Code Timer Plus vs CodeScribe EMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Code Timer Plus
This app helps track timed medical intervals and log events with quick reference guides. It includes metronomes and note-taking features, with the ability to share logs via text or email. It is intended for training and simulation purposes only.
- Interval timers
- Event logging
- Quick H's and T's reference
- Metronomes (100 & 120 BPM)
- Notes section with autosave
- Share event logs via text/email
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The app includes features like: - Optimized for iPhones with screen sizes greater than 6.1" - Timers Keep track of intervals. - Event Logging. - Quick H's and T's Reference. - Metronome - Notes sections with edit and autosave. - Send Event Log via text/SMS and Email options. - Pre-Charge Warning Sound and Epi-Ready Warning Sound. - CPR and Epinephrine Timer Advisement popup disable option. - Added audio queues for breath (5 seconds, 30 seconds). Note: This software does NOT functions as a medical device. This software functions are intended for health care professionals to use as educational tools for medical training and to reinforce training previously received. This is a game that simulates various cardiac arrest scenarios to train health professionals in advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Code Timer Plus at Free against CodeScribe EMS's $4.99. CodeScribe EMS's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and chart position (#20 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Code Timer Plus is free to download; CodeScribe EMS costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Code Timer Plus against 5.0 for CodeScribe EMS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Code Timer Plus's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodeScribe EMS's.
Code Timer Plus ships an update every 9 days, CodeScribe EMS every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Code Timer Plus | CodeScribe EMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #20 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +12 |
| Developer | Patrick Antonini | William Lawrence |
Customer experience
Code Timer Plus
CodeScribe EMS
In-app purchases
Code Timer Plus
No in-app purchases
CodeScribe EMS
No in-app purchases
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