Comparison

Badger Notes vs Birdie care

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

Head to head
About

Badger Notes

Access your maternity, child, or neonatal health records in real-time. Information is updated directly from your hospital's system by your healthcare providers.

Highlights
  • Real-time record access
  • Maternity records
  • Child health records
  • Neonatal records
  • Hospital system integration
Features
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Badger Notes allows you real time access to your maternity, child or neonatal records. The information that appears is generated in real-time from your hospital based system using details entered by your midwife or other health professionals involved in your care.

About

Birdie care

This app offers essential tools for carers, including rotas, guided care delivery, and messaging. It provides offline access to visit notes, tasks, and medication schedules, with the ability to raise concerns directly to the office.

Highlights
  • Person-centered client profiles
  • Seamless handover notes
  • Raise concerns to office
  • Interactive medication management
  • Transparency into worked hours
  • Real-time messaging
  • Offline functionality
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Birdie’s easy-to-use app provides everything a carer needs, from easy-to-read weekly rotas, guided care delivery, contextual messaging and more. Over 50,000 carers use the Birdie app, which works seamlessly offline to provide access to visit notes, tasks, digital body maps, medication schedules and more! If they need extra support, carers can raise any concern straight to the office, directly from the app. Features: - Person-centered profiles - Gain a deep understanding of clients, so you can build strong relationships and break the ice - Seamless handovers - Access previous visit notes, so you know what the previous carer has done - Raise a concern - Raise any concern straight to the office, so they can act on it in real-time - Clear medication tasks Interactive body maps and PRNs make sure medication is being administered exactly where and when it's needed - Transparency into worked hours - Get a clear breakdown of time, mileage and travel, ahead of payroll - Real-time messages - Get updates, from rota changes to company news, throughout your busy day - No signal? No problem! - Birdie’s been designed to work in areas or no or low signal - Live chat support - Get help and ask questions to our friendly support team - And more!

Screenshots

Badger Notes3 screens
Birdie care3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Birdie care at 55% against Badger Notes's 6%. Birdie care also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). Badger Notes's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (212 vs 3). 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

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

Badger Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Badger Notes has 212 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 6% of Badger Notes's written reviews are positive against 55% of Birdie care's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Badger Notes ships an update every 2 months, Birdie care every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Badger Notes versus Birdie care: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBadger NotesBirdie care
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (212 ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews5.8% of reviews54.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings212 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB66 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperClevermed LtdBirdie Care Services Limited

Customer experience

Badger Notes

All ratings210 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral1.9%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews189 reviews
Positive5.8%
Neutral6.9%
Negative87.3%

Birdie care

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive54.7%
Neutral17.0%
Negative28.3%

In-app purchases

None

Badger Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Birdie care

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Badger Notes free?
Badger Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Birdie care free?
Birdie care is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Badger Notes or Birdie care?
Badger Notes is rated higher. Badger Notes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 212 ratings, while Birdie care averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Badger Notes or Birdie care have ads?
Neither Badger Notes nor Birdie care shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Badger Notes or Birdie care?
Badger Notes ships an update every 2 months, and Birdie care every 9 days. Most recently, Badger Notes was updated on October 26, 2026 and Birdie care on October 26, 2026.

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