Comparison

Vital Sync vs RTCred

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

Head to head
About

Vital Sync

Access real-time patient physiological data from connected medical devices on your mobile device. Receive alerts and monitor multiple patients remotely within your hospital's network to enhance clinical workflow and patient care.

Highlights
  • Remote patient monitoring
  • Real-time physiological data
  • Device alerts
  • Multi-patient view
  • Mobile-optimized interface
  • Clinical workflow enhancement
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The Vital Sync™ mobile application takes the next step to give clinicians the right information, in the right place, at the right time to support clinicians in busy clinical environments. The Vital Sync™ mobile application delivers physiological information from your Medtronic patient monitors and ventilators and delivers it to your device. With a view designed specifically for mobile devices, the Vital Sync™ mobile application increases accessibility to data from your connected devices, so you can: • Gain immediate access to timely data and take appropriate action • View patient physiological information remotely • Receive alerts anywhere within the hospital’s network The Vital Sync™ mobile application allows you to access continuous monitoring data for multiple patients from a smart phone, anywhere within the hospital’s network. Building on the value of the Vital Sync™ virtual patient monitoring platform, the Vital Sync™ mobile application gives you more flexibility in your clinical workflow and helps you manage your respiratory patients’ care needs. The Vital Sync™ mobile application delivers: • Near real-time data and high-fidelity waveforms for patient monitoring devices • Patient and device alerts • A display that is unique for each clinician, showing only their assigned patients This application should not be used to make medical decisions without consulting a physician. The Vital Sync™ mobile application should not be used as the sole basis for diagnosis or therapy and is intended only as an adjunct in patient assessment.

About

RTCred

This app securely stores your professional licenses, certifications, and CEUs, providing timely reminders before expiration. It helps respiratory therapists and department managers track compliance and ensures credentials are always audit-ready.

Highlights
  • Digital credential wallet
  • Expiration reminders (90/60/30/7 days)
  • CEU logging and tracking
  • Renewal links
  • Team compliance dashboard
  • Audit-ready reporting
Features
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Your licenses, certifications, and CEUs — in one place, watched around the clock. RTCred is the credential wallet built for respiratory therapists. Snap a photo of your license or BLS card and it's filed, tracked, and audit-ready. We remind you at 90, 60, 30, and 7 days before anything expires — by email, text, and push — so a lapsed credential never costs you a shift. FOR EVERY RT • Photograph cards and certificates straight into your vault • Reminders at 90/60/30/7 days across email, SMS, and push • One-tap renewal links to the NBRC, AHA, and your state board • CEU logging with real progress against your state's rules and your NBRC cycle • Renewal history that keeps every past cycle for audits • Subscribe your expirations to your phone's calendar • Your records are yours — if you change jobs, they go with you FOR DEPARTMENT MANAGERS • Team compliance at a glance: who's current, who's expiring, who's lapsed • One-tap reminders to teammates, and same-day alerts when something lapses • Joint Commission–ready reporting on the web dashboard Free to start for individual therapists: vault, reminders, and primary-state CEU tracking. RTCred Pro ($2.99/month or $19.99/year) adds SMS reminders, a calendar feed, NBRC and multi-state CEU tracking, unlimited storage, and exports. Departments subscribe at rtcred.com and include Pro for every member. Built by an ex-RT manager who got tired of watching colleagues scramble during JC surveys. Terms of Use: https://rtcred.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://rtcred.com/privatepolicy

Screenshots

Vital Sync4 screens
RTCred4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RTCred at every 4 days against Vital Sync's every 9 months. Vital Sync's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Vital Sync against 5.0 for RTCred. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vital Sync has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vital Sync ships an update every 9 months, RTCred every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Vital Sync versus RTCred: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVital SyncRTCred
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB39 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMedtronic, Inc.Data Care Solutions LLC

Customer experience

Vital Sync

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

RTCred

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Vital Sync

No in-app purchases

None

RTCred

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vital Sync free?
Vital Sync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RTCred free?
RTCred is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Vital Sync or RTCred?
Vital Sync and RTCred are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Vital Sync or RTCred have ads?
Neither Vital Sync nor RTCred shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vital Sync or RTCred?
Vital Sync ships an update every 9 months, and RTCred every 4 days. Most recently, Vital Sync was updated on October 22, 2026 and RTCred on October 14, 2026.

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