Comparison

EMGuidance Script vs Fona

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

Head to head
About

EMGuidance Script

This medical app streamlines prescription writing for healthcare professionals. It features intelligent drug interaction checks, dosage recommendations, and secure, cloud-based script management. Designed by doctors, it aims to create error-free prescriptions quickly and compliantly.

Highlights
  • Intelligent script creation
  • Drug interaction checker
  • Dosage recommendations
  • Medical scheme co-payment info
  • Prescription in under 60 seconds
  • Secure cloud-based tracking
  • AES level signatures
Features
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Created for doctors by doctors and compliant with all regulations on e-scripting, EMGuidance Script is the future of e-scripting and the first of its kind in South Africa. EMGuidance Script is brought to you by EMGuidance, a well known and trusted platform used by over 55 000 HCPs throughout South Africa. What EMGuidance Script offers you: Intelligent script: With drug interaction checkers, dosage recommendations and medical scheme co-payment information, creating effective and error free prescriptions has never been this easy. Faster than paper: Create a prescription in less than 60 seconds! With recommended templates, smart dosage autofill and chronic script repeat function writing a prescription has never been faster. Completely compliant: With fully compliant AES level signatures, integration into home affairs to validate ID numbers, fully trackable scripts in the cloud, your scripts have never been more secure. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Where applicable, your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in your account settings after purchase. ----------- Terms and conditions: https://info.emguidance.com/script-terms-and-conditions Privacy notice: https://info.emguidance.com/script-privacy-notice

About

Fona

Features
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Fona is a shared phone directory for hospitals. Find the ward, the department or doctor you need, then call with one tap. WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who works in or with a hospital and spends too much of their shift hunting for a number - doctors, nurses, allied health staff, pharmacists, switchboard and ward clerks. SEARCH THAT KEEPS UP Start typing and the list narrows as you go. Search matches the words of a name in any order, so "theatre c" finds "C Theatre" and "cardio reg" finds "Cardiology Registrar on call". Filter to extensions, phones, bleepers or emails when you know what you're after. ONE TAP TO CALL Where a hospital allows direct dialling, Fona knows its prefix and turns extension 4576 into 0219384576 for you. Where it doesn't, Fona calls the switchboard and shows you the extension to ask for. Bleepers work the same way - Fona dials the switchboard and displays the number to page. Emails open in your mail app. Any number or address can be copied with one tap if you'd rather use it elsewhere. FAVOURITES AND RECENTS Star the numbers you reach for on every shift and they sit at the top of their own tab. Favourites are saved to your account, so they follow you to a new phone. The contacts you called most recently appear above them, on the device that made the call. EVERYONE KEEPS IT CURRENT Fona is edited by the people who use it. Anyone with a verified account can add a missing number, fix a wrong one, or remove a ward that no longer exists - no ticket, no waiting for IT. Every change records who made it and when, so mistakes can be traced and undone, and each hospital's admins can restore deleted entries and block anyone who abuses the directory. WORKS WHEN THE SIGNAL DOESN'T Once a directory has loaded, Fona keeps a copy on your phone and searches that copy. Basements, lift lobbies, the back corridor with one bar - the numbers are still there. New and changed contacts sync whenever you have a connection. ADD YOUR HOSPITAL Your hospital not listed? Create it in the app and you become its first admin: set the dialling prefix and switchboard, then start adding contacts. Eighty South African hospital directories are already loaded, with more than thirteen thousand numbers between them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Fona is a phone directory and nothing more. It holds no patient information and has nowhere to enter any. There is no advertising and no tracking, and it never reads your location or your phone's contacts. Placing a call hands the number to your own dialler - the call is between you and your network. Free. No ads, no subscription, no in-app purchases. IMPORTANT Numbers in Fona are contributed and corrected by its users, and we don't verify them. They can be wrong or out of date, so confirm anything critical before you rely on it. Fona is not an emergency service and cannot connect you to one. Use the numbers and procedures your hospital publishes for cardiac arrests and emergency escalation, and know them independently of this app. GET STARTED Sign in with Google, Apple, or an email address, pick your hospital, and search. That's the whole setup. Privacy policy: https://krikdex-sa.com/fona-privacy.html Terms of use: https://krikdex-sa.com/fona-terms.html

Screenshots

EMGuidance Script4 screens
Fona4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fona at none against EMGuidance Script's 4. Fona also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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

Both are free to download. EMGuidance Script sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. Fona asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EMGuidance Script ships an update every 3 weeks, Fona every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
EMGuidance Script versus Fona: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEMGuidance ScriptFona
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB76 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperIntelliscript LimitedKrikdex (Pty) Ltd

In-app purchases

4 purchases

EMGuidance Script

Subscriptions4
  • Essential - Monthly$24.991 Month
  • Essential Pro - Monthly$29.991 Month
  • Essential - Yearly$199.991 Year
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  • Essential Pro - Yearly$229.991 Year
None

Fona

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EMGuidance Script free?
EMGuidance Script is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fona free?
Fona is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EMGuidance Script or Fona have ads?
Neither EMGuidance Script nor Fona shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EMGuidance Script or Fona?
EMGuidance Script ships an update every 3 weeks, and Fona every 5 days. Most recently, EMGuidance Script was updated on October 7, 2026 and Fona on October 10, 2026.

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