Badger Notes vs Nourish Empower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Real-time record access
- Maternity records
- Child health records
- Neonatal records
- Hospital system integration
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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.
Nourish Empower
This app provides care professionals with secure access to client information, schedules, and care plans. It facilitates task management, medication tracking, and team collaboration to ensure high-quality, person-centered care delivery. Users can also access eLearning modules.
- Manage schedule and view visits
- Access client records and care plans
- Track and document care activities
- Monitor medication administration
- Enhance team collaboration and handover
- Receive visit and task notifications
- Complete eLearning modules
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The Nourish Empower app gives care professionals secure and easy access to the information they need to provide high-quality, person-centred care. With Nourish Empower, care professionals can: • Manage your schedule - View your upcoming visits with key details at a glance. • Access client records – Quickly retrieve care plans, medical notes, and key contact details. • Navigate with ease – View travel information between appointments. • Track and document care – Log check-in and check-out times, update client notes, and confirm completed tasks. • Monitor medications – Record administrations and warnings if medication is missed before ending an appointment. • Enhance collaboration – View colleagues assigned to shared appointments and contribute to handover notes for seamless continuity of care. • Receive important notifications – Get reminders for upcoming visits and time-sensitive tasks. • Complete assigned eLearning on the go (available with a Nourish Empower eLearning subscription). Supports Healthcare Services & Management – Nourish Empower helps care professionals track care activities, manage client information, and ensure compliance with care plans. Aids Clinical Decision Support – Provides real-time access to care plans and medication records to assist in informed decision-making. Note: The Nourish Empower app requires an active account with the Nourish Empower platform. For more information, visit: https://nourishcare.com/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Nourish Empower at every 10 days against Badger Notes's every 2 months. Nourish Empower also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (23% vs 6%). Badger Notes's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (212 vs 48). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Nourish Empower holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 212 and 48 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Badger Notes's written reviews are positive against 23% of Nourish Empower's.
Badger Notes ships an update every 2 months, Nourish Empower every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Badger Notes | Nourish Empower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (212 ratings) | 4.9 (48 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 5.8% of reviews | 23.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 212 — better | 48 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Clevermed Ltd | CarePlanner Ltd |
Customer experience
Badger Notes
Nourish Empower
Bugs and requests
Badger Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Nourish Empower
Reported bugs
81 issues- Medications showing as due
- Blank screen on login
- App showing blank screen
- Double administrations
- App going to cause a fatality
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- No notifications for shift changes
- No right option to log out
- Technical issues affecting staff
- Keyboard covers submit button
- Page not scrolling
- Submit button inaccessible
- Problems with note section
- Task time between split shift
- Scheduling problem
- Interface not user friendly
- Rota not easy on the eyes
- Keyboard covers tasks
- Close and reopen app to type
- App is slow
- Freezes when writing notes
- Cannot complete notes
- Reporting an issue doesn't work
- Notes not showing up
- Lock screen issues
- App freezes on client visits
- Good internet service not helping
- Miss appointments
- Miss calculating appointments
- Show appointments for couple of weeks/month ahead
- Biometric log in option
- Medication section tedious
- Ugly colors
- Interface looks childish
- Travel infection issue keeps coming up
- Distance between visits annoying
- Doesn't keep logged in for longer time
- Can't see holiday predictions
- Unable to book holidays
- Hours showing late
- All staff off at same time
- Notes not put in app
- Previous notes showing in update
- Tedious to scroll through appointments
- System locked me out twice
- Couldn't see rota/keysafe codes
- Putting code in every time is annoying
- Show wrong information
- Shows 2 appointments for 9 hrs
- Shows 1 appointment without client details
- Confusing information
- Can't view all appointments at once
- Can't view more than 14 days
- Days not working showing
- Nothing to record activities
- Doesn't show any medication
- Won't let you log out
- Constant updates
- Glitching since update
- Half the calls showing
- Always trying to sync
- Other client names come up
- Breach of privacy
- Updating contact details doesn't work
- Fields still blank
- Adding notes doesn't work
- Shifts with notes are blank
- Freezes constantly
- Delete and upload again to unfreeze
- Nightmare when in a hurry
- Took twelve hours to sync
- Couldn't log out of a visit
- Slow to sync
- Doesn't always work offline
- Duplicating logs
- Always freezing then kicks you off
- Don't get you log in or out of calls
- Nothing improved
- Always having to report a problem
- Crashes as soon as you log in
- Crashes when writing notes
- Took me 6 times to write notes
Requested features
20 requests- 💡 One-time clicks for all administered medication
- 💡 Biometric login (fingerprint, face recognition)
- 💡 Sync rota with other calendars
- 💡 Show distance and time between service users
- 💡 Keep control of tablets picked up from pharmacy
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- 💡 See low stock for ordering
- 💡 Record upcoming appointments
- 💡 Record client mood and behavior
- 💡 One morning login for the whole day
- 💡 Face ID login
- 💡 Notification feature for rota changes
- 💡 Update in-app notes status
- 💡 Show estimated mileage for each visit
- 💡 Notifications for new appointments
- 💡 Monthly view of shifts
- 💡 List of all shifts at a glance
- 💡 View all shifts on rota ahead of time
- 💡 Add Face ID to login
- 💡 Touch ID to login
- 💡 Sync picked shifts with email calendar
In-app purchases
Badger Notes
No in-app purchases
Nourish Empower
No in-app purchases
