Epic Rover vs CipherRounds
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.
CipherRounds
This application streamlines healthcare rounding processes for various staff roles, offering detailed reporting and analytics. It enhances visibility, transparency, and accountability within healthcare organizations, empowering staff to improve patient outcomes and experiences.
- Intuitive rounding interface
- Multiple rounding programs (executive, nurse, staff, safety)
- Comprehensive reporting suite
- Advanced analytics
- Patient engagement platform integration
- Outcome and experience improvement tools
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CipherRounds is a sleek, intuitive rounding application for healthcare systems that plugs directly into CipherHealth's patient engagement platform. Choose different programs for executive, nurse, staff and safety rounding. With a full reporting and analytics suite, CipherRounds brings unparalleled visibility, transparency, and accountability to healthcare organizations. Staff have the ability to efficiently improve outcomes and experience with the swipe of a finger and the press of a button. How beautiful is that?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CipherRounds at 50% against Epic Rover's 0%. CipherRounds also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.2). Epic Rover's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (88 vs 14). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
CipherRounds holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Epic Rover has 88 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Epic Rover's written reviews are positive against 50% of CipherRounds's.
Epic Rover ships an update every 3 weeks, CipherRounds every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Rover | CipherRounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (88 ratings) | 4.1 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 626 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Epic | Cipherhealth Inc. |
Customer experience
Epic Rover
CipherRounds
In-app purchases
Epic Rover
No in-app purchases
CipherRounds
No in-app purchases
