Learn ICU vs SHM Learning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn ICU
Access critical care educational materials on your mobile device. Download content to learn on the go and enhance your skills in providing optimal care for critically ill patients.
- Downloadable learning content
- On-the-go learning
- Critical care education
- Tools for practitioners
- Right Care, Right Now™
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The Society of Critical Care Medicine's educational products equip practitioners with the tools needed to provide the Right Care, Right Now™ to all critically ill and injured patients. LearnICU app allows critical care practitioners to download relevant learning contents directly to their devices, and take the learning on the go!
SHM Learning
Access hospitalist-specific continuing medical education and Maintenance of Certification opportunities on the go. Stay current with the expanding knowledge and skills required in hospital medicine through a growing educational library.
- Hospitalist-specific CME
- Maintenance of Certification (MOC) opportunities
- On-the-go learning
- Expanding educational library
- Stay current with medical knowledge
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As the only professional society dedicated to hospital medicine, SHM provides our membership with hospitalist-specific continuing medical education (CME) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) opportunities. SHM is constantly working to expand our educational library to help you stay current in the knowledge and skills you need as the scope of hospital medicine continues to grow. Our SHM Learning app allows our members to take their learning on the go, such as our Spark v3.
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Verdict
Learn ICU and SHM Learning both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 58% of Learn ICU's written reviews are positive against 0% of SHM Learning's. Learn ICU also leads on ratings volume (168 vs 51). SHM Learning's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Learn ICU against 4.7 for SHM Learning. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 168 and 51 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of Learn ICU's written reviews are positive against 0% of SHM Learning's.
Learn ICU ships an update every 4 months, SHM Learning every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn ICU | SHM Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (168 ratings) | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 168 — better | 51 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 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 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Society of Critical Care Medicine | Society of Hospital Medicine |
Customer experience
Learn ICU
SHM Learning
In-app purchases
Learn ICU
No in-app purchases
SHM Learning
No in-app purchases
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