DART Sim Pro vs Resus Room
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DART Sim Pro
This advanced simulator transforms your device into a realistic cardiac monitor and defibrillator for medical training. It offers flexible control over training scenarios, including custom ECG playback and live CPR feedback, without requiring proprietary hardware.
- Realistic cardiac monitor & defibrillator simulation
- Live CPR feedback
- Custom ECG playback and upload
- Editable training scenarios
- Defibrillation and pacing practice
- Instructor-only controls
- Free lifetime updates
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DART Sim Pro – Advanced ECG & Defibrillator Simulator Perfect For licensed institutions and instructors. Enter your issued DART Sim Pro license to activate. No in-app purchases. Train like a pro with the most flexible and affordable simulation software for ACLS, PALS, and EMS education. DART Sim Pro transforms your iPad into a realistic cardiac monitor & defibrillator simulator designed for instructors, hospitals, EMS programs, and nursing schools. Always up to date on the most current BLS/ACLS/PALS guidelines, it provides unmatched control for realistic training — no proprietary hardware or manikin required. Key Features Live CPR Feedback – Connect with the SimCPR Watch for real-time compression depth, recoil, rate, and CCF data. Custom ECG Playback – Upload or draw your own ECGs and play them live in Lead II or full 12-lead mode. Custom ECG's can also be added to custom or current DART Sim scenarios. Enhanced Media Panel – Instantly display videos, sound files, and pictures during any training scenario or on the fly. Editable Scenarios – Create and save your own scenarios with rhythms, vitals, medications, labs, and X-rays. Defibrillation & Pacing – Practice synchronized cardioversion, transcutaneous pacing, and defib energy 1–360J. Add shock standby rhythms to play after a cardioversion/shock. Instructor-Only Controls – Students cannot alter what’s programmed, ensuring controlled, realistic training. Free Lifetime Updates – Always up to date with the latest guidelines. Why DART Sim Pro? No proprietary manikin or hardware required Perfect for ACLS, PALS, NRP, paramedic, and nursing programs Portable, cost-effective, and classroom-ready Used by hospitals, universities, and EMS programs worldwide Subscription Options For licensed institutions and instructors only. Enter your issued DART Sim Pro license to activate. No in-app purchases. Additional licensing available for institutions and bundles Upgrade your training with DART Sim Pro and bring true-to-life resuscitation scenarios to your classroom — anytime, anywhere. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Resus Room
Simulate managing a resuscitation room, making critical decisions for patients in emergency situations. Give orders, interpret real medical data, and learn from each scenario based on current guidelines.
- Simulate resuscitation room scenarios
- Give verbal or tapped orders
- Interpret real ECGs, X-rays, and ultrasounds
- Follow current resuscitation guidelines
- Receive feedback from the medical team
- Learn from detailed debriefs
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Resus Room puts you in charge of the resuscitation room. The monitor runs across the top, the team is waiting, and the patient in the bed needs you now. Give your orders out loud or with a tap — "Start compressions", "Shock", "Epinephrine 1 milligram" — and the nurse answers, the rhythm changes, and the clock keeps running. Free to download. Fifteen cases are free. The Core Pack unlocks five more, on all your devices. New case packs will be offered separately. TWENTY EMERGENCIES, BUILT BY AN EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN Free: • Down on the casino floor — start here: CPR and the AED • Quiet at the pool — a child pulled from the water • Five first-aid cases: choking, an infant choking, anaphylaxis, an overdose and a bleeding cyclist • A witnessed collapse at the gym • Pulseless after a bedside procedure • Found unresponsive behind a bus shelter • Repeated collapse at home • Collapsed after a long flight home • Stabbed in the groin • Two days of noisy breathing, now barely rousable • A newborn limp at delivery The Core Pack, one purchase, adds five more: palpitations that turned into chest pain, palpitations out of nowhere, a head-on collision, a silent chest in a struggling five-year-old, and a non-vigorous newborn. Each case follows current resuscitation guidelines: shocks and drugs on the right schedule, reversible causes found and fixed, bleeding controlled first. The team holds you to it — a shock or a dose given too early gets "Not yet, doctor." A REAL ROOM • A monitor across the top of the screen: the ECG sweeping, heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen and capnography, with real alarms. It never names the rhythm for you — that is your call. • What matters right now, as four big buttons. In an arrest: Shock, CPR, Epinephrine and Airway. With a pulse: Monitor, 12-lead, Reassess and Call. After the pulse comes back, the post-arrest steps. Everything else is under Code, Meds, Labs, Imaging and Call. • X-rays, ECGs and ultrasound open in a window inside the room while the code goes on. They are real, reviewed studies, each credited to its source, and you read them yourself. • Step up to the bedside for a closer look at the patient. • In the trauma cases, ask for the primary survey and x A B C D E appears. Each letter opens its exam, orders and imaging. • The whole team speaks in natural voices. DECIDE, THEN SEND THE PATIENT ON Name your diagnosis, then choose where the patient goes. The consultants answer back: call cardiology too soon and they will ask what you are calling it; send a patient to the wrong place and the nurse or the consultant will push back until you choose a right one. SPEAK YOUR ORDERS Hold the mic and talk the way you would in a code. Your words are turned into text on the device. Prefer to tap or type? Every order has a button, and the order box takes typing. LEARN FROM EVERY RUN The debrief fits on one screen: your score out of 100 on one side, and on the other the summary, the checklist of critical actions — with why each missed step matters and the guideline behind it — every order on the code clock, and the clinical reasoning for the case. The attending reads you a short review. On devices with Apple Intelligence, ask the attending about your case. Then rate the case, if you like. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC The Core Pack covers all of them. On iPhone Duo, open it like a book: the patient and the monitor on one page, your orders on the other. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, and no account needed. Sign in with Apple only if you want your training log on all your devices, and delete the account any time. Nothing is sent unless you choose to: signing in, a rating, case logs to help improve the app, or your email address if you sign up to hear about new cases. For education and simulation practice only. Resus Room is not medical advice, is not a certification, and must not be used for decisions about real patients. The patients are fictional.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Resus Room at 5.0 against DART Sim Pro's 2.7. Resus Room also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). DART Sim Pro's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. DART Sim Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $149.99 per year and Resus Room sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Resus Room holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DART Sim Pro has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of DART Sim Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Resus Room's.
DART Sim Pro ships an update every 2 months, Resus Room every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DART Sim Pro | Resus Room |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 211 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | STAR CPR San Diego | Kim Trinh |
Customer experience
DART Sim Pro
Resus Room
In-app purchases
DART Sim Pro
- DART Sim Pro - Annual$149.991 Year
- DART Sim Pro Lifetime License$849.99
Resus Room
- Core Pack$9.99
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