PatientNotes vs Kitt: Which AI Note Tool Is Right for Your Clinic?
By The Kitt Team
Picture a physiotherapist two weeks into a free trial. She approves a clean SOAP note in under a minute, closes the AI tool, then opens a blank treatment planning template and starts typing by hand. The documentation step worked. Everything downstream is still hers to carry.
That moment is the PatientNotes vs Kitt comparison stated plainly. Both tools produce a clean clinical note at the end of a consult. The fork is what the tool does, or doesn’t do, with everything that follows: the plan, the exercise prescription, the letters, the client between sessions. A scribe stops at the note. An assistant carries the appointment forward.
What PatientNotes and Kitt Share
The baseline is genuinely shared, and it’s worth stating that clearly before the comparison sharpens.
Both tools transcribe the consult, structure the output as a SOAP note, and return it for clinician review and approval. Both are built for Australian practice. Both handle data with appropriate privacy standards. Both offer a free trial with no credit card required (30 days with Kitt, 14 days with PatientNotes), and neither ties you to an annual contract.
If documentation is your only bottleneck, and it is for some practices, either tool addresses it. The question is whether it’s your only bottleneck.
PatientNotes: A Focused Scribe, Built by a Physiotherapist
PatientNotes does one thing. It was built by a physiotherapist in Sydney, and the scope reflects that disciplinary clarity: you record the consult, the AI produces a clean structured SOAP note, you review and approve it, and the job is done.
That focus is a genuine virtue, not a limitation. For a clinician who already has a working system for treatment planning, exercise prescription, referral letters, and client communication, and is only losing time on the note-writing step, PatientNotes installs into that existing workflow without disturbing it. No feature overhead. No new interface to learn beyond the dictation itself. Purpose-built, deliberate, and honest about its scope.
PatientNotes suits a physio or allied health practitioner in an organised practice, confident in their downstream clinical workflow, who wants the documentation step handled cleanly and nothing else changed. Check their website for current pricing.
Kitt: The Note Is the Entry Point, Not the Destination
Kitt describes itself as an AI clinical assistant, and the distinction is specific. Notes, including SOAP format, are ready to review in under 60 seconds. But that’s where the workflow begins inside the tool, not where it ends.
After the note, one click generates an evidence-based treatment plan. Kitt writes the exercise prescription: cues, sets, reps, progressions. It drafts the GP letter, the referral, the imaging request, the discharge summary. The clinician reviews and approves everything before it goes anywhere. Kitt also carries client context across sessions, so when a returning client’s file opens, the assistant already holds the clinical history, what was agreed last visit, and what’s due for review. The load of remembering and reconstructing sits with the tool, not the clinician.
Kitt is built for physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, podiatrists, nutritionists, chiropractors, and other allied health disciplines. It doesn’t do billing or scheduling: those stay with your practice management software. Cliniko and Nookal users can sync bidirectionally with Kitt, though it also works standalone. Data is Australian-hosted, APP-compliant, encrypted with AES-256, and audio is not stored after processing.
The price is A$69 per clinician per month, flat, with no lock-in and a free-forever entry tier alongside the 30-day trial.
The Kitt Companion: Closing the Loop After the Consult
The part of Kitt that places it in a different category from a scribe is the Companion, a client-facing app included at no extra cost.
After the consult, the client receives their plan and exercises directly in the Companion app. Between sessions, the Companion runs smart pain and adherence check-ins. Those responses feed back to a clinician-facing adherence dashboard. Before the next appointment, the clinician can see whether the client completed the programme, where adherence dropped, and what they reported. The gap between appointments becomes structured, measurable, visible.
Kitt’s website notes that 70% of clients fail to complete treatment. The Companion is built around that number: not as a passive record, but as a closed loop between clinician and client that keeps the clinical plan active between sessions. That’s not a documentation feature. It’s a care continuity feature that sits inside the same tool as the note.
PatientNotes vs Kitt: Side by Side
| Dimension | PatientNotes | Kitt |
|---|---|---|
| AI clinical notes (SOAP) | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial, no credit card | Yes | Yes |
| No annual contract | Yes | Yes |
| Physio-focused build | Yes | Yes (plus EP, podiatry, nutrition, chiro, and more) |
| Australian hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Treatment plan generation | No | Yes |
| Exercise prescription with cues and progressions | No | Yes |
| Cross-session clinical memory | No | Yes |
| Client-facing app (Kitt Companion) | No | Yes |
| Client adherence dashboard | No | Yes |
| Transparent flat pricing | Check site | A$69 per clinician per month |
Every cell above traces to confirmed facts. PatientNotes genuinely delivers the items marked Yes; the items marked No reflect its intentional scope as a documentation tool, not a deficiency.
Which Tool Fits Your Clinic
This is a scope decision, not a quality decision.
PatientNotes fits a clinician who has a documentation problem and a documentation problem specifically. The tool is focused, purposeful, and built by someone who understands the physiotherapy consultation from the inside. If your treatment planning is fast, your letters are under control, and your clients tend to follow through on what’s agreed, adding a capable scribe without touching anything else is a clean, proportionate choice.
Kitt fits a clinician, or a practice, where the note is one bottleneck among several. Plans take time to write. Referral letters sit in a queue until the end of the week. Exercises are explained verbally and then, for many clients, forgotten. Adherence between appointments is invisible until the client returns. Kitt is built for the full appointment loop: note, plan, exercise prescription, letters, and client follow-through visible on a dashboard before the next consult begins. The note is part of that loop. It’s not the end of it.
Kitt gives you 30 days and PatientNotes two weeks to find out which description fits how your practice actually runs. The honest version of your problem, not the version you’d prefer, is the right starting point. The tool selection follows from there.