SIMPL vs RTQA Surgical CVS
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.
RTQA Surgical CVS
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This application is designed to help train medical students in evaluating Laproscopic Cholesystectomy preparations and potentially other surgical preparations by allowing them to score the preparation from a captured high resolution image or images compared with the score from a panel of experts grading the same image. Notifications and real time scoring facilitate immediate peer QA feedback. This application allows surgeons to record and grade critical view of safety images during laparoscopic cholecystectomy cases. Users can upload images from a case for review by other surgeons. Additionally, users will be able to grade other cases posted to the application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SIMPL at every 2 weeks against RTQA Surgical CVS's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
SIMPL ships an update every 2 weeks, RTQA Surgical CVS every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and December 9, 2025 respectively.
| Parameter | SIMPL | RTQA Surgical CVS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc | Wake Forest Baptist Health |
In-app purchases
SIMPL
No in-app purchases
RTQA Surgical CVS
No in-app purchases
