MacPractice Clipboard vs SMP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MacPractice Clipboard
This medical app offers a HIPAA-compliant patient registration and data entry solution for practices using MacPractice desktop software. It streamlines check-in with a familiar interface, allowing for health history, chief complaints, and electronic signatures, while reducing paper usage.
- HIPAA-compliant patient registration
- Electronic signatures
- Health and social history collection
- Chief complaint capture
- Photo registration
- Paperless office solution
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MacPractice Clipboard for iPad employs a familiar, intuitive interface based on traditional paper check-in forms to provide a secure, HIPAA-compliant registration process for patients and streamlined data entry for MacPractice MD, DDS, DC, and 20/20 users. **Requires MacPractice Gen 18** - Patient registration with photo - Health and social history - Chief complaint - HIPAA release with electronic signature - Save money and time on printed forms, filing and storage! Go paperless! - Impress your patients with the latest technology! Note: This App is intended for use by medical offices. In order to use the Clipboard App with your practice's data, you must have the MacPractice MD, DDS, DC, or 20/20 desktop application. About MacPractice: MacPractice is a client-centric practice management and clinical software development firm, comprised of highly experienced and caring individuals, dedicated to the development and support of best-of-class Apple software, hardware and associated services for physicians, dentists, chiropractors and eye care professionals.
SMP
This app facilitates seamless communication and real-time patient management across healthcare networks. It connects providers, ensuring patients receive timely and appropriate care by bridging communication gaps between hospitals and post-acute facilities.
- Real-time patient updates
- Provider network access
- Streamlined patient management
- Improved workflow
- Transparent communication
- Data for process improvement
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SMP-iMed is your access to the golden path of providers to help with you ensuring your patient is in the Right Place at the Right Time receiving the Right Care with the Right Provider Network. Spectrum Medical Partners (SMP) CEO Krishan Nagda, MD has developed high quality technology to acclimate to the demands of healthcare for the past 17 years. SMP’s communication technology – IMED - is user-friendly, fully integrated platform designed to monitor patient management, improve quality initiatives while improving work flow throughout the clinical network. IMED creates value to healthcare partners by enhancing communication with real time updates on patients from hospital to Post-Acute care. With this platform the user can break historic silos within the healthcare industry and bridge the gaps with transparent communication and real time updates. Streamlined real time patient management. Data to help with process improvement KPI planning.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SMP at 5.0 against MacPractice Clipboard's 3.0. SMP also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
SMP holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
MacPractice Clipboard ships an update every 3 months, SMP every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 7, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MacPractice Clipboard | SMP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MacPractice, Inc. | Spectrum Medical Partners, Inc |
Customer experience
MacPractice Clipboard
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In-app purchases
MacPractice Clipboard
No in-app purchases
SMP
No in-app purchases
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