PowerChart Touch vs Voalte Me
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PowerChart Touch
This app enables healthcare providers to manage patient workflows on mobile devices. It offers secure access to patient charts, scheduling, order placement, and prescription management, facilitating efficient care delivery both inside and outside the facility.
- Review schedule and patient lists
- Access patient charts and demographic information
- Manage notes, allergies, problems, and histories
- Review clinical results and radiology reports
- Place orders and prescribe/refill medications
- Secure remote EHR access
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PowerChart Touch for iPad® and iPhone® supports fast, easy, and smart workflows. PowerChart Touch allows a provider to complete both ambulatory and inpatient workflows, including: • Review their schedule, patient list, and patient charts • Access the Physician Handoff, a standardized approach to transfer care of a patient between providers • Review patient's demographic information • Take patient's photo • Review, create, and sign notes • Review, add, and modify allergies, problems & histories • Review clinical results, radiology reports, and pathology reports • Review all orders including medication orders • Ability to place orders • Prescribe and refill medications with formulary support, electronic prescribing and printing • Clinical checking for safe prescription writing including drug-drug and drug-allergy checking • Dictate with Nuance voice recognition PowerChart Touch also provides secure access for providers needing access to the EHR outside of the facility's walls. IMPORTANT: PowerChart Touch requires your organization to have a valid license and be on release 2012.01 or higher. If you are unsure about the availability of PowerChart Touch at your organization, please contact your IT department or your Cerner representative.
Voalte Me
This app unifies alert notifications and text messaging for patient-centered communication on personal devices. It enables collaboration across teams and shifts, with integration to EMR and medical devices for comprehensive patient data access.
- Unified alerts and messaging
- Patient-centered communication
- Team and unit-level communication
- EMR and medical device integration
- Configurable notifications
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Voalte Me combines alert notifications and dynamic text messaging in one app to provide next-generation patient-centered communication all on your personal device. Communicate based on patient, team or unit-level, allowing continuous collaboration across shift-handoffs. Integrate with existing systems to see patient data from the EMR and other medical devices. Configure notifications to meet your specific needs. To use this application, your hospital will need to have the Voalte Server already installed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PowerChart Touch at 2.2 against Voalte Me's 2.0. On price, review sentiment, 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.
PowerChart Touch holds the better App Store score, 2.2 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 204 and 152 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 9% of PowerChart Touch's written reviews are positive against 11% of Voalte Me's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PowerChart Touch ships an update every 6 weeks, Voalte Me every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PowerChart Touch | Voalte Me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (204 ratings) — better | 2.0 (152 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 8.6% of reviews | 11.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 204 — better | 152 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cerner Corporation | Voalte, Inc |
Customer experience
PowerChart Touch
Voalte Me
User reviews
PowerChart Touch
From 204 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great functionality
- 🚀 Efficient workflows
- 👍 Ability to order
- 👍 Increased efficiency
- 👍 Crucial for patient success
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashing often
- 🐛 Always asking to sign in
- 🐛 Very difficult to sign in
- 🐛 Getting worse
- 🐛 Pain in the neck
Voalte Me
From 152 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🔒 HIPAA compliant secure messaging
- 🏥 Integration with Epic and hospital systems
- 👥 Ability to see care team assignments
- 📱 Works on personal cell phones on/off campus
- 🔄 Recent improvements in speed and reliability (per some recent reviews)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- ⏱️ Extreme lag and slow message delivery (10+ minutes)
- 🔋 Severe battery drain (10-28% per hour)
- 🔌 Server instability and outages (6+ hours)
- 🔍 Painfully slow search function (up to 1 minute for names)
Bugs and requests
PowerChart Touch
Reported bugs
167 issues- Crashes often
- Always asking to sign in
- Difficult to sign in
- Getting worse
- Pain in the neck
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- Clunky
- Difficult to document
- Not even functional
- Very poorly made
- Requires sign in twice
- Not letting me log in
- Absolutely terrible
- Crashes in the middle of notes
- Saves nothing
- Useless
- Embarrassing
- Not useful for surgeons
- Incomplete
- Repeatedly gives system error
- Freezes
- Horrible
- Confused about Bluetooth call
- Chews through battery
- Frustrating in car
- Missing micro view
- Limited ordering ability
- Can only cancel fluids
- Not faster overall
- Essentially useless
- Only works for some specialties
- No OB or prenatal
- Won't bring up pdfs
- Can't pull up lists
- Almost good
- Clunky
- No better than Instanote
- Cannot function as stand alone
- Sign-in again and again
- Freezes up completely
- Cannot even re-download
- Years behind Epic’s Haiku
- Pretty useless for inpatient
- Terrible app
- Avoid if you can
- Login/logoff five times
- Infrequent Dragon integration
- Zero consistency
- Terrible product technical support
- Frequent unexplained downtime
- Surprise updates render unusable
- Horrible idea
- Cutting out crucial functionality
- Always freezes up
- Need to restart phone
- Freezes many times
- Requiring phone restart
- Crashes all the time
- Biggest problem Cerner’s emr has
- Inability to understand other languages
- Will not let me into the app
- Drains my battery
- Keeps crashing
- No tracking board views
- No micro results
- No image viewing
- Horrible user interface
- Lacks basic features
- Ordering medications missing
- Glaring feature disparities
- Long-standing deficiencies
- Slow to fix issues
- Unhelpful
- Very stressful
- Worse than old version
- Adds to stress
- Wastes time
- Freezing nonstop
- Constantly reinstall/restart
- Miserable
- Frequent shut downs
- Microphones not working
- Slow to upload
- Fundamentally lousy
- Stalls out
- Requires delete/reload
- Upgrade doesn’t work
- Frozen, won’t start
- Days longer playing with app
- Updated now not working
- Loop of log in/log out
- Loss of Physician Handoff
- Less intuitive UI
- Requires more steps to login
- Buggy
- Slow
- Almost useless
- Poor upgrade
- Even more disappointing than desktop
- Not intuitive
- Needs to cater better for Australian sites
- No way to create patient list
- Schedule viewing: open slots
- Last update broke app
- Errors with processing orders
- Unusable
- Missing ability to add providers
- App does not open
- Third rate app
- Clicks don’t work
- Power plans ill conceived
- Throw your phone in agony
- Improvement falls short
- Poor execution
- Archaic
- Horrific update
- Deleted ability to lookup schedules
- Utterly ridiculous
- Major stability issues
- Lost work
- Crashes at least once every note
- Search removed
- Cannot find patient
- Won’t let me sign in
- Disaster
- No customer service response
- Loss of flowsheets
- Viewing current labs first
- Clutter of old labs
- Placing orders slower
- Verification of patient physician relationship slow
- Microbiology not available
- Charge after discharge not accessible
- Medication history dosing not available
- Please fix the dictation
- Does not support new iPhones
- Observation Status Patients do not Show
- New update has issues
- Becoming more useful, still slow
- Slow loading speeds
- Pretty useless
- No microbiology
- Clunky
- Poor UI
- Rounding with this is limited
- Not intuitive to place/edit orders
- Slow migrating between patients/lists
- Discharged patients disappear
- Need MAR tab
- Domon face recognition
- No reason for re-login
- Unable to dictate certain histories
- Practically worthless
- Getting worse
- Logs out after 10 minutes
- Lab results display useless
- Goes back to patient homepage
- Still on previous day
- Clunky
- Unnecessary haptic steps
- Real estate taken by useless options
- Old version preferred
- Lost trend review for data
- Vitals not in trend view
- Labs not in trend view
- Data not timely/accurately updated
- Trending capabilities absent
- Dictation not used anymore
Requested features
31 requests- Add ability to add media from photo gallery/files
- Add medicine reconciliation capacity
- Add ability to open radiographs and images
- Include microbiology section
- Show Operating Lists
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- Show blood gas values
- Add Micro view
- Increased ordering ability (fluids, power plans)
- Make app faster
- Add OB or prenatal functionality
- Bring up PDFs
- Pull up lists from care teams
- Add lab notifications
- Add secure chat
- Add PowerPlans functionality
- Add ability to add providers in ‘Resource Selection’
- Bring back old functionality for provider schedules
- Ability to create patient lists
- Show available slots on schedule
- View other schedules
- Support new iPhones borders and screen
- Show Observation Status Patients
- Add Subjective, ROS, Assessment for dictation
- Improve slow loading speeds
- Allow viewing discharged patients
- Add MAR tab
- Add thumb/face recognition for login
- Dictate social history, family history, past medical history
- Restore trending graphs and detailed views of vitals and labs
- Add dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Voalte Me
Reported bugs
19 issues- App gets stuck on 'reconnecting' status without user awareness
- Messages marked as sent but not delivered
- Autoconfigure mode fails at startup with 'pinwheel of death'
- Force close when attempting to log out
- Unread message badges don't clear after reading
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- Empty notifications appearing every few seconds
- App freezes when opening or loading messages
- Random crashes mid-message composition
- Login credentials lost requiring IT support
- Stuck loading when opening app
- Mismatched message counter
- Notification settings not persisting
- Background app refresh notification loop
- Incorrect patient assignment display
- Message lag after receiving alert notification
- Bluetooth device disconnection on incoming messages
- Inconsistent message delivery timing
- Font size resets after each use despite settings
- Notification flags persist even after reading messages
Requested features
20 requests- Apple Watch support with message viewing and reply capability
- Dark mode/night mode
- Override silent mode for critical alerts
- Voice dictation/voice memo transcription
- Message forwarding capability
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- Text search within conversations
- Autocorrect functionality
- Auto-fill credentials via iOS keychain or Face ID login
- Apple CarPlay compatibility
- Saved sign-in profiles with roles and locations
- Message preview like Voalte One app
- Ability to customize Epic notification sounds
- Message delivery triage and silent delivery options
- Read receipts for group messages
- CC/BCC functionality for group messages
- Copy-paste text from app to notes
- Like/reaction functionality for messages
- Multi-device simultaneous login
- Covering doctor assignment feature
- Automatic pager forwarding
In-app purchases
PowerChart Touch
No in-app purchases
Voalte Me
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is PowerChart Touch free?
Is Voalte Me free?
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