Comparison

Doximity vs Sampson Scribe

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

Head to head
About

Doximity

This app provides U.S. healthcare professionals with AI-powered clinical tools, secure communication, and news. It offers features like AI-assisted clinical question answering, time-saving administrative tools, patient calling, ambient note-taking, and secure faxing. It aims to simplify daily tasks and improve patient care.

Highlights
  • AI-powered clinical question answering
  • HIPAA-compliant AI for administrative tasks
  • Secure patient calling and messaging
  • Ambient note-taking with AI scribe
  • Secure faxing for medical records
  • Curated healthcare news
  • Clinician directory search
Features
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The Doximity Clinical AI Suite helps clinicians get answers, communicate with patients, and complete documentation—all in one workflow. Ask delivers fast, cited answers. Dialer connects you with patients by voice, video, and text. Scribe automatically generates clinical notes from patient visits. Doximity is the largest network of U.S. clinicians and the AI-powered platform trusted by over 85% of U.S. physicians. Free, HIPAA-compliant, and built for clinicians. "This should be on every physician's phone." – App Review Features - Get fast, cited answers grounded in medical literature - Generate clinical notes automatically with AI - Call, video, and securely message patients - Send and receive HIPAA-compliant faxes - Prescribe medications directly from your phone - Stay current with personalized medical news - Connect with the largest network of U.S. clinicians - Integrate with Epic Haiku and Amion Testimonials "Doximity Ask is a fantastic resource I use every single day when researching complex conditions. The evidence-based responses make it a breeze to increase my understanding of difficult topics in a fraction of the time it used to take." – Dr. Tyler Agnew, MD "With Doximity Ask, I input all the active diagnoses the patient had, what my goal was, and within 15 seconds my letter of clinical necessity was written, describing all the relevant conditions perfectly, speaking to their severity and truly making a good case for the need for resources." – Dr. Shubho Sarkar, MD "Really great app for calling my patients. Can set the number that shows up on caller ID as my office. Also has the option to send a message straight to their voicemail or send text messages without giving out my personal cell number." – App Review "I have used Doximity Scribe now for almost 2 years and it has been amazing!! It allows me to concentrate more on my patient. Saves me so much time!" – Dr. Zarin Nestor, MD "So nice to have a secure fax for medical records and labs. I love getting results on the go and being able to respond in real time to information." – App Review "Concise articles. Quick to read and relevant. Haven’t noticed any editorializing, which I greatly appreciate. Just the facts, ma’am." – App Review

About

Sampson Scribe

This AI-powered medical scribe is designed for emergency medicine physicians. It listens to patient encounters and automatically generates comprehensive documentation, including MDMs and discharge instructions in multiple languages. The app also helps prevent undercoding by identifying critical care time and coding opportunities.

Highlights
  • AI-powered medical documentation
  • Automatic MDM generation
  • Multi-language discharge instructions
  • Critical care time capture
  • Multi-patient board management
  • HIPAA-compliant infrastructure
Features
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Sampson is an ambient medical scribe built specifically for emergency medicine — not a scribe built for primary care with an EM template slapped on it, but designed from the ground up for how ED physicians actually work. Sampson generates complete documentation-including MDMs that read like they were written by a seasoned attending with all the time in the world to write the perfect note. Sampson also automatically generates DC instructions, with the patients native language auto-detected, complete with visit summary, return precautions, and follow up instructions, as soon as discharge is detected. Explore advanced features, like multi-patient mode, attestation mode-Sampson even automatically captures missed critical care time and generates CCT addendums specific to that particular case, so no more downcoding. BUILT FOR THE ED - Literally built by ER Physicians working shifts just like you. No corporate backing, no shady private equity owners. - Notes generated in real time, ready to paste into your EMR - Multi-patient board management — track name, chief complaint, and room number across your whole shift - Record first, fill in patient details later — Sampson won't stop you for incomplete patient info DISCHARGE IN ANY LANGUAGE When an interpreter is used during the encounter, Sampson automatically detects the language and generates discharge instructions in both English and the patient's language — no extra steps, no separate translation workflow. Currently supports Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. BUILT-IN BILLING INTELLIGENCE Sampson captures the documentation you forgot to dictate. Critical Care Time flags, CoPA, data, and risk coding notes are surfaced automatically so you stop undercoding without thinking about it. HIPAA-COMPLIANT INFRASTRUCTURE Built on AWS with end-to-end encryption, CloudTrail audit logging, and a no-retention audio policy. Audio auto deletes at 48 hrs, notes auto delete at 14 days. Your patients' data is protected. YOUR DATA IS SAFE Sampson will NEVER use your data to train our models on, unless you specifically give us permission to do so. Withholding permission to use your data does not affect your ability to use Sampson in any way, shape or form, and never will.

Screenshots

Doximity4 screens
Sampson Scribe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Doximity at 200K against Sampson Scribe's 1. Doximity also leads on chart position (#138 vs unranked). Sampson Scribe's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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

Sampson Scribe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Doximity has 200K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Doximity versus Sampson Scribe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoximitySampson Scribe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (200K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings200K — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#138 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size343 MB12 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperDoximitySampson Scribe LLC

Customer experience

Doximity

All ratings199,599 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.4%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews302 reviews
Positive74.5%
Neutral5.3%
Negative20.2%

Sampson Scribe

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Doximity

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App freezing when reading article abstracts
  • Inability to cancel or exit dialer feature
  • Disappearing features after app updates
  • Connectivity issues for some users

Requested features

5 requests
  • Expand verification to include veterinarians
  • Improve search and sorting for articles
  • Add time stamps and delivery confirmation for faxes
  • Enable multi-user access for the same office number
  • Provide more customization options for the app

Sampson Scribe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Doximity

No in-app purchases

None

Sampson Scribe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Doximity free?
Doximity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sampson Scribe free?
Sampson Scribe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Doximity or Sampson Scribe?
Sampson Scribe is rated higher. Doximity averages 4.8 out of 5 from 200K ratings, while Sampson Scribe averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Doximity or Sampson Scribe have ads?
Neither Doximity nor Sampson Scribe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Doximity or Sampson Scribe?
Doximity ships an update weekly, and Sampson Scribe weekly. Most recently, Doximity was updated on October 18, 2026 and Sampson Scribe on October 6, 2026.

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