Comparison

Cariee vs Acorn Scanner

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

Head to head
About

Cariee

This in-patient hospital management tool enables registered eMedical Practice providers to oversee patient treatments. It facilitates adding new patients, creating new encounters, and editing existing ones.

Highlights
  • Manage in-patient treatments
  • Add new patients
  • Create new encounters
  • Edit existing encounters
  • For registered eMedical Practice providers
Features
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Cariee is the inpatient companion to eMedicalPractice for physicians, PAs and NPs. See your hospital census, bill visits at the bedside, scan facesheets and stay in touch with your care team, from your iPhone or iPad. YOUR CENSUS, ANYWHERE • My and Group patient lists for any date, grouped by facility • Status at a glance: new consult, follow-up, post-op, to be discharged • Search by name, filter by facility, pull to refresh • Admission details: facility, room, admit and procedure dates, notes BILL IN SECONDS • One-tap visit codes for initial, subsequent, consult and discharge visits • Advanced charge entry with CPT and ICD search, your favourite ICD codes first, modifiers, facility and date of service • See every encounter for the admission, with the patient name on each screen • Discharge with a follow-up provider and code in a few taps SCAN FACESHEETS AND ID CARDS • The scanner finds the page edges and captures automatically, or tap the shutter • Drag corners or sides to adjust the crop, zoom in to check, rotate or delete pages • Insurance cards and driver's licenses, front and back, with a glare check • Clean, sharp pages at a small file size, uploaded to the patient's chart STAY CONNECTED • Secure messages linked to each patient, with alerts and replies • Today's appointments, including video visits • Who is on call, by day, week or month • Sign in with Face ID Cariee requires an eMedicalPractice account. Contact your practice administrator for access.

About

Acorn Scanner

This app allows users to upload files to a healthcare credentialing system. It serves as a mobile extension for managing important documents within the healthcare credentialing platform.

Highlights
  • File uploading
  • Healthcare credentialing system integration
  • Mobile document management
  • Secure file transfer
Features
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Download app from the Healthcare credentialing solutions website, and use the app to upload file to Healthcare credentialing solutions system.

Screenshots

Cariee4 screens
Acorn Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cariee at 5.0 against Acorn Scanner's 1.0. Cariee also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cariee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cariee ships an update fortnightly, Acorn Scanner every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Cariee versus Acorn Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarieeAcorn Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB17 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperNorm Software LLCAcorn Credentialing Solutions Inc.

Customer experience

Cariee

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Acorn Scanner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cariee

No in-app purchases

None

Acorn Scanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cariee free?
Cariee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Acorn Scanner free?
Acorn Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cariee or Acorn Scanner?
Cariee is rated higher. Cariee averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Acorn Scanner averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cariee or Acorn Scanner have ads?
Neither Cariee nor Acorn Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cariee or Acorn Scanner?
Cariee ships an update fortnightly, and Acorn Scanner every 2 months. Most recently, Cariee was updated on October 24, 2026 and Acorn Scanner on October 24, 2026.

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