Comparison

Scripts Assistant vs Fona

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

Head to head
About

Scripts Assistant

This medical app allows doctors to quickly generate verified digital prescriptions on their mobile devices. It supports creating patient-specific, illness-specific, and sick notes, which can then be printed, emailed, or sent via WhatsApp.

Highlights
  • Create patient-specific scripts
  • Create illness scripts
  • Generate legal sick notes
  • Print, email, or WhatsApp prescriptions
  • Save time on chronic medication lists
Features
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Scripts Assistant is the fastest way for a doctor to create a digital prescription from your mobile device. Scripts Assistant is your own personal Script-Pad. Allowing you to carefully create a verified and safe medical prescription. Print, Email or Watsapp it to your pharmacy or patient. •⁠ ⁠Create patient specific scripts and save hours on those long lists of chronic medications. •⁠ ⁠Create illness scripts and Prescribe your personal combination of medications at the touch of a button. •⁠ ⁠Create and sign legal sick notes for your patients. •⁠ ⁠Store your patient consultations in your pocket Scripts Assistant is the fastest way for a doctor to create a digital prescription from your mobile device. Try Scripts Assistant for free to conveniently prescribe from your mobile device, wherever you may be. For more information on our terms of use please see https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Scripts Assistant4 screens
Fona4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fona at none against Scripts Assistant's 9. Fona also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 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. Scripts Assistant sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Fona asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scripts Assistant ships an update every 2 weeks, Fona every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Scripts Assistant versus Fona: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScripts AssistantFona
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB76 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMEDRIC SOFTWARE (PTY) LTDKrikdex (Pty) Ltd

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Scripts Assistant

Subscriptions9
  • Premium Weekly1 Month trial$0.997 Days
  • Basic Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
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  • Pro Monthly1 Month trial$6.991 Month
  • Unlimited Monthly1 Month trial$11.991 Month
  • Basic Annual1 Month trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium Annual Subscription1 Month trial$39.991 Year
  • Pro Annual1 Month trial$79.991 Year
  • Unlimited Annual1 Month trial$129.991 Year
None

Fona

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scripts Assistant free?
Scripts Assistant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fona free?
Fona is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scripts Assistant or Fona have ads?
Neither Scripts Assistant nor Fona shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scripts Assistant or Fona?
Scripts Assistant ships an update every 2 weeks, and Fona every 5 days. Most recently, Scripts Assistant was updated on October 12, 2026 and Fona on October 10, 2026.

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