Get Clinicoid

An iPhone, an iPad, or an Android phone or tablet. Both shops only offer an app to a device it actually runs on, so the store itself is the answer to whether yours is supported — if Clinicoid appears when you search, it works on that device.

A tablet is not a stretched phone here. On a wide screen the app lays itself out in two columns — a list beside what you are reading — rather than making you go back and forward between them.

And an internet connection. The tutor, written-answer marking and syncing need one. A paper you have already opened keeps working without it, and your answers catch up when you are back online.

Four steps between installing it and the first question. None of them asks for payment details.

One — Install it and open it

From Google Play on Android, or the App Store on iPhone and iPad. It is free to download and it does not ask for a card at any point during setup.

Two — Sign in

With Google, with Apple on iPhone and iPad, or with a code sent to your email. Signing in the first time creates your account, so use one you will still have next year.

Three — Set up your account

Pick your faculty and take a photo of your student card. The app reads your name, student number and year from it, then asks you to confirm your university email with Google. This decides which modules you see, so it is worth getting right. It takes a couple of minutes.

Four — Pick your module

One module, chosen once. From that moment the whole app is filtered to it — the questions, the exams, your mistakes, the search, the tutor — and you change it whenever you move on to the next one.

Getting started walks through the same four in more detail, and Modules shows which ones are open before you install anything.

You can. Sign in on a phone and a tablet and both keep working — there is no device limit, and signing in somewhere new does not quietly sign you out somewhere else. Your work is on the account, so whichever one you pick up is where you left off.

The app keeps a list of the devices your account is signed in on, with what each one is and when it was last used, and you can sign any of them out from Settings. That is the thing to reach for if you lose a phone or lend one — it ends that device’s session immediately, from wherever you are.

The app itself updates through Google Play or the App Store, the same as anything else on your phone. Leaving automatic updates on is the easy version, and it is worth it early on.

Content does not wait for an update. New questions, corrected explanations, added exercises and newly opened modules arrive on their own the next time the app loads them — a fixed answer reaches you without you doing anything, which is the point of how mistakes are handled.