NephRef vs Anatomy Recall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NephRef
This medical reference tool aids physicians and advanced practitioners in managing patients with kidney disease. It provides quick access to educational resources and guidance on patient referral, urgency, and interval management.
- Kidney disease patient care guidance
- Referral management
- Urgency assessment
- Interval management
- Educational resources access
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NephRef is both a reference and referral tool designed to educate and empower physicians and advanced practitioners in their care and referral of patients with kidney disease. Conceived and developed by the Section of Nephrology in the Department of Medicine at West Virginia University School of Medicine, NephRef offers a quick and easy link to educational resources and provides information about urgency and interval management of patients referred for specialty consultation. NephRef is an educational tool only. Not for individual patient diagnosis or treatment.
Anatomy Recall
Explore a detailed 3D human body, test your knowledge with varied quizzes, and master anatomy with a smart learning system. Features clinical cases and augmented reality for an immersive study experience. Works offline with no ads or accounts.
- Interactive 3D human body model
- Spaced-repetition learning engine
- Multiple quiz formats
- Clinical case studies
- Augmented reality mode
- Offline functionality
- No account or advertising
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A complete human body you can spin, peel and tap, wired to a spaced-repetition engine that decides what to ask you and when. Most anatomy apps are atlases: beautiful to look at, and forgotten by Thursday. Anatomy Recall is built around the part that actually takes work: keeping the names once you have met them. THE BODY 1,497 structures across five systems: skeleton, muscles, organs and vessels, and the complete nervous system: brain, spinal cord, plexuses and every named nerve. Tap anything to identify it. Peel the superficial muscles away to reach what is underneath. Drop every other layer to see the brain inside the skull. SEVEN WAYS TO BE ASKED Find it on the body. Name it from four options. Type it, with typos forgiven. Hear it spoken and tap what you heard. Spot the odd one out. Name the nerve that supplies it. Or work a clinical case. INNERVATION, PROPERLY All 212 muscles carry their nerve supply with root values, and each one links straight to that nerve in the 3D model. Stand on a nerve and it tells you every muscle it runs to. It is the most examined fact in anatomy and almost no app has it. SPACED REPETITION THAT MEANS IT A real FSRS scheduler, not a leaderboard with a streak counter bolted on. Structures you find hard come back sooner. Structures you have earned come back in months. A daily target keeps it to a sitting, and you can carry on past it whenever you want to. A PATH, OR YOUR OWN WAY Start with the lesson path: famous bones, show-off muscles, the skull, chest and spine. Then take the deep dives region by region. Or set a region as your focus and drill only that. Region boss exams when you think you are done. CLINICAL LAYER Turn it on and the famous fractures, palsies and syndromes appear alongside the names, each with why it matters and a case to answer. AR ON YOUR DESK Put the body on your table through the camera, lie it down like a lab cadaver and pick structures up with your own hand: pinch a bone in front of the camera to name it and pull it out. BUILT TO GET OUT OF THE WAY Works completely offline. The whole atlas is in the download. No account, no sign-in, nothing to sync and no advertising; only anonymous usage counts, never anything that identifies you. Four themes, an iPad build, and full Dynamic Type support. For medical, dental, physiotherapy, nursing, paramedic and sports-science students, and anyone who wants to know what is actually under there. 3D models derived from Z-Anatomy (CC BY-SA 4.0), itself derived from BodyParts3D by the Database Center for Life Science, Japan. Full attribution in Settings. Anatomy Recall is an educational study aid. It is not a medical device and is not intended for diagnosis or treatment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NephRef at Free against Anatomy Recall's $5.99. NephRef also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). Anatomy Recall's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days) and chart position (#23 vs unranked). On rating, 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
NephRef is free to download; Anatomy Recall costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NephRef against 5.0 for Anatomy Recall. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
NephRef ships an update every 10 days, Anatomy Recall every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NephRef | Anatomy Recall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #23 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 527 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Media Foundations LLC | Ruben Reut |
Customer experience
NephRef
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In-app purchases
NephRef
No in-app purchases
Anatomy Recall
No in-app purchases
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