DeepScribe vs Abridge for Clinicians
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeepScribe
This AI-powered medical scribe transforms patient conversations into detailed, specialty-specific clinical notes. It integrates with your EHR, learns your documentation style, and significantly reduces chart closure time, allowing more focus on patient care.
- Ambient AI medical scribe
- Specialty-specific clinical notes
- EHR integration
- Learns user's documentation style
- Reduces chart closure time
- Works on desktop and iPhone
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DeepScribe is the leading ambient AI medical scribe for specialty and chronic care. Turn patient conversations into complete, specialty-specific clinical notes that sync seamlessly with your EHR, so you can spend less time documenting and more time with patients. CAPTURE EVERY ENCOUNTER WITH EASE: - Select the patient from your schedule - Record the visit - Review the note in your EHR - Sign off BUILT FOR COMPLEX SPECIALTIES: DeepScribe understands specialty nuance, terminology, and longitudinal context. Notes reflect the full clinical picture and surface key insights exactly when you need them. WORKS WHERE YOU WORK: DeepScribe works on desktop and iPhone, so documentation can keep moving between visits, during rounds, or anywhere your day takes you. AI THAT ADAPTS TO YOU: Your notes look and sound like you from day one, and then get better with every edit. - Learns your style, structure, and phrasing from past notes - Adjusts automatically based on visit type and patient context - Absorbs every edit and applies it to future notes - Fine-tune customization rules using plain language, no support tickets needed INTEGRATES WITH YOUR EHR: DeepScribe integrates with both leading EHRs and specialty-specific platforms, so documentation flows where it's needed with less friction. PROVEN RESULTS: - 99.92% note approval rating - 85% clinical adoption - 1.6 minute average chart closure time
Abridge for Clinicians
This app assists clinicians by summarizing medical conversations and generating draft clinical notes. It aims to reduce the time and cognitive burden of documentation, allowing healthcare professionals to focus more on patient care.
- Summarizes medical conversations
- Generates draft clinical notes
- Real-time documentation
- Interactive conversation transcript
- Explainable AI for trust
- HIPAA-compliant and secure
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As seen in The New York Times, Abridge helps clinicians blaze through their clinical notes. Abridge summarizes medical conversations and creates draft clinical notes. Note: This app is specifically designed for clinicians to record medical conversations with their patients. If you are a patient, please download “Abridge for Patients.” When clinicians see patients, they not only have to provide care, but also take detailed notes written for three audiences: other clinicians, payers, and patients. The time and cognitive burden required to write these notes distracts from their core task: helping patients stay on top of their health. That’s where Abridge comes in—to unburden clinicians from clerical work so they can focus on their patients. Built for clinicians by clinicians, Abridge efficiently generates documentation by summarizing and structuring recorded medical conversations in real-time. Simply use Abridge to record a patient conversation. Abridge processes natural conversation, so talk to your patient like you normally would – there’s no need for wake words or dictation. When the visit is over, head over to the Abridge web editor to review and finalize your note. Note: you’ll use this app to record medical conversations with patients. After you finish a conversation, you’ll be directed to our web UI to review and complete draft documentation. Join our waitlist here: abridge.com/contact SAVE TIME ON DOCUMENTATION Leave “chicken scratch” behind. Abridge captures the details and automatically summarizes the key points of your conversation in real-time. Clinicians who use Abridge save 2 hours per day on average. REMEMBER THE DETAILS Regardless of whether you’re finalizing your note immediately after the visit or a few days after, Abridge helps you remember the details of your patient’s visit. From an interactive transcript of the conversation to an overview of what’s “Noteworthy,” Abridge helps you quickly recall the facts. Simply review our smart suggestions and finalize your note. FOCUS ON YOUR PATIENTS With Abridge in the loop, you can focus on your patients during the visit instead of the computer screen. POWERED BY EXPLAINABLE AI Because medical conversations are high-stakes, customer trust is essential. Founded on Carnegie Mellon University roots and powered by explainable AI, Abridge maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify recommendations. Building proprietary models in-house and leveraging comprehensive data resources safeguards clinicians & patients by allowing Abridge to focus on causality, fairness, and transparency. SECURE AND TRUSTED Our enterprise-grade technology is 100% HIPAA-compliant with multiple layers of security and controls. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. ABRIDGE IS LOVED BY PHYSICIANS “I can't tell you how much this program has changed my life! The lack of mental exertion to remember patients is at a 30 year low. I can concentrate on the patient. I can enjoy the charting. I'm a better listener with patients. Overall, my happiness has increased!” Dr. Hugh Sims, ENT Specialist “WOW…This is as big a deal as the stethoscope.” Dr. Gregory Ator, Head and Neck Surgeon and CMIO at The University of Kansas Health System TERMS By downloading Abridge, you agree to be bound by our Terms of Use. Read more at https://www.abridge.com/terms/clinician. CONTACT US ↳ Email: contact@abridge.com ↳ Web: abridge.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Abridge for Clinicians at 4.3 against DeepScribe's 4.0. Abridge for Clinicians also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). DeepScribe's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 57%). 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.
Abridge for Clinicians holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 46 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of DeepScribe's written reviews are positive against 57% of Abridge for Clinicians's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DeepScribe ships an update every 3 weeks, Abridge for Clinicians weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeepScribe | Abridge for Clinicians |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (39 ratings) | 4.3 (46 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | DeepScribe | Abridge AI Inc. |
Customer experience
DeepScribe
Abridge for Clinicians
In-app purchases
DeepScribe
No in-app purchases
Abridge for Clinicians
No in-app purchases
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