BeckonCall vs DocBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BeckonCall
A clinical communication tool created by physicians for physicians. It allows for efficient management of consults, admits, orders, and patient calls with customizable delivery and response methods. Avoid hold times and interruptions while staying in control of your communications.
- Clinical message management
- Consult, admit, and order handling
- Customizable message delivery
- Physician-designed interface
- Reduced communication delays
- After-hours call management
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Meet the only clinical communication tool designed by doctors, for doctors. Receive and respond to clinical messages on your terms. No hold times, delays, or unwanted interruptions. Period. Manage consults, admits, orders, and after-hours patient calls in one place, according to your rules. You control: • What information you receive • How and when the message is delivered • The means by which you respond What Physicians are Saying: “I would recommend BeckonCall to any practice that needs to communicate with hospital staff or patients. BeckonCall just makes it easier and more efficient to communicate as a physician.” -Dr. Jozef Zoldos, Orthopedic Surgery “BeckonCall saves me phone calls and time. Before it was difficult to know if incoming messages from the hospital warranted a phone conversation or not, now I can handle a lot of those via text only. It saves a lot of time and back and forth.” -Dr. Arya Nabavieh, Internal Medicine Hospitalist
DocBuddy
Effortlessly manage and access your medical records with this intuitive application. It acts as a personal assistant, streamlining documentation and retrieval of health information.
- Medical record documentation
- Easy access to health information
- Personal assistant functionality
- Streamlined record management
- Intuitive user interface
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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
BeckonCall and DocBuddy both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of BeckonCall's written reviews are positive against 0% of DocBuddy's. BeckonCall also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). DocBuddy's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 4.5 for BeckonCall against 4.4 for DocBuddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of BeckonCall's written reviews are positive against 0% of DocBuddy's.
BeckonCall ships an update every 2 months, DocBuddy every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BeckonCall | DocBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better | 4.4 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Beckon Call, Inc | Doc Buddy, Inc. |
Customer experience
BeckonCall
DocBuddy
In-app purchases
BeckonCall
No in-app purchases
DocBuddy
No in-app purchases
