Talkatoo vs OpenVet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Talkatoo
This AI-powered tool helps veterinary professionals streamline their workflow by recording appointments, generating SOAP notes, and summarizing calls. It acts as a mobile microphone for dictation and an AI assistant for tasks like summarizing notes and client communications.
- Voice-enabled appointment recording
- Automated SOAP note generation
- Mobile microphone for dictation
- AI-powered note summarization
- Call transcription and summarization
- Client communication generation
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Made for veterinarians who want to do their best work. Reclaim up to 2 hours per day and stay fully present with your patients. Compatible with Cornerstone, Avimark, ezyVet, and 30+ other PIMS. HOW IT WORKS 1. Record: Start the app during any patient exam or phone call. 2. Speak naturally: Our AI filters out casual small talk and understands veterinary terminology. 3. Review: Receive a formatted record, transcript, and recording. 4. Transfer: Easily move notes into your PIMS. FEATURES • Auto Records Get complete and accurate records before the appointment ends. Choose from a template or create your own. • Make Calls Make calls from the Talkatoo app without using your personal cell number. • Call Summary Get a summary, transcription, and recording of your calls. • Offline Access Record notes offline and submit notes when you are back online.
OpenVet
This AI-powered tool assists veterinarians and veterinary students with clinical decision-making by providing quick access to patient records, drug information, and diagnostic guidance. It helps manage cases, look up drug monographs, and answer urgent questions, all within a unified workspace.
- AI clinical decision support
- Patient record integration
- Veterinary drug reference
- Weight-based dose calculations
- Emergency & Critical Care room
- Voice dictation
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For the patients who keep you on your toes. OpenVet brings clinical questions, patient records, and veterinary drug reference into one workspace for veterinarians and veterinary students. WORK THROUGH THE CASE Ask about differentials, diagnostic workups, and treatment considerations. Review the answer and inspect the references provided before deciding what comes next. BRING THEIR HISTORY WITH YOU Link a patient to a case so their weight, medications, allergies, diagnoses, and recorded lab results can inform the discussion. Keep supported PDFs and images with the chart, including the original documents. KEEP YOUR FORMULARY CLOSE Look up drug monographs, review interaction warnings, and use weight-based dose tools with displayed reference ranges. Check the primary source before prescribing or administering any medication. MAKE ROOM FOR URGENT QUESTIONS Open the Emergency & Critical Care room for triage, stabilization, and toxicology questions. A CPR metronome provides a pacing tool. SAY THE QUESTION Dictate into the question box, review the transcription, and send when you’re ready. WHO IT’S FOR Accounts are available to licensed veterinarians and veterinary students. US veterinarians provide a state license number. Students and internationally licensed veterinarians can begin while credentials are reviewed. Veterinary technicians and other non-DVM staff cannot create accounts yet. OpenVet provides AI clinical decision support. It can make mistakes and does not replace professional judgment. Verify clinical information, doses, and species-specific guidance against primary sources before acting. Dose calculations are not prescriptions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: OpenVet at every 5 days against Talkatoo's every 3 weeks. OpenVet also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Talkatoo's advantage is ratings volume (37 vs 7) and iOS requirement (14.1 vs 16.2). On price, review sentiment, 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.
OpenVet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Talkatoo has 37 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Talkatoo ships an update every 3 weeks, OpenVet every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Talkatoo | OpenVet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (37 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Talkatoo Inc. | OpenVet Inc. |
Customer experience
Talkatoo
OpenVet
In-app purchases
Talkatoo
No in-app purchases
OpenVet
No in-app purchases








