ASSH Exams vs ABS SCORE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ASSH Exams
Access your learning materials for surgical hand exams anytime, anywhere. This app allows offline access to content, syncing your progress automatically when you reconnect to the internet.
- Offline access to learning content
- Online and offline progress syncing
- Mobile access to ASSH learning activities
- Content available on iPhone and iPad
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Want to access your ASSH learning activities on the go? Download the ASSH Exams Mobile App and access your content when you’re offline or online. All offline progress will be synced up to web version as soon as you are back online.
ABS SCORE
Access a comprehensive question bank for surgical specialties. This app provides scenario-based multiple-choice questions to aid in self-study for surgical residents. Future updates will include additional educational content and mobile-first features.
- Access SCORE Portal Question Bank
- 4,000+ scenario-based questions
- Six surgical specialties covered
- Supports self-study for residents
- Future content includes TWIS curricula
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The SCORE mobile app enables users to access content hosted on the SCORE Portal. This version includes access to the SCORE Portal Question Bank of ~4,000 scenario-based multiple choice questions across six specialties in surgery: General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Complex General Surgical Oncology, Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Oral Maxillofacial Surgery. Future versions of this app will incorporate other SCORE Portal content, including "This Week in SCORE (TWIS)" curricula and will carry mobile-first features to augment both the use of the SCORE Portal and residents' self-study.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ASSH Exams at 100% against ABS SCORE's 6%. ASSH Exams also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.5) and ratings volume (97 vs 23). ABS SCORE's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ASSH Exams holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 97 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of ASSH Exams's written reviews are positive against 6% of ABS SCORE's.
ASSH Exams ships an update every 6 months, ABS SCORE every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ASSH Exams | ABS SCORE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (97 ratings) — better | 1.5 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 6.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | American Society For Surgery of the Hand | American Board of Surgery, Inc |
Customer experience
ASSH Exams
ABS SCORE
In-app purchases
ASSH Exams
No in-app purchases
ABS SCORE
No in-app purchases
