Nextech vs PatientNow
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.
PatientNow
This system helps aesthetic and plastic surgery practices streamline operations by going paperless. It offers automated patient communication, secure access to charts, and efficient encounter note management to enhance patient service.
- Paperless operations
- Automated patient communication
- Secure patient chart access
- HIPAA compliant data storage
- Automated follow-up processes
- Digital encounter notes
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PatientNow is an automated system that can help your aesthetic or plastic surgery practice go paperless, provide you with the tools necessary to run an efficient business, and an automated follow-up process that will free up staff from manual tasking enabling them to provide more patient service. Our automated workflow will complement your practice and help you provide an Exceptional Patient Experience. - Complete patient communication including scheduling, text, and phone call - Full access to patients chart to view and create new records - Completely secure, no practice or PHI is stored on the device, all communication is encrypted and saved to a HIPAA Compliant Amazon environment. - Review and complete encounter notes and documents Requires iOS 13 or higher Compatible with PatientNOW ver. 7.0.194 and higher
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PatientNow at 3.3 against Nextech's 2.7. PatientNow also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). Nextech's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%) and ratings volume (83 vs 16). 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.
PatientNow holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nextech has 83 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Nextech's written reviews are positive against 0% of PatientNow'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 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nextech | PatientNow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (83 ratings) | 3.3 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NexTech Systems, Inc. | Patient Now Inc |
Customer experience
Nextech
PatientNow
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
PatientNow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nextech
No in-app purchases
PatientNow
No in-app purchases
