Epic Canto vs Vital Sync
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.
Vital Sync
Access real-time patient physiological data from connected medical devices on your mobile device. Receive alerts and monitor multiple patients remotely within your hospital's network to enhance clinical workflow and patient care.
- Remote patient monitoring
- Real-time physiological data
- Device alerts
- Multi-patient view
- Mobile-optimized interface
- Clinical workflow enhancement
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The Vital Sync™ mobile application takes the next step to give clinicians the right information, in the right place, at the right time to support clinicians in busy clinical environments. The Vital Sync™ mobile application delivers physiological information from your Medtronic patient monitors and ventilators and delivers it to your device. With a view designed specifically for mobile devices, the Vital Sync™ mobile application increases accessibility to data from your connected devices, so you can: • Gain immediate access to timely data and take appropriate action • View patient physiological information remotely • Receive alerts anywhere within the hospital’s network The Vital Sync™ mobile application allows you to access continuous monitoring data for multiple patients from a smart phone, anywhere within the hospital’s network. Building on the value of the Vital Sync™ virtual patient monitoring platform, the Vital Sync™ mobile application gives you more flexibility in your clinical workflow and helps you manage your respiratory patients’ care needs. The Vital Sync™ mobile application delivers: • Near real-time data and high-fidelity waveforms for patient monitoring devices • Patient and device alerts • A display that is unique for each clinician, showing only their assigned patients This application should not be used to make medical decisions without consulting a physician. The Vital Sync™ mobile application should not be used as the sole basis for diagnosis or therapy and is intended only as an adjunct in patient assessment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vital Sync at 5.0 against Epic Canto's 1.9. Vital Sync also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). Epic Canto's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (124 vs 6). 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.
Vital Sync 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 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Epic Canto ships an update every 3 weeks, Vital Sync every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Canto | Vital Sync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (124 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 6 |
| 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 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 559 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Epic | Medtronic, Inc. |
Customer experience
Epic Canto
Vital Sync
In-app purchases
Epic Canto
No in-app purchases
Vital Sync
No in-app purchases









