Suture Selector
By Amy Chung
Suture Selector is a medical reference app for healthcare professionals, providing categorized summaries of suture characteristics and needle types on iOS.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app for quick, ward-based access to suture specifications, using the personalized note-taking tool to build a custom clinical reference database.
For Healthcare professionals including medical students, residents, and clinicians requiring quick reference tools for clinical or surgical settings.
What does it look like?
Key features
Categorized summary of suture characteristics including size, shape, needle-point, material, and stitch type.
Personalized note-taking feature for saving suture preferences and clinical notes, encouraging repeat usage by building a personalized clinical reference database.
Graphic-based illustrations of commercially available suture types.
How much does it cost?
The app is distributed as a free utility with no visible in-app purchases.
Velocity
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Suture Selector has not received a functional update or maintenance patch in over 3,250 days. The development activity is non-existent, as the only recorded release was a generic update from Apple with no new features. Given the lack of activity since 2017, the app is classified as a zombie project.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for Suture Selector
How's the Medical market?
Suture Selector is a free medical utility with no updates in over eight years, placing it in a maintenance-mode position relative to active clinical reference tools.
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Key takeaways for Suture Selector
Where is it heading?
The medical reference market is consolidating around platforms with active, peer-reviewed update cadences. Suture Selector's abandonment leaves it exposed to obsolescence, so the PM should prioritize sunsetting the tool to protect professional reputation.
- The eight-year update gap signals total abandonment, which prevents the app from maintaining clinical relevance in a rapidly evolving medical field.
The SWOT
- mySelection tool enables personalized clinical reference databases.
- Categorized library provides standardized, graphic-based suture summaries.
- Wearable integration could provide hands-free reference access in sterile OR environments.
Next best moves
Sunset the application because the 3,253-day update gap renders the clinical data untrustworthy for modern medical standards → eliminate brand risk.
The counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of updates is not just a maintenance failure…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The analysis shifted from a neutral maintenance-mode assessment to a definitive recommendation to sunset the application due to total abandonment and lack of professional utility.
Bottom line
Suture Selector provides a useful, niche reference structure for clinicians, but its eight-year update drought makes it a liability for professional use, so the developer should either sunset the app or pivot to a modern, cloud-synced platform.
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