ACHQC vs SIMPL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ACHQC
This medical app guides patients through hernia and abdominal surgery preparation and recovery. It offers helpful stretches and exercises, and includes a surgical calculator for estimated outcome risks.
- Pre-surgery preparation guide
- Post-surgery recovery exercises
- Hernia repair risk calculator
- Patient education
- Surgical outcome estimation
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A guide to help patients understand what to expect before and after hernia and abdominal surgery. Prepare for surgery and recovery with helpful stretches and exercises. The Oracle surgical calculator provides key estimated surgical outcome risks for patients undergoing ventral hernia repairs.
SIMPL
This app facilitates workplace-based assessments for medical professionals, enabling the evaluation of entrustable professional activities within medical education settings.
- Workplace-based assessments
- Entrustable professional activities
- Medical education implementation
- Professional development tracking
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SIMPL: Society for Improving Medical Professional Learning makes it feasible to implement workplace-based assessments, including assessment of entrustable professional activities, across medical education.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SIMPL at every 2 weeks against ACHQC's every 5 months. ACHQC's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 40%) and rating (4.3 vs 4.1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ACHQC holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of ACHQC's written reviews are positive against 40% of SIMPL's.
ACHQC ships an update every 5 months, SIMPL every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ACHQC | SIMPL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | 4.1 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative | Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc |
Customer experience
ACHQC
SIMPL
In-app purchases
ACHQC
No in-app purchases
SIMPL
No in-app purchases
