Comparison

Code Companion Lite vs CodeScribe EMS

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

Head to head
About

Code Companion Lite

This medical reference app provides EMS professionals with a quick field guide for cardiac arrest management. It features color-coded information, real-time tracking of procedures, and guidance on medications and ACLS algorithms.

Highlights
  • Cardiac arrest algorithms
  • Real-time procedure tracking
  • Color-coded information
  • Medication administration guidance
  • ACLS algorithm reference
  • No subscriptions
Features
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Includes Code tracker VT algorithm PEA algorithm Tachy algorithm Brady algorithm ROSC algorithm Ad Supported Overview: Code Tracker is the ultimate cardiac arrest phone application designed by EMS professionals, for EMS professionals. This powerful tool is your quick reference field guide, revolutionizing the way you care for cardiac arrest patients. With its user-friendly interface, real-time tracking capabilities, and comprehensive resources, Code Tracker is your partner in delivering critical care efficiently and effectively. Key Features: 1. Color-Coded Information: Code Tracker employs an intuitive color-coded system, allowing you to swiftly identify and prioritize crucial information during a cardiac arrest response. Whether it's assessing rhythm, administering medications, or following ACLS algorithms, our app simplifies complex data into easy-to-digest visuals. 2. Real-Time Tracking: Stay on top of every critical procedure with our real-time tracking feature. Code Tracker ensures you never miss a beat, tracking your progress through cardiac arrest protocols and providing live updates as you go. 3. Comprehensive Reference Materials: We've meticulously curated the latest protocols from around the country and integrated them into a single, easy-to-navigate resource. Code Tracker ensures that you have the most up-to-date information at your fingertips, specifically tailored for the prehospital EMS setting. 4. Medication Administration Guidance: Easily access medication dosages and administration guidelines, eliminating the need to fumble through reference books or manuals during high-stress situations. Code Tracker ensures you administer the right medications at the right time. 5. ACLS Algorithms: Our app offers a quick reference for ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) algorithms, empowering you to make critical decisions swiftly and confidently during cardiac arrest events. 6. No Subscriptions: Code Tracker is here to support you, not burden you with subscriptions or department sign-ups. Ad Supported 7. Sharing is Caring: If you find Code Tracker invaluable, share it with fellow providers who could benefit from its capabilities. Together, we can enhance cardiac arrest care across the EMS community. Why Code Tracker? Stop relying on memory or outdated resources during cardiac arrest responses. With Code Tracker, you have a dedicated, reliable companion that ensures you provide the best care possible. Why do mental math when you can have life-saving information at your fingertips? Code Tracker: For EMS, By EMS. Your essential tool for saving lives. Download it today and be prepared for every cardiac arrest situation.

About

CodeScribe EMS

This app is a one-tap logging tool for cardiac arrest resuscitations. It allows trained responders to quickly record interventions like rhythm checks, defibrillations, and medications, with timestamps. The app generates a chart-ready narrative and PDF timeline for documentation and quality assurance.

Highlights
  • One-tap intervention logging
  • Editable entries with timestamps
  • Adult and pediatric modes
  • Passive cycle timers
  • Chart-ready narrative export
  • PDF timeline export
  • Utstein-style details
Features
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During a cardiac arrest, one person taps each intervention as it happens. CodeScribe EMS keeps the times, runs the rhythm check and epi timers on the buttons themselves, and writes the narrative for your PCR when the code ends. The record comes from the real timeline, not from memory at the station. FOR THE SCRIBE • One tap per intervention: CPR, rhythm, analyze, shock, epi, amiodarone, airway, IV/IO, EtCO2, ROSC, transport, notes. Every entry can be edited afterward. • Cycle timers you can see. Two-minute rhythm cycles and epi intervals count down on the buttons. Silent, visual only, and set to your protocol. • Chart-ready at the end: duration, time to first compression, shock and epi, a written narrative to copy into your ePCR, or a PDF timeline to share. • Your buttons. Rename, reorder and hide buttons, add your own, and set each timer's interval. • Adult and pediatric, with weight-based defaults for pediatric codes. Every value stays editable. • Works with no signal. No account needed. Records stay on your phone until you share them. FOR DEPARTMENTS (optional, with a department account) • One protocol on every phone. Your training officer sets the buttons, timers and drug list once from a web dashboard, and every member's phone picks it up at its next check-in, never during a code. Lock it so everyone works from the same screen. • QA on every code without pulling charts. After each code, your department receives a summary: time to first compression, first shock and first epi, epi and rhythm check timing against your own protocol, CPR pauses, outcome, and what was left blank. By crew member and year over year, with a printable report for the medical director and a one-page debrief for any code. • No patient information leaves the phone. Summaries never include dates, times, incident numbers, notes or patient details. You see exactly what your department receives before you join. • Mark any code as training and it isn't counted. Delete a code and it's withdrawn. FOR EMT AND PARAMEDIC PROGRAMS • Set up as a training program, every student's mock code reaches the instructor's dashboard the moment it ends, with the scenario name, ready for the debrief. CodeScribe EMS is a documentation aid, not clinical decision support. It never tells you what to give or when, and it has no alarms. Always follow your protocols and medical direction, and record what was actually done. Do not enter patient names or identifiers. Department accounts: codescribeems.org/departments. Training programs: codescribeems.org/training.

Screenshots

Code Companion Lite3 screens
CodeScribe EMS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CodeScribe EMS at 100% against Code Companion Lite's 0%. CodeScribe EMS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). Code Companion Lite's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, 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

Code Companion Lite is free to download; CodeScribe EMS costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CodeScribe EMS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Code Companion Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodeScribe EMS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Code Companion Lite ships an update monthly, CodeScribe EMS every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Code Companion Lite versus CodeScribe EMS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCode Companion LiteCodeScribe EMS
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 11 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
Best chart rank—#16 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB2 MB
Age rating17++12
DeveloperNational Emergency Resource GroupWilliam Lawrence

Customer experience

Code Companion Lite

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

CodeScribe EMS

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Code Companion Lite

No in-app purchases

None

CodeScribe EMS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Code Companion Lite free?
Code Companion Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CodeScribe EMS free?
CodeScribe EMS costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Code Companion Lite or CodeScribe EMS?
CodeScribe EMS is rated higher. Code Companion Lite averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while CodeScribe EMS averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Code Companion Lite or CodeScribe EMS have ads?
Code Companion Lite shows ads; CodeScribe EMS does not.
Which is updated more often, Code Companion Lite or CodeScribe EMS?
Code Companion Lite ships an update monthly, and CodeScribe EMS every 11 days. Most recently, Code Companion Lite was updated on October 7, 2026 and CodeScribe EMS on October 25, 2026.

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