Voalte Me vs SIMPL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Voalte Me
This app unifies alert notifications and text messaging for patient-centered communication on personal devices. It enables collaboration across teams and shifts, with integration to EMR and medical devices for comprehensive patient data access.
- Unified alerts and messaging
- Patient-centered communication
- Team and unit-level communication
- EMR and medical device integration
- Configurable notifications
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Voalte Me combines alert notifications and dynamic text messaging in one app to provide next-generation patient-centered communication all on your personal device. Communicate based on patient, team or unit-level, allowing continuous collaboration across shift-handoffs. Integrate with existing systems to see patient data from the EMR and other medical devices. Configure notifications to meet your specific needs. To use this application, your hospital will need to have the Voalte Server already installed.
SIMPL
This app facilitates workplace-based assessments for medical professionals, enabling the evaluation of entrustable professional activities within medical education settings.
- Workplace-based assessments
- Entrustable professional activities
- Medical education implementation
- Professional development tracking
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SIMPL: Society for Improving Medical Professional Learning makes it feasible to implement workplace-based assessments, including assessment of entrustable professional activities, across medical education.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SIMPL at 4.1 against Voalte Me's 2.0. SIMPL also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 11%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Voalte Me's advantage is ratings volume (155 vs 16). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
SIMPL holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voalte Me has 155 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Voalte Me's written reviews are positive against 40% of SIMPL's.
Voalte Me ships an update every 5 weeks, SIMPL every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Voalte Me | SIMPL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (155 ratings) | 4.1 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.5% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Voalte, Inc | Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc |
Customer experience
Voalte Me
SIMPL
Bugs and requests
Voalte Me
Reported bugs
19 issues- App gets stuck on 'reconnecting' status without user awareness
- Messages marked as sent but not delivered
- Autoconfigure mode fails at startup with 'pinwheel of death'
- Force close when attempting to log out
- Unread message badges don't clear after reading
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- Empty notifications appearing every few seconds
- App freezes when opening or loading messages
- Random crashes mid-message composition
- Login credentials lost requiring IT support
- Stuck loading when opening app
- Mismatched message counter
- Notification settings not persisting
- Background app refresh notification loop
- Incorrect patient assignment display
- Message lag after receiving alert notification
- Bluetooth device disconnection on incoming messages
- Inconsistent message delivery timing
- Font size resets after each use despite settings
- Notification flags persist even after reading messages
Requested features
20 requests- Apple Watch support with message viewing and reply capability
- Dark mode/night mode
- Override silent mode for critical alerts
- Voice dictation/voice memo transcription
- Message forwarding capability
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- Text search within conversations
- Autocorrect functionality
- Auto-fill credentials via iOS keychain or Face ID login
- Apple CarPlay compatibility
- Saved sign-in profiles with roles and locations
- Message preview like Voalte One app
- Ability to customize Epic notification sounds
- Message delivery triage and silent delivery options
- Read receipts for group messages
- CC/BCC functionality for group messages
- Copy-paste text from app to notes
- Like/reaction functionality for messages
- Multi-device simultaneous login
- Covering doctor assignment feature
- Automatic pager forwarding
SIMPL
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Voalte Me
No in-app purchases
SIMPL
No in-app purchases
