Surgicrafts vs CSTSetup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Surgicrafts
This app showcases a long-standing commitment to manufacturing high-quality surgical and dental instruments. It highlights a dedication to innovation and customer satisfaction through new designs and superior workmanship.
- High-quality instrument manufacturing
- Surgical instrument development
- Dental tool innovation
- Customer-focused design
- Global export services
- Long-standing industry reputation
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We are one of the Leading Groups of Manufacturers Exporters, Importers and serving this industry since 1961. The high quality of the Company's products has been appreciated for many years throughout the world and SURGICRAFTS will maintain this reputation by applying the same degree of care and concern for manufacture and design as in the past. "We like to thank all our Clients for their patronage, expressing their unwavering faith they have in SURGICRAFTS". We have lot of ideas to develop new instruments for the Surgical/Medical, dental tools industry and have successfully developed new designs of instruments according to our customers’ choices; therefore our customers are satisfied with our workmanship and quality.
CSTSetup
This medical app provides surgical technologists, students, and nurses with detailed surgical setups, an instrument library, a medical dictionary, and exam preparation tools. It allows users to build custom setups and log clinical cases for their programs.
- 280+ surgical setups
- 3,100+ surgical instruments with 3D models
- 3,700+ medical terms explained
- Certification exam practice (CST, TS-C, CRCST, etc.)
- Custom setup creation
- Clinical case logging for programs
- Built-in medical dictionary
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Know the case before you scrub in. CSTSetup is the clinical companion built for surgical technologists, students, OR nurses and educators: your setups, your instrument library, a built-in medical dictionary, your exam prep and your case log, all in one place. SURGICAL SETUPS 280+ setups across General, Cardiac, ENT, Neuro, OB/GYN, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic, Plastics, Urology and Vascular. Each one shows the tray grouped by what every instrument does, the room (equipment, prep and drape, suture and medicines), a 30-second summary and the case step by step, with the circulator's side for Pro. General Surgery is free; Pro unlocks every specialty. THE FULL INSTRUMENT LIBRARY 3,100+ surgical instruments with real photographs, every name techs use and handling notes, sorted by class, standard tray and maker. Study them as flashcards. Pro members can turn, zoom and open real 3D models of hundreds of them. A BUILT-IN MEDICAL DICTIONARY 3,700+ terms explained in plain words. Tap an underlined word in any setup, instrument or exam question to see what it means, how it's said and the word parts that build it. STUDY FOR YOUR CERTIFICATION EXAM Practice for the CST (NBSTSA), TS-C (NCCT), CRCST (HSPA), CSPDT (CBSPD) and CSFA (NBSTSA) exams: practice by area with the why behind every answer, timed exams matched to the real pass mark, and a daily five questions to keep your streak going. Your progress shows your practice score, your weakest area, your streak and your whole year of study. BUILD YOUR OWN SETUPS Save your surgeon's way as a setup of your own, right on your phone. No account needed to start; sign in and it syncs to the web. BUILT FOR SURGICAL TECH PROGRAMS Log every case for your program: choose AST, NCCT or CC4SA, check off what you did in the room, and get an instant First Scrub, Second Scrub or Observation answer before it goes to your instructor. Clock your clinical hours from the clinical site. CAN'T FIND A SETUP? Ask for it right in the app, and we'll notify you when it's built. ONE SUBSCRIPTION CSTSetup Pro unlocks every specialty, the full library, 3D models and every certification exam in this app, in Instruments, in every CSTSetup exam app and on cstsetup.com. Download CSTSetup and put the whole back table in your pocket.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Surgicrafts at none against CSTSetup's 2. Surgicrafts also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). CSTSetup's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and chart position (#162 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. CSTSetup sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Surgicrafts asks for nothing beyond the download.
Surgicrafts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively.
Surgicrafts ships an update every 3 months, CSTSetup weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Surgicrafts | CSTSetup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | — | #162 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yaser Amer | CSTSetup |
In-app purchases
Surgicrafts
No in-app purchases
CSTSetup
- CSTSetup Monthly Pro$12.991 Month
- CSTSetup Yearly Pro$155.991 Year
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