ScriptWiZ vs Fona
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
ScriptWiZ
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ScriptWiZ is an offline prescription and medical-document tool for clinicians. CREATE CLINICAL DOCUMENTS FAST Write multi-item prescriptions, medical certificates (sick notes), and referral or clinical letters from your iPhone or iPad โ ready to share or print as a branded PDF. BUILT FOR SOUTH AFRICAN PRACTICE Search a local formulary with schedule, routes, and monographs. Look up ICD-10 codes. Use medication templates. Include your practice details, signature, and document styling. PATIENTS STAY ON THE DEVICE Patient records (name, DOB, ID, medical aid, allergies) are stored locally for POPIA-minded use. No account is required to use the app. SAFETY AIDS WHILE YOU PRESCRIBE Allergy prompts, schedule and controlled-substance reminders, duplicate-therapy checks, and optional calculation helpers support your clinical judgement โ they do not replace it. Always verify against the full monograph and your own clinical decision-making. REFERENCE WHEN YOU NEED IT Browse medicines, ICD-10, pharmacy directory, and related clinical reference material without leaving the app.
Fona
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Fona at 15.0 against ScriptWiZ's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | ScriptWiZ | Fona |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WiZmed | Krikdex (Pty) Ltd |
In-app purchases
ScriptWiZ
No in-app purchases
Fona
No in-app purchases








