Best Critical Care Apps

193+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.8 avg rating

18 free apps

Updated June 2026

The best critical care apps on iPhone average 4.8★ across 193+ titles — we've ranked them by what real users actually keep on their phones. Updated June 2026.

Top Picks for Critical Care

#1

Critical- Medical Guide by The Barringer Group, LLC

Editor's Choice

🏥 Medical

4.8😊(1.1K ratings)

$14.99

#9in Medical

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This comprehensive critical care reference app provides nurses, paramedics, physicians, and other healthcare professionals with detailed medical guidelines and high-definition multimedia resources. It covers a wide range of topics, including ultrasound, emergency medicine, and advanced life support, serving as a go-to tool for complex medical queries.

What We Love

🚀 Great resource
👍 Excellent reference tool
👍 Fantastic app for critical care
👍 Comprehensive and easy to use

Room to Improve

🐛 Crashes after recent update
🐛 Drip function calculator not working
🐛 App no longer opens

#2

Critical Care Vault by Josue Edmond

Critical care training & tools

Strong Contender

🏥 Medical

4.6(8 ratings)

Free

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This app offers interactive training and a bedside reference for critical care professionals. It features a question bank, simulations, and trainers for reasoning practice, alongside quick access to clinical tools, protocols, and medication information.

#3

Pocket ICU by Unbound Medicine, Inc.

Best-Selling Critical Care App

Worth Considering

🏥 Medical

4.6(311 ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

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This app offers concise critical care guidance written by attending physicians. It covers diagnosis, treatment, and management across various subspecialties, including detailed images and decision algorithms. Quickly find information, bookmark entries, and take notes for efficient ICU rounds and consultations.

More Critical Care apps to explore

Internet Chatbot of Crit Care

This medical chatbot provides instant access to information from the Internet Book of Critical Care. Users can query the extensive database to find critical care knowledge. It's designed for quick retrieval of essential medical information.

Internet Book of Critical Care accessQuery critical care informationInstant knowledge retrieval

Critical Care Tools

Critical Care Tools

by Kristopher Foote

A medical calculator for emergency and critical care providers. It offers quick access to medication dosing, ventilation support, and oxygen duration calculations. Designed for high-pressure environments, it reduces cognitive load and supports clinical judgment with an intuitive interface.

Medication and infusion mathWeight-based dosing calculatorOxygen duration calculator

Critical Care Handbook of MGH

Critical Care Handbook of MGH

#1 ICU Disaster Preparedness

This medical reference app provides comprehensive, practical, and current information on medical and surgical critical care. It features a user-friendly outline format with powerful search tools and cross-linking for rapid access to hospital-tested protocols. Includes new chapters on COVID-19 and other critical conditions.

Practical critical care informationUser-friendly outline formatPowerful search tools

free with in-app purchases

by Brian Dale Vander Werf MD Inc

This medical tool provides accurate and flexible acid-base analysis for healthcare professionals. It offers detailed explanations, customizable ranges, and advanced features like anion gap correction and A-a gradient adjustments for various patient conditions and locations.

Validated accuracy with real-world testingPlausibility checks for physiologically impossible dataAutomatic anion gap correction with albumin

by Society of Critical Care Medicine

Access critical care educational materials on your mobile device. Download content to learn on the go and enhance your skills in providing optimal care for critically ill patients.

Downloadable learning contentOn-the-go learningCritical care education

Pocket Prep CCRN Adult 2026

Pocket Prep CCRN Adult 2026

Critical Care Nursing Practice

Prepare for your Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) Adult certification exam with extensive practice questions and a full-length mock exam. Reinforce key concepts and improve retention to confidently pass your test.

1,000+ practice questionsFull-length mock examDetailed explanations with references

free with in-app purchases

Quick Reference Critical Care

Quick Reference Critical Care

Immediate on-the-job answers

This app provides immediate, on-the-job answers for critical care professionals. It offers updated, evidence-based procedures and stabilization practices in a quick-read outline format, covering a broad range of patient topics by body system.

Updated critical care contentFull-color imagesExtensive abbreviations list

free with in-app purchases

MDCalc Medical Calculator

MDCalc Medical Calculator

Clinical Decision Support

This app provides over 900 evidence-based medical calculators, risk scores, and clinical tools for healthcare professionals. It offers offline functionality, expert insights, and CME tracking to support patient care at the bedside. Tools are developed and validated by board-certified physicians.

900+ evidence-based calculatorsOffline functionalityExpert insights and commentary

by PDA Verticals Corporation

Access trusted, evidence-based critical care guidelines and resources for clinicians. Quickly find the latest clinical guidelines with filterable recommendations, many available offline. Designed for those caring for critically ill patients.

Evidence-based critical care guidelinesFilterable recommendationsGuideline resources

Davis Drug Guide For Nurses

Davis Drug Guide For Nurses

Medication Safety in Nursing

This comprehensive drug guide provides nurses with essential medical information for safe medication administration. It features thousands of drug monographs, interaction details, and safety alerts, all organized for quick access and enhanced by personalized notes and search functionality.

Thousands of drug monographsDrug-drug and drug-food interactionsSafety alerts and cautions

Critical Care Nursing CCRN

Critical Care Nursing CCRN

CCRN Exam Prep Made Easy

This app provides comprehensive guidance for critical care nursing, covering acute conditions, specialized areas, and essential nursing skills. It includes expert advice, visual aids, and practice questions to prepare for certification exams.

Systems-based review of acute care conditionsGuidance on multisystem disordersExpert nursing skills instruction

free with in-app purchases

Clinical decision support app

Case Files: Critical Care

Case Files: Critical Care

Sharpen Your Critical Thinking

Master critical care scenarios with real clinical cases designed for rapid decision-making and confident patient management. This app helps you develop clinical judgment for ICU settings and prepares you for exams like USMLE Step 2 CK.

40+ high-yield ICU casesStep-by-step clinical decision-makingClear explanations and clinical pearls

free with in-app purchases

Emergency Medicine Wiki

This app provides a continuously updated wiki and database of emergency medicine knowledge for physicians. Access key information offline for rapid reference during daily practice. An in-app subscription unlocks advanced AI-powered questions, favorites, and history features.

Emergency medicine knowledge databaseContinuously updated contentOffline access

free with in-app purchases

Critical Care Partner Lite

Critical Care Partner Lite

Critical Care MCQ

Critical Care MCQ

By Go the Extra Mile

This platform offers a vast collection of multiple-choice questions for intensive care medicine professionals. It features various test formats, detailed feedback, and progress tracking, all accessible across multiple devices. Designed for continuous learning and skill assessment in critical care.

Over 2300 unique questionsMCQ, True-False, and Matching formatsOrganized tests, chapters, and omnibuses

ICU Pearls Critical Care tips

ICU Pearls Critical Care tips

Wisdom for doctors and nurses

This app offers over 2000 daily tips and pearls of wisdom for ICU medical professionals. It features a searchable database, dark mode, and the ability to save favorite tips. Designed for daily learning, it aims to improve critical care knowledge.

2000+ pearls of wisdom (2012-2020)Search by year, tags, or keywordsSave favorite tips

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