Built for visiting clinicians — PTs, OTs, SLPs, and nurses. Plan your day, optimize your route, log mileage, and export earnings. Free 14-day trial, no card.
ZigBuddy is the home health scheduling app for visiting clinicians. Built for PTs, OTs, SLPs, PTAs, OTAs, and home health nurses who see patients across town all day. Plan tomorrow in two minutes, drive less, and walk into every visit ready.
WHY HOME HEALTH WORKERS PICK ZIGBUDDY
Most route and scheduling apps were built for delivery drivers. ZigBuddy was built from day one for the way home health actually works — variable patient schedules, last-minute reschedules, mileage you have to track for taxes, notes you need at the door, and a calendar that doesn't lie to you.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Plan your day or week in minutes — drag visits onto the calendar, the route updates itself
• Drive less with smart routing — ZigBuddy orders your stops by time window and location
• Track every mile automatically — export tax-ready mileage reports to PDF or Excel
• Quick texts for every patient — save messages you send 50 times a week ("On my way", "Running late")
• Voice in, schedule out — talk a visit into the calendar instead of tapping through forms
• Track patient availability — set it once and stop asking again
• Week optimizer — turn a chaotic week into a smarter one in seconds
• Calendar sync that works — export to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, and Outlook
• Use it everywhere — iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more
• HIPAA-aligned safeguards — encryption in transit and at rest, BAAs available
BUILT FOR EVERY HOME HEALTH ROLE
• Physical Therapists (PT) and PT Assistants (PTA)
• Occupational Therapists (OT) and OT Assistants (OTA)
• Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP)
• Registered Nurses (RN) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN)
• Home Health Aides (HHA)
• Medical Social Workers (MSW)
POWERED BY ZIGBUDDY AI
ZigBuddy AI handles the busywork — parse a patient list from a photo or paste, schedule a week from a few sentences, suggest the right visit to move when something breaks. You stay in control. Review and accept before anything changes.
THE FEATURE LIST
• Add patients fast — snap a photo, paste a screenshot, or import a whole list
• One tap to call, text, or drive to any patient
• Group patients by agency, company, or geographic area
• Color-code patients to spot them on the map at a glance
• Smart routing with time windows for the fastest possible day
• Pick where to start and end the day so you head home with your day, not back to it
• Manual route ordering for clinicians who'd rather drive themselves
• ZigBuddy tells you when to leave home for your first visit
• ETAs for every visit so you can give patients more accurate times
• Color-coded calendar with status icons — confirmed, cancelled, left message, completed
• Color-coded map pins for faster identification
• Patient tags, stars, archives, and custom categories
• Toggle categories on and off in your calendar view
• Draw custom map areas to decide who to see and when
• No "hidden visits" — see your whole day at a glance, every time
• Patient sharing with your team — fully revamped notebooks
PRICING
Start with a free 14-day trial. No credit card. Subscribe monthly or annually after. Cancel anytime from your phone. Your subscription auto-renews at the end of each billing period unless turned off at least 24 hours before. The renewal amount equals the current plan price and is charged to your iTunes account at confirmation and on each renewal. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings.
SUPPORT
A real person reads every note. Reach us at zigbuddy.com/support.
Terms of Use: https://zigbuddy.com/legal/
Privacy Policy: https://zigbuddy.com/privacy/
After 30 years as a physical therapist in home health, I have battled my fair share of clunky software, maps, and frustrating spreadsheets. I am writing this review because ZigBuddy! is fundamentally different and has completely cured the daily headache of route planning. This app flawlessly solves the logistical nightmares we face in the field every single day. The intelligent routing visually organizes my patients, calculates the complex time windows, and creates the absolute best driving routes, so I spend way less time looking through a windshield.When a patient inevitably cancels or shifts their availability, the intuitive drag-and-drop calendar makes it incredibly easy to adapt on the fly. What really impressed me, though, is the new ZigBuddy AI feature. You can literally just type a natural note like, “Patient has dialysis M W F”, and the system automatically blocks it out and handles the administrative burden for you. On top of all that, it seamlessly tracks my mileage and even my pay per visit EARNINGS.It can even do that across different agencies! Something that I have done in the past, but thankfully I only have one employer at the moment. If you want to stop fighting with your schedule and actually get your time back, download this app immediately. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
Finally, an app that understands home health!
EliPT173
After 30 years as a physical therapist in home health, I have battled my fair share of clunky software, maps, and frustrating spreadsheets. I am writing this review because ZigBuddy! is fundamentally different and has completely cured the daily headache of route planning. This app flawlessly solves the logistical nightmares we face in the field every single day. The intelligent routing visually organizes my patients, calculates the complex time windows, and creates the absolute best driving routes so I spend way less time looking through a windshield.When a patient inevitably cancels or shifts their availability, the intuitive drag-and-drop calendar makes it incredibly easy to adapt on the fly. What really impressed me, though, is the new ZigBuddy AI feature. You can can add patients with a PHOTO. You can literally just type a natural note like, "Mrs. Smith has dialysis MWF", and the system automatically blocks it out and handles the administrative burden for you. On top of all that, it seamlessly tracks my mileage and pay-per-visit earnings! If you want to stop fighting with your schedule and actually get your time back, download this app immediately!
Loving the new update!
Akalucas
Before, I wrote, “This does almost everything I need.” Now I can confidently say that ZigBuddy does everything I need a home health planner to do. It has AI to help with scheduling and patient day/time constraints. For example, you can tell it that a patient cannot be seen on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday’s because of dialysis, and it will block those days. I can now use screenshots or the camera to upload patient information quickly, whereas before I had to enter everything manually. You can also assign a pay amount per visit type for each company, and it will create an invoice that you can give to the agency for payment! Love the new modern tutorial vids as well. Makes it so much easier to learn all the tools it has to offer
Best for home health
OT in HH
My colleagues joke that I should work for ZigBuddy! In promotions. Absolutely could not live without this app now. I’ve told every person I work with it how essential it is to my day and now most use it themselves! Easy to use. Easy to schedule. Easy to keep all my contact info for patients in a safe secure spot. If I had one complaint and I don’t even think there is a way around this but would be nice if some how when the patients called me that the name would link so I didn’t have to look up who is calling. I don’t want to add to my contacts tho. Thanks for making my job easier.
• Add patients even faster — snap a photo, paste a screenshot, or import a whole list.
• New calendar views — week, grid, and map clustering at your fingertips.
• Track patient availability — set it once and stop asking again and again.
• Week optimizer — turn a chaotic schedule into a smarter week in seconds.
• Better reports — refreshed mileage, financial, and earnings reports with PDF and Excel export.
• Share like a champ — patient sharing, fully revamped.
Version 4.0.02
The developer, ZigBuddy, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
ZigBuddy, Inc.
Size
57.8 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
