ORninja vs Lantern®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ORninja
This app provides a digital library of surgical instruments for training operating room support staff. It allows users to learn instrument names and functions at their own pace, and virtually assemble instrument trays for surgical procedures.
- Digital library of surgical instruments
- Learn instrument names and functions
- Virtual instrument tray assembly
- Self-paced learning
- Training for OR support staff
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The future of operating room education is here. ORninja is a premium, modern learning platform built for anyone in scrubs. Using interactive, bite-sized learning based on today’s educational best practices, ORninja replaces boring PowerPoints and training videos with engaging experiences that improve knowledge retention. Whether you’re learning instrumentation, implants, anatomy, surgical procedures, or OR workflow, ORninja helps you build confidence before every case. Are you a sales rep, scrub tech, resident, RN, or do you work in Central Sterile or anywhere in the OR? Then ORninja is for you. Access is available exclusively through participating employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, medical device companies, and educational institutions. An organization-issued account is required.
Lantern®
This application streamlines knee surgery workflows for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a digital platform for pre-operative planning and intra-operative guidance, aiming to improve surgical precision and patient outcomes.
- Streamlined surgical workflows
- Pre-operative planning
- Intra-operative guidance
- Improved surgical precision
- Enhanced patient outcomes
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Lantern software workflow
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lantern® at 5.0 against ORninja's 2.3. Lantern® also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). ORninja's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (25 vs 1). 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.
Lantern® holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ORninja has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ORninja ships an update fortnightly, Lantern® every 13 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | ORninja | Lantern® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 190 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ninja Solutions Incorporated | OrthAlign, Inc |
In-app purchases
ORninja
No in-app purchases
Lantern®
No in-app purchases
Questions
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