Epic Canto vs Microsoft Dragon Copilot
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.
Microsoft Dragon Copilot
An AI-powered assistant for healthcare professionals that combines advanced voice dictation and ambient listening with generative AI. It integrates with EHRs to streamline clinical workflows, improve efficiency, and enhance patient care.
- AI-powered clinical workflow assistance
- Trusted voice dictation
- Ambient listening capabilities
- Generative AI integration
- EHR integration
- Healthcare-adapted safeguards
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Microsoft Dragon Copilot, your AI assistant for clinical workflow, brings together the trusted voice dictation capabilities of Dragon Medical One and ambient listening capabilities of DAX Copilot with fine-tuned generative AI and healthcare-adapted safeguards. This unified experience integrates with EHRs and supports clinicians across all stages of their workflow. Part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, it’s an extensible AI workspace that’s built on a secure modern architecture and helps promote clinician wellbeing, increase efficiency, enhance the patient experience, and drive meaningful financial impact.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Microsoft Dragon Copilot at 3.6 against Epic Canto's 1.9. Epic Canto's advantage is ratings volume (124 vs 18) and review sentiment (9% vs 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Microsoft Dragon Copilot holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Epic Canto has 124 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 9% of Epic Canto's written reviews are positive against 0% of Microsoft Dragon Copilot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Canto | Microsoft Dragon Copilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (124 ratings) | 3.6 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 559 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Epic | Microsoft Corporation |
Customer experience
Epic Canto
Microsoft Dragon Copilot
In-app purchases
Epic Canto
No in-app purchases
Microsoft Dragon Copilot
No in-app purchases
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