Nextech vs SurgiCare Inventory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nextech
Access and manage patient information from your iPhone or iPad. View daily schedules, review charts, and document patient notes efficiently on the go. This mobile EHR enhances clinical workflow with anytime, anywhere access.
- Mobile EHR access
- View daily patient schedules
- Manage to-dos
- Review charts
- Access patient chart notes
- Document with confidence
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Nextech’s iOS application offers an unparalleled mobile EHR experience. Anytime, anywhere access from your iPhone or iPad device adds an additional layer of mobility and efficiency to your clinical routine. At a glance, users can view patients for the day, manage to-dos and go over charts in need of attention. Users can also thumb through patient chart notes and review important information in a convenient, easily consumable format. With Nextech’s iOS app, you can document with confidence, knowing it has the technological backbone of one of the most widely used specialty-specific EHRs in the industry.
SurgiCare Inventory
Manage medical inventory efficiently with this mobile tool. It allows scanning items in and out, assigning barcodes, creating new items, and tracking patient costs. Users can also request items, get vendor pricing, and manage inventory movements.
- Scan items in/out
- Assign barcodes
- Create new items
- Track patient/procedure costs
- Request items
- Get vendor pricing
- Move and receive items
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SurgiCare Inventory Mobile brings existing SurgiCare users a robust tool for the management of their medical inventory. An existing SurgiCare account is required for login. This app allows users to: -Scan items out (deduct) -Scan items in -Assign barcodes to items -Create new items -Enter physical counts of items -Track patient and procedure costs through Surgical Preference Cards -Request items -Get pricing and UOM info directly from eligible vendors -Move items -Receive in from Purchase Orders
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SurgiCare Inventory at 5.0 against Nextech's 2.7. SurgiCare Inventory also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.6). Nextech's advantage is ratings volume (83 vs 1). 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.
SurgiCare Inventory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nextech has 83 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Nextech ships an update every 5 weeks, SurgiCare Inventory monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nextech | SurgiCare Inventory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (83 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NexTech Systems, Inc. | SurgiCare Software, LLC |
Customer experience
Nextech
SurgiCare Inventory
Bugs and requests
Nextech
Reported bugs
18 issues- Cannot scroll after acknowledgment
- Mac version logs out constantly
- Mobile version is limiting
- Cannot move tab on iPad
- Unable to see scanned documents on iPad
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- App won't open/enter credentials
- Photos upload with error
- Photos taken from phone/iPad do not save
- Unable to see patient photos
- System has problem after problem
- Cannot add new patient
- Cannot make an appointment
- Cannot chart or send RX via phone
- EMNs cannot be created/edited from app
- Screen stays blurred out after logging out
- Cannot view chart notes on iPhone
- Cannot find patient info on iPhone
- Schedule visualization unwieldy for multiple providers
Requested features
15 requests- Add ability to add/edit appointments
- Add Face ID/fingerprint login
- Improve mobile app functionality (iPhone/iPad)
- Add grammar check
- Allow writing notes on mobile
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- Improve photo management
- Add ability to add new patient
- Add ability to make appointments
- Improve schedule visualization
- Add financial information viewing
- Improve word processor
- Allow moving tabs on iPad
- Allow charting on mobile
- Bring medical history forward
- Alert patient to update medical history
SurgiCare Inventory
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nextech
No in-app purchases
SurgiCare Inventory
No in-app purchases
Questions
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