Nextech vs ModMed Practice Sandbox
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.
ModMed Practice Sandbox
This iPad app allows medical professionals to record patient visit data in real-time, automating documentation. It's designed for use with a subscription-based web service and is ideal for various medical specialties.
- Real-time data recording
- Automated documentation
- Designed for medical specialties
- iPad native application
- Subscription-based web service integration
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Please note that modmed Practice Sandbox can only be used in conjunction with a subscription-based Web Application Service. Modernizing Medicine introduces the first native iPad application designed for medical surgical specialities — modmed Practice Sandbox for iPad. Each relevant part of the visit can be recorded in real time by the patients in the waiting room and by the medical assistants, physician extenders, or physicians in the exam room. At the end of each patient visit, data is transmitted back to the server automating documentation without costing the doctor a second.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ModMed Practice Sandbox at 3.3 against Nextech's 2.7. ModMed Practice Sandbox also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). Nextech's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%) and ratings volume (83 vs 7). 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.
ModMed Practice Sandbox 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 7, 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 ModMed Practice Sandbox's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Nextech ships an update every 5 weeks, ModMed Practice Sandbox weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nextech | ModMed Practice Sandbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (83 ratings) | 3.3 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 444 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | NexTech Systems, Inc. | Modernizing Medicine, Inc. |
Customer experience
Nextech
ModMed Practice Sandbox
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
ModMed Practice Sandbox
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nextech
No in-app purchases
ModMed Practice Sandbox
No in-app purchases
Questions
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