UWorld Nursing vs RN Brain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UWorld Nursing
Prepare for your nursing exams with exam-style practice questions and detailed rationales. This app offers NCLEX-style CAT exams, an automated study planner, and high-yield review videos to enhance your learning. Track your performance and build clinical reasoning skills for success.
- Exam-style practice questions
- Industry-leading rationales
- NCLEX-style CAT exams
- Automated study planner
- High-yield review videos
- Performance tracking
- Active learning tools
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Discover a better way to pass your nursing exams. The UWorld Nursing app connects your digital course features to your mobile device for a seamless study experience. Visit nursing.uworld.com to begin your NCLEX-RN®, NCLEX-PN®, clinical med math, or FNP prep — free trials available! Why UWorld? Because we give you a proven path to success. More than 1.4 million students have prepared with our resources, which include: - Exam-style practice questions - The industry’s best rationales - NCLEX-style CAT exams - An automated study planner - High-yield review videos - Detailed performance tracking - Realistic self-assessments - Active learning study tools Study whenever and wherever you want, with complete access to every exam topic. With UWorld, you can have confidence knowing that a talented team of practicing nurses is on your side. Build your clinical reasoning skills, improve your patient care, and become the best nurse you can be.
RN Brain
This app provides structured, nursing-focused explanations of complex clinical topics. It's designed to help nurses and students quickly grasp information on subjects like sepsis, medications, and electrolyte imbalances, organizing it for efficient patient care.
- Structured clinical topic breakdowns
- Instant clear explanations
- Nursing-focused organization
- Searchable by clinical topic
- Designed for bedside, ICU, ER nurses
- Supports nursing students
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RN Brain helps nurses and nursing students quickly understand complex clinical topics through structured nursing-focused breakdowns. Instead of searching through multiple resources, simply type a topic like sepsis, ARDS, ventilator settings, medications, electrolyte imbalances, or DKA, and RN Brain instantly generates a clear explanation organized for nurses. Designed for bedside nurses, ICU nurses, ER nurses, and nursing students, RN Brain organizes information the way clinicians think during patient care.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RN Brain at none against UWorld Nursing's 14. RN Brain also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). UWorld Nursing's advantage is ratings volume (2.1K vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. UWorld Nursing sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. RN Brain asks for nothing beyond the download.
RN Brain holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UWorld Nursing has 2.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UWorld Nursing | RN Brain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | UWorld LLC | RN Brain LLC |
Customer experience
UWorld Nursing
RN Brain
In-app purchases
UWorld Nursing
- Clinical Med Math 180 days$55.99
- Clinical Med Math 360 days$89.99
- NCLEX-PN 30 days with NGN$184.99
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- NCLEX-RN 30 days with NGN$198.99
- NCLEX-PN 60 days with NGN$229.99
- NCLEX-RN 60 days with NGN$249.99
- NCLEX-PN 90 days with NGN$279.99
- NCLEX-PN 180 days with NGN$329.99
- NCLEX-RN 90 days with NGN$329.99
- NCLEX-PN 360 days with NGN$399.99
- NCLEX-RN 180 days with NGN$479.99
- NCLEX-PN 730 days with NGN$499.99
- NCLEX-RN 360 days with NGN$559.99
- NCLEX-RN 730 days with NGN$699.99
RN Brain
No in-app purchases
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