Comparison

athenaText vs Birth Model

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • HIPAA-compliant messaging
  • Instant collaboration
  • Share texts and images
  • Consult with peers nationwide
  • Integrated drug information
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

athenaText3 screens
Birth Model4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

athenaText ships an update every 4 weeks, Birth Model every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
athenaText versus Birth Model: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterathenaTextBirth Model
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (377 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings377 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB29 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperathenahealthBirth Model

Customer experience

athenaText

All ratings377 ratings
Positive70.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative26.3%
Written reviews115 reviews
Positive75.7%
Neutral4.3%
Negative20.0%

Birth Model

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

None

athenaText

No in-app purchases

None

Birth Model

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is athenaText free?
athenaText is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Birth Model free?
Birth Model is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, athenaText or Birth Model?
Birth Model is rated higher. athenaText averages 3.9 out of 5 from 377 ratings, while Birth Model averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do athenaText or Birth Model have ads?
Neither athenaText nor Birth Model shows ads.
Which is updated more often, athenaText or Birth Model?
athenaText ships an update every 4 weeks, and Birth Model every 2 weeks. Most recently, athenaText was updated on October 15, 2026 and Birth Model on October 15, 2026.

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