BestNotes Mobile vs Kipu Messenger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BestNotes Mobile
This mobile application serves as a portable extension of a comprehensive Electronic Health Record and Customer Relationship Management system. It is specifically designed for healthcare professionals to manage patient information and client relationships efficiently while on the go. The system is HIPAA compliant, ensuring data privacy and security for sensitive health records.
- On-the-go EHR/CRM access
- HIPAA compliant
- Patient information management
- Client relationship management
- Designed for healthcare industry
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BestNotes Mobile is the on-the-go companion to the acclaimed BestNotes EHR/CRM, a HIPAA compliant Customer Relationship Management and Electronic Health Record database system designed for the health care industry. BestNotes is used by health care professionals in a variety of fields including: • Residential Treatment Centers • Intensive Outpatient Clinics • Community Based Behavioral Health Agencies • Private Practice Clinicians • Outdoor Therapeutic Programs • Sober Living Programs • Residential Schools • Special Education Centers • Transitional Programs • Educational Consultants • Mental Health Professionals
Kipu Messenger
Securely communicate with healthcare providers, patients, and staff. Exchange documents, conduct telehealth sessions, and manage virtual meetings. This HIPAA-compliant tool replaces non-compliant email and text for healthcare communication.
- HIPAA compliant communication
- Secure document exchange
- Telehealth video and audio
- Virtual meetings
- Real-time message notifications
- Secure signatures
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Enter a new era of healthcare with Kipu Health’s HIPAA compliant communication and messaging tool. Kipu Messenger allows healthcare providers, patients, and staff to engage in secure, encrypted electronic document exchange, telehealth video and / or audio communication. This allows individual sessions, group sessions, virtual meetings, and more. Kipu Messenger eliminates non-compliant email and text messages by allowing the exchange of electronic documentation, such as consents, assessments and surveys, between patients and their care teams to / from the KipuEMR. Kipu Messenger … Practice Made Perfect. Features and Benefits: • Secure, cloud-based architecture that works perfectly everywhere, on any device • Ability to send consents, assessments, and other electronic documentation from Kipu EMR to patients and prospective patients, guardians, and guarantors • Ability to fill out forms, sign, and return to KipuEMR • Chat messages • Video and voice calling • Real time message notifications • Allows parents and guardians to participate in treatment process • Secure signatures from prospects, patients, guardians and / or financial guarantors • User-friendly and easily adoptable by patients, providers, and care teams • Eliminates non-compliant methods of communication
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BestNotes Mobile at 3.0 against Kipu Messenger's 1.7. BestNotes Mobile also leads on review sentiment (18% vs 0%). Kipu Messenger's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BestNotes Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kipu Messenger has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of BestNotes Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of Kipu Messenger's.
BestNotes Mobile ships an update every 2 months, Kipu Messenger every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BestNotes Mobile | Kipu Messenger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.7 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | BestNotes, LLC | Kipu Systems, LLC |
Customer experience
BestNotes Mobile
Kipu Messenger
In-app purchases
BestNotes Mobile
No in-app purchases
Kipu Messenger
No in-app purchases
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