DocBuddy vs iScribeHealth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DocBuddy
This app streamlines the management and retrieval of your medical records. It acts as a digital personal assistant, keeping your health information readily accessible.
- Medical record documentation
- Easy access to health information
- Personal health assistant
- Digital record keeping
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DocBuddy is an elegant solution to wasted time documenting and accessing medical records. It's like having a personal assistant at your call and always at your fingertips.
iScribeHealth
This app streamlines clinical documentation for physicians, allowing them to dictate notes directly into their EHR using advanced speech-to-text technology. It aims to reduce physician burnout by saving time on charting and eliminating transcription costs.
- Real-time speech-to-text dictation
- Direct EHR integration
- Reduces transcription costs
- Increases provider efficiency
- Mobile access on iPhone, iPad, Mac
- Point-of-care clinical documentation
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iScribe cures physician burnout and allows physicians to focus on caring for patients rather than the computer screen. iScribe is an easy-to-use app that gives providers anytime/anywhere access via iPhone, iPad, or Mac to view and enter clinical information for patients. We leverage industry leading speech-to-text technology to increase provider efficiency and productivity while eliminating expensive transcription costs. With iScribe’s real-time speech-to-text dictation feature, users can visually see the dictated text directly on the screen as they are speaking. Users can dictate directly into the appropriate sections (CC, HPI, ROS, PE, A/P) on the mobile device and save their documentation immediately into their EHR. By using the real-time speech-to-text feature, transcription costs can be eliminated. iScribe users have saved $15,000 - $25,000 per provider per year in reduced transcription costs. iScribe reduces the time that healthcare providers typically spend in the EHR allowing more time to take care of patients. Physicians can complete their encounter without having to wait until the end of the day or after office hours and there is no waiting for pending transcription. iScribe’s modern mobile user experience allows the clinical documentation to be completed at the point of care without taking away from the provider / patient experience. Healthcare provider time should not be undervalued and iScribe helps to maximize efficiency and productivity unlike any other solution available today.
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Verdict
DocBuddy and iScribeHealth both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 57% of iScribeHealth's written reviews are positive against 0% of DocBuddy's. iScribeHealth also leads on ratings volume (562 vs 12) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
iScribeHealth holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iScribeHealth has 562 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of DocBuddy's written reviews are positive against 57% of iScribeHealth's.
DocBuddy ships an update every 4 weeks, iScribeHealth every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DocBuddy | iScribeHealth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (12 ratings) | 4.6 (562 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 562 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Doc Buddy Inc | JPJ Ventures, LLC |
Customer experience
DocBuddy
iScribeHealth
Bugs and requests
DocBuddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
iScribeHealth
Reported bugs
9 issues- Inconsistent AI output (misspellings, run-on sentences)
- Cannot add punctuation or create new paragraphs
- Upgrade request pop-up makes app unusable
- Mac OS app upgrade pop-up prevents usage
- Dictation not available on Mac version
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- Program doubles up plan with EMR
- Limited integration for ordering imaging or PT
- Transcriptions not completed until the next working day
- Dictation gets stuck and does not appear in clinical note
Requested features
7 requests- Improve AI accuracy for spelling and sentence structure
- Enable punctuation and paragraph creation via user input
- Fix upgrade pop-up issue preventing app usage
- Add dictation functionality to Mac version
- Improve integration for ordering imaging or PT
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- Ensure transcriptions are completed promptly
- Review and improve transcriptionist quality
In-app purchases
DocBuddy
No in-app purchases
iScribeHealth
No in-app purchases








