Comparison

TouchMD Consult vs ModMed Practice Add

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TouchMD Consult

This app enhances patient consultations by providing interactive visualizations and educational content. Staff can customize materials, draw on images, and create collages to explain procedures and treatment options, improving patient understanding and confidence.

Highlights
  • Customizable content (text, video, images)
  • Educational videos from accredited sources
  • Practice and staff introductions
  • Capture and draw on patient images
  • Advanced image editing and collages
  • Before & after patient galleries
  • Patient consultation review via web/app
Features
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TouchMD Consult is a revolutionary interactive visualization and patient education platform allowing doctors and their staff to maximize communication with patients before, during, and after the consultation. Give patients an unparalleled personal experience that elevates their level of confidence in your practice and treatment choices. Features: • Customized content. You decided what your patients see by fully customizing content via our web portal, including text, videos, images, weblinks, documents, etc. • Educational videos and content. TouchMD uses video content from accredited sources to help patients understand procedures and treatments. • Practice introduction. Highlight your medical practice using videos or images allowing the patient to become comfortable with the doctor and their staff. • Capture patient images or diagnostic information. Educate your patients visually using their own images or diagnostics for maximum impact. • Advanced drawing capabilities. Draw on images and illustrations using advanced drawing tools to educate and explain options clearly and more efficiently to the patient. • Advanced image editing. Quickly create image collages that tell a treatment story using custom layouts, 2-6 picture drop zone layouts, and split screen image layouts. • Before & after galleries. Doctors can communicate possible outcomes and illustrate how they achieved desired results using pictures of previous patients. • Patients relive the consultation. Patients can review assigned homework and saved images at home by using our secure web portal or free smartphone app. • Patient information is NOT stored on the device. Sensitive information and images are retrieved temporarily for use during the consult while the patient logged in.

About

ModMed Practice Add

This companion app enhances a subscription-based medical practice management system. It offers additional functionality for users, enabling real-time data recording by patients and staff during visits to automate documentation.

Highlights
  • Companion application
  • Additional user functionality
  • Real-time data recording
  • Patient data capture
  • Automated documentation
  • iPad native application
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EMA Add-On is a companion application to EMA by Modernizing Medicine. It provides our Users with additional functionality that is sometimes necessary for proper usage. Please note that EMA can only be used in conjunction with a subscription-based Web Application Service. Modernizing Medicine introduces the first native iPad application designed for medical surgical specialities — EMA by Modernizing medicine for iPad. Each relevant part of the visit can be recorded in real time by the patients in the waiting room and by the medical assistants, physician extenders, or physicians in the exam room. At the end of each patient visit, data is transmitted back to the server automating documentation without costing the doctor a second.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TouchMD Consult at 4.1 against ModMed Practice Add's 2.4. TouchMD Consult also leads on monetization model (ad-supported vs subscription). ModMed Practice Add's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TouchMD Consult holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ModMed Practice Add has 145 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TouchMD Consult ships an update every 2 months, ModMed Practice Add every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on June 20, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TouchMD Consult versus ModMed Practice Add: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTouchMD ConsultModMed Practice Add
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (12 ratings) — better2.4 (145 ratings)
Positive reviews—26.9% of reviews
Number of ratings12145 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterSubscription
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB425 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTouchMDModernizing Medicine, Inc.

Customer experience

TouchMD Consult

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

ModMed Practice Add

All ratings145 ratings
Positive30.3%
Neutral5.5%
Negative64.1%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive26.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative73.1%

In-app purchases

None

TouchMD Consult

No in-app purchases

None

ModMed Practice Add

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TouchMD Consult free?
TouchMD Consult is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ModMed Practice Add free?
ModMed Practice Add is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TouchMD Consult or ModMed Practice Add?
TouchMD Consult is rated higher. TouchMD Consult averages 4.1 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while ModMed Practice Add averages 2.4 from 145 ratings.
Do TouchMD Consult or ModMed Practice Add have ads?
TouchMD Consult shows ads; ModMed Practice Add does not.
Which is updated more often, TouchMD Consult or ModMed Practice Add?
TouchMD Consult ships an update every 2 months, and ModMed Practice Add every 9 days. Most recently, TouchMD Consult was updated on June 20, 2026 and ModMed Practice Add on September 15, 2026.

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