athenaText vs Birth Model
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
athenaText
A secure, HIPAA-compliant text messaging service for healthcare providers to collaborate, consult, and share information instantly. Communicate clearly and confidently with colleagues and a network of HCPs nationwide.
- HIPAA-compliant messaging
- Instant collaboration
- Share texts and images
- Consult with peers nationwide
- Integrated drug information
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Collaborate. Consult. Connect. Introducing athenaText, the free, secure text messaging service designed especially for health care providers. Collaborate instantly Exchange information instantly and collaborate easily across care teams. Share texts, images, and medication information with your colleagues. Communicate with security and confidence Because athenaText enables HIPAA-compliant messaging, there's no need to be cryptic to avoid revealing PHI. Communicate clearly and share texts and images with the confidence that your communications are secure. Consult with your peers on the go Tap a network of HCPs across the country, courtesy of Epocrates, the #1 medical app trusted by 1 out of 2 US physicians. Invite HCPs to join you in secure conversations. Add the latest drug information athenaText is also built into athenaOne mobile app as well as athenahealth's desktop services athenaClinicals (EHR) and athenaCoordinator (order transmission & care collaboration). At your clinic or on the go, secure communication is just a tap away.
Birth Model
This platform modernizes obstetrics care by providing real-time updates on patient examinations, medication changes, and delivery time estimates. It facilitates seamless communication between nurses and providers, allowing for optimized patient management and improved outcomes.
- Live patient status updates
- Push notifications for important updates
- Real-time patient observability
- Estimated delivery time updates
- Direct patient operative and delivery note completion
- Provider hand-off with PDF downloads
- AI-based ICD10 and CPT code suggestions for billing
- EHR integration for seamless data exchange
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The Birth Model platform brings the best in healthcare IT to the birth experience. With Birth Model’s visionary platform, Obstetrics providers now receive live updates regarding patient examinations, medication changes, interventions and delivery time estimates in real time. This allows for seamless and convenient communication between our nurses and providers. Use the web-based and/or mobile app to receive live updates about your patients, and to optimize the day, without missing deliveries. Learn more now to save time, reduce poor outcomes and improve billable revenue. With this mobile-app, providers can: • Check live laboring and cesarean delivery patient status updates from anywhere, whether you’re in the office, hospital or on the go • Receive push notifications to your phone with important updates • Have real-time patient observability • Receive updates regarding Birth Model’s estimated delivery times for your vaginal deliveries and TOLACs • Complete patient operative notes and deliveries procedure notes directly from your phone with intuitive user-friendly documentation • Hand-off patients with the ease of our provider hand-off page and PDF downloads • Use our Smart Billing features for our intuitive AI-based ICD10 and CPT obstetrics codes to reduce insurance denials • Login directly with your hospital-affiliated email address and password for single sign-on access • Seamlessly receive and send data from our EHR-integrations • Chat with other Birth Model users seamlessly Note: In order to have access to the Birth Model platform, you must be granted access with hospitals which have already been onboarded with Birth Model, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Birth Model at 5.0 against athenaText's 3.9. Birth Model also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%). athenaText's advantage is ratings volume (377 vs 8). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Birth Model holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: athenaText has 377 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of athenaText's written reviews are positive against 100% of Birth Model's.
athenaText ships an update every 4 weeks, Birth Model every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | athenaText | Birth Model |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (377 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 377 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | athenahealth | Birth Model |
Customer experience
athenaText
Birth Model
Bugs and requests
athenaText
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on login or when switching between screens
- Notifications not working or delayed
- Sync issues causing loss of messages
- Inability to log in or access the app after updates
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Snooze or do-not-disturb functionality
- Ability to dictate notes and sign off on charts
- Mass delete/management of message threads
- Improved push notifications and alerts
- Android app support
Birth Model
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
athenaText
No in-app purchases
Birth Model
No in-app purchases








