SIMPL vs Simsei Portal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SIMPL
This app facilitates workplace-based assessments for medical professionals, enabling the evaluation of entrustable professional activities within medical education settings.
- Workplace-based assessments
- Entrustable professional activities
- Medical education implementation
- Professional development tracking
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SIMPL: Society for Improving Medical Professional Learning makes it feasible to implement workplace-based assessments, including assessment of entrustable professional activities, across medical education.
Simsei Portal
This medical training app assesses surgical skills using simulation-based methods. It aims to improve resident competency and patient care through enhanced education content and retention.
- Simulation-based surgical skill assessment
- Competency-based methods
- Improved knowledge, skill, and attitude adoption
- Enhanced education content and retention
- Focus on improving patient care
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The Simsei® Portal allows you to assess resident’s surgical skills. Simsei Simulation was developed by Applied Medical as a result of the company’s founding purpose to improve patient outcomes through the delivery of affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare solutions. We maintain that surgical education, developed in close collaboration with the surgical community, is critical to advancing skills and improving clinical outcomes. Built on a solid foundation of best practices, Simsei Simulation strives to enhance education content, processes and retention. Through competency-based methods, Simsei Simulation facilitates knowledge, skill and attitude adoption, with the goal of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of simulation-based surgical education programs, and ultimately improving patient care.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simsei Portal at 5.0 against SIMPL's 4.1. SIMPL's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simsei Portal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 8 respectively.
SIMPL ships an update every 2 weeks, Simsei Portal every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SIMPL | Simsei Portal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc | APPLIED MEDICAL RESOURCES CORPORATION |
Customer experience
SIMPL
Simsei Portal
In-app purchases
SIMPL
No in-app purchases
Simsei Portal
No in-app purchases
