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NurseSavvy Free Plan Allowance Calculator

This calculator answers one question: how much can you actually study on NurseSavvy’s free plan? Slide to the number of days a week you would really open the app, and it estimates a semester of learning-flow cards for a typical student. Practice questions and games are unlimited, so they need no math.

Below it, the daily-plan builder turns the time you have today into an ordered study loop for one topic. Both are for nursing students deciding whether a free account is enough to run a real routine, in school or during NCLEX prep.

How much is free, exactly

One semester on the free plan

ModeStarter packThen per day16 weeks × 5 days
Speed learning5 resuscitations; unused ones carry over3 hearts + 1 resuscitation≈ 3,604 cards for a typical student
Practice questionsNever meteredUnlimited
GamesNever meteredUnlimited
CAT readiness exams (85 questions by default)Never meteredUnlimited

Speed learning runs on hearts, not a card count: a missed card costs a heart, streaks earn them back, and a resuscitation brings all 3 back. The card figure is an estimate (about 44 cards on a one-resuscitation day for a typical student; more if you get more right). Hearts and the daily resuscitation come back at your local midnight. Podcasts, cheat sheets, the Learning Center, the simulators, the speed check, and review of past work are never metered. No card, no expiry.

Free daily-plan builder

Build today’s NurseSavvy study loop

Today: the topic on your next exam

  1. 15 minScan the cheat sheet, close it, and write or say the priority finding and first nursing action.
  2. 210 minListen to the topic podcast and answer each built-in knowledge check before the reveal.
  3. 37 minComplete part of the guided learning flow, explaining each choice out loud.
  4. 48 minAnswer NCLEX-style questions, then review every miss and every lucky guess.

Practice questions, podcasts, and cheat sheets are never metered. Speed learning runs on hearts: 3 hearts, 5 resuscitations to start, then 1 a day.

How the calculator adds up a free semester

  • The one metered mode is speed learning (learning-flow cards), and it runs on hearts, not a card count. You have 3 hearts; a missed card costs one, streaks earn them back, and read cards never cost one. Lose the last heart and a resuscitation brings all 3 back: 5 resuscitations to start, then 1 a day, with unused ones carried over. Practice questions and games are unlimited. The calculator reads the hearts rules from the same constants the app enforces.
  • Because hearts depend on how many cards you get right, there is no fixed card count. The semester figure uses a typical student: about 44 cards on a one-resuscitation day (from a simulation at the median student accuracy of about 81%), plus about 21 cards for each of the 4 extra starter resuscitations. Study days are the slider value, from 1 to 7 days a week with a default of 5, times a fixed 16-week semester. The semester length is not editable.
  • The result is marked with an approximately sign on purpose. A student who gets more cards right gets more cards, and one who misses more gets fewer (the weakest students get about 21 a day). It counts only the days you chose, so days you skip add nothing. It is an estimate, not a promise.
  • Practice questions, games, and CAT readiness exams get their own rows because they are never metered. The note under the table lists what else is never metered: podcasts, narrated videos, cheat sheets, the Learning Center, the simulators, the speed check, and review of past work. Hearts and the daily resuscitation come back at your local midnight.
  • The daily-plan builder offers 15, 30, and 60-minute loops with three, four, and five steps, and defaults to 30 minutes. The steps are fixed text built around the cheat sheet, podcast, learning flow, and practice questions. The topic you type only labels the plan; it does not change the steps.
  • Neither tool needs an account, and nothing you enter is saved or sent anywhere. Reloading resets both. They describe the free plan; they do not change your account or track your real usage.

Why it works

Questions people ask

Is the NurseSavvy free plan a trial?
No. The calculator’s own note says no card and no expiry. Speed learning runs on hearts with a daily limit, and everything else, practice questions and games included, stays free without a daily cap.
What happens when I run out of hearts?
A resuscitation brings all 3 back. With none left, speed learning waits until your local midnight, or a friend share gives you both 15 resuscitations. Practice questions and games stay open, and reviewing work you have already completed never costs a heart.
Are the full-length CAT readiness exams counted against the limit?
No. The calculator lists them as never metered and unlimited, like practice questions and games.
Why does the calculator use a 16-week semester?
It is a fixed assumption built into the tool so the semester total is concrete. If your term is shorter or longer, the real total scales with the number of days you actually study.
What does paying change?
Premium is unlimited speed learning: unlimited resuscitations, so it never runs out. Everything on the never-metered list stays free either way.

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