Vital Sync vs RTCred
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- Digital credential wallet
- Expiration reminders (90/60/30/7 days)
- CEU logging and tracking
- Renewal links
- Team compliance dashboard
- Audit-ready reporting
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Vital Sync | RTCred |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Medtronic, Inc. | Data Care Solutions LLC |
Customer experience
Vital Sync
RTCred
In-app purchases
Vital Sync
No in-app purchases
RTCred
No in-app purchases









