Comparison

DocComs vs Section Time

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

Head to head
About

DocComs

A secure and compliant communication platform for healthcare professionals. Facilitates efficient team messaging, patient-centric chat, and digital task management, replacing less secure methods like WhatsApp for clinical discussions and data sharing.

Highlights
  • Patient-centric chat
  • Organizational directory
  • Digital handovers
  • Clinical task management
  • Secure patient media sharing
  • EPR integration (contact for details)
Features
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Say goodbye to WhatsApp for patient communications in healthcare. DocComs is a free app built from the ground-up by clinicians, for clinicians, to enable all medical professionals to communicate efficiently with complete peace of mind. DocComs is fully compliant with UK Information Governance, NHS Digital, NHS Patient Data Sharing Standards and is UK Cyber Essentials certified. With simple and intuitive design, onboard your team or entire organisation seamlessly to search anyone by their role and instantly message them with patient-centric chat. Keep up to date with all your patients through real-time lists and become a ‘bleep-free’ hospital with digital handovers and smart clinical task management. Breaking down barriers to communications, securely discuss cases and share patient media with colleagues across the world, whilst separating your clinical and personal digital lives. Why DocComs?: - No more data silos through clinical messaging on WhatsApp. DocComs can integrate with your organisations’ EPR – contact us at info@doccoms.co.uk to learn more. - Create a complete organisational directory with awareness of staff roles and without sharing personal contact details. - ‘Do Not Disturb’ when off-shift to finally have a work-life balance (Coming Soon) - Avoid patient sensitive data from backing up to your personal device and Cloud. - A complete clinical workflow tool underpinned by familiar chat, for everything from patient discussions and lists, to delegation and tracking of clinical tasks. "DocComs me." The simple, secure and fast way to elevate patient care.

About

Section Time

This app assists anaesthetists during caesarean sections by simplifying the recording of critical event times, drug administrations, and fluid/blood product delivery. It reduces cognitive load in high-stress situations and allows for easy transcription and export of data.

Highlights
  • Record critical event times
  • Track drug administration
  • Monitor IV fluids and blood products
  • Export recorded data
  • Two stopwatch functions
  • Reduces cognitive burden
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An app designed to support anaesthetists during caesarean section/operative birth. The app makes it easier to record the time of important events, administration of important drugs, intravenous fluids and blood products. These times can then be transcribed into official documentation when convenient. The times are also automatically stored in a text file and can be exported. By making this process easier it reduces the cognitive burden on anaesthetists in what can be a time pressured and high stress case. It provides two stopwatches, one for the time since the app opened, which is recorded as time since bleeped. The second one for time since anaesthesia e.g. time since spinal in.

Screenshots

DocComs4 screens
Section Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DocComs at Free against Section Time's $0.99. DocComs also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

DocComs is free to download; Section Time costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DocComs ships an update every 5 days, Section Time every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DocComs versus Section Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocComsSection Time
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB2 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperRMJ Clinical Solutions ltdJointmind ltd

Customer experience

DocComs

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Section Time

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DocComs

No in-app purchases

None

Section Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DocComs free?
DocComs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Section Time free?
Section Time costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do DocComs or Section Time have ads?
Neither DocComs nor Section Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DocComs or Section Time?
DocComs ships an update every 5 days, and Section Time every 8 days. Most recently, DocComs was updated on July 5, 2026 and Section Time on June 1, 2026.

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