Comparison

Pt Pal vs ExamMed

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

Head to head
About

Pt Pal

This app facilitates communication and task management between clinicians and patients. It allows healthcare providers to send medical instructions, exercises, and surveys directly to patients' phones, enabling better health monitoring and care coordination. Patients can track progress, receive reminders, and communicate with their care team.

Highlights
  • Digital medical instructions and surveys
  • Task and exercise management
  • Health monitoring and symptom tracking
  • Medication and appointment reminders
  • Secure clinician-patient communication
  • Caregiver and family involvement
  • Progress tracking dashboard
Features
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Pt Pal is used in leading hospitals for inpatient, outpatient, and research programs, Pt Pal replaces paper instructions and fragmented digital tools with a single, clinically managed platform for exercises, PROs, tasks, and patient communication. Please note: A Pt Pal Clinician must register patients. Patients cannot register for this app without a clinician. If you are a patient without a Pt Pal Clinician please contact us before registering for the app. Pt Pal is used with your physical, occupational and/or speech therapist(s), or any clinician/doctor that is giving paper instructions or survey instruments to the patient, including; Cardiac Rehab, Brain Injury, Women's Health, IVF, OB and Wound Care. Pt Pal lets your clinician retire paper instructions and surveys and send your medical instructions, tasks, exercises and activities directly to your phone. Pt Pal leverages CareKit, ResearchKit and HealthKit frameworks for surveys, task management and integration with other apps and devices. Pt Pal Pro is the first health care app to employ Apple’s CareKit and HealthKit and was showcased at WWDC 2016. Pt Pal uses CareKit to track health monitor symptoms and share the information with healthcare providers. This allows users to understand and manage their health conditions actively with the help of their care team. Pt Pal integrates with Health App to augment accelerometer data collected by iPhone to show your clinicians the number of daily steps taken. Pt Pal uses CareKit and ResearchKit and includes the following features for clinical practice & research: 1. Activities: Allows clinicians to send care tasks, education, exercises and surveys to monitor and track progress and provide active intervention. Surveys include: - Patient Reported Outcomes surveys - Journals - Logs, e.g. Food, Fluid, Wounds, Sleep, Brain Injury recovery process, etc. 2. Reminders: Notifications are sent out to remind patients to do any tasks at a set time and if any are not completed. 3. Complex healthcare interventions: Allows clinicians to send patients information in various formats. Pt Pal includes multiple tools for patients such as noise distractions while doing an exercise for tracking focus. 4. Multi-media interface: Written descriptions of self-care and caregiver information as well as ability to record video with your clinician for playback. 5. Dashboard: See your completion data in the app as you progress with your care tasks. 6. Care Team: Pt Pal has the whole care team and their information on Pt Pal. 7. Connect: Communicate with your clinician and receive messages about your care. 8. Caregiver: Include support partners in your care. Allow the support partner to see your progress, care tasks and help with your care. Support partners can receive their own care information, integral for their self-care and enabling them to care for another. Pt Pal also lets family members view activity remotely. 9. Consent: Pt Pal allows patients to sign a consent agreement through the app using their signature. 10. Tracking: Pt Pal monitors recovery, progress, wellness with medication reminders, appointments, and healthcare information critical to successful recovery. With your permission Pt Pal allows you to authorize collection of HealthKit data. We ask your permission to collect the following data from HealthKit: heart rate, sleep, steps, walking+running distance, workouts. We will not share this information with third parties for any purpose and will only use this information for the sole purpose of fulfilling your request and tracking your healthcare progress. https://www.ptpal.com/legal For patients, Pt Pal is the assistant you have been looking for to help with your healthcare. Pt Pal helps you: - remember when to do your exercises or activities - shows you how your therapist wants you to do your exercises or activities - counts out loud for you so you don’t have to - keeps track of your progress With Better Tools, Expect Better Outcomes.

About

ExamMed

This app allows patients to join remote medical exams and engage with providers. It supports population health initiatives and preventative services for better patient care coordination and engagement.

Highlights
  • Remote patient exams
  • Provider-patient engagement
  • Population health initiatives
  • Preventative services
  • Care coordination
Features
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Important: The use of this companion, mobile application requires an active ExamMed account or appointment. The ExamMed system enables providers to see their established patients remotely, deploy population health initiatives and preventative services, better coordinate care, and enhance stronger patient engagements – all while seamlessly fitting in to your clinical and operational workflow. Using this mobile app, patients can join their ExamMed exam room in a traditional mobile application setting as opposed to using their browser.

Screenshots

Pt Pal4 screens
ExamMed2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ExamMed at 100% against Pt Pal's 73%. ExamMed also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Pt Pal's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pt Pal ships an update every 5 weeks, ExamMed every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pt Pal versus ExamMed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPt PalExamMed
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB31 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperHealth Tech Pal CorpExamMed LLC

Customer experience

Pt Pal

Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%

ExamMed

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pt Pal

No in-app purchases

None

ExamMed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pt Pal free?
Pt Pal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ExamMed free?
ExamMed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pt Pal or ExamMed have ads?
Neither Pt Pal nor ExamMed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pt Pal or ExamMed?
Pt Pal ships an update every 5 weeks, and ExamMed every 5 months. Most recently, Pt Pal was updated on October 7, 2026 and ExamMed on October 7, 2026.

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