Burn Area vs Behind the Knife
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Burn Area
This medical application assists doctors in accurately assessing the percentage of body surface area affected by burns. It leverages an extensive database of adult laser body scans to calculate sex and body shape-specific %TBSA burns for improved clinical evaluation.
- Accurate burn area assessment
- Body surface area calculation
- Sex and body shape-specific data
- Large database of laser body scans
- Clinical evaluation tool
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This app is designed to help doctors make more accurate assessment of the body surface area covered by burns. We use the largest available database of adult laser body scans to help clinicians compute sex and body shape-specific %TBSA burns.
Behind the Knife
This platform offers surgical education with high-yield topics and interviews with field leaders. It provides timely, relevant, and engaging content to help users succeed in their medical studies and careers.
- High-yield educational topics
- Interviews with leaders
- Timely and relevant content
- Engaging learning experience
- Surgical education focus
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Behind the Knife is the world’s #1 surgical education platform. From high-yield educational topics to interviews with leaders in the field, Behind the Knife delivers the information you need to know. Enjoy timely, relevant, and engaging content designed to help you DOMINATE THE DAY!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Burn Area at 5.0 against Behind the Knife's 4.0. Burn Area also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Behind the Knife's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 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.
Burn Area holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Behind the Knife has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Burn Area ships an update every 12 months, Behind the Knife monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Burn Area | Behind the Knife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.0 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 58.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 168 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Edward Vendrow | Behind the Knife LLC |
Customer experience
Burn Area
Behind the Knife
In-app purchases
Burn Area
No in-app purchases
Behind the Knife
No in-app purchases
