Comparison

EasyTBSA vs CorePendium

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

EasyTBSA

This medical app assists healthcare professionals in calculating Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) burns. It requires patient age and weight, and users shade affected areas on body maps to determine burn severity. Only partial or full thickness burns should be shaded for accurate calculations.

Highlights
  • TBSA burn calculation
  • Patient age and weight input
  • Shade burned body areas
  • Partial and full thickness burn support
  • Medical reference tool
Features
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The EasyTBSA smartphone application was developed in partnership between the Division of Trauma and Burns and the Sheik Zayed Institute at Children’s National Hospital. EasyTBSA requires the entry of a patient’s age and weight and the shading of burned areas on representative body part maps. When using this application, it is important to remember to only shade areas that have a partial thickness burn or a full thickness burn. Superficial burns should not be included when calculating the TBSA of the burned patient.

About

CorePendium

This app provides a comprehensive, continuously updated, and peer-reviewed clinical reference for Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine. It features integrated multimedia, offline access, intuitive navigation, and medical calculators, making it an essential tool for medical professionals on the go.

Highlights
  • Expert-backed, continuously revised content
  • Integrated media library (ECGs, X-rays, videos, audio)
  • Offline access to all content
  • Intuitive navigation with Rapid Access and Deep Dive sections
  • Integrated medical calculators
  • Links to EM:RAP knowledge base content
Features
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The textbook is dead. Long live CorePendium! CorePendium is the first truly comprehensive, continuously updated, peer-reviewed, multimedia clinical reference for Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine. Download the CorePendium App and bring the best clinical reference text with you anywhere in the world, regardless of connectivity. With your EM:RAP account, the CorePendium App allows you to join over 65,000 members of the CorePendium community. The CorePendium App gives you… • EXPERT-BACKED CONTENT — Written, edited, and peer-reviewed by a team of over 800 leading academics and practitioners, every CorePendium chapter is continuously revised by leading experts in emergency medicine and beyond. • INTEGRATED MEDIA — Comprehensive learning requires more than just words. Dive into our constantly growing media library of ECG’s and X-rays, as well as expertly-produced videos and audio segments. Look, listen, and learn, all without leaving the CorePendium App. • OFFLINE MODE — With new chapters being added and updated frequently to reflect the latest literature and practice guidelines, the CorePendium App makes sure you always have the newest information at your fingertips, 24 hours a day. The app looks for updates to its offline database every time you’re active online, so that you have the answers you need, no matter what. Do you want access to our skillfully-shot procedure videos and expert commentary away from a wireless connection? You can choose to download our audio and video content to ensure access when you need it most. • INTUITIVE NAVIGATION — Designed to prioritize all of the crucial information and media needed for the critical patient, CorePendium’s ‹Rapid Access› section gives you the quick insights you’ll need at the bedside. If you are looking for more background, the ‹Deep Dive› section provides all the information you’ll need to know about a topic. Sleek chapter sidebars, internal searches, search filters, and curated tabs ensure you can find what you need when you need it. • MEDICAL CALCULATORS — Get all of the commonly used clinical scoring and decision tools you need, with important interpretation data compiled by some of medicine’s foremost experts just a thumb slide away. Our calculators are also integrated with the content that uses it most. • PART OF THE EM:RAP KNOWLEDGE BASE — CorePendium is just one piece of the EM:RAP universe. The CorePendium App takes full advantage of its special connection to the most listened to programs in Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine by integrating that content. With continuously updated links to video, conference content, and podcasts you’ll always get the most cutting-edge answers. • INTERNATIONAL — CorePendium is for the whole world. We have an international advisory board that aims to address emergency care for patients and practitioners in all of the various environments where it is practiced. • EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE — CorePendium is written by clinicians for clinicians, without the support of advertising or industry. With the CorePendium App you just get the best information, current and expertly reviewed. • THE REFERENCE OF RECORD — Accessed millions of times, CorePendium is already the reference textbook used by residency training programs and frontline clinicians the world over.

Screenshots

EasyTBSA3 screens
CorePendium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: EasyTBSA at free against CorePendium's freemium. EasyTBSA also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). CorePendium's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 3). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for EasyTBSA against 4.9 for CorePendium. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CorePendium has 1.4K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
EasyTBSA versus CorePendium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasyTBSACorePendium
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.9 (1.4K ratings)
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings31.4K — better
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB49 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperChildren's Research InstituteEM:RAP, Inc.

Customer experience

EasyTBSA

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CorePendium

All ratings1,435 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

EasyTBSA

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

CorePendium

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on launch
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • iPad version
  • Ability to track progress and bookmark content
  • Video playback controls (speed, rewind)

In-app purchases

None

EasyTBSA

No in-app purchases

None

CorePendium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EasyTBSA free?
EasyTBSA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CorePendium free?
CorePendium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EasyTBSA or CorePendium?
EasyTBSA is rated higher. EasyTBSA averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while CorePendium averages 4.9 from 1.4K ratings.
Do EasyTBSA or CorePendium have ads?
Neither EasyTBSA nor CorePendium shows ads.

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