Centric Notes vs BackpackEMR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Centric Notes
Streamline the creation of detailed clinical treatment notes for dental professionals. This app helps you write accurate, readable, and thorough legal notes in minutes, covering various dental procedures.
- Create detailed treatment notes
- Save time on clinical documentation
- Ensure readable and consistent notes
- Supports various dental procedures
- Digital and print formats
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C Notes enables you to create highly accurate detailed treatment notes in about 2 minutes. Writing complete and accurate clinical notes is time consuming. Centric notes saves you time. Plenty of time, but with the peace of mind knowing that you are writing detailed legal clinical notes. Whether in digital format, or in print, your treatment notes should be readable, consistent and thorough. C Notes enables you to write detailed clinical notes on all treatments of dentistry including crowns, fillings, root canals, oral surgery, implants and others.
BackpackEMR
This lightweight electronic medical records system is designed for remote areas with limited internet and power. It enables offline data sharing between devices, ensuring continuous operation and no data loss during power outages. Features include streamlined workflows, specialty modules, and secure, encrypted data storage.
- Offline data-sharing network
- Streamlined patient flow
- Specialty modules
- Voice-to-text integration
- Secure, encrypted data
- Integrated patient photos
- Multi-language support
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BackpackEMR is a light-weight, electronic medical records (EMR) system for use in rural areas. Our app is often used for medical outreaches to remote communities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where access to the internet and electricity is often limited. This is the first EMR to share data with other clinic devices without using a local server, which requires electricity, or cloud server, which requires the internet. BackpackEMR enables a "no single point of failure" system where data is stored on each device, and data is shared without consistent power or the internet. So in a clinic where the power goes out, the clinic seamlessly continues to run, and no data is ever lost. Key features: • Offline data-sharing network • Easy-to-use screens • Low-clicks and less typing with: - Streamlined flow - Modules by specialty - Custom drop-down values - Voice-to-text integration • Secure, encrypted data • Integrated patients and exam photos • Available in multiple languages • Patients flow through station queues
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Centric Notes at 5.0 against BackpackEMR's 4.0. BackpackEMR's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Centric Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Centric Notes ships an update every 3 months, BackpackEMR every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Centric Notes | BackpackEMR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | C Notes, LLC | Binary Bridge |
Customer experience
Centric Notes
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In-app purchases
Centric Notes
No in-app purchases
BackpackEMR
No in-app purchases
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