Comparison

Ingenious Med vs PowerChart Touch

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

Head to head
About

Ingenious Med

This app streamlines physician workflows by automating charge capture and documentation at the point of care. It enhances compliance and revenue through efficient data management and communication tools, even when offline.

Highlights
  • Charge and data capture
  • Coding and documentation
  • Quality Reporting
  • Communication
  • Integration
  • Online/offline functionality
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Ingenious Med, noted as a Top-100 Fastest Growing Health Company by Inc., developed its industry-leading impower mobile application to be the best charge capture and hand-off solution at the time-of-care. Three-time SuperStar winner in the Mobile Star Awards by Mobile Village for healthcare practice management, the application easily automates the activities of physicians while increasing compliance and revenue through: • Charge and data capture • Coding and documentation • Quality Reporting • Communication • Integration Ingenious Med Mobile's online/offline functionality allows physicians to continue to have the latest patient information in the palm of their hands regardless of location. It has the same functionality and tools of the original web edition, while offering a point-of-care solution. By inputting all charges and hand-off notes at time of care, patient care quality is increased, mistakes are minimized, and physician billing is accurate, streamlined and efficient.

About

PowerChart Touch

This app enables healthcare providers to manage patient workflows on mobile devices. It offers secure access to patient charts, scheduling, order placement, and prescription management, facilitating efficient care delivery both inside and outside the facility.

Highlights
  • Review schedule and patient lists
  • Access patient charts and demographic information
  • Manage notes, allergies, problems, and histories
  • Review clinical results and radiology reports
  • Place orders and prescribe/refill medications
  • Secure remote EHR access
Features
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PowerChart Touch for iPad® and iPhone® supports fast, easy, and smart workflows. PowerChart Touch allows a provider to complete both ambulatory and inpatient workflows, including: • Review their schedule, patient list, and patient charts • Access the Physician Handoff, a standardized approach to transfer care of a patient between providers • Review patient's demographic information • Take patient's photo • Review, create, and sign notes • Review, add, and modify allergies, problems & histories • Review clinical results, radiology reports, and pathology reports • Review all orders including medication orders • Ability to place orders • Prescribe and refill medications with formulary support, electronic prescribing and printing • Clinical checking for safe prescription writing including drug-drug and drug-allergy checking • Dictate with Nuance voice recognition PowerChart Touch also provides secure access for providers needing access to the EHR outside of the facility's walls. IMPORTANT: PowerChart Touch requires your organization to have a valid license and be on release 2012.01 or higher. If you are unsure about the availability of PowerChart Touch at your organization, please contact your IT department or your Cerner representative.

Screenshots

Ingenious Med4 screens
PowerChart Touch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ingenious Med at 4.2 against PowerChart Touch's 2.2. Ingenious Med also leads on ratings volume (3.4K vs 204). PowerChart Touch's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

Ingenious Med holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ingenious Med has 3.4K ratings behind it against 204, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Ingenious Med's written reviews are positive against 9% of PowerChart Touch's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ingenious Med ships an update every 5 weeks, PowerChart Touch every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ingenious Med versus PowerChart Touch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIngenious MedPowerChart Touch
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.4K ratings) — better2.2 (204 ratings)
Positive reviews12.8% of reviews — better8.6% of reviews
Number of ratings3.4K — better204
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB40 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperIngenious Med, Inc.Cerner Corporation

Customer experience

Ingenious Med

All ratings3,393 ratings
Positive77.9%
Neutral4.7%
Negative17.3%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive12.8%
Neutral6.4%
Negative80.8%

PowerChart Touch

All ratings204 ratings
Positive22.5%
Neutral10.8%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive8.6%
Neutral11.4%
Negative80.0%

User reviews

Ingenious Med

From 3.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy billing process
  • 💡 Good billing program
  • 👍 Pretty good app, easy to use interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Freezes frequently, crashes often
  • 🔍 Difficult to search database, hard to find patients
  • 🕰️ Slow, imprecise, and clunky interface
  • 🤯 Unstable, with endless sync problems
  • 🔒 Multiple login issues, difficult to use

PowerChart Touch

From 204 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great functionality
  • 🚀 Efficient workflows
  • 👍 Ability to order
  • 👍 Increased efficiency
  • 👍 Crucial for patient success

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashing often
  • 🐛 Always asking to sign in
  • 🐛 Very difficult to sign in
  • 🐛 Getting worse
  • 🐛 Pain in the neck

Bugs and requests

Ingenious Med

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Incorrect diagnosis code categories
  • Frequent crashes and sync failures

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved search functionality
  • Better sync consistency and reliability
  • More intuitive and streamlined UI/UX

PowerChart Touch

Reported bugs

167 issues
  • Crashes often
  • Always asking to sign in
  • Difficult to sign in
  • Getting worse
  • Pain in the neck
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  • Clunky
  • Difficult to document
  • Not even functional
  • Very poorly made
  • Requires sign in twice
  • Not letting me log in
  • Absolutely terrible
  • Crashes in the middle of notes
  • Saves nothing
  • Useless
  • Embarrassing
  • Not useful for surgeons
  • Incomplete
  • Repeatedly gives system error
  • Freezes
  • Horrible
  • Confused about Bluetooth call
  • Chews through battery
  • Frustrating in car
  • Missing micro view
  • Limited ordering ability
  • Can only cancel fluids
  • Not faster overall
  • Essentially useless
  • Only works for some specialties
  • No OB or prenatal
  • Won't bring up pdfs
  • Can't pull up lists
  • Almost good
  • Clunky
  • No better than Instanote
  • Cannot function as stand alone
  • Sign-in again and again
  • Freezes up completely
  • Cannot even re-download
  • Years behind Epic’s Haiku
  • Pretty useless for inpatient
  • Terrible app
  • Avoid if you can
  • Login/logoff five times
  • Infrequent Dragon integration
  • Zero consistency
  • Terrible product technical support
  • Frequent unexplained downtime
  • Surprise updates render unusable
  • Horrible idea
  • Cutting out crucial functionality
  • Always freezes up
  • Need to restart phone
  • Freezes many times
  • Requiring phone restart
  • Crashes all the time
  • Biggest problem Cerner’s emr has
  • Inability to understand other languages
  • Will not let me into the app
  • Drains my battery
  • Keeps crashing
  • No tracking board views
  • No micro results
  • No image viewing
  • Horrible user interface
  • Lacks basic features
  • Ordering medications missing
  • Glaring feature disparities
  • Long-standing deficiencies
  • Slow to fix issues
  • Unhelpful
  • Very stressful
  • Worse than old version
  • Adds to stress
  • Wastes time
  • Freezing nonstop
  • Constantly reinstall/restart
  • Miserable
  • Frequent shut downs
  • Microphones not working
  • Slow to upload
  • Fundamentally lousy
  • Stalls out
  • Requires delete/reload
  • Upgrade doesn’t work
  • Frozen, won’t start
  • Days longer playing with app
  • Updated now not working
  • Loop of log in/log out
  • Loss of Physician Handoff
  • Less intuitive UI
  • Requires more steps to login
  • Buggy
  • Slow
  • Almost useless
  • Poor upgrade
  • Even more disappointing than desktop
  • Not intuitive
  • Needs to cater better for Australian sites
  • No way to create patient list
  • Schedule viewing: open slots
  • Last update broke app
  • Errors with processing orders
  • Unusable
  • Missing ability to add providers
  • App does not open
  • Third rate app
  • Clicks don’t work
  • Power plans ill conceived
  • Throw your phone in agony
  • Improvement falls short
  • Poor execution
  • Archaic
  • Horrific update
  • Deleted ability to lookup schedules
  • Utterly ridiculous
  • Major stability issues
  • Lost work
  • Crashes at least once every note
  • Search removed
  • Cannot find patient
  • Won’t let me sign in
  • Disaster
  • No customer service response
  • Loss of flowsheets
  • Viewing current labs first
  • Clutter of old labs
  • Placing orders slower
  • Verification of patient physician relationship slow
  • Microbiology not available
  • Charge after discharge not accessible
  • Medication history dosing not available
  • Please fix the dictation
  • Does not support new iPhones
  • Observation Status Patients do not Show
  • New update has issues
  • Becoming more useful, still slow
  • Slow loading speeds
  • Pretty useless
  • No microbiology
  • Clunky
  • Poor UI
  • Rounding with this is limited
  • Not intuitive to place/edit orders
  • Slow migrating between patients/lists
  • Discharged patients disappear
  • Need MAR tab
  • Domon face recognition
  • No reason for re-login
  • Unable to dictate certain histories
  • Practically worthless
  • Getting worse
  • Logs out after 10 minutes
  • Lab results display useless
  • Goes back to patient homepage
  • Still on previous day
  • Clunky
  • Unnecessary haptic steps
  • Real estate taken by useless options
  • Old version preferred
  • Lost trend review for data
  • Vitals not in trend view
  • Labs not in trend view
  • Data not timely/accurately updated
  • Trending capabilities absent
  • Dictation not used anymore

Requested features

31 requests
  • Add ability to add media from photo gallery/files
  • Add medicine reconciliation capacity
  • Add ability to open radiographs and images
  • Include microbiology section
  • Show Operating Lists
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  • Show blood gas values
  • Add Micro view
  • Increased ordering ability (fluids, power plans)
  • Make app faster
  • Add OB or prenatal functionality
  • Bring up PDFs
  • Pull up lists from care teams
  • Add lab notifications
  • Add secure chat
  • Add PowerPlans functionality
  • Add ability to add providers in ‘Resource Selection’
  • Bring back old functionality for provider schedules
  • Ability to create patient lists
  • Show available slots on schedule
  • View other schedules
  • Support new iPhones borders and screen
  • Show Observation Status Patients
  • Add Subjective, ROS, Assessment for dictation
  • Improve slow loading speeds
  • Allow viewing discharged patients
  • Add MAR tab
  • Add thumb/face recognition for login
  • Dictate social history, family history, past medical history
  • Restore trending graphs and detailed views of vitals and labs
  • Add dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

In-app purchases

None

Ingenious Med

No in-app purchases

None

PowerChart Touch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ingenious Med free?
Ingenious Med is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PowerChart Touch free?
PowerChart Touch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ingenious Med or PowerChart Touch?
Ingenious Med is rated higher. Ingenious Med averages 4.2 out of 5 from 3.4K ratings, while PowerChart Touch averages 2.2 from 204 ratings.
Do Ingenious Med or PowerChart Touch have ads?
Neither Ingenious Med nor PowerChart Touch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ingenious Med or PowerChart Touch?
Ingenious Med ships an update every 5 weeks, and PowerChart Touch every 6 weeks. Most recently, Ingenious Med was updated on September 22, 2026 and PowerChart Touch on September 22, 2026.

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