Viv Home Care vs Ascend EVV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Viv Home Care
This platform digitally transforms home care enterprises, connecting individuals, families, caregivers, and clinicians. It empowers leaders to create custom solutions for evolving needs without engineering. Field staff gain modern tools for scheduling, communication, and accessing medical information.
- Configurable home care platform
- Connects individuals, families, caregivers, clinicians
- Efficient scheduling and management tools
- HIPAA compliant chat for real-time updates
- Access to medical information
- Health status tracking and monitoring
- EVV compliance with poor network coverage
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With the Viv Technologies™ Connected Home Care® app, you don’t have to compromise when it comes to the digital transformation of your home care enterprise. Take control with the only fully configurable and programmable home care platform designed to connect individuals and their family members with caregivers and clinicians. Empower operational and clinical leaders to create solutions to new and changing use cases without requiring any engineering intervention. The Viv Home Care™ Connected Home Care® app elevates the standard of care by empowering field staff with: • Modern tools designed to efficiently and effectively manage and schedule health care and in-home care • HIPAA compliant chat to provide real-time updates to family members, healthcare providers and payers. • Access to current and historical medical information. • The ability to track and monitor health status and related health care issues. • Advanced features that work in areas with poor network coverage to maximize EVV compliance.
Ascend EVV
This mobile application provides a simple interface for home healthcare providers to capture essential data during patient visits. It facilitates clocking in and out of visits, recording caregiver location, and documenting visit details for compliance and record-keeping.
- Clock in/out of home visits
- Capture caregiver location
- Document visit details
- Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)
- Compliance with CURES Act
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The Ascend healthcare solutions platform by Blue Summit Software is a complete EVV, billing and payroll solution for Home Healthcare providers. EVV is an integral component of this wholistic approach to home healthcare and required by the CURES act. As such, we are proud to offer the Ascend EVV mobile app to provide a simple, easy to use interface for capturing important data for home visits that are required in today's healthcare industry for proper government accountability and record keeping. With Ascend EVV, users can easily clock in and out of home visits, capture the location of the caregiver, and provide documentation for the visit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ascend EVV at 58% against Viv Home Care's 7%. Viv Home Care's advantage is rating (3.8 vs 3.1) and ratings volume (159 vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Viv Home Care holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Viv Home Care has 159 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 7% of Viv Home Care's written reviews are positive against 58% of Ascend EVV's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Viv Home Care ships an update fortnightly, Ascend EVV every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Viv Home Care | Ascend EVV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (159 ratings) — better | 3.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 7.4% of reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 159 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Viv Technologies Inc. | Blue Summit Software, LLC |
Customer experience
Viv Home Care
Ascend EVV
In-app purchases
Viv Home Care
No in-app purchases
Ascend EVV
No in-app purchases
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