Real Time Notifications vs CDI+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Real Time Notifications
Receive instant alerts and keyword notifications from your EMR data. Customize which clinical alerts you want to see and filter notifications by payer. This companion app ensures you stay informed about critical patient information.
- Real-time clinical alerts
- EMR data keyword notifications
- Customizable alert preferences
- Payer-based filtering
- Companion app for Real Time Portal
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This is a companion application to the Real Time Portal, that notifies you when Real Time generates clinical alerts and keywords from your EMR data. Our application allows you to specify which alerts and keywords you want to see, as well as filter out residents by payer.
CDI+
This app provides guidance for coding and clinical documentation integrity professionals. It explains principles for accurate documentation to help healthcare facilities improve their records. The content is based on a long-standing, annually updated pocket guide.
- Accurate documentation principles
- Coding professional guidance
- Physician documentation support
- Annual content updates
- Easy-to-grasp explanations
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The original CDI Pocket Guide has been a mainstay of coding and CDI professionals and physicians for over a decade. Cynthia Tang and Richard Pinson share a vision for helping hospitals achieve accurate and thorough documentation by explaining the principles behind the practices in such a way that everyone can easily grasp them. Since they wrote the first CDI Pocket Guide in 2008, it has met with resounding success, and they have updated the Guide every year since. Content includes:
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Real Time Notifications at 3 against CDI+'s 1. CDI+'s advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Real Time Notifications against 5.0 for CDI+. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Real Time Notifications | CDI+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Real Time Medical Systems, LLC | Pinson and Tang LLC |
Customer experience
Real Time Notifications
CDI+
In-app purchases
Real Time Notifications
No in-app purchases
CDI+
No in-app purchases
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