Active Care Scheduling vs Care Active
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Active Care Scheduling
Easily manage your physical therapy appointments, including scheduling, rescheduling, and cancellations. Receive real-time confirmations, reminders, and directions. Track remaining visits and view therapist notes.
- Schedule and manage appointments
- Request rescheduling or cancellations
- Receive real-time confirmations
- Get reminder alerts
- Track remaining visits
- View therapist notes
- Sync appointments to calendar
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Manage your physical therapy schedule with ease using the Active Care Scheduling app. Once your initial appointment is scheduled, you’ll receive a registration pin to add your claim. Then, all your scheduled appointments are automatically added. No need to manually add weeks of appointments! You can even synch them to your calendar. Change in your schedule? Request to reschedule or cancel appointments right from the app, anytime, anywhere and receive confirmations real-time. With the Active Care Scheduling app you can easily keep track of all your appointments, receive reminder alerts, and get turn by turn directions. Request multiple appointments, add comments, track remaining visits, view notes from your therapist, all in few clicks. The ACS app has everything you need to make managing your therapy effortless. This application is only for patients whose appointments are scheduled by Active Care Scheduling.
Care Active
Monitor loved ones' activities and receive emergency alerts with this app. Track steps, location, and detect motion from connected devices. Get notified of arrivals, departures, and inactivity.
- Real-time step tracking
- Current location monitoring
- SOS emergency alerts
- Arrival/departure notifications
- Motion detection alerts
- Long inactivity notifications
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Care Active App can help you monitor the activities of your beloved family members when you’re not with them and notify you when there’s an emergency situation. Here are the features of Care Active App. 1. Pedometer On the Care Active app, you can see how many steps taken at a real-time when the Care Watch is near the Station. If the user of Care Watch is away from the Station, once they are near the Station, then the number of steps data would be updated automatically. To make this feature works, make sure you have completed the set up of Care Watch and Station. 2. Monitor the current activities You can see the last activity time of the Care Watch user along with their current location. The type of activities that can be detected is when they press the button of Care Watch, walk around, or open a door or window that has been attached with Care Motion Detector. 3. Send SOS alert Care Watch user can send an SOS alert when they need help in an emergency situation by simply pressing both Watch buttons for 2 seconds. Then, the family members who have the Care Active App installed and signed in with the same account will get a sound alert and notification. 4. Arrival/departure alert Once the Station is setup at the house, whenever the Care Watch user leaves or arrives at the house, the family members who have the Care Active App installed and signed in with the same account will get a notification. You can enable and disable this alert as you needed. *This feature is only available for Care Watch 5. Moving alert Moving alert is triggered when a movement of your Care Motion is detected. You can attach Care Motion Detector to certain part or item at your house, such as window, to get notified when someone opens the window. You can enable and disable this alert as you needed. *This feature is only available for Care Motion Detector 6. Long time inactivity notification You will be notified if there is no activity detected from the Care Watch user and Care Motion Detector for a set period of time, which can be adjusted to between 5~48 hours based on the your daily routine and preferences. So that you can check with your family member.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Care Active at every 6 weeks against Active Care Scheduling's every 5 months. Active Care Scheduling's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Active Care Scheduling ships an update every 5 months, Care Active every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Active Care Scheduling | Care Active |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | First Managed Care Options, Inc | Care Active Corp. |
Customer experience
Active Care Scheduling
Care Active
In-app purchases
Active Care Scheduling
No in-app purchases
Care Active
No in-app purchases
Questions
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