Epic Rover vs Strongline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Epic Rover
This app provides authorized clinical users of Epic's electronic health record with secure mobile access to patient data and clinical tools. It enables features like medication administration, vital sign recording, and patient list management directly on an iPhone.
- Clinical review
- Patient list management
- Medication administration
- Specimen collection
- Vitals recording
- I/O tracking
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With Rover, authorized clinical users of Epic’s electronic health record have secure access to tools for clinical review, patient list management, medication administration, specimen collection, vitals, and I/O right on their iPhone. Your organization needs to have licensed Rover and be using Epic 2010 or a later version. The specific features available depend on decisions made by your organization. If you have questions about whether you can use Rover or a specific feature, contact the administrative or IT staff at your organization.
Strongline
This app provides a discreet way for hospital staff to signal for help. It delivers critical alerts to nearby colleagues and security, enabling rapid response to potentially dangerous situations. Designed for silent background operation, it ensures staff can confidently engage with patients.
- Discreetly signal for help
- Receive critical alerts
- Silent background operation
- Zero-touch interface
- Critical system message alerts
- Cloud-based system integration
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Strongline for iOS is part of the state-of-the-art Strongline Staff Safety system. Hospitals can deploy the Strongline Staff Safety system to give their nursing and care provider staff an inconspicuous and discreet way to signal for help whenever they need. When someone signals for help, Strongline will deliver a notification to other nearby staff and/or central security so they can help to deescalate or disarm a situation that could be dangerous or even life-threatening. The Strongline Staff System is a cloud-based system consisting of all hardware and software in a self-contained solution that can be deployed and fully operational within days across even the largest hospitals. This solution was co-developed with one of the leading hospitals in the country, Jefferson Health based in Philadelphia, PA. It has been deployed across the hospital and has transformed how confidently and safely staff engage with their patients. Strongline for iOS provides a simple way for staff members to be notified when a nearby colleague signals for help. This app offers a zero touch interface designed to work on dedicated or pooled phones. Once installed, this application will work silently in the background and require no interaction by the user. This app has been approved by Apple to deliver alerts as critical system messages, meaning that alerts will generate a clearly audible sound even if the hardware volume switch is turned off or if the speaker volume has been turned down, ensuring that you will not miss an opportunity to help if a coworker is in trouble. For more information about Strongline or the whole Strongline Staff Safety System, visit http://strongline.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Strongline at 5.0 against Epic Rover's 3.2. Strongline also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Epic Rover's advantage is ratings volume (88 vs 2). 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.
Strongline holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Epic Rover has 88 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Rover | Strongline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (88 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 626 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Epic | Canopy Works, Inc |
Customer experience
Epic Rover
Strongline
In-app purchases
Epic Rover
No in-app purchases
Strongline
No in-app purchases









