Colib vs Zanda

Colib is a bilingual practice management and electronic medical record platform for Canadian therapists and health and wellness practitioners. Its calendar supports recurring appointments, room management, online booking, waitlists, and two-way Google Calendar and Outlook sync. Practitioners can create or upload intake forms, collect electronic signatures, and keep client files with notes, documents, family relationships, goals, and scores. AI can prepare note drafts from telehealth sessions or in-person recordings using templates such as SOAP, DAP, BIRP, and GIRP; practitioners review and sign each draft. Browser-based video sessions work on computers, phones, or tablets without a download and support recording, screen sharing, waiting rooms, transcripts, and messaging. Billing tools include invoices, online payments, Interac e-Transfer reconciliation, split payments, and QuickBooks invoice export. Colib says databases and files are hosted in AWS Canada, with encryption protections, and that it helps practices address several Canadian privacy obligations. It cautions that compliance also depends on each practice’s own policies and practices. Practitioner costs $75 CAD per month, billed month-to-month.

Zanda is a cloud-based practice management system for health practices, bringing administrative tasks into a browser service. It includes appointment scheduling, clinical notes, client management, digital forms, billing, reporting, a client portal, reminders, online payments, waitlists, and recurring appointments. It supports Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Every plan includes AI writing and editing, four AI Scribe appointments per month, and AI Insights across each client’s last three sessions. Zoom-powered telehealth is available; the optional Telehealth Pro add-on provides unlimited calls for $9 a month per practitioner. Zanda lists integrations including Xero, Stripe, Mailchimp, calendar services, Physitrack, Medicare, DVA, and Tyro. The public API is in beta, with read-oriented access to practice data; beta enrolments are closed. The company says data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and accounts can be hosted in Australia, the UK, or the US. Starter costs $19 a month and is limited to one practitioner and 1,000 appointments; a 14-day trial is available, but there is no free plan.