Your test date isn't moving.
Neither is the pass line. Start free today — 56 questions with a full rationale on every one. Go Pro when you want the whole 418-question bank, timed exams, and a plan that counts backward from the day you sit it.
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Free foreverSee exactly how Scruba teaches before you pay a cent.
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No card, no expiry, no trial clock.
Keep using it alongside a subscription, or on its own for as long as you like.
- 15 questions with no accountSign up and it opens to 56 — 7 in each of the eight categories.
- The full rationale on every questionThe same written explanations subscribers get.
- A free question every day, with a streakOne item a day from your free questions — the habit, not a trial.
- Flashcards from the questions you missBuilt from your 56. Pro builds them from the whole bank.
- The lab-values deck and its PDFEvery reference range worth knowing cold, in the app and as a guide.
- 15 Scruba AI replies a monthAsk Scruba AI anything; after that it answers from the question bank.
- Progress saved to your accountPick up where you left off on any device.
- No ads, no upsell walls mid-questionThe free tier is a smaller Scruba, not a worse one.
Scruba Pro
AnnualEverything in monthly, plus a personalized study roadmap, weekly progress reports, and downloadable study guides.
$5/ month
$5.00/month, billed $60 annually.
$119.88paying month to monthYou keep $59.88
Save 50% compared with monthly billing.
Works out to about 16¢ a day.
- All 418 questionsEvery one with a written rationale — plus every question added while you're subscribed.
- Timed exam modeFull-length runs with a score breakdown against the 75% pass line.
- Flashcards from your missesBuilt automatically, so you drill the concepts you actually got wrong.
- Week-by-week study planEvery category mapped across the weeks left until your real test date.
- Unlimited Scruba AIAsk why an answer is right and get it back in plain language, as often as you need.
Only on annual
- Personalized study roadmapA day-by-day schedule counting back from your exam date, weighted to the categories your history says are weakest.
- Weekly progress reportsA readable summary every week — accuracy, categories practiced, what improved, and where to aim next.
- Downloadable study guidesReference PDFs — lab values, medication safety, prioritization — with a clean layout and cited sources.
$60 for 12 months · secure checkout by Stripe
Scruba Pro
MonthlyEvery Pro feature. Pay as you go, stop the day you pass.
$9.99/ month
Billed monthly · cancel anytime.
Pass in your first month and $9.99 is all you pay. Switch to annual whenever and it drops to $5.00.
- All 418 questionsEvery one with a written rationale — plus every question added while you're subscribed.
- Timed exam modeFull-length runs with a score breakdown against the 75% pass line.
- Flashcards from your missesBuilt automatically, so you drill the concepts you actually got wrong.
- Week-by-week study planEvery category mapped across the weeks left until your real test date.
- Unlimited Scruba AIAsk why an answer is right and get it back in plain language, as often as you need.
The personalized study roadmap, weekly progress reports, and downloadable study guides are on the annual plan. Upgrade any time — the price is prorated and the monthly plan ends.
Secure checkout by Stripe
Line by line
The full 418-question bank, timed exams, flashcards from every miss in it, and unlimited Scruba AI need Pro. Everything else is genuinely free.
| Feature | Sample | Free | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practice questions | 15 | 56 | All 418 | All 418 |
| Full rationale on every question | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Scruba AI replies | Not included | 15 / month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| No account required | Included | Not included | Not included | Not included |
| Progress saved to your account | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| New questions as they're added | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Question of the day + streak | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Lab-values flashcard deck | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Timed exam mode | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Flashcards from missed questions | Not included | From your 56 | All 418 | All 418 |
| Week-by-week study plan | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Personalized study roadmap | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Weekly progress reports | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Downloadable study guides | Not included | Lab values only | Not included | Included |
Paying yearly keeps $59.88 in your pocket — 50% off the monthly rate.
One payment covers the whole year and every question added to the bank during it. Prefer to keep it open-ended? Monthly is $9.99 and stops whenever you do.
Three things monthly doesn't include
All of them are built on your own study data, enforced on the server, and only advertised here because they actually work.
Personalized study roadmap
A day-by-day schedule counting back from your exam date, weighted to the categories your history says are weakest.
Weekly progress reports
A readable summary every week — accuracy, categories practiced, what improved, and where to aim next.
Downloadable study guides
Reference PDFs — lab values, medication safety, prioritization — with a clean layout and cited sources.
A look at each one
14 days to exam · 3 of 22 tasks done
- Mon Pharmacology practice — 20 questions
- Tue Maternal & Newborn practice — 18 questions
- Wed Flashcards from your misses — 10 min
- Thu Pharmacology practice — 20 questions
- Sat Mixed review + timed exam
Questions
84
Accuracy
71%
+6 pts · n = 84
Recommendation: Pharmacology — 58% over 31 questions last week.
| WBC | 5,000–10,000 /mm³ |
| RBC | 4.2–6.1 million /mm³ |
| Hemoglobin | 12–18 g/dL |
| Hematocrit | 37–52% |
Lab values and prioritization ship now; more after nursing review.
The math
One NCLEX retake costs more than three years of Scruba.
Re-registering for the exam is $200, and most boards make you wait at least 45 days before you can sit it again. Scruba Pro is $60 for the year — the whole bank, the timed exams, and the plan that's built to get you through on the first attempt.
Straight answers
- Is the free account actually useful, or just a teaser?
- It's a real study tool. 56 questions — 7 in every one of the eight categories — each with the same full written rationale a subscriber sees, plus 15 Scruba AI replies a month. Most people use it to decide whether Scruba's explanations click for them before paying anything.
- What does Pro add?
- On both plans: the rest of the question bank and every question added later, timed exam mode with a full score breakdown, flashcards built automatically from what you miss, a week-by-week plan counting back from your test date, and unlimited Scruba AI instead of a monthly cap.
- What's only on the annual plan?
- Three things. A personalized study roadmap — a day-by-day schedule from your exam date and available time, weighted to the categories your history shows are weakest. Weekly progress reports built from your real activity, with the sample size shown next to every accuracy figure. And a library of downloadable study guides as cited PDFs. Everything the monthly plan has is included too.
- Annual or monthly — which should I pick?
- Annual if your exam is more than six weeks out: it's $5.00/month billed $60 annually, works out to 16¢ a day, saves $59.88 (50%) against paying monthly, and it's the only plan with the roadmap, reports, and guides. Monthly ($9.99) if you're close to your date and only need a few weeks — cancel it the day you pass.
- Can I switch from monthly to annual?
- Yes, any time from the pricing page or your billing settings. You'll see the charge before you confirm — Stripe bills the annual price, credits the unused part of the month you've already paid for, and ends the monthly plan so you're never billed twice.
- Can I cancel?
- The monthly plan, any time — canceling stops the next charge and you keep access through the month you've paid for. The annual plan is a single up-front payment for the whole year, so there's no monthly charge running and nothing to cancel; it simply ends at twelve months unless you renew.
- Does the question bank keep growing?
- Yes. New questions are written to the NCLEX outline regularly, and a subscription includes every one added while it's active — the price doesn't change as the bank gets bigger.
Read one rationale. Then decide.
15 questions, no account, no card. If the explanations don't make it click, you've lost nothing.