Comparison

shiftMD vs IKS Scribble

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

Head to head
About

shiftMD

This app allows healthcare providers to easily find and recommend therapeutic products to patients, ensuring they receive the correct items. It provides visibility into patient compliance and helps patients save time and money on their prescribed treatments.

Highlights
  • Find therapeutic products
  • Establish therapy duration
  • Send recommendations to patients
  • Track patient compliance
  • Discover new products
  • Receive product alerts
Features
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As a healthcare provider, you are constantly recommending non prescription, therapeutic, first-line products to your patients. You don’t know if they heed that advice and go to the pharmacy or online to purchase what you recommend. With the literally thousands of products online, your patient may not actually purchase the product with the specific ingredients or affects that you as the healthcare provider actually intended. With the shiftMD app, you can easily find the product, establish the duration of therapy and send it directly to your patient. You will have full visibility to ensure your patient’s compliance, as well as full access to learn about the existing products on the platform and alerted when new ones become available. With shiftMD you’ll provide value to your patients by: • Saving them time wasted with pharmacy visits • Saving them time and confusion spent traversing the online retailers • Saving them money since the products you recommend through shiftMD are usually priced better than anywhere • Convenience since the products are discretely shipped to their home for the allotted time designated

About

IKS Scribble

Features
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IKS Scribble™ app is the clinician's interface to our Scribble™ suite of clinical documentation products. It enables clinicians to record conversations and dictations from patient encounters, which are then converted into high-quality clinical notes using our advanced technology and global human capital.

Screenshots

shiftMD3 screens
IKS Scribble4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: IKS Scribble at monthly against shiftMD's every 8 months. shiftMD's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

shiftMD ships an update every 8 months, IKS Scribble monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
shiftMD versus IKS Scribble: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametershiftMDIKS Scribble
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (61 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings61 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB77 MB
Age rating17+4+
DevelopershiftMD LLCInventurus Knowledge Solutions, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

shiftMD

No in-app purchases

None

IKS Scribble

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is shiftMD free?
shiftMD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IKS Scribble free?
IKS Scribble is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do shiftMD or IKS Scribble have ads?
Neither shiftMD nor IKS Scribble shows ads.
Which is updated more often, shiftMD or IKS Scribble?
shiftMD ships an update every 8 months, and IKS Scribble monthly. Most recently, shiftMD was updated on October 14, 2026 and IKS Scribble on October 20, 2026.

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