Comparison

CareAscend vs SmartHeart Pro

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

Head to head
About

CareAscend

This app provides SNF leaders with an overview of facility ratings and medical director task management. It offers tools to analyze data, enhance outcomes, and streamline communication for medical directors and administrators.

Highlights
  • Facility 5-star rating overview
  • Geolocation map of facilities
  • Medical director task tracking
  • Data analysis for quality measures
  • Secure communication platform
  • Event scheduling and reminders
  • Task reporting on-the-go
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My SNFs: CareAscend provides an overview of all of your facilities 5-star ratings and their geolocation on a color-coded map. My MDs: This unique feature provides unprecedented ability to any company leaders such as the Chief Medical Officer, regional medical directors and operational leaders to keep an eye on overall medical director tasks at the company, region or at a facility level. CareAscend provides user-friendly tools to review, slice/ dice and analyze data to understand correlations between facility quality measures and the role of the medical director. CareAscend empowers company leaders to guide facility leaders and medical directors to prioritize various tasks to enhance outcomes. For example, a facility that is struggling with high prevalence of antipsychotic medications, the CareAscend can help facilitate medical director’s focus on staff education for a given quarter. Medical Director Tasks: The program assures that physician leaders, their administrators and other team members are aligned in regards to facility key needs and focus on agreed upon medical director tasks. This approach provides ongoing learning to medical directors about their administrative roles in their facilities and organizations. AMDA (https://paltc.org), Society of Post-acute Medicine and Long-term Care Medicine validates the key tasks medical directors should be performing in alignment with the Code of Federal Regulations. Task Reporting: The CareAscend application platform simplifies the process of logging medical director administrative tasks on-the go. All tasks are communicated to the facility administrator and other assigned supervisors before they are finalized. Traditionally, medical directors have to rely on clunky paper-based processes to log their tasks. CareAscend provides the luxury of reporting tasks as they are being performed, after they are performed or even scheduling future tasks with timely reminders. A live tally of tasks keeps medical director and other team members aware of the number of hours performed for the given month so that remaining hours can be planned and utilized for the prioritized areas. The available tasks are in compliance with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid guidance around the medical director role and have been validated by AMDA (www.paltc.org), the Society of Post-acute Care and Long-term Care Medicine. Communication Platform: CareAscend offers a secure digital platform for prompt communications between facility/ organization administrators, medical director leaders and other assigned team members. It also connects company chief medical officer and other regional directors with team members. All communications are archived for future reference or quality assurance purposes. Event Scheduling: CareAscend includes a calendar so that all team members are able to schedule administrative events and assure that all members are notified of upcoming meetings e.g. quality assurance, infections committee, educational activities, etc. Performance Dashboard: CareAscend allows users to review the performance of their facility/ organizations and compare it to other competitors. The chief medical officers and regional leaders are able to review and compare the task performance of all of their team members across their company. You can compare the tasks performed by 5-star rating facility MDs and also can see which tasks your MDs are performing more. Professional Development: The CareAscend platform makes it simple for physicians to receive notifications for upcoming educational events offered by AMDA, the Society of Post-acute and Long-term Care Members (www.paltc.org) and other professional associations. Physician leaders are able to review their attended events and accumulated educational credits.

About

SmartHeart Pro

This application works with a specific device to capture real-time 12-lead ECGs and rhythm strips. The data can then be reviewed by a medical professional for clinical decision-making. The device is cleared for sale in the USA and European countries.

Highlights
  • Real-time 12-lead ECG capture
  • Rhythm strip recording
  • ECG review by medical professionals
  • Works with SmartHeart device
  • Cleared for sale in USA and Europe
Features
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The SmartHeart® Pro application enables a user to perform a full 12-lead ECG and rhythm strip in real time to enable review by a medical professional The ECG is performed using the SmartHeart® device. The device is cleared for sale in the USA and European countries in which CE mark applies. Users, please note that all ECGs recorded by the Smartheart Pro App and Smartheart device should always be reviewed by a medical professional for clinical decision making To learn more about SmartHeart for Healthcare professionals please visit: http://www.smartheartpro.com

Screenshots

CareAscend4 screens
SmartHeart Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CareAscend at 4.6 against SmartHeart Pro's 3.0. CareAscend also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (91 vs 7). SmartHeart Pro's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%). 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

CareAscend holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CareAscend has 91 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of CareAscend's written reviews are positive against 100% of SmartHeart Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CareAscend ships an update every 3 weeks, SmartHeart Pro every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CareAscend versus SmartHeart Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCareAscendSmartHeart Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (91 ratings) — better3.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings91 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size182 MB44 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMavenSphere Inc.SHL Telemedicine Ltd.

Customer experience

CareAscend

All ratings91 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.2%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

SmartHeart Pro

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CareAscend

No in-app purchases

None

SmartHeart Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CareAscend free?
CareAscend is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmartHeart Pro free?
SmartHeart Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CareAscend or SmartHeart Pro?
CareAscend is rated higher. CareAscend averages 4.6 out of 5 from 91 ratings, while SmartHeart Pro averages 3.0 from 7 ratings.
Do CareAscend or SmartHeart Pro have ads?
Neither CareAscend nor SmartHeart Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CareAscend or SmartHeart Pro?
CareAscend ships an update every 3 weeks, and SmartHeart Pro every 2 months. Most recently, CareAscend was updated on November 3, 2026 and SmartHeart Pro on November 3, 2026.

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