Comparison

Core Step Prep vs CanQuiz

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

Head to head
About

Core Step Prep

This platform offers a high-yield question bank and study tools designed for USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK preparation. It focuses on recurring exam concepts with expert-crafted questions, actionable analytics, and realistic practice interfaces. Enhance your board prep with targeted study blocks and detailed explanations.

Highlights
  • High-yield USMLE-style questions
  • Step 1 + Step 2 CK coverage
  • Expert-crafted questions
  • Actionable analytics
  • Customizable quizzes
  • Realistic exam interface
  • Detailed explanations
  • Flashcards with spaced repetition
Features
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CoreStepPrep brings your USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 study workflow to iPhone, iPad, and native Mac. Build focused question blocks, study detailed explanations, and connect practice with notes, flashcards, reference documents, and progress insights. Your eligible access and study activity stay connected with the CoreStepPrep website. PRACTICE WITH PURPOSE • Create Tutor or Exam blocks by bank, system, discipline, difficulty, and question status • Use Smart blocks, saved presets, question IDs, and assigned curriculum blocks • Keep notes, bookmarks, highlights, scratch paper, calculator, and reference labs close to your questions • Continue already-loaded sessions when your connection is interrupted, with visible save and recovery status • Review correct, incorrect, and unanswered questions, then build focused remediation practice BUILD YOUR STUDY LIBRARY • Search and organize notes with folders and tags; export CSV, Markdown, or PDF • Review and manage flashcards, and export eligible personal or premium Anki decks • Read high-yield documents with contents, search, zoom, favorites, and saved reading progress • Search Core Concepts and move between questions and related explanations UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS • Resume your work from Today and follow recent activity • Explore system and discipline results, accuracy, usage, and available peer comparisons • Use native USMLE, Shelf/CMS, and osteopathic prediction tools • Browse session history and revisit completed reviews MADE FOR APPLE DEVICES • A compact iPhone workspace and adaptive iPad and Mac sidebars • Native touch, pointer, and keyboard controls • Handoff, shortcuts, and links that return to your study context • Widgets and Live Activities on supported iPhone and iPad devices • Question of the Day, Live Quiz, and contextual support Some content and features require eligible CoreStepPrep access. Step 1 and Step 2 access may be purchased separately. Subscription availability and terms are shown before purchase. Internet access is required to load new content and synchronize changes; offline continuation applies to sessions already loaded on that device. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://corestepprep.com/#/privacy

About

CanQuiz

Features
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Practice tests and full mock exams made from your own notes, PDFs and photos. The questions you miss come back until exam day. CanQuiz writes the questions and grades what you answer in your own words. Make a quiz from what you study Paste or type your notes, take a photo of a page, pick photos from your library or attach a PDF. In Create, CanQuiz first tells you what it will make: about how many questions, what type and what level, and you can change it. Tap Generate and it writes the quiz. Save it, or start practicing right away. The AI comes with your account, up to a monthly limit. Create shows about how many more quizzes you can make this month. Want it your way? Ask for a type (one answer, several, true or false, written) and a level, up to 100 questions in one request, within your monthly limit. Take a mock exam A full mock exam follows your exam’s rules: the time, how many questions and the pass mark. Hand it in and see your score and whether you pass, review every answer, then practice the ones you missed. You get one full mock per exam each week. Timed practice has a clock and shows the answers at the end, as often as you like. Your sources Keep the exam’s PDFs and photos in its folder, up to 5 per folder. Open one to see its pages, pick the ones you want and make questions from them. Ask your sources a question and get an answer from your own pages, with the source and page it comes from, up to 20 questions a month. Answer it like the exam A question can have one correct answer, several, true or false, or a written answer. Check each answer as you go and read the explanation. The AI grades your written answers, and What did I miss? shows what you left out. You set how strict it is, from Lenient to Examiner. If you stop halfway, Continue takes you back to the same question, even on another device. At the end, practice only the ones you got wrong, or do another round. Practice what's due Questions in your practice come back when it's time to see them again (spaced repetition). Home shows what's due today, and you answer in the same player. Got one right by guessing? Tap I guessed and it comes back sooner. Due questions work offline too: your answers are saved on the phone and sync when you're back online. Exam dates and folders Put quizzes in a folder and give it an exam date. Its quizzes take that date, and due questions are spread out to reach it. Practice the folder in one mixed round, or choose what goes in: due questions, mistakes or new ones. Or start Timed practice: there’s a clock, and you see the answers at the end. Notifications Turn on only the ones you want: a daily reminder when questions are due, at the time you usually practice; a notice 7 days and 1 day before an exam date; a practice round on the morning of the exam; and a note when a quiz you left generating is ready. Reminders and exam notices come at most twice a day, and never during your quiet hours. On the web Your account works on the web too, at app.canquiz.com. Quizzes you make or change there show up on your phone. On the web you can also build a quiz by hand or export your quizzes. I'm Michel from CanQuiz. If something doesn't work or you'd like something added, write to me at hello@canquiz.com.

Screenshots

Core Step Prep3 screens
CanQuiz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CanQuiz at none against Core Step Prep's 6. CanQuiz also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Core Step Prep's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Core Step Prep sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. CanQuiz asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Core Step Prep ships an update every 6 days, CanQuiz every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Core Step Prep versus CanQuiz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCore Step PrepCanQuiz
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB63 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperTerry TrentMICHEL FERNANDO RODRIGUES FLORES

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Core Step Prep

Subscriptions6
  • USMLE Step 1 Qbank - 1 wk access$9.997 Days
  • USMLE Step 2 CK Qbank - 1 wk access$9.997 Days
  • USMLE Step 1 Qbank - 1 mo. access$29.991 Month
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  • USMLE Step 2 CK Qbank - 1 mo access$29.991 Month
  • USMLE Step 2 CK Qbank - 6 mo access$99.996 Months
  • USMLE Step 1 Qbank - 6 mo access$99.996 Months
None

CanQuiz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Core Step Prep free?
Core Step Prep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CanQuiz free?
CanQuiz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Core Step Prep or CanQuiz have ads?
Neither Core Step Prep nor CanQuiz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Core Step Prep or CanQuiz?
Core Step Prep ships an update every 6 days, and CanQuiz every 3 days. Most recently, Core Step Prep was updated on October 30, 2026 and CanQuiz on November 1, 2026.

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