ABS SCORE vs Scrubfeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABS SCORE
Access a comprehensive question bank for surgical specialties. This app provides scenario-based multiple-choice questions to aid in self-study for surgical residents. Future updates will include additional educational content and mobile-first features.
- Access SCORE Portal Question Bank
- 4,000+ scenario-based questions
- Six surgical specialties covered
- Supports self-study for residents
- Future content includes TWIS curricula
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The SCORE mobile app enables users to access content hosted on the SCORE Portal. This version includes access to the SCORE Portal Question Bank of ~4,000 scenario-based multiple choice questions across six specialties in surgery: General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Complex General Surgical Oncology, Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Oral Maxillofacial Surgery. Future versions of this app will incorporate other SCORE Portal content, including "This Week in SCORE (TWIS)" curricula and will carry mobile-first features to augment both the use of the SCORE Portal and residents' self-study.
Scrubfeed
This app delivers daily summaries of new research papers from leading surgical journals, focusing on actionable clinical takeaways. It allows users to engage with a community, filter content by specialty, and save articles for later.
- Daily indexed research summaries
- AI-extracted clinical takeaways
- Community reactions and feedback
- Filter by journal, subspecialty, topic
- Personalized reading lists
- Content discovery through colleagues
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Scrubfeed is the daily intelligence feed built for plastic surgeons. Every day, new papers from the world's leading surgical journals are automatically indexed and summarized in the feed, one clear clinical takeaway per paper. Stop spending hours scanning abstracts, and get knowledge delivered efficiently and quickly to your phone in minutes. Every paper comes with an AI-extracted clinical takeaway, not a generic abstract, but the one finding that actually matters to your practice. Scrubfeed tells you what changed, what works, and what to watch for, with suggested articles, reactions and feedback from your community, and related findings. New papers are indexed and summarized automatically, so your feed is always fresh. See what colleagues are reading, saving, and reacting to. React to papers, leave comments, and discover what your medical community values most, before you even open the paper. You can filter by journal, subspecialty, and topic. No matter your specialty, your feed reflects what you actually care about. You can even bookmark any paper to your personal collection. Build your own reading list and return to it whenever you're ready. Content on Scrubfeed is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. AI-generated summaries may contain errors, so users must always verify against the original peer-reviewed publication before making clinical decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Scrubfeed at 5.0 against ABS SCORE's 1.6. Scrubfeed also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). ABS SCORE's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Scrubfeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABS SCORE has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ABS SCORE ships an update every 2 months, Scrubfeed every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABS SCORE | Scrubfeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | American Board of Surgery, Inc | Mercuri Gaming, Inc. |
Customer experience
ABS SCORE
Scrubfeed
In-app purchases
ABS SCORE
No in-app purchases
Scrubfeed
No in-app purchases
