CH Mobile vs DocBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CH Mobile
This app allows healthcare professionals to record medical dictations and manage patient tasks directly from their mobile devices. It streamlines workflows by enabling STAT dictations, patient selection, and efficient data triage for improved efficiency and data integrity.
- Record medical dictations
- Virtual scribe functionality
- EMR integration
- Patient task management
- STAT dictation sending
- Suspend and playback recordings
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Record medical dictation and drive virtual scribe functionality for your EMR from your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. Select patients from your task/schedule list and receive deficiency notices to save physicians time, improve patient throughput and data integrity. Customize your task/schedule list date range. Suspend recordings to complete at a later time. Pause and playback current recordings. Send your verbal instructions and dictation as a STAT for support and clinical staff. Triage and parse your dictation into actionable data. CH Mobile is a secure mobile application requiring user login to access your patient task/schedule list and record audio. CH Mobile securely transfers your recording over HTTPS (TLS 1.2+) to the Command Health datacenter.
DocBuddy
This app streamlines the management and retrieval of your medical records. It acts as a digital personal assistant, keeping your health information readily accessible.
- Medical record documentation
- Easy access to health information
- Personal health assistant
- Digital record keeping
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DocBuddy is an elegant solution to wasted time documenting and accessing medical records. It's like having a personal assistant at your call and always at your fingertips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DocBuddy at 4.4 against CH Mobile's 3.8. DocBuddy also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 4). CH Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (36% vs 0%). 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.
DocBuddy holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of CH Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of DocBuddy'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 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CH Mobile | DocBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.4 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Command Health | Doc Buddy Inc |
Customer experience
CH Mobile
DocBuddy
In-app purchases
CH Mobile
No in-app purchases
DocBuddy
No in-app purchases
