Looking at MyOPD
Clinidiary, if you are weighing it against MyOPD
A fair account of what MyOPD is good at, and then what we do differently — in detail, and only things that exist today. No feature table with our column pre-ticked; you can get that anywhere and it is worth nothing.
What MyOPD is good at
An honest description
MyOPD is clinic and hospital management software from Catalyze Systems Pvt Ltd of Pune, a company its site says was established in July 2012 to introduce Indian doctors to technology. It runs on Windows PC, Android and iOS, and is pitched as "Perfect for Physicians, Consultants, Pediatricians, Gynecologists and General Practitioners", with a hospital edition for 5 to 50 beds. Features it emphasises are OPD and patient management, e-prescriptions in regional languages, discharge summaries, hospital billing, cloud backup, UPI payments, WhatsApp reminders and an optional laboratory module. It is free for up to ten patients, publishes its prices inclusive of GST, and lists clients in India and in several other countries including Kenya, Oman and Indonesia.
Who tends to compare the two
A clinic comparing the two is usually a practice where a physician or general practitioner runs MyOPD on a Windows PC and a physiotherapist shares the premises, or a physiotherapist attracted by its free use for up to ten patients. MyOPD's positioning is affordable software for physicians and small hospitals; Clinidiary's is a free system for physiotherapy specifically. The choice usually comes down to whether the clinic's core record is a doctor's OPD or a therapist's session.
We do not run MyOPD, so we will not tell you what it cannot do — the people who can answer that are MyOPD and the clinic down the road who uses it. Everything below is only about us.
What Clinidiary does differently
Built in a clinic that is still running
Clinidiary is written inside a working physiotherapy practice in Adelaide and used on real patients every day. The diary in the screenshots is the one the practice runs on. That is not a slogan about authenticity — it is why a bug a physiotherapist hits on Monday tends to be fixed by Wednesday, because the person who wrote it has to use it on Thursday.
A paid invoice never quietly changes
Once money has been taken against an invoice, the total stops moving. A correction becomes a credit note plus a replacement, and the original keeps its number and its date. It is less convenient than an edit box, and it is the only version an accountant, an auditor or a funder can actually rely on.
Free, and no card
The whole workspace, not a crippled tier, and no card. Refer a colleague and you earn points every time one joins, with no limit — they sit on your account and do not expire. No lock-in contract and no exit fee.
You can bring your patient list yourself
Export your patients from your current system and load the file in. The columns are read from the file's own headings, so it works whether the export says "First Name", "Firstname" or "Given Name" — and whether it came from a vendor or a spreadsheet somebody has kept by hand for nine years. Nothing is written until you have seen exactly what would happen.
Moving your patients across
You can do it yourself
Export your patient list from MyOPD as a CSV and load it in Settings → Bring your data. The columns are read from the file's own headings, so you do not have to tell us what shape the export is in or rename anything first.
Nothing is written until you have seen it
The first pass only reads: it shows which columns were recognised, how many patients would be created, and who would be skipped because they are already here. You decide after seeing that, rather than before.
A date it cannot read, it refuses to guess
03/04/1980 is March in one country and April in another. Rather than pick, the import leaves that date blank and tells you the line number. A wrong date of birth decides concession eligibility and which of two same-named patients you have open.
Run both for a fortnight
We would rather you kept MyOPD running alongside for the first couple of weeks than trusted a migration on anybody's word, including ours. See what moving involves.
Questions worth asking any vendor
How do I get my data out?
Ask before you sign up, not after. Ours is a CSV export of patients, appointments, notes and invoices, available to you without asking us and without a fee. If the answer involves a support ticket or a quote, that is the answer.
What happens to a note if my internet drops?
In Clinidiary it keeps saving locally and recovers when you come back. It is a dull question until the day it is the only question, which is usually the day somebody loses a consultation.
Can a paid invoice be edited?
Ours cannot. A correction is a credit note plus a replacement, and the original keeps its number and date. Convenient editing of paid invoices is a problem waiting for an audit.
Who is actually building it?
Two people, in a clinic that sees patients. That is a real limitation — we are smaller than everything else on this page — and it is also why the person who fixes a bug is the person who hit it.
Also worth looking at
If you are comparing properly, compare widely. These are the other systems clinics in India usually shortlist.
Practo Ray
India's best-known clinic software, bundled with the Practo patient discovery network.
Cliniify
India-focused clinic management with ABDM and ABHA awareness, multi-doctor and multi-specialty.
Halemind
Multi-specialty EHR used across Indian hospitals and clinics, with strong regional language support.
SmartPT
India-native physiotherapy system combining scheduling, EMR, home exercise and telehealth.