Comparison

Prognosis vs SMART STAT BASIC

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Prognosis

Enhance your diagnostic and management skills with interactive clinical cases. This app provides succinct explanations and key learning points based on real physician experiences across various medical specialties. New cases are released weekly to keep your knowledge current.

Highlights
  • Interactive clinical case simulations
  • Succinct diagnostic and management explanations
  • Key learning points for each case
  • Cases based on real physician experiences
  • Covers 33 medical specialties
  • New cases released weekly
Features
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With Prognosis, you can improve your ability to diagnose and immediately manage key clinical presentations associated with a disease, having access to relevant facts and succinct explanations behind the underlying diagnostic and management rationale. Prognosis is designed for practicing physicians, medical students, nursing professionals and other healthcare practitioners who love medicine and want to thrive as world-class decision makers. After all, practice makes perfect; and practice can be fun! Our catalog offers cases spanning a wide range of medical specialties, all which can be played in minutes. Each case is also accompanied by a concise yet comprehensive discussion of the diagnostic reasoning, as well as and key learning points for you to take home. Prognosis cases are based on the actual clinical experiences of more than 200 physicians across 33 specialties. New cases are released every week, often in keeping with global endemic and epidemic trends, to help you brush up on the clinical skills that are the need of the hour! - Best App for Health & Well Being - World Summit Awards, 2012 (https://www.worldsummitawards.org/winner/prognosis-your-diagnosis/). - 'Dr House for Doctors' - Discover Magazine (https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/hot-science-18). - 'One of the five best apps for doctors' - Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume: 94 Issue: 1 (https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/abs/10.1308/147363512X13189526438558). IMPORTANT: Prognosis: Your Diagnosis is designed for use by medical professionals and students. It is not intended for use by patients or for self-diagnosis.

About

SMART STAT BASIC

This medical training app simulates patient scenarios for healthcare professionals and students. It allows users to control physiological parameters and create custom scenarios for practicing life-saving procedures without risk to patients.

Highlights
  • Simulate patient scenarios
  • Control physiological parameters
  • Create custom training scenarios
  • Practice advanced life-saving procedures
  • Track and review simulation sessions
  • User-friendly control screens
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Promotional Text: The SMART STAT BASIC app works in conjunction with the SMART STAT BASIC simulator, developed by Simulaids for trainee safe practice of advanced life-saving procedures. Description: SMART STAT BASIC offers faculty and students the opportunity to simulate the tasks necessary to develop critical thinking skills. This tetherless 75-lb (34 kg) adult patient simulator operates through Wi-Fi® technology. Programming skills are not needed to operate this simulator; simple control screens provide fast, user-friendly operation. The SMART STAT BASIC is portable and designed for regular use at an economical price point. The simulator’s rugged construction offers durability and dependability. The replacement parts are low cost and ensure continuous, reliable operations. The SMART STAT BASIC app works in conjunction with the SMART STAT BASIC patient simulator, developed by Simulaids, to enable health care professionals in all fields to sharpen their assessment and decision-making skills in the environment they work. Every kind of realistic and challenging scenario can be worked out, from basic life support skills to the most advanced life-saving procedures, all without risk to patients. Designed for First Responders, EMT’s, Paramedics, Firefighters and Combat Medics; Trainees and Healthcare Education Instructors can practice real life scenarios to better prepare for daily challenges when the app is used alongside the Patient Simulator. Please note that this app requires a live connection to a SMART STAT BASIC patient simulator in order for it to be used properly. The app allows you to control the Physiological Parameters of the Patient Simulator with simple dropdown selections. A partial list of such controllable parameters includes but is not limited to: • Heart • Lungs • Airway • Sounds • Pulses Scenarios can be programmed to provide timed physiological changes with simple taps of the screen. Fully editable lists of Students, Medications and Skill Sets allow Healthcare Education Instructors to easily create the custom items needed for proper documentation of critical skills assessment. Recorded Student’s simulation sessions may be edited, printed and reviewed via simulation reports made available on the iPad through the App.

Screenshots

Prognosis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Prognosis at 94% against SMART STAT BASIC's 0%. Prognosis also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (3K vs 3). SMART STAT BASIC's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Prognosis holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prognosis has 3K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Prognosis's written reviews are positive against 0% of SMART STAT BASIC's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prognosis ships an update monthly, SMART STAT BASIC every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Prognosis versus SMART STAT BASIC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrognosisSMART STAT BASIC
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3K ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews94.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3K — better3
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB38 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMedical Joyworks LLCSimulaids, Inc

Customer experience

Prognosis

All ratings2,956 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews970 reviews
Positive94.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative3.1%

SMART STAT BASIC

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Prognosis

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Slider says yes but records as a no
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Download all cases at on click
  • Differential diagnosis before diagnosis
  • Reference ranges for lab values
  • Lookup function
  • Dark mode option
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  • Advanced analytics dashboard

SMART STAT BASIC

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Prognosis

No in-app purchases

None

SMART STAT BASIC

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prognosis free?
Prognosis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SMART STAT BASIC free?
SMART STAT BASIC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Prognosis or SMART STAT BASIC?
Prognosis is rated higher. Prognosis averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3K ratings, while SMART STAT BASIC averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Prognosis or SMART STAT BASIC have ads?
Prognosis shows ads; SMART STAT BASIC does not.
Which is updated more often, Prognosis or SMART STAT BASIC?
Prognosis ships an update monthly, and SMART STAT BASIC every 4 months. Most recently, Prognosis was updated on November 6, 2026 and SMART STAT BASIC on November 6, 2026.

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