Sutter Focused Recognition vs FMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sutter Focused Recognition
Recognize Sutter Health team members for embodying cultural beliefs and achieving key results. This app allows employees and physician partners to send virtual recognition to coworkers, reinforcing the organization's mission and vision.
- Virtual recognition cards
- Recognize cultural beliefs
- Reinforce mission and vision
- Employee and physician partner use
- Sutter Health email required
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Virtual Focused Recognition Cards are used to recognize Sutter Health team members who model our Cultural Beliefs, live our values and help achieve our Key Results. Through this mobile app, employees and physician partners can recognize co-workers virtually to help reinforce the mission and vision of Sutter Health. Any Sutter Health employee or Physician that has an associated Sutter Health email address can use this app.
FMS
This app facilitates hybrid workplace productivity and collaboration by allowing users to book desks and rooms. It features floor plans, co-worker search, and integrates with Microsoft Exchange for scheduling.
- Desk and room booking
- Hybrid workplace support
- Floor plan navigation
- Co-worker search
- Microsoft Exchange integration
- Attendee free/busy status
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FMS:Now is a new desk and room booking app from FM:Systems that enables productivity and collaboration in the hybrid workplace. It offers flexible workflows with floorplans, filters, co-worker search and an integration with Microsoft Exchange for attendee free/busy and meeting invitations. Note: FMS:Now requires connection Resource Scheduler 2022.1.1 or higher. Sold Separately.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FMS at 3.7 against Sutter Focused Recognition's 3.5. Sutter Focused Recognition's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.4). 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.
FMS holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sutter Focused Recognition | FMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (8 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sutter Health | FM Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
Sutter Focused Recognition
FMS
In-app purchases
Sutter Focused Recognition
No in-app purchases
FMS
No in-app purchases
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