Pt Pal vs Howden Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Howden Connect
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Your all-in-one benefits app designed to empower employees to discover, understand, and make the most of their benefits. With Howden Connect, you get: - Instant, 24/7 AI-powered answers to your benefits questions—secure, private, and always available - Easy access to your benefits information, ID cards, wellness tools, and company resources—all in one place - Motivating wellness challenges, rewards, and recognition programs that keep you engaged and healthy - A dynamic feed delivering important company news, reminders, and updates straight to your device Simplify your benefits experience with one easy-to-use app that keeps you informed, connected, and empowered to take full advantage of what’s available. Download Howden Connect today and start unlocking your benefits like never before!
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Verdict
Pt Pal and Howden Connect are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Pt Pal ships an update monthly, Howden Connect every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pt Pal | Howden Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Health Tech Pal Corp | Recode Health, LLC |
In-app purchases
Pt Pal
No in-app purchases
Howden Connect
No in-app purchases







