Comparison

OfficeEMR Mobile™ vs Althea Smart EHR

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

Head to head
About

OfficeEMR Mobile™

Access your medical practice's scheduling, patient records, and billing from anywhere. This app provides secure, real-time access to vital patient information, communications, and financial dashboards, extending your office capabilities to your iPhone.

Highlights
  • Access Schedule
  • Patient Medical Records
  • Secure Communications
  • Charge Capture
  • Dictation
  • Mobile Imaging
  • MIPS Dashboard
Features
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Your office at your fingertips! With OfficeEMR™ Mobile, you can now practice anywhere! Stay connected to your scheduling, your EHR which holds vital patient information, and your billing from anywhere, anytime on your iPhone. OfficeEMR™ Mobile is completely integrated with OfficeEMR™ desktop EHR from iSalus Healthcare. All activity is interchangeable – a true extension of the software. So, anything you create, change, or edit via the desktop OR mobile app, will be done securely, and made available immediately to the rest of your staff. KEY FEATURES: • Access Your Schedule: Now you will know exactly what your day looks like and be able to change it quickly when necessary. • Access Patient Medical Records: Real-time access to a patient’s medications, active problems, past progress notes, vitals, immunizations, family history and more. • Secure Office Communications: A HIPAA compliant communication tool right at your fingertips. Something most email programs cannot guarantee. • Patient Demographics: Patient contact information, insurance files and responsible party information are just a single touch away. • Charge Capture: Eliminate lost charge tickets by creating new or modifying existing encounters at the time of service for faster payment. • Dictation: The iPhone dictation feature allows bedside dictation to be added directly into the patient’s electronic medical record. • Mobile Imaging: Capture images directly from the iPhone and automatically upload them into the patient’s electronic medical record. • MIPS Dashboard: Understand your scoring and where you need improvement throughout the year as you work towards meeting your reporting requirements for the Quality Payment Program. • Billing Dashboard: Keep your finger on the pulse of your practice by understanding where your financials stand. Knowledge gives you the ability to work on any issues that arise before they injury the strength of your organization. Let’s review a few of the things that you and your staff can do from the free OfficeEMR™ Mobile app. You can review your appointment schedule and even create new appointments. You can pull a patient’s chart and review recent chart notes, add vitals, allergies, and problem lists. Write an electronic prescription and use mobile charge capture to get new charges as well as complete the charges you did back at the practice. You can review x-rays, share electronic documents and faxes, and even take a picture of a patient, add it directly to their medical record and send it to clinical staff for review. Watch your practice’s performance at a glance with financials dashboards. And much, much more! We know that you're on the go and your practice doesn't stop when you leave the office. OfficeEMR™ Mobile give you the option of more flexibly in life and in medicine without compromising patient care.

About

Althea Smart EHR

This comprehensive electronic health record system integrates practice management, patient portal, and revenue cycle management. It offers a streamlined interface for doctors with extensive charting capabilities, patient communication tools, and secure document handling.

Highlights
  • Integrated EHR, Practice Management, Patient Portal, RCM
  • Single-page access to comprehensive patient data
  • Smart charting with voice recognition, macros, and templates
  • Patient messaging and appointment/reminder text messaging
  • Cloud-based faxing
  • Customizable user views
Features
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Althea Smart EHR is a game changing EHR using the best of what Apple technology has to offer to deliver unique user experience for doctors. Features: One single solution EHR, Practice Management, Patient Portal and RCM services. Single page access to Appointments, Chief Complaint, History of Present Illness, Immunization, Health Maintenance, Current Allergies, Current Medications, Current Problems, Family History, Social History, Surgical History, Review of Systems, Vitals, Physical Exam, Diagram, Assessments, CPOE (Medications, Labs, Imaging, Referrals), Procedures, Patient Education, Implanted Devices, Care Plan, Transition of Care, CCDA, Document Center Other features include: Smart charting with Voice recognition, using macros and templates; copy previous notes; save a note as a template for future use; send messages to patients and referrals; text messaging to patients for appointment reminders, health maintenance reminders and Immunization reminders; import and export CCDA; download / reconcile current medications, allergies, problems; built in cloud based fax both inbound and outbound; smart diagrams; customize view by user.

Screenshots

OfficeEMR Mobile™4 screens
Althea Smart EHR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Althea Smart EHR at 4.3 against OfficeEMR Mobile™'s 3.8. Althea Smart EHR also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (127 vs 11). OfficeEMR Mobile™'s advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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

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

Althea Smart EHR holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Althea Smart EHR has 127 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of OfficeEMR Mobile™'s written reviews are positive against 81% of Althea Smart EHR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OfficeEMR Mobile™ ships an update every 2 months, Althea Smart EHR every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
OfficeEMR Mobile™ versus Althea Smart EHR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOfficeEMR Mobile™Althea Smart EHR
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (11 ratings)4.3 (127 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews81.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11127 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB228 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperiSalus, LLCAlthea Care, LLC

Customer experience

OfficeEMR Mobile™

All ratings11 ratings
Positive54.5%
Neutral36.4%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

Althea Smart EHR

All ratings126 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral2.4%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative19.0%

In-app purchases

None

OfficeEMR Mobile™

No in-app purchases

None

Althea Smart EHR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OfficeEMR Mobile™ free?
OfficeEMR Mobile™ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Althea Smart EHR free?
Althea Smart EHR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OfficeEMR Mobile™ or Althea Smart EHR?
Althea Smart EHR is rated higher. OfficeEMR Mobile™ averages 3.8 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Althea Smart EHR averages 4.3 from 127 ratings.
Do OfficeEMR Mobile™ or Althea Smart EHR have ads?
Neither OfficeEMR Mobile™ nor Althea Smart EHR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OfficeEMR Mobile™ or Althea Smart EHR?
OfficeEMR Mobile™ ships an update every 2 months, and Althea Smart EHR every 9 days. Most recently, OfficeEMR Mobile™ was updated on October 23, 2026 and Althea Smart EHR on October 24, 2026.

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