Epic Canto vs X
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.
X
This medical education app offers a vast library of narrated tutorials covering numerous specialties. It's designed for healthcare settings to help patients understand medical conditions and treatments through interactive learning.
- Narrated educational tutorials
- Interactive quizzes with feedback
- Covers 35 medical specialties
- Over 1100 English titles
- Over 500 Spanish titles
- Self-paced learning
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X-Plain® is patient education software used in hospitals, clinics and other healthcare settings. It provides educational tutorials that are self-paced, narrated and have questions with corrective feedback for better comprehension. X-Plain has approximately 1100 English titles and 500 Spanish titles covering 35 medical specialties.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: X at 5.0 against Epic Canto's 1.9. X also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). Epic Canto's advantage is ratings volume (124 vs 1). 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.
X 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Epic Canto ships an update every 3 weeks, X every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Canto | X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (124 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 559 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Epic | PATIENT EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC |
Customer experience
Epic Canto
X
In-app purchases
Epic Canto
No in-app purchases
X
No in-app purchases
