SIMPL vs OpNotes
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.
OpNotes
This app helps surgical residents document their operative training with evolving case notes, technique libraries, and progress analytics. It provides a comprehensive journal for personal training, not for patient care.
- Detailed operative case documentation
- Case minimum tracking
- Techniques library
- Attending profiles
- Dashboard analytics
- Cross-device sync
- PDF case export
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Your surgical journey companion. OpNotes™ helps you build a comprehensive, evolving record of your operative journey. Rather than static notes, OpNotes is meant to evolve with each case making the next one clearer, sharper, and more intentional. KEY FEATURES: • Detailed case documentation with operative notes • Case tracking • OpNotes feed to celebrate your colleagues • Attending profiles and summaries • Dashboard analytics and progress visualization • Cross-device sync via secure cloud storage • Export cases as PDF backups DISCLAIMER: OpNotes is intended for personal surgical tracking only. It is not intended for patient care, diagnosis, or treatment decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OpNotes at 100% against SIMPL's 40%. OpNotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1). SIMPL's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). 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.
OpNotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of SIMPL's written reviews are positive against 100% of OpNotes's.
SIMPL ships an update every 2 weeks, OpNotes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SIMPL | OpNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc | Christian Cullen |
Customer experience
SIMPL
OpNotes
In-app purchases
SIMPL
No in-app purchases
OpNotes
No in-app purchases
