RNotes® vs Nurse Assess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RNotes®
This clinical reference app provides nurses and students with quick access to essential medical information, including guidelines, procedures, and exam preparation tools. It features full-color images, charts, and customizable notes to enhance patient care and learning.
- Quick-reference clinical nursing information
- Updated AHA guidelines
- Full-color images and charts
- NCLEX exam topic indicators
- Step-by-step procedures and assessment guidance
- Customizable notes and highlights
- Nursing alerts for critical safety information
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** The essential clinical companion for nurses and students ** ABOUT RNOTES® RNotes is a quick-reference application that puts the latest clinically-focused nursing information at your fingertips, helping you improve patient care. Find answers fast by browsing or searching, then review clinical findings, collaborative management, and quick-read information along with full-color images and charts. The latest edition also helps students prepare for the NCLEX examinations by noting topics that are covered on the exam. FEATURES • Answers to the questions faced in clinical rotations • Updated AHA guidelines • Full-color images and figures • NCLEX icons indicating topics found on licensure exam • Step-by-step procedures and enhanced physical assessment guidance • Details for interpreting ECG, lab values, priority interventions, and more • Convenient tables and charts for finding information quickly • Ability to make custom notes and highlights within entries • Nursing alerts highlighting critical safety information • “Favorites” for bookmarking important topics Author: Ehren Myers Publisher: F.A. Davis Powered by: Unbound Medicine Unbound Privacy Policy: www.unboundmedicine.com/privacy Unbound Terms of Use: https://www.unboundmedicine.com/end_user_license_agreement
Nurse Assess
This app digitizes patient assessments for nurses and students, streamlining data collection and calculations. It guides users through multi-step evaluations, preparing information for electronic health record systems.
- Digital patient assessment recording
- Guides through multi-step evaluations
- Automated calculations
- EHR system integration readiness
- 30+ nursing assessments included
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Hundreds of working nurses and nursing school students have used NurseAssess to conveniently (and digitally) record patient assessments to their smartphones, ready for uploading to their electronic health record systems (EHRs). This nursing app makes it easy and accurate to perform multi-step patient assessments. The app guides you through the required measurements, collects them, and does all the calculations for you. Assessments include: • Morse Fall Risk • Glasgow Coma Scale • Braden Skin Risk • Mini Nutritional • Sleepiness Scale • SpO2 • Norton Pressure Ulcer Risk Scale • LACE Readmission Scale • ...and many others
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Nurse Assess at 63% against RNotes®'s 0%. Nurse Assess also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 months). RNotes®'s advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.8). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. RNotes® sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Nurse Assess asks for nothing beyond the download.
RNotes® holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 41 and 19 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of RNotes®'s written reviews are positive against 63% of Nurse Assess's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
RNotes® ships an update every 7 months, Nurse Assess every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RNotes® | Nurse Assess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (41 ratings) — better | 3.8 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Unbound Medicine, Inc. | Nurse Tech, Inc. |
Customer experience
RNotes®
Nurse Assess
In-app purchases
RNotes®
- RNotes® 4th Edition$29.99
- RNotes® 5th Edition$29.99
- RNotes$29.99
Nurse Assess
No in-app purchases
