Comparison

GuideDoc vs SynapseCPT

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

Head to head
About

GuideDoc

Features
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GuideDoc app allows health care professionals to easily access their medical guidelines and point of care information from their hospital. App users can quickly search and access important clinical resources. Guidelines are available with and without a data connection. Hospitals can learn how they can securely publish and share medical guidelines with healthcare professionals at www.guidedoc.co GuideDoc is currently available for iPhone and web.

About

SynapseCPT

Features
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SynapseCPT is a clinical practice platform that makes your own data useful โ€” showing you the patterns, gaps and trends a traditional logbook was never designed to reveal. From the start of specialist training through to consultant practice, SynapseCPT brings case logging, audits, risk assessment, research activity, courses, events, CPD tracking, and professional requirements into a single connected system. Our mission: to make clinical data meaningful, personal, and genuinely useful for doctors. Currently launching with full support for anaesthesia, pain medicine, and intensive care โ€” with more specialties to follow. FOR TRAINEES Track every case across your training programme. Monitor your curriculum progress in real time, with category-by-category breakdowns and cohort benchmarking. Record courses, events, simulation sessions, teaching, and CPD activity alongside structured supervisor assessments โ€” including DOPS, Mini-CEX, and Case-Based Discussion โ€” with a clear feedback trail from day one of training. FOR CONSULTANTS Maintain a comprehensive digital record of your clinical practice. Log daily cases, manage Professional Competence Scheme activities, record courses and events, supervise trainee assessments, and generate the documentation you need for professional compliance โ€” without the administrative overhead. FOR HOSPITAL TEAMS Manage NCHD rotas, shift swaps and leave requests. See your week at a glance or filtered to on-call only, and open any shift for its location, team and instructions. Get a warning before accepting a swap that would leave you on back-to-back shifts. Check leave balances against your hospital's own leave year. Work across more than one site and switch between them in a tap. Export shifts to your device calendar. Keep your team coordinated without spreadsheets. WHAT SETS SYNAPSECPT APART Connected Data Every case, assessment, audit, course, event, CPD activity, and professional requirement is linked. Your logbook isn't a list โ€” it's a living dataset that grows more useful over time. AI-Assisted Drafting Turning a year of clinical activity into a written personal development plan is the part everyone puts off. SynapseCPT's AI assistant helps consultants draft and structure a PDP from their own recorded activity, by voice or text. It supports your professional judgement rather than replacing it, and you review and edit everything before it is saved. Intelligent Analytics Visualise case volumes, trends, and training progress across customisable time ranges. Filter by specialty. Compare against your cohort. Spot gaps before they become problems. Built-In Risk Assessment Surgical risk scoring calculators integrated directly into your case logging workflow โ€” no switching between tools. Clinical Audit Track active audits with structured templates. Record completed audits. Maintain an audit trail ready for review. Courses, Events and CPD Record courses, conferences, teaching sessions, simulation training, workshops, and professional development activity in one place. Link learning activity to CPD requirements, training progress, audits, research, and your wider professional portfolio. Curriculum Tracking Real-time progress against training requirements across core and modular units, mapped to your programme's curriculum. Professional Competence Log PCS activities by heading โ€” conferences, QI projects, research, courses, events, teaching, and more โ€” with quick entry designed for busy clinicians. BUILT FOR DOCTORS, BY DOCTORS Designed in close collaboration with clinicians and aligned with postgraduate training body requirements. Currently supporting anaesthesia training in Ireland, with the platform architecture built to serve any medical specialty. Secure authentication. Encrypted data storage. Works offline and syncs automatically. GDPR compliant. Download SynapseCPT and bring structure, insight, and clarity to your clinical practice.

Screenshots

GuideDoc4 screens
SynapseCPT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SynapseCPT at every 2 weeks against GuideDoc's every 2 months. GuideDoc's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GuideDoc ships an update every 2 months, SynapseCPT every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
GuideDoc versus SynapseCPT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuideDocSynapseCPT
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size67 MB57 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMedshare LtdKarthikeyan Srinivasan

In-app purchases

None

GuideDoc

No in-app purchases

None

SynapseCPT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GuideDoc free?
GuideDoc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SynapseCPT free?
SynapseCPT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GuideDoc or SynapseCPT have ads?
Neither GuideDoc nor SynapseCPT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GuideDoc or SynapseCPT?
GuideDoc ships an update every 2 months, and SynapseCPT every 2 weeks. Most recently, GuideDoc was updated on September 28, 2026 and SynapseCPT on September 19, 2026.

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