hospital |
Customer experience
Trust
AHA PALS
In-app purchases
Trust
No in-app purchases
AHA PALS
- PALS3 Days trial$3.991 Year









