SimpleNursing vs MagstoneRN: what one subscription includes

Key takeaways

• Every MagstoneRN plan includes 5,000+ flashcards, interactive 3D anatomy, six 3D patient simulations (in the web app), and 100+ drug monographs.^⁠[1] SimpleNursing's plan comparison lists none of these,^⁠[2] and its flashcards are printed sets sold in its shop.^⁠[3]
• SimpleNursing's Nursing School plan costs $19.99 a month. Its longer plans depend on which of two price sets its site shows you: $78 or $108 for six months, $132 or $180 for a year.^⁠[2] MagstoneRN costs $19.99 a month, $109.99 every six months, or $199.99 a year.^⁠[4]
• SimpleNursing has more videos and more questions: every Nursing School plan lists 1,200+ animated lecture videos, 1,000+ study guides, and 4,000+ course questions plus 4,500+ NCLEX-RN questions.^⁠[2] MagstoneRN has 4,000+ practice questions.^⁠[1]
• SimpleNursing's adaptive (CAT) practice tests and 6 readiness assessments come with its NCLEX-RN plans and Full Journey, not its Nursing School plans.^⁠[2] Every MagstoneRN plan has an NCLEX-style adaptive practice exam, with no readiness score.^⁠[5]
• MagstoneRN turns your lecture slides and notes into new flashcards, practice questions, or a podcast, with $5.00 of AI credit a month on paid plans.^⁠[6] SimpleNursing's Rubi Match matches the same kinds of files to its existing videos, guides, and quizzes.^⁠[7]

Every MagstoneRN plan includes flashcards, 3D anatomy, and patient simulations

Sources for this table: ^{[1][2][4][7][8][9][10]}. The SimpleNursing pages were read November 13, 2026.

SimpleNursing's Nursing School plan costs less for 6 or 12 months

SimpleNursing's pricing page shows each visitor one of two price sets, picked at random and remembered, so two students can see different prices for the same plan.^⁠[2] Where the sets differ, this guide gives both.

SimpleNursing costs the same for one month and less for 6, 12, or 24 months. A school year with its adaptive NCLEX tests added for the last month comes to $181.99 or $239.99, depending on the price set, against MagstoneRN's $199.99 for a year, which includes its adaptive exam. SimpleNursing's monthly and semester plans renew; its annual plan, Pass Guarantee, and Full Journey are billed once.^⁠[2] MagstoneRN's monthly, six-month, and annual plans renew until you cancel, and Lifetime is one payment.^⁠[4]

MagstoneRN's higher price for a school year covers tools that SimpleNursing's Nursing School plan doesn't list: flashcards, 3D anatomy, patient simulations, and an adaptive practice exam. For two years, SimpleNursing's Full Journey ($240 or $312) costs less than MagstoneRN ($349.99). It also includes readiness assessments, live NCLEX cram sessions, and free 90-day access extensions if you don't pass, with conditions.^⁠[2]

SimpleNursing's home page shows different, rounder prices, such as $20 a month for Nursing School and $189 for the Pass Guarantee.^⁠[7] This guide uses the pricing page.

MagstoneRN includes digital flashcards; SimpleNursing sells printed sets

MagstoneRN comes with 5,000+ flashcards in 130+ decks, from anatomy, pathophysiology, and pharmacology to med-surg, maternal-newborn, pediatrics, mental health, critical care, and lab values. Give a card a thumbs down and it comes back soon; cards you know wait longer. You can also paste or upload class notes to make your own cards.^⁠[11]

SimpleNursing's flashcards are physical cards: a 200-card pharmacology set for $49.99^⁠[8] and a 308-card med-surg set for $72,^⁠[9] both shipped only within the United States. Its plan comparison doesn't list flashcards in any membership.^⁠[2]

3D anatomy and bedside patient simulations come with every MagstoneRN plan

The 3D anatomy atlas lets you rotate and zoom a whole-body model and detailed models of the brain, eye, heart, lung, liver, intestines, kidneys, reproductive organs, skeleton, hand, and foot. Tap a structure for its name, read its clinical landmark cards, and quiz yourself on one highlighted structure at a time.^⁠[12]

The six simulations cover heart failure, walking a patient after surgery, bleeding on heparin, pneumonia with signs of sepsis, postpartum hemorrhage, and a toddler with dehydration, each in a 3D patient room. You assess the patient, talk with the family and care team, review the chart, and get a scored debrief, with coaching on or as an uncoached assessment. The patient's responses follow authored branches rather than a physiology model, and simulations run only in the web app.^⁠[13]

SimpleNursing teaches anatomy and physiology with system-by-system videos,^⁠[7] and every plan includes real-world NGN case studies in which you read the chart and decide what to do.^⁠[2] Its plans list no 3D models or simulated patient rooms. MagstoneRN has unfolding case studies too, 38 of them.

MagstoneRN includes drug, lab, and dose-math reference tools; SimpleNursing teaches these topics in its lessons

Every MagstoneRN plan includes clinical reference tools: 100+ drug monographs and 79 lab entries with their sources listed, dose calculators for IV flow rates, weight-based doses, and drops per minute that show every step, plus 24 care plans, 27 skills checklists, and 42 condition profiles.^⁠[14] The clinical tools are also free in the app without a plan.^⁠[1]

SimpleNursing's plans list no reference tools like these. It publishes free care plans and drug guides on its website,^⁠[15] and its nursing school lessons cover pharmacology by drug class, medication math (conversions, IV rates, and weight-based dosing), and clinical-day labs, with step-by-step skill demos.^⁠[7] MagstoneRN's drug study guides and normal lab values for nursing students are free to read on this website too.

MagstoneRN turns your lecture slides into new flashcards, questions, and podcasts

Upload PowerPoints, PDFs, Word files, or photos of your notes, pick the pages or slides you need or combine up to 10 files, and MagstoneRN makes private flashcards, practice questions with explanations, or an audio podcast from them. Each card or question links back to the matching passage in your file, with its page or slide number.^⁠[6]

Paid plans and eligible school access include $5.00 of AI credit a month for making new material; Lifetime includes it for 36 months. Unused monthly credit doesn't carry over, reviewing what you made uses none, and a free trial comes with a smaller, one-time balance.^⁠[4][6]

SimpleNursing's Rubi Match, included with every membership, takes the same kinds of files and points them to SimpleNursing's existing videos, study guides, and quizzes, opening a video where your topic starts. SimpleNursing describes the results as its own expert-vetted content, never a generated summary, and its home page also offers Rubi Tutor to explain concepts that don't click.^⁠[7]

SimpleNursing is the better pick for video lessons, readiness scores, and an iPhone app

• Every SimpleNursing plan includes 1,200+ animated lecture videos and 1,000+ digital study guides.^⁠[2] MagstoneRN teaches with written lessons.
• SimpleNursing lists 1,400+ NGN-format NCLEX-RN questions.^⁠[2] MagstoneRN has 220 Bowtie, Matrix, trend, and ordered-sequence questions plus 220+ in its 38 case studies.^⁠[16]
• SimpleNursing's NCLEX-RN plans and Full Journey add adaptive (CAT) practice tests and 6 readiness assessments with a pass prediction.^⁠[2] MagstoneRN has no readiness score.
• Live nursing school webinars come with every Nursing School plan, and live NCLEX cram sessions come with the NCLEX plans.^⁠[2]
• SimpleNursing has iOS and Android apps.^⁠[2] MagstoneRN runs in the browser on a phone or computer and has an Android app on Google Play; its iPhone app isn't in the App Store yet.^⁠[1]
• SimpleNursing's free trial needs no credit card.^⁠[17] MagstoneRN's trial needs a payment method.
• SimpleNursing also sells NCLEX-PN prep, with 3,800+ PN questions,^⁠[2] and TEAS prep for nursing school applicants.^⁠[18] MagstoneRN is for RN students, and this site has free TEAS 7 practice tests (they ask for your email and a yes to MagstoneRN marketing emails to start).
• Every Nursing School plan lists exit exam and HESI prep.^⁠[2]

SimpleNursing's home page advertises a 99% NCLEX pass rate. The FAQ on the same page says the figure comes from students who respond to its surveys after buying.^⁠[7] MagstoneRN doesn't publish a pass rate.

Both offer an NCLEX pass guarantee, with conditions

SimpleNursing's NCLEX-RN Pass Guarantee (a one-time $171 or $195 NCLEX-RN plan with 90 days of access) and Full Journey give a free 90-day extension if you don't pass and meet its eligibility rules. You request it within 60 days of your access end date with your result and your next booked exam date, its support team reviews every request, and you can get up to five.^⁠[2]

If you don't pass the NCLEX-RN, MagstoneRN gives you full access at no charge until you pass, if your account had at least 90 days of paid access bought on magstonern.com before the exam. Email the official result within 60 days of getting it, and do the same after each later attempt you don't pass. A person reviews each claim. Read the pass guarantee terms.

A MagstoneRN year plus one SimpleNursing NCLEX-RN month costs $249.98 or $259.98

If you want SimpleNursing's readiness assessments before the exam, MagstoneRN's annual plan ($199.99) plus one SimpleNursing NCLEX-RN month ($49.99 or $59.99) comes to $249.98 or $259.98.^⁠[2]

MagstoneRN plans and trial terms

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Sources and how this was checked

MagstoneRN wrote this comparison and sells one of the products in it. No one outside MagstoneRN reviewed it, and no competitor checked it.

MagstoneRN facts come from the app itself and MagstoneRN's own pages, such as the features page and the subscription terms. Competitor facts come only from each company's own pages, read on November 13, 2026. How we source our content explains where the clinical facts in our guides and the app come from.

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Sources: 8 entries, each the publisher's own page, last checked 2026-11-13, and 12 entries from MagstoneRN's own pages.

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