Learn ICU vs ABS SCORE
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!
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: Learn ICU at 58% against ABS SCORE's 6%. Learn ICU also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.6) and ratings volume (168 vs 14). ABS SCORE's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 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.
Learn ICU holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn ICU has 168 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Learn ICU's written reviews are positive against 6% of ABS SCORE's.
Learn ICU ships an update every 4 months, ABS SCORE every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn ICU | ABS SCORE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (168 ratings) — better | 1.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better | 6.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 168 — better | 14 |
| 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 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Society of Critical Care Medicine | American Board of Surgery, Inc |
Customer experience
Learn ICU
ABS SCORE
In-app purchases
Learn ICU
No in-app purchases
ABS SCORE
No in-app purchases
