Patient Cloud ePRO vs RealTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Patient Cloud ePRO
This app facilitates patient participation in clinical trials by allowing them to answer questionnaires from their own devices. It streamlines data collection for healthcare professionals and researchers, improving the efficiency of disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment studies.
- Patient data collection
- Clinical trial participation
- Questionnaire completion
- Streamlined research process
- Real-world data integration
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Medidata Patient Cloud ePRO collects data directly from patients in clinical trials and in real world use. It changes the way clinical trials are conducted for patients, healthcare professionals and clinical researchers. By streamlining the clinical trial process, it helps find better ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. Patients: Download Patient Cloud ePRO app for free, receive an invitation from your doctor and you can participate in a clinical trial — it's that easy! Patient Cloud ePRO lets you answer clinical trial questionnaires from the comfort of your own home, or wherever is convenient for you. Healthcare Professionals: Patient Cloud ePRO allows you to invite patients to your studies and to have them record health data using their mobile devices. Patient Cloud ePRO simplifies the patient reported component of your clinical trials. Clinical Researchers: Patient Cloud ePRO is part of the Medidata platform, including Medidata Rave®. It frees you from reliance on proprietary devices and reduces study setup time and effort. By leveraging Rave, you can build your own questionnaires and easily make them available for patients. Entered data is accessible to you and your partners immediately. As part of the Medidata platform, the full functionality of the platform is at your fingertips. Contact Medidata Solutions today to get started right away!
RealTime
Manage clinical trial data, documents, and patient referrals efficiently. This app integrates CTMS, eDOCS, and eSOURCE functionalities for seamless on-the-go access to study information, regulatory documents, and visit data collection.
- Subject profile and study enrollment management
- Calendar for scheduling and viewing visits
- Digital signatures with fingerprint/face ID
- Access to regulatory and study documents
- On-the-go visit data collection
- Patient referral tracking and alerts
- Contact management for studies
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Our latest version includes all major function of CTMS, eDOCS and eSOURCE. - CTMS features include a complete calendar for scheduling and viewing the users "My Calendar". View full subject profiles, study enrollments, complete visits, view study contacts and much more! Easily display inclusion and exclusion criteria for a particular study while also having the ability to "Refer a Patient". Patient referrals drop directly into your RealTime-CTMS Study Recruitment Roster and site staff are alerted to the new study lead. - eDOCS includes eSignatures utilizing fingerprint or face ID technology. View all regulatory documents for user-assigned studies, access the current versions of the Protocol, ICFs, or any other important study document while on the go. - eSOURCE includes the full suite of eSOURCE services that are available on the desktop version of RealTime-eSOURCE. Collect visit data on your phone or tablet, voice dictate notes or impressions, eSign lab documents with a Part-11 compliant PIN and much more! - Other features include a Contacts Section that allows users to view Personal Contacts, Study Sponsor/CRO Contacts and Research Staff Contacts.
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Verdict
Patient Cloud ePRO and RealTime both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Patient Cloud ePRO's written reviews are positive against 60% of RealTime's. Patient Cloud ePRO also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Patient Cloud ePRO against 4.5 for RealTime. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 15 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Patient Cloud ePRO's written reviews are positive against 60% of RealTime's.
Patient Cloud ePRO ships an update every 2 months, RealTime every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patient Cloud ePRO | RealTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 4.5 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Medidata Solutions Worldwide | RealTime Software Solutions |
Customer experience
Patient Cloud ePRO
RealTime
In-app purchases
Patient Cloud ePRO
No in-app purchases
RealTime
No in-app purchases
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