3M™ Littmann® SoundBuilder App Reviews

I really like this app. Its easy to use and intuitive. Sound quality is awesome! Highly recommend it.

What a kick butt app! Adding it to my repertoir of medical learning apps! Sounds are totally legit and the graphics actually look real! Up top High Five 3M Healthcare!

I am using the Littmann sound builder on my iPad and iPhone. It works great. Nice text and sounds. Beautiful cardiac animations!

The audio is designed for use with high quality earphones (only). Highlights the advantage of the graphical capability of the electronic stethoscope, but detracts from educational utility.

Very good app. Easy and intuitive. A great learning tool for students and clinicians!

Wonderful app. Where was this when I was in med school. Way before IPhones. Excellent teaching tool for all medical providers. Littmann is a great scope. doc465

Its a great app. heart sound have always been a bit nebulous to new students. This helps visualize and hear whats up.

Is there an equivalent app in the works for lung sounds?

I really liked the first version of the app, but now with the looping heart sounds, I can really learn through repetition. Its great. Thanks, Littmann.

Plz make a paid version for 99c and without those adds. Also it would be great if you guys added more physical examination (for example mitrial regurgitation can be attenuated by hand grip, expiration, etc...). More heart sounds would be great too. Nice little app for practicing your heart sounds.

The only things that could make it better is lung sounds and a few more heart sounds but thanks littmann this is awesome for nursing students and I <3 my littmann stethescope!

The heart animations helped to understand what causes d abnormal heart sounds!!

This is a great app but I really wish it had breath sounds. Im in respiratory school and I love my stethoscope!

I love this app but I also wish there were lung sounds available.

Like the app, would LOVE respiratory

I love this app. I just wish they provided lung sounds as well, most especially with the ability to play both heart AND lung sounds together. This app is really helpful since I am a student nurse. :)

This program doesnt even do anything, its not only a waste of money but of time.

Littmann has done a great deed in developing this app. It provides "lessons" on diaphragm/bell positioning and heart sounds, but it fails in sound quality. On both iPad and iPhone with the volume high, you can barely make out the heart sounds it produces. This is even with placing the speaker directly next to your external canal. I would love to use this more as a mobile teaching model, so that students may hear what I am trying to explain when a patients with similar conditions are not available. Littmanns only suggestion is to wear headphones, which is not always practical.

A very useful tool especially that I work in telemetry! Makes learning very convenient and easy. Thanks Littman :)

Several commenters complain about the need for headphones to hear the sounds. Heart sounds are low frequency; the first and second heart sounds are around 100 hz. Murmurs are somewhat higher. The tiny speakers in iphones and ipads are not capable of playing those sounds with any volume. If you want to use this app in a lecture hall it can be done by buying a pair of powered speakers. They can be had for as little as $100 and are capable of filling an average sized lecture hall with sound.