Comparison
The best home health scheduling apps in 2026, compared honestly.
Eight apps, including ours, with who each one is for and the questions the other lists skip: does it order the day or just fill it, who is the customer, and what happens in a dead zone.
Search for a home health scheduling app and the first page is lists: eight of this, thirteen of that. Most are written by one of the vendors on the list. This one is written by one too — Obillions is ours, it is in private testing, and it is at the bottom — so the useful part is not the ranking, it is the questions in the second half, which are the ones the lists skip.
The short version
For an agency that needs scheduling, EVV and billing in one place: AxisCare or Alora. For a large multi-site agency: Homecare Homebase or WellSky. For an agency that mainly needs shifts filled fast and cheaply: ShiftCare. For the clinician who plans their own day, or works for more than one agency: almost nothing on this page is built for you, which is why Obillions exists.
The apps, one by one
Prices are what vendor and review sites listed in September 2026, rounded; every vendor quotes by agency size, so treat them as a signal of scale, not a quote. Confirm with the vendor.
AxisCare
Agency software with scheduling, EVV, a GPS caregiver app, invoicing and medication reminders. The scheduling is shift-based: coordinators place caregivers on visits, and the mobile app is where the caregiver sees them. Listed from about $200–325 a month. The fit is a non-medical or personal-care agency with a coordinator doing the placing.
Alora Home Health
An EHR for home health and hospice with scheduling inside it: broad payer coverage, offline charting, survey readiness. Listed at about $295 a month. It is the compliance-first choice: if OASIS, billing and documentation are the problem, scheduling comes along with them.
WellSky Home Health
The end-to-end platform for larger agencies — intake, documentation, scheduling, revenue cycle. Pricing is by conversation. Scheduling is one module of many, and the agency, not the clinician, is the customer.
Axxess Home Health
Another full EHR with scheduling built in, priced on census (how many patients the agency carries), with unlimited users and the mobile app included. Same shape as WellSky: the agency buys it, the clinician is issued it.
Homecare Homebase (HCHB)
The enterprise option: documentation, routing, scheduling and compliance for multi-location agencies. Implementation is a project, not a download; review sites put set-up fees in the tens of thousands. Its PointCare app is what large-agency clinicians carry in the field.
ShiftCare
The simplest scheduling on this page: drag-and-drop shifts, a clean caregiver app, listed from about $8 per user a month. It is built for filling shifts, and it does that well. It does not order a clinician's day by drive time.
Skedulo
General field-service scheduling with a healthcare package. Strong dispatch and optimisation, priced per user, aimed at organisations with a dispatcher. Not home-health-specific, and the clinician is again the resource being scheduled rather than the person doing it.
Obillions (ours, in testing)
A voice-first app for the clinician, not the office. You say what changed — "Arthur cancelled" — and the day re-plans itself: the order of visits, the drive between them, who nearby could take the freed hour. A referral photographed fills the client form. Nothing changes until you confirm, and voice and photos never leave the phone. It is in private testing on iPhone with a public TestFlight next, so today it belongs at the bottom of any honest list. The free part anyone can use now is the Windshield Tax calculator.
The questions the lists skip
Does it order the day, or just fill it?
Most "scheduling" on this page is placing a person on a visit. Ordering — which visit first, how the drive between them adds up, whether a 9:30 insulin visit and a dialysis-day client can both be honoured — is a different job, and it is the one that decides how many hours a clinician spends driving. Ask any vendor to show you a day being reordered after a cancellation, with drive times. If the demo cannot do that, the clinician is doing it by hand, and that costs real hours.
Who is the customer?
Every product above except the last is sold to an agency and issued to clinicians. That is right for an agency. It is wrong for the contractor who works for two or three agencies, each on a different system, and who ends up with the whole week on paper because no one system holds it. If that is you, the list is short.
What happens in a dead zone?
Rural caseloads spend hours without signal. Alora and HCHB make a point of offline charting; several of the lighter apps assume a connection. Ask, and ask what happens to a visit finished offline.
Where does the data go?
An app that records the visit is handling protected health information. Ask whether audio or photos leave the phone, who the AI vendor is, and whether there is a business associate agreement. A vendor who cannot answer in one sentence has not thought about it.
What does the drive cost you, today?
Before comparing apps, put a number on the problem: the calculator takes your miles, your mpg and your fuel price and prints the arithmetic. If the number is small, ShiftCare or your agency's EHR is enough. If it is nine working days a year, the ordering question above is the only one that matters.
Questions people actually ask
What is the best home health scheduling app?
It depends on who is buying. An agency wanting scheduling, EVV and billing together is usually choosing between AxisCare and Alora; a large multi-site agency between Homecare Homebase and WellSky; an agency that mainly needs shifts filled, ShiftCare. For a clinician planning their own day there are very few options, which is the gap Obillions is built for.
Is there a free home health scheduling app?
Most agency systems have no free tier; ShiftCare is the cheapest listed, from about $8 per user a month. Obillions is free during its private testing. The Windshield Tax calculator is free for anyone and needs no account.
What is the difference between scheduling and route optimization?
Scheduling places a person on a visit. Route optimization decides the order of a day's visits and the drive between them, honouring time windows. Most scheduling apps do the first; the second is what saves driving hours. See home health route optimization.
Do these apps work for a nurse who contracts with several agencies?
Mostly no: agency software is issued per agency, so a contractor with three agencies has three logins and no single view of the week. Obillions is one of the few built for that case; a shared calendar and a paper list are what most contractors actually use today.
Which home health scheduling apps work offline?
Alora and Homecare Homebase make offline charting a feature. For any app, ask specifically what happens to a visit finished without signal and when it syncs.
How should I evaluate a home health scheduling app in a demo?
Ask to see a real day reordered after a cancellation, with drive times shown; ask where audio and photos go and whether there is a business associate agreement; and ask what a clinician sees on the phone, not what the coordinator sees on the desktop.
Obillions
A voice agent for a day of visits. You say what changed and the day re-plans itself: the order, the drive times, and who nearby could take the hour a cancellation just freed. Nothing changes until you confirm, and your voice and photos never leave your phone.
In private testing now. A public TestFlight comes next, then the App Store.