RCare Mobile vs DS smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RCare Mobile
Streamline senior housing care with a mobile nurse call system. This app provides caregivers with resident details, call accountability, and direct communication tools. Log daily living activities and pinpoint alert locations for efficient and responsive care.
- Targeted nurse calls
- Resident information display
- Call claiming and accountability
- Voice-to-voice communication
- Activity of Daily Living logging
- Advanced locating protocol
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Designed for on-the-go senior housing staff and caregivers, provides a powerful set of tools for your caregivers, making caregiving more efficient and responsive over antiquated pager-based nurse call systems. With RCare Mobile, the nurse call goes out only to the caregivers who are responsible for answering. When receiving the call, staff is informed of not only the room number, but also the resident’s name, their photograph, as well as details about their needs. This way, even if the staff member or the resident are new and have never met, the caregiver is armed with a wealth of information that pager-based systems do not give. - “I Got It” Feature Integrated with your RCare nurse call system, RCare Mobile lets your caregivers claim a call, ensuring accountability. It lets all caregivers to see which calls have been claimed and by whom. It verifies all calls get answered and eliminates duplication of efforts. The alarm stops once it’s claimed, reducing alarm fatigue. - Voice-to-Voice Communication Power The RCare Mobile app puts the communication power of a smart phone in the hands of your caregivers, but without the risks and distractions of personal cell phones. Speak with residents. What is the situation? Reassure them help is on the way. Communicate (text/call) with other caregivers and staff. - Record “Activities of Daily Living” With RCare Mobile, caregivers can log resident visits for helping with ADLs, by checking in and out of the point of care. The RCare system can automatically track the time spent providing specific services. This is helpful for billing and also for staffing and tracking specific resident needs.
DS smart
This app facilitates the secure capture and transmission of resident health data from medical devices directly to electronic medical records (EMRs) within Long-Term Care facilities. It streamlines the process for nurses and CNAs to log readings and update patient charts efficiently.
- Capture health data instantly
- Protect patient information
- Connect data to EMRs
- Care automation
- Log readings from medical devices
- Seamlessly send data to charts
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Instantly capture, protect and connect health data to an EMR with care automation powered by the patented DS smart® app. This intuitive technology built for Long-Term Care lets nurses or CNAs securely log in, retrieve resident readings from medical devices and seamlessly send them to specific charts within EMRs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DS smart at 5.0 against RCare Mobile's 4.7. RCare Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
DS smart holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 10 respectively.
RCare Mobile ships an update every 6 weeks, DS smart every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | RCare Mobile | DS smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RCare | Direct Supply, Inc. |
Customer experience
RCare Mobile
DS smart
In-app purchases
RCare Mobile
No in-app purchases
DS smart
No in-app purchases
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