Comparison

CareStitch vs Lime Scribe

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

Head to head
About

CareStitch

Streamline your home health clinician workflow with this mobile assistant. Manage patient care requests, appointments, and reduce travel time. Communicate securely with peers in a HIPAA-compliant manner, focusing more on patient care and less on administration.

Highlights
  • Patient care request management
  • Appointment scheduling
  • Drive time optimization
  • Secure peer communication
  • HIPAA compliant
  • Manage multiple agencies
Features
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CareStitch, a mobile clinician’s personal assistant. Get requests for patient care, manage your appointments, reduce your drive time, and communicate securely with your peers -- all in a HIPAA compliant manner. Focus less on administration and more on patient care with the CareStitch mobile app. Stay on top of your day to day. Know which patients still need to be scheduled, how close they are to other patients, how to reduce drive time and so much more in one easy-to-use app made for home health clinicians by a home health clinician. CareStitch keeps you in the know It starts with today’s appointments, and ends with excellent care. Use the appointments screen to know exactly what your day looks like. Check off each visit as you complete them, and pull up patient details right before you go in. Enter the patient’s home knowing exactly what’s going on. Coordinate patient care, securely Let’s face it, a lot happens outside of the EMR. Coordinate with your peers through secure, HIPAA compliant chat. Leave shared notes about a patient so that the team knows what to expect. Get notified when there are new requests for patient care, and accept cases that fit you best. With the mobile app, communication problems are a thing of the past. Work with multiple agencies? No problem. Manage all of your case requests, appointments and patients in one place. Arm yourself with a tool built just for you and how you work. There is a new era in home healthcare. This app is intended for clinicians who work in healthcare at the home for one or more agencies that use the CareStitch platform. For more information, please visit our website.

About

Lime Scribe

This AI-powered tool assists home health and hospice agencies by securely listening to patient visits, generating comprehensive documentation, and integrating directly with electronic health records. It aims to improve care quality, reduce clinician burnout, and enhance patient outcomes.

Highlights
  • Ambient AI Scribing
  • EHR Integration
  • Real-Time Quality Assurance
  • HIPAA Compliant
  • Bilingual Support (English/Spanish)
  • Purpose-Built for Field Clinicians
Features
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The most advanced home health and hospice agencies partner with Lime to improve quality, prevent clinician burnout, and deliver the best patient outcomes. Lime Scribe listens securely during visits, generates complete documentation, and syncs directly with your EHR. Key Features • Ambient Scribing: Automatically captures and structures everything said during the visit — no typing required. • EHR Integration: Seamlessly syncs notes, OASIS fields, and care plans into your existing system. • Real-Time QA: Get instant feedback on missing details while still in the home — before closing the visit. • HIPAA Compliant: Enterprise-grade security built for clinical use. • English or Spanish: Use Lime Scribe seamlessly in either language for diverse care teams and patients. • Purpose-Built for Home Health & Hospice: Streamlined for nurses, therapists, and clinicians working in the field. Invest in your clinicians and patients. Get Lime Scribe - a Lime Health product.

Screenshots

CareStitch4 screens
Lime Scribe3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lime Scribe at 100% against CareStitch's 55%. Lime Scribe also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). CareStitch's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lime Scribe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CareStitch has 28 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of CareStitch's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lime Scribe's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CareStitch ships an update every 11 days, Lime Scribe every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CareStitch versus Lime Scribe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCareStitchLime Scribe
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (28 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB57 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperCareStitchLime Health

Customer experience

CareStitch

All ratings27 ratings
Positive51.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative37.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral9.1%
Negative36.4%

Lime Scribe

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CareStitch

No in-app purchases

None

Lime Scribe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CareStitch free?
CareStitch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lime Scribe free?
Lime Scribe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CareStitch or Lime Scribe?
Lime Scribe is rated higher. CareStitch averages 3.5 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Lime Scribe averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do CareStitch or Lime Scribe have ads?
Neither CareStitch nor Lime Scribe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CareStitch or Lime Scribe?
CareStitch ships an update every 11 days, and Lime Scribe every 8 days. Most recently, CareStitch was updated on November 3, 2026 and Lime Scribe on November 5, 2026.

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