May 2026 in Review

May was a steadier month in terms of user growth and features shipped, partly by design. I took a break for a few weeks and the rest of it went into polishing what's already there and prototyping a few ideas rather than shipping a big new version. The clinicians who've been with us a while are using SnapMedic more than ever, and OSCE Practice in particular had its best month since launch.

Growing our community

Around 740 new clinicians joined SnapMedic in May, taking total downloads to roughly 12,700. It was a quieter month for new sign-ups, the slowest so far this year, and most of that softness was outside the UK. UK clinicians are now about 90% of the community.

I'll be honest: word-of-mouth has carried us a long way, but it has a ceiling, and with our lack of social media posts over the past few months we've seen a slowdown. Getting the word out properly, through ambassadors, content and a few partnerships, is the main thing on my mind for the summer.

If SnapMedic has helped you on shift, the single biggest thing you can do is leave a review on the App Store or Google Play. It genuinely changes how many clinicians find us.

If you want to go further we have an ambassador program on our discord server here. You can join the server and help us spread the word about SnapMedic by sharing your referral link with your colleagues and friends. We also have a small sticker / poster shop where you can buy some stickers and posters to share around your workplace or with colleagues.

What people used in May

Calculators are still the most-used part of the app: 449 clinicians ran one in May. Across the rest of the app:

• 367 logged a cardiac arrest
• 334 used the Respiration Counter
• 219 logged shifts, with regular users averaging more than six each
• 201 worked through the ECG Interpretation tool
• 195 ran flashcard study sessions, the most committed averaging well over 30 reviews each
• 176 took quizzes
• 144 practised with AI OSCE
• 101 logged CPD skills

The pattern I keep coming back to is the daily-use one. Shift Tracker, Skills Tracking and the Cardiac Arrest Logger all held steady or grew this month, and the people who use them use them a lot.

OSCE Practice — the best month yet

This is the part I'm most pleased about. First-time OSCE use more than tripled in May, jumping from 38 new users in April to 139, after we started surfacing OSCE during onboarding so people actually find it.

And they're finishing more of what they start:

• 297 sessions started, 159 completed, a 53.5% completion rate (up from 46.5% in April)
• The mode that was giving us trouble, Foundation Checklist, recovered nicely, from 33% completion to 41%
• Average scores climbed as well, especially at Advanced level

That completion bump is down to a small fix we shipped: a progress indicator inside the session so you can see how far through you are, plus a clearer prompt when it's time to give your impression. If you've ever tapped out of an OSCE half-way, that one was for you.

Chat mode is back to being the favourite (179 starts to Checklist's 118). There are more intermediate scenarios in draft covering paediatrics, mental health and major trauma, and they're next on the list.

A new home for feedback

Mid-month we moved the feedback portal to its own home at feedback.snapmedic.app. It loads quicker, looks like the rest of SnapMedic, lets us label things properly as a bug, feature or improvement, and you can sign in with your SnapMedic account rather than a separate one. All your existing ideas and votes came across. Read more about the move.

Honestly, most of what we've shipped recently started as a one-line note on that portal, so please keep them coming.

What's next

The summer is about two things: getting SnapMedic in front of more clinicians, and making the first day after install count. People who try two or three features on day one are far more likely to still be here a week later, and helping newer users find that second feature is the work I most want to land next.

The bigger features that are in the words are absolutely huge. We are adding bits for organisations to allow them to use SnapMedic effectively and some really fancy new learning tools. All of these are work in progress and subject to external partnerships hence the quieter months recently.

Early Access Builds

Today we are launching a new Ambassador program build to the app. This is going to be in testing for a while before we release to the genera public. If you are interested in joining the beta please join the Discord server and go to the #snap-ambassadors channel.

This build brings access to the following features / fixes:

• Shift Tracker now shows an easier step by step process to logging a shift
• Intubations are now logged much more appropriately with a guide. Brilliant if you use SnapMedic as an airway log!
• Intervention log events now auto map to skills tracking to avoid duplication.
• Paediatric GCS scale is now available
• Lot's of bug fixes and performance improvements

Thank you

A quieter month on the surface, but a good one underneath: OSCE is the best it's looked since launch, the core tools are sticking, and the app is on a firm footing. If something's missing you'd like to see, a calculator, a flashcard topic, an OSCE scenario, whatever, tell us on the feedback portal. The roadmap genuinely gets shaped by these messages.

See you next month.