Comparison

pMD vs Story by CFS

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

Head to head
About

pMD

This app offers healthcare teams tools for secure communication, telehealth, and charge capture. It aims to improve patient outcomes and streamline practice workflows, enhancing efficiency and collaboration for better patient care.

Highlights
  • Secure messaging and telehealth
  • Mobile charge capture
  • Patient engagement tools
  • Streamlined workflows
  • HIPAA-compliant communication
  • Revenue cycle management
Features
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pMD provides healthcare teams with powerful mobile tools that improve patient outcomes and empower patients to engage in their care. Communicate securely, capture data effortlessly, and streamline workflows – all in one place. More efficiency. Better collaboration. Happier, healthier patients. PATIENTS Please download this app to access your pMD® Telehealth account and connect with your care providers. HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS This app is free to download for distribution to existing customers and for secure messaging. A subscription is required to use this app for pChat™, pCharge™, and pRevenue™. Discover more at www.pmd.com. pMD® pChat™ - Communicate with Confidence Instant, HIPAA-compliant communication and telehealth for care teams and healthcare practices. • Enterprise and Practice Messaging, Patient Hand-off, Telehealth • Enhance Collaboration, Reduce Errors, Get Time Back pMD® pCharge™ - Charge Capture Made Simple Easily capture charges and quality-of-care data at the point of care using your phone or tablet. Save charges in two taps with Instant Capture! • Mobile Rounding and Charge Entry, CMS-qualified MIPS registry • Reduce Charge Lag, Improve Accuracy, Increase Revenue pMD® pRevenue™ - Comprehensive Revenue Cycle Management Reduce claims lag, denials and overhead. Access everything pMD has to offer: charge capture, secure communication, patient engagement, rounding and patient handoff, telehealth, ePrescribe, and workflow enhancements. You take care of the patients and we’ll take care of the rest! • End-to-End Billing Services, Patient Payments, Software Integrations • Increase Practice Revenue, Lower Cost to Collect, Reduce Days in A/R WHY CHOOSE pMD? • pSuite – Unparalleled customer service with ongoing support • Updates – Regular releases of new features and enhancements • Trust and Security – pMD is SOC-2 certified and trusted by over 13,000 physicians and small practices

About

Story by CFS

This app aggregates real-time patient health information from various sources to facilitate coordinated care among healthcare teams. It presents comprehensive, up-to-date data to promote self-management and improve patient outcomes across different care populations. Access is granted via provider invitation.

Highlights
  • Real-time patient health information aggregation
  • Supports data from EHR, Hospital, and Payer sources
  • Intuitive interface for self-management
  • Facilitates care team collaboration
  • Impacts outcomes for pediatrics and chronic disease patients
  • Provider invitation access
Features
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Cloud Forest Solutions' Story Mobile is designed to empower a coordinated care-team effort by aggregating and displaying up-to-the-moment, real-time information about a patient’s health and well-being, in multiple ways, and to a variety of care team members. The Story Mobile application is a health management input/display application that aggregates elements of a patient’s health story collected from individual patient input, EHR, Hospital, Payer, and other data sources. The application presents comprehensive, up-to-date, contextual data. The Story application is intuitive, promotes self-management, and allows collaboration and care coordination to positively impact outcomes for all populations, including - pediatrics, chronic disease, acute care, complex care, and aging. Access to the Story app is through Provider invitation. If this app is one that would be of use to you and your family, please have your Provider contact admin@cloudforestsolutions.com

Screenshots

pMD4 screens
Story by CFS3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Story by CFS at free against pMD's freemium. Story by CFS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). pMD's advantage is ratings volume (8K vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Story by CFS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: pMD has 8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

pMD ships an update every 2 weeks, Story by CFS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
pMD versus Story by CFS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterpMDStory by CFS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (8K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings8K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB13 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperpMDsoft, Inc.Cloud Forest Solutions

Customer experience

pMD

All ratings7,955 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews158 reviews
Positive72.8%
Neutral5.1%
Negative22.2%

Story by CFS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

pMD

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Difficulty connecting for video calls

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to delete users
  • Improve diagnosis code search and selection
  • Add desktop/web app version
  • Allow customization of alert tones
  • Add ability to label/organize message threads

Story by CFS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

pMD

No in-app purchases

None

Story by CFS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is pMD free?
pMD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Story by CFS free?
Story by CFS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, pMD or Story by CFS?
Story by CFS is rated higher. pMD averages 4.8 out of 5 from 8K ratings, while Story by CFS averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do pMD or Story by CFS have ads?
Neither pMD nor Story by CFS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, pMD or Story by CFS?
pMD ships an update every 2 weeks, and Story by CFS every 3 weeks. Most recently, pMD was updated on November 10, 2026 and Story by CFS on November 3, 2026.

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