Comparison

Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® vs Respocare Connect AI

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

Head to head
About

Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2®

This app allows users to view performance data from their oxygen concentrator. It provides quantitative and qualitative information to increase patient freedom and peace of mind, and can assist HME providers with troubleshooting.

Highlights
  • View concentrator performance data
  • Access quantitative and qualitative data
  • Assist HME providers with troubleshooting
  • Wireless Bluetooth interface
  • FAQ section for data viewing
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The SmartLinkO2® App allow patients to view performance data for their concentrator. The SmartLinkO2® App displays quantitative and qualitative data from the concentrator that can increase the patient’s freedom and peace of mind. SmartLinkO2® App will allow you to: • Review select performance data from your concentrator • See data about your concentrator that can assist your HME Provider. • Find answers to frequently asked questions about viewing data on your concentrator. The SmartLinkO2® app interfaces with the iGo®2 Portable Oxygen Concentrator wirelessly over Bluetooth to pull data at startup and refresh requests to help patients better understand the performance of their concentrator. Data can be wirelessly transmitted back to a HME provider to assist with troubleshooting the concentrator or assisting the patient. Allow the SmartLinkO2® App to help you increase your freedom and have greater peace of mind with your concentrator. Disclaimer: SmartLinkO2® App is NOT a substitute for a doctor or professional healthcare or advice. Any health related information provided is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the advice of healthcare professionals.

About

Respocare Connect AI

Features
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Six instruments. One living record. TEN YEARS IN HEALTHCARE Respocare is not a technology company that wandered into medicine. For the past decade we have operated as a licensed healthcare practice and one of South Africa's specialist homecare oxygen providers — working inside real clinical care, in homes and at the bedside. That decade of healthcare experience is why we built Respocare Connect AI the way clinicians actually work, now that agentic AI makes it possible. Respocare Connect AI is the clinical AI that knows your patients. Most AI scribes listen, transcribe, and hand you a note — with no idea who the patient in front of you actually is. Respocare is built the other way around: it reasons across the patient's full clinical record first, so every note, answer, and report is grounded in their real history. For the clinician tired of patient information scattered across letters, labs, and old consultations, this is one living record that holds it together. WHAT YOU GET Medical AI Scribe Dictate your consultation hands-free. Respocare retrieves the patient's full record using semantic search, then generates a structured, clinician-grade note that reflects not just what you said, but everything already on file. Agentic Clinical Assistant Ask clinical questions, explore differentials, and surface treatment considerations — always with the patient's longitudinal record as context. It retrieves, reasons, and acts. And when the record cannot support an answer, it refuses to guess and tells you why. That refusal is the point: it is the difference between a tool you can trust at the bedside and one you cannot. Clinical Decision Support Structured CDS plans and round checklists for complex scenarios — AI-assisted analysis grounded in the patient's data, designed to support your clinical judgement, never replace it. Documents & Reports Generate referral letters, patient summaries, and clinical reports across multiple formats. Every document draws on the patient's full record automatically. Document Intelligence Upload labs, letters, and scanned records. Respocare reads, indexes, and makes them searchable — so they become part of the living record, not another PDF you lose. HOW THE LIVING RECORD WORKS Every note you approve is indexed and folded back into the patient's living record. A patient seen ten times carries all ten consultations, every lab, every uploaded document, and every summary — available as context the moment you open their file. The record gets richer with every encounter. No enterprise EHR integration. No IT project. No per-note billing surprises. Respocare works standalone from day one. BUILT FOR TRUST POPIA-aligned data handling, architected in from the start rather than bolted on. Data encrypted in transit and at rest. Human-in-the-loop by design: every AI-generated note requires your approval before it enters the patient record. We never sell your patient data. Respocare does not diagnose and does not prescribe. It supports licensed clinicians; it does not replace them. WHO IT IS FOR Licensed healthcare professionals — GPs, specialists, nurses, allied health, dentists, and psychologists — who want AI that actually knows their patients. Born in South Africa. Built for the world. An active subscription is required. Visit respocareconnectai.com to create your account. Support: support@respocare.co.za

Screenshots

Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2®4 screens
Respocare Connect AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Respocare Connect AI at weekly against Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2®'s every 17 months. Respocare Connect AI also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® ships an update every 17 months, Respocare Connect AI weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® versus Respocare Connect AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2®Respocare Connect AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB21 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperDeVilbiss HealthcareRespocare

In-app purchases

None

Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2®

No in-app purchases

None

Respocare Connect AI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® free?
Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Respocare Connect AI free?
Respocare Connect AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® or Respocare Connect AI have ads?
Neither Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® nor Respocare Connect AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® or Respocare Connect AI?
Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® ships an update every 17 months, and Respocare Connect AI weekly. Most recently, Drive DeVilbiss SmartLinkO2® was updated on October 30, 2026 and Respocare Connect AI on October 25, 2026.

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