Epic Canto vs HCIN Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Epic Canto
Securely access patient information, schedules, and notes from Epic's Electronic Health Record. Supports dictation and In Basket for authorized clinical users.
- Secure EHR access
- Clinic schedules
- Patient lists
- Health summaries
- Test results
- Dictation support
- In Basket access
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Canto provides authorized clinical users of Epic’s Electronic Health Record with secure access to clinic schedules, hospital patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes. Canto also supports dictation and In Basket access. Your organization needs to license Canto and will determine the exact feature set and any applicable charges for your use of Canto. If you are unsure whether you can use Canto, please contact your administrative staff.
HCIN Connect
This application connects hospitals to a network of interpreters via video. It ensures patients receive care in their preferred language, facilitating communication and improving healthcare access.
- Video interpreter network
- Patient language access
- Secure communication
- Hospital member sharing
- Easy-to-use interface
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With the HCIN Connect iPad application, HCIN member hospitals share interpreters through an easy-to use video network that ensures patients receive care in the language they understand.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HCIN Connect at 5.0 against Epic Canto's 1.9. HCIN Connect also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Epic Canto's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (124 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
HCIN Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Epic Canto has 124 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Epic Canto ships an update every 3 weeks, HCIN Connect every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Canto | HCIN Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (124 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 559 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Epic | Paras and Associates inc |
Customer experience
Epic Canto
HCIN Connect
In-app purchases
Epic Canto
No in-app purchases
HCIN Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
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