PowerChart Touch vs PerfectServe LB Scheduling
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.
PerfectServe LB Scheduling
Manage your medical staff schedules with ease. View your group and individual schedules, trade shifts with colleagues, and communicate directly from the app. This tool is designed for physicians and medical staff using an existing Lightning Bolt account.
- View monthly schedules
- Trade shifts with colleagues
- Submit request notes
- Contact colleagues directly
- Group and individual schedules
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NOTE: This app requires an existing Lightning Bolt account. Lightning Bolt Solutions is the leading provider of medical staff scheduling software and solutions. Lightning Bolt is used by thousands of physicians across a variety of specialties and practices including Radiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiology, Hospitalist Medicine, Emergency Response, and multi-disciplinary clinics and hospitals. FEATURES: -View up to one month of group and individual schedules -Conveniently trade shifts with your colleagues -View and submit extended notes along with your requests -Contact a colleague directly from the schedule by tapping their name If you are a Lightning Bolt user and experience any issues with the app, please contact us at mobile@lightning-bolt.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PerfectServe LB Scheduling at 2.8 against PowerChart Touch's 2.2. PerfectServe LB Scheduling also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.4). PowerChart Touch's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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.
PerfectServe LB Scheduling holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 204 and 148 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of PowerChart Touch's written reviews are positive against 16% of PerfectServe LB Scheduling's.
PowerChart Touch ships an update every 6 weeks, PerfectServe LB Scheduling monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PowerChart Touch | PerfectServe LB Scheduling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (204 ratings) | 2.8 (148 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.6% of reviews | 16.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 204 — better | 148 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cerner Corporation | Lightning Bolt Solutions |
Customer experience
PowerChart Touch
PerfectServe LB Scheduling
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
PerfectServe LB Scheduling
From 148 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for checking schedule
- 👍 Easy to navigate (sometimes)
- 👍 Great for Kaiser Permanente users
- 👍 Can see who is working
- 👍 Better than older versions (for some)
Room to improve
- 👎 Clunky and awkward UI
- 👎 Slow and unresponsive
- 👎 Frequently freezes and crashes
- 👎 Login issues (frequent logouts, no Face ID)
- 👎 Limited functionality compared to desktop
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
PerfectServe LB Scheduling
Reported bugs
20 issues- App freezes and becomes unresponsive
- App does not load
- App constantly crashes
- App keeps logging off
- App requires re-login frequently
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- App does not sync to calendar
- App has scrolling issues (can't see full schedule)
- App defaults to wrong view/schedule
- App has slow loading times (spinning circle)
- App screen view jumps around
- App does not update schedule
- App crashes when submitting time off requests
- App shows incorrect assignments
- App has time zone issues with calendar import
- App opens to a bright white screen
- App requires force closing and reopening to switch views
- App has issues with the 'thinking' circle
- App requires holding finger on screen to prevent jumping
- App does not populate to calendar
- App has issues with 'Now', 'Finished', 'Upcoming' assignments
Requested features
17 requests- Shift Pool feature
- Dark mode option
- Disable wellness survey
- Sync schedule with iOS calendar
- Face ID/biometric login
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- Remember login credentials
- Landscape mode for iPad
- Full month calendar view
- View past requests
- Easier login
- Section for sell/trade shifts
- Add time off requests easily
- Messaging and bulletin boards
- Ability to adapt to individual needs
- Push notifications
- Improve UI for large practices
- Fix midnight overlap display
In-app purchases
PowerChart Touch
No in-app purchases
PerfectServe LB Scheduling
No in-app purchases
Questions
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