Comparison

SMART STAT BASIC vs Pulsara

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

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About

SMART STAT BASIC

This medical training app simulates patient scenarios for healthcare professionals and students. It allows users to control physiological parameters and create custom scenarios for practicing life-saving procedures without risk to patients.

Highlights
  • Simulate patient scenarios
  • Control physiological parameters
  • Create custom training scenarios
  • Practice advanced life-saving procedures
  • Track and review simulation sessions
  • User-friendly control screens
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Promotional Text: The SMART STAT BASIC app works in conjunction with the SMART STAT BASIC simulator, developed by Simulaids for trainee safe practice of advanced life-saving procedures. Description: SMART STAT BASIC offers faculty and students the opportunity to simulate the tasks necessary to develop critical thinking skills. This tetherless 75-lb (34 kg) adult patient simulator operates through Wi-Fi® technology. Programming skills are not needed to operate this simulator; simple control screens provide fast, user-friendly operation. The SMART STAT BASIC is portable and designed for regular use at an economical price point. The simulator’s rugged construction offers durability and dependability. The replacement parts are low cost and ensure continuous, reliable operations. The SMART STAT BASIC app works in conjunction with the SMART STAT BASIC patient simulator, developed by Simulaids, to enable health care professionals in all fields to sharpen their assessment and decision-making skills in the environment they work. Every kind of realistic and challenging scenario can be worked out, from basic life support skills to the most advanced life-saving procedures, all without risk to patients. Designed for First Responders, EMT’s, Paramedics, Firefighters and Combat Medics; Trainees and Healthcare Education Instructors can practice real life scenarios to better prepare for daily challenges when the app is used alongside the Patient Simulator. Please note that this app requires a live connection to a SMART STAT BASIC patient simulator in order for it to be used properly. The app allows you to control the Physiological Parameters of the Patient Simulator with simple dropdown selections. A partial list of such controllable parameters includes but is not limited to: • Heart • Lungs • Airway • Sounds • Pulses Scenarios can be programmed to provide timed physiological changes with simple taps of the screen. Fully editable lists of Students, Medications and Skill Sets allow Healthcare Education Instructors to easily create the custom items needed for proper documentation of critical skills assessment. Recorded Student’s simulation sessions may be edited, printed and reviewed via simulation reports made available on the iPad through the App.

About

Pulsara

This app connects medical caregivers and emergency responders on a unified platform. It streamlines communication and logistics for patient care, from routine transports to mass casualty incidents. The goal is to improve patient outcomes, reduce treatment times, and save resources.

Highlights
  • Team building and communication
  • Connects diverse medical entities
  • Scalable platform for any incident
  • Real-time audio, video, messaging, data
  • Standardized workflows
  • Dynamic care team building
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During the most critical moments in life, Pulsara® places the power in your hands to build teams and communicate with public safety, public health, and emergency management on the fly. Pulsara unites distributed teams—first responders, emergency medical services, fire departments, hospitals, health systems, behavioral health experts, emergency management, and more—on one scalable communication and logistics platform. From the routine EMS transport to a mass casualty incident, Pulsara’s flexible platform enables teams to standardize workflows and streamline communications for every method of arrival and patient or event type. The result? Decreased treatment times, providers who are empowered to provide better quality of care, reduced provider burnout, and cost and resource savings. In an age when smartphones and mobile technology are used for just about everything, many health systems rely on fax machines, pagers, two-way radios, landline phone calls, and even sticky notes to coordinate patient care. Vital information often falls through the cracks, leading to wasted resources, delayed treatments, decreased quality of care, and billions of dollars lost annually due to medical errors. Unlike other solutions that only connect people within the four walls of their own facility or organization, Pulsara can connect ANYONE from ANYWHERE for ANY condition or event, enabling true systems of care that scale. Purpose-built to improve the lives of people in need and those who serve them, Pulsara streamlines all logistics and communication around patient events. Simply CREATE a dedicated patient channel. BUILD the team. And COMMUNICATE & TRACK using audio, live video, instant messaging, data, images, and key benchmarks, all using the devices you and your teams know and love. You can add a new organization, team, or individual to any encounter, dynamically building a care team as the patient condition and location evolve. And when disaster strikes, Pulsara scales to manage incidents and events, allowing your teams to use the same familiar platform to respond to major incidents the same way they would a routine call. No matter what the situation is, Pulsara connects the right people at the right time, around every patient. At Pulsara, we live by the phrase “It’s About People.” We see our customers as partners in a journey committed to improving the lives of every person they serve. By leveraging innovative communication features through the Pulsara platform, customers across the globe have improved patient outcomes, including: * In Texas, a hospital decreased the time it takes for stroke patients to receive tPA by 59%, dropping from an average of 110 minutes to 46 minutes * In an Australian health system, the ambulance routinely bypasses the emergency department to take patients directly to CT in 7 minutes on average, down 68% from a 22-minute average * A health system in Arkansas treated STEMI patients in an average of 63 minutes, a 19% decrease in just 4 months * An EMS agency in Texas used Pulsara to power their ET3 program and in just 3 weeks, prevented 434 low-acuity patients from needing to go to the hospital * An EMS agency in Texas reported that when using Pulsara for a full-scale crisis exercise, they had 100% accountability for all patients transported Connected teams have the power to achieve incredible results by bringing the focus back to what matters most: people. ================================== PULSARA® is a registered trademark and service mark of CommuniCare Technology, Inc. d/b/a Pulsara in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. OFFICIAL FDA INTENDED USE STATEMENT The Pulsara applications are intended to facilitate communication for and accelerate preparation of acute care coordination. The applications are not intended to be relied upon for making diagnostic or treatment decisions or used in connection with monitoring a patient.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pulsara at 80% against SMART STAT BASIC's 0%. Pulsara also leads on rating (4.1 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). SMART STAT BASIC's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pulsara holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pulsara has 72 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of SMART STAT BASIC's written reviews are positive against 80% of Pulsara's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SMART STAT BASIC ships an update every 4 months, Pulsara every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SMART STAT BASIC versus Pulsara: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSMART STAT BASICPulsara
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)4.1 (72 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings372 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB245 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSimulaids, IncCommuniCare Technology, Inc.

Customer experience

SMART STAT BASIC

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Pulsara

All ratings71 ratings
Positive76.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative22.5%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral2.2%
Negative17.8%

Bugs and requests

SMART STAT BASIC

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pulsara

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • First login stopped working
  • Cannot create a second login
  • Poor notification management for Apple Watch integration
  • Continues to notify even on mute
  • Unable to figure out how to stop the relay without hampering notifications on the phone
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  • Goes off even when off call
  • Waking user up after being up for 24hrs
  • Requires logging out of one agency and logging back into another
  • Alert isn’t tied to ringer volume but instead your media volume
  • Unable to turn off after call is over unless the next person on call turns on their app and signs in
  • Poor and unsafe app
  • Either you get notifications when not on call or you end up deleting the app when not on call
  • This dumb app won’t let you turn off your availability after call is over
  • Needs to have the option to select shift start and stop times
  • If you forget to select off after a shift, you will certainly get a 1AM wake up call

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to switch between agencies easily
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • Unlock app with Face ID
  • More granular control over alerts
  • Ability to schedule call shifts
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  • Option to select shift start and stop times

In-app purchases

None

SMART STAT BASIC

No in-app purchases

None

Pulsara

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SMART STAT BASIC free?
SMART STAT BASIC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pulsara free?
Pulsara is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SMART STAT BASIC or Pulsara?
Pulsara is rated higher. SMART STAT BASIC averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Pulsara averages 4.1 from 72 ratings.
Do SMART STAT BASIC or Pulsara have ads?
Neither SMART STAT BASIC nor Pulsara shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SMART STAT BASIC or Pulsara?
SMART STAT BASIC ships an update every 4 months, and Pulsara every 3 weeks. Most recently, SMART STAT BASIC was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pulsara on November 1, 2026.

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