Comparison

IDEXX SmartFlow vs Casey Base

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

IDEXX SmartFlow

This medical practice management tool streamlines patient visits with digital forms, an electronic whiteboard, and digitized treatment sheets. It automates charge capture, enhances team communication, and provides analytics to identify workflow bottlenecks.

Highlights
  • Digital consent forms
  • Electronic whiteboard
  • Digitized treatment sheets
  • Digital dental charts
  • Anesthesia charting
  • Practice analytics
Features
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SmartFlow Patient Workflow Software offers six simple tools that work for users at every step of the patient visit by supporting seamless communication, automating charge capture, and streamlining patient documentation. • Digital consent forms enable your clients to review and sign from anywhere in the practice for faster and more simplified patient check-in. • The optimized electronic whiteboard offers seamless communication by providing a bird's-eye view of the patient visit from anywhere in the practice. • Digitized treatment sheets create better visibility among your team, faster communication, and more mobile access to critical treatment information. • Digital dental charts eliminate the need for paper charts, bringing you the ability to easily take before-and-after photos and standardize charting across your practice. • Intuitive charting for anesthesia, saving your team critical time with automated reminders, and a streamlined user interface. • SmartFlow software analytics helps your team Identify and remove bottlenecks in your practice.

About

Casey Base

Organize, review, and learn from clinical cases with a searchable notebook. Build a library of notes to revisit past cases, compare presentations, and enhance clinical pattern recognition. Designed for veterinary professionals and students.

Highlights
  • Structured case record creation
  • Patient information tracking
  • Diagnostic test and treatment recording
  • Outcome and lesson learned logging
  • Comprehensive case search and filtering
  • Local data storage and backup
  • Account-free operation
Features
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Casey Base is a veterinary case notebook for organizing, reviewing, and learning from clinical cases. Build a searchable library of clinical notes so you can revisit past cases, compare similar presentations, and strengthen clinical pattern recognition over time. Features: • Create structured case records • Track patient information, symptoms, history, and exam findings • Record diagnostic tests/results, diagnoses, differentials, and treatment plans • Add outcomes, lessons learned, and custom tags • Browse recent cases and review your full case library Search and discovery: • Search across titles, patient name, species, breed, symptoms, history, exam findings, diagnoses, diagnostic tests, treatment plans, outcomes, lessons learned, and tags • Find relevant cases by searching for clinical terms, phrases, and related wording • Filter your case library by species and case status • Quickly identify similar cases by searching diagnoses, symptoms, or clinical findings, with results ranked by relevance to strengthen pattern recognition Backup and privacy: • Import and export case backups • Store records locally on your device • Use the app without creating an account Casey Base is designed for veterinary professionals and students who want a simple, organized place to keep clinical learning notes. Casey Base is a personal study and reference notebook. It does not diagnose patients, replace clinical judgment, recommend treatments, calculate drug doses, or provide veterinary medical advice.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: IDEXX SmartFlow at Free against Casey Base's $0.99. Casey Base's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.1) and review sentiment (80% vs 40%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

IDEXX SmartFlow is free to download; Casey Base costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Casey Base holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of IDEXX SmartFlow's written reviews are positive against 80% of Casey Base's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
IDEXX SmartFlow versus Casey Base: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIDEXX SmartFlowCasey Base
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.1 (13 ratings)4.4 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB57 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperIDEXX LaboratoriesDaniel Carlson

Customer experience

IDEXX SmartFlow

All ratings13 ratings
Positive53.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative46.2%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

Casey Base

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

IDEXX SmartFlow

No in-app purchases

None

Casey Base

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IDEXX SmartFlow free?
IDEXX SmartFlow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Casey Base free?
Casey Base costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, IDEXX SmartFlow or Casey Base?
Casey Base is rated higher. IDEXX SmartFlow averages 3.1 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Casey Base averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do IDEXX SmartFlow or Casey Base have ads?
Neither IDEXX SmartFlow nor Casey Base shows ads.

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