First Aid: American Red Cross is a free education and reference app for learning health-related topics, from preparing for emergencies to providing first aid. It boasts an intuitive user interface for easy content navigation as well as dual language support for both English and Spanish users.

What’s great about First Aid: American Red Cross is you can access all information offline, which is handy for when you need to review basic first aid procedures on the go. Unfortunately, it lacks a search feature so you have to scroll through the content to find the topic you want to read about.

Read up on health problems

The American Red Cross is an organization responsible for assisting the vulnerable regardless of their race, nationality, class, or religion. With the First Aid: American Red Cross, you can learn about various life-threatening health maladies like heart attacks and non-threatening ones such as bites and burns. These topics can be accessed by selecting the “Learn” tab, and their descriptions are written in an easy-to-understand manner.

There are also quizzes to test your knowledge of health problems, with the questions a mix of true or false, situational tests, among others. Shareable badges are earned when you answer all of them correctly; however, the questions lack complexity so it’s possible to get them right on your first try. A slight difficulty increase on the tests would be beneficial for users who want an extra challenge.

Additionally, the app offers step-by-step tutorials on providing basic first aid for individuals with asthma, burns, and many more. The “Prepare” tab—meanwhile—contains checklists and procedures for preparing for natural disasters and everyday emergencies. It even teaches you how to put together a first-aid kit. As for the “Hospital” tab, you can use it to search for the nearest healthcare center provided that you have allowed location permission. 

A handy medical app

First Aid: American Red Cross contains all the basics for preparing a first aid kit, dealing with emergencies, and providing first aid to injured people—all of which are presented in an easy-to-read format. The quizzes are a nice touch, though they are not too difficult to complete, unfortunately. Another aspect the app can improve on is to include a search function so users can easily find a particular topic.