Chapters library
Every subject, split into chapters. Open one and practise just that, and watch it fill in.
- Renal & Urinary72%
- Cardiovascular48%
- Infectious Disease31%
Made in Egypt, for every medical exam
Revise like you’re already on the ward.
Balto. So when the shift starts, you are not the one standing there lost.
The clinical question bank and exam simulator for EMLE, SMLE, USMLE and UKMLA: every answer explained across First Aid, Pathoma, the Oxford Handbooks and the national protocol, with an AI tutor beside you.
Two minutes to sign up · no card · nothing to cancel
- 10 free questions a day
- Free games, no account
- Arabic & English
- Works on a weak connection
Try this one: it’s a real question
Try one: no account needed
A 34-year-old farmer from Kafr El-Sheikh has noticed blood at the end of his urine stream for two months. He works barefoot in irrigation canals. Urine microscopy shows eggs with a terminal spine. Which is the most appropriate treatment?
- questions in exam blocks
- 14,000+
- questions in exam blocks
- more in the chapters library
- 70,000+
- more in the chapters library
- free drills in the arcade
- 549
- free drills in the arcade
- exams covered
- 6
- exams covered
- regions to explore
- 23
- regions to explore
- free questions every day
- 10
- free questions every day
Every number on this page is counted from the app itself. No quotes, no ratings and no figures we made up.
Checking statusOne bank, six ways to prepare
- EMLE: Egyptian Licensing
- USMLE Step 1
- USMLE Step 2 CK
- UKMLA / PLAB
- SMLE: Saudi Licensing
- University Rounds & Finals
The problem
The licence became a condition. The material did not keep up.
Not because you did not work. Because of what you were given to work from.
You are studying from a file nobody signed.
A Telegram PDF copied from a PDF copied from a PDF. The mistake inside it travels with every copy and never gets fixed.
Every question here carries its source, and a flag button that sends a wrong one to review.
The global Qbanks never studied your medicine.
UWorld and AMBOSS have no schistosomiasis, no typhoid, no ministry protocol, and no idea which drug is actually on the shelf in the hospital you will be posted to.
A fourth lens on every answer is the national protocol, the local formulary and the endemic picture.
And if you wanted one, you could not pay for it.
A year of UWorld Step 1 runs to about $629 (over 32,000 EGP) before you have found the dollars or a card that clears internationally.
Pay with InstaPay, Vodafone Cash or cash at any Fawry kiosk, in pounds, today.
Why you can trust it
We are not asking you to trust us. We are showing you where to check.
Every answer opens on four lenses, and each one says where it came from. If something looks wrong, flag it from inside the question and it goes to review.
- 1
High-Yield
Buzzwords, mnemonics, and the one-line board discriminator.
- 2
Pathophysiology
Cellular and tissue-level diagnostic mechanism.
- 3
Clinical Steps
Acute bedside management, ordered as done on the ward.
- 4
Egypt / Protocol
National guidelines, public hospital formulary, and endemic context.
The source is on the answerNot a bibliography at the back. On the answer you are reading, now.
Found a mistake? Flag itIt goes to the review desk, and the fix reaches everyone.
And where there is no explanation yetThe question says so, instead of inventing one.
Dr. Balto is an AI and can be wrong too. It says so itself, and tells you to check your book. That is the point: a source you can open beats a promise you cannot test.
How it works
Three steps, every day, until exam day.
- 1
Pick your exam
EMLE, USMLE, UKMLA / PLAB, SMLE or your faculty finals. The bank and the explanations follow you.
- 2
Answer, then understand
Every answer opens the reasoning from the books you study, and Dr. Balto is there when it still doesn’t click.
- 3
Come back at the right time
What you got wrong returns just before you’d forget it. Your streak and the weekly league keep you coming back.
The Atlas
Medicine as one world you explore.
23 regions, one for every body system, joined by roads. Clear a region with real exam questions, then survive the chair’s rounds to master it.
- Fog shows where you haven’t beenNothing is locked: revise anything the night before an exam.
- Every region has a chair’s round10 timed questions, 75 seconds each. Score 80% to win the crown.
- Each region is a wiki pageIts pearls, facts and cases, and links to the regions next door.
An example of one student’s progress, not real data.
The arcade
Games that make the facts stick.
549 drills, free and unlimited, no account needed, and they never use your daily questions. Try one right here.
Rapid fire: try five
1/5Praziquantel treats schistosomiasis.
Meet Dr. Balto
A tutor who’s awake at 2 a.m. before your exam.
Stuck on a question? Ask why. Want to be tested? Say “quiz me”. Dr. Balto answers in English or Egyptian Arabic, and never just hands you the answer before you’ve tried.
- Explains why the right answer is right, and why yours was tempting
- Hints during a block, without giving it away
- 5 free messages a day; all day on Pro
AI can be wrong. Check what matters against your book.
Dr. Balto
Online
Why does a terminal spine mean praziquantel and not albendazole?
Ask Dr. Balto…
Everything inside
Built for the way you actually revise.
Not just questions: a library, a notebook of your mistakes, charts of your study, and a plan to exam day.
Stats that tell you something
Questions per day, accuracy over time, and the hours you score best.
Your lectures, turned into questions
Upload a lecture PDF or paste your notes and get up to 20 multiple-choice questions on it, each with the reasoning. Your own material, not ours: these stay in your account and never join the shared bank.
A face on the board
Upload a picture or pick one of ten. It shows on the league table, so your year can see who they are chasing.
Mistakes notebook
Everything you got wrong, by system, with one tap to redo it.
Exam readiness
Set your exam date. See where you stand and how many questions a day gets you there.
Clinical pearls
42 high-yield facts as flashcards, free for everyone.
A weekly league
XP from every answer. A fresh table every Saturday: everyone, or just your faculty.
Streaks, levels and badges
A daily goal you pick, a freeze for the day life gets in the way, and levels from Intern to Professor.
Arabic or English
The whole app in Egyptian Arabic or English. Switch any time, even mid-exam.
On your phone, like an app
Add it to your home screen. It opens full-screen and remembers where you stopped.
Search everything
Press Ctrl K anywhere to jump to a chapter, a region, a case or a pearl.
Numbers in the previews are examples.
The honest comparison
Three ways to revise for the licence. One of them shows its working.
| Telegram PDFs | UWorld / AMBOSS | Balto | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A year, for one exam | Free | $448 – $629 | 2,798 EGP |
| Pay without a dollar card | — | No | Yes |
| A source on every answer | No | Yes | Yes |
| National protocol and endemic disease | No | No | Yes |
| Past papers and faculty exams | Sometimes | No | Yes |
| A mistake gets fixed when you report it | No | Yes | Yes |
Competitor prices read from their own pricing pages in October 2026: AMBOSS yearly membership with the Qbank bundle, UWorld Step 1 for 360 days. They set their own prices and may change them.
Pricing
Free every day. Pro when you’re ready.
On the annual plan, Pro works out at about 7.7 EGP a day: less than the tea you drink while revising.
Free
0
forever
- 10 questions a day
- Streaks, league and badges
- Dr. Balto, 5 messages a day
- The whole arcade, 549 drills
Pro
Pick how long
Monthly
cancel any time
398 EGP
Rolling access, cancel any time.
Three months
1,194 EGP save 16%
999 EGP
A round, a module, or the run-up to one exam.
SemesterMost chosen
2,388 EGP save 33%
1,598 EGP
Covers a full teaching term and its finals.
Annual
4,776 EGP save 41%
2,798 EGP
A full year of rounds, finals and licensing prep.
- Unlimited questions, every day
- Full timed mocks, up to 200 questions
- Dr. Balto all day, not 5 a day
- Everything in Free
| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Questions a day | 10 | Unlimited |
| Timed mock exams | Not included | Up to 200 questions |
| Dr. Balto, the AI tutor | 5 messages a day | All day |
| Explanations from your books | Included | Included |
| Spaced repetition on your mistakes | Included | Included |
| The Atlas, chair’s rounds and the league | Included | Included |
| The arcade and the training room | Included | Included |
| Notebook, stats and readiness | Included | Included |
| Anki export | Not included | Included |
| Past-paper PDFs turned into questions | Not included | Included |
| Works offline once visited | Included | Included |
| Card needed to start | No | At checkout only |
Pay however you actually can
- إنستاباي
- فودافون كاش
- أورانج كاش
- اتصالات كاش
- فوري
- Visa
- Mastercard
- ميزة
No dollars, no international card, and no auto-renewal behind your back: you buy a fixed period, and it ends when it ends.
- No card to startFree needs an email and nothing else.
- Nothing renews itselfPro is a period you buy. It ends when it ends.
- Your work stays yoursDrop back to Free and your notebook and progress are still there.
Join us
Earn with Balto
Your year is already asking you what to revise from. If they subscribe through your link, you take a cut of what they pay, in pounds, to InstaPay or your wallet.
What you get
A percentage of every subscription your friends pay for, not a one-off bounty. The rate rises as more of them stay.
- from your first friend12%
- from 5 paying friends15%
- from 15 paying friends17%
For example: a classmate takes the annual plan at 2,798 EGP. Your cut at 12% is 335.76 EGP.
How it runs
- Pick your codeAny 3 to 12 letters or numbers. It becomes your link.
- They have 90 daysA friend who signs up through your link and pays within 90 days counts, and every renewal after that counts too.
- Paid in poundsInstaPay or a mobile wallet, to the number you give us. No points, no credit, no store.
- You can see all of itEvery commission, what it was based on, and whether it is pending, approved or paid.
You cannot refer yourself, and a friend who has already paid for Balto cannot be claimed. Commissions are approved after the payment clears and are void if it is refunded.
Questions
Before you sign up
Is it really free?
Yes. Every account gets 10 questions a day, renewed at midnight Cairo time, plus streaks, the league, badges, the pearls and 5 messages a day with Dr. Balto. No card needed.
Which exams is it for?
EMLE: Egyptian Licensing · USMLE Step 1 · USMLE Step 2 CK · UKMLA / PLAB · SMLE: Saudi Licensing · University Rounds & Finals
Where do the questions come from?
Past papers, faculty exams and openly licensed medical question sets, each one marked with its source. Explanations point to the books you already use; where a full explanation hasn’t been written yet, the question says so.
How accurate is it, and what if I find a mistake?
We do not claim a question bank with no mistakes in it: nobody honestly can. What we claim is that you can check: every question is reviewed before publication and shows its source, and a flag button inside the question sends a wrong one to the review desk. Dr. Balto is an AI and can be wrong too, which is why it tells you to check your book.
I’m starting late. Is there still any point?
Yes, and it is the case the app is built for. Nothing is locked, so you can go straight to the weakest chapters; the readiness screen tells you where you actually stand, and a timed mock the week before shows you the gap while there is still time to close it.
How do I pay?
Card (Visa, Mastercard, Meeza), mobile wallet (Vodafone Cash, Orange, Etisalat), cash at any Fawry kiosk, or InstaPay. Prices are in Egyptian pounds.
Are the games really free?
Yes. Rapid fire (376 facts), Spot the mistake (149 pairs of plans), Case detective (24 patients) and the training room are free for everyone, with no account and no daily limit. The Atlas uses real bank questions, so it needs a free account.
Does it work on my phone? In Arabic?
Yes to both. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, it keeps working on a bad connection once you have visited, and the whole interface switches between Egyptian Arabic and English. Questions are in English, with French ones in the faculty library.
Can I stop paying whenever I want?
Yes. Pro is a fixed period you buy, not a subscription that renews behind your back. When it ends, your account drops back to Free with everything you have written, marked and learned still there.
How does earning with Balto actually pay?
In Egyptian pounds, to InstaPay or a mobile wallet you nominate. You take 12% of what each friend pays, rising to 15% once five of them are paying and 17% at fifteen, and it applies to their renewals too, not just the first payment. A commission is approved once the payment clears and voided if it is refunded. You cannot refer yourself, and a friend who has already paid cannot be claimed.
Get the app
Balto on your phone and your laptop
Install it straight from the browser. No store account, no installer, a few megabytes. It gets its own icon and opens without the address bar, and the arcade still works with no connection.
There is an Android file and a Windows installer too, on the download page. Not on Google Play or the App Store yet, so both systems will warn you about the file.
Computer
Chrome or Edge on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. Opens in its own window from the Start menu.
Android
Chrome installs it as a real app, listed in the app drawer beside everything else.
Your first ten questions are waiting.
Two minutes to sign up, no card needed, and the arcade is open before you even make an account.
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