AuscultifyThe auscultation app that turns listening into a skill you can measure
Real heart, lung and bowel sounds from actual patients, quizzed in short daily sessions with instant feedback. Auscultify tracks your recognition rate across 12 auscultation sites so you know exactly what you can hear and what you still cannot.
Free to download · Pro includes a 7-day free trial · Cancel anytime
Six ways to train, one daily goal
Each mode isolates a different part of the auscultation skill. Together they cover what an examiner, an attending or a deteriorating patient will ask of your ears.
Heart Sounds
Name the murmur, gallop, click, rub or rhythm from a real recording at the site where it is heard.
Lung Sounds
Crackles, wheezes, rhonchi, pleural rub and normal breath sounds across six lung fields.
Screening
Rapid normal-vs-abnormal decisions, the triage skill you use on every patient before you decide to listen longer.
Source Check
Is that sound coming from the heart or the lungs? Trains the discrimination that trips up new clinicians most.
Spectrogram (Pro)
See each recording as a waveform and spectrogram synced to the audio, and learn to read the shape of a murmur.
Decomposition (Pro)
Untangle mixed heart-and-lung recordings into their components, which is what a real chest sounds like.
Drill the landmarks examiners actually score
Landmarks mode puts an interactive chest-wall map in front of you and asks where to listen, what you should hear there and what a given sound at that site implies. All 12 sites: the aortic and pulmonic areas, lower left sternal border, apex, both costal margins and six anterior lung fields.
It is the part of the OSCE cardiac and respiratory stations most students lose marks on, and the part no textbook can rehearse with you.
- Aortic and pulmonic areas
- Lower left sternal border and apex
- Costal margins and six anterior lung fields
- Same lesion recorded at multiple sites
How a session works
Ten minutes. That is the whole commitment.
Listen
A real recording plays. No label, no hint, just the sound and the site it was recorded at.
Commit to an answer
Pick what you hear. Committing before you see the answer is what makes the memory stick, and what passive listening never does.
Get corrected, move on
Instant feedback with the clinical reasoning. Missed sounds are weighted to come back sooner. Streaks and accuracy trends keep you honest.
Watch your recognition rate climb
The progress screen shows accuracy per mode, your streak, XP and a trend line over time. It answers the question every student has before an exam: am I actually getting better, or do I just feel like it?
- Accuracy trend across weeks
- Per-mode breakdown: heart, lung, screening, source
- Daily streak and goal ring
- Weak sounds surfaced automatically
Built for every stage of training
Pre-clinical students
Build the ear before you ever touch a patient, so your first murmur on the wards is a recognition rather than a mystery.
Clerkships, residency, nursing practice
Keep the rare findings fresh between the handful of real cases you will see. Nursing students → · PA students →
Exam season
USMLE, NCLEX, PANCE and OSCE all test auscultation. Step 1 murmurs → · OSCE cardiac station →
Free guides to pair with the app
Frequently asked questions
What is the best app to practice auscultation?
The best auscultation app is one that quizzes you on real patient recordings and tracks what you miss. Auscultify does exactly that with 200+ clinical recordings, six modes, landmark drills and per-mode progress, free to download on iPhone and iPad.
Does the app include lung and bowel sounds, or just heart sounds?
Heart, lung, bowel, vascular and mixed heart-and-lung recordings are all included, with six anterior lung fields alongside the cardiac sites. The screening and source-check modes train the general listen-and-decide skill you use at every site.
Can I practice auscultation without a stethoscope or patients?
Yes. That is the point of the app. You train the recognition half of the skill, which is the hard half, on real recordings. Technique with a real stethoscope then clicks into place much faster. See the free stethoscope technique guide for the hands-on part.
Is it free?
Free to download, with daily practice at no cost. Pro adds spectrogram training, decomposition, landmark drills and unlimited sessions, with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
Can I use it on the ward between patients?
Yes. Sessions are built around a 10, 20 or 40 question daily goal, so a few minutes between patients or on the bus is enough to keep the streak going and the rare findings fresh.
Is there an Android version?
Auscultify is currently available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.
Do I need headphones?
Strongly recommended. Low-frequency findings such as S3, S4 and diastolic rumbles are hard to hear through phone speakers. Any headphones will do.
Your stethoscope is only as good
as the ear behind it.
Train it ten minutes a day on real patient recordings. Free to download, Pro trial included, cancel anytime.
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