kiCLINIC, from KIUBO, has been in the market since 2003 and is strong exactly where the Portuguese market is complicated: prescribing and diagnostic test requests certified by the health system authority, electronic billing to the public health service, and documentation for ADSE, the police and military health schemes. It also has deep verticals — dental charting and radiography, occupational medicine. In exchange, it publishes no prices.
Partly different categories. On public health agreements and medical verticals, kiCLINIC does things we do not. Our electronic prescribing with the health service's PEM platform is coming soon; agreements with the public health service, ADSE and the forces' schemes are not in our scope today.
Checked on 12 September 2026Public source: kiclinic.pt
| What is compared | Appointmint | kiCLINIC |
|---|---|---|
| Product scope | AppointmintRunning and automating an appointment-based business: calendar, client record, clinical notes, invoicing, payments, communication, packages, stock, reports and AI. | kiCLINICClinical and medical management, with administrative and clinical components, invoicing, cash, prescriptions, public agreements, insurance, purchasing and stock. |
| Calendar and online booking | AppointmintRooms and resources, group classes, waiting lists, recurring appointments, practitioner and branch absences, and online booking. | kiCLINICMulti-user calendar with schedules configurable per clinician. |
| Client record and clinical notes | AppointmintConfigurable record, forms, surveys, consents, clinical reports and a client portal. Reads the Portuguese Citizen Card to fill in the record. | kiCLINICClinical records, insurance cases and document management. Dental charting, quotes and radiography; physiotherapy plans; occupational health functions. |
| Certified invoicing | AppointmintOptional module. Invoices are issued through Cegid Vendus, certified by the Portuguese tax authority under no. 2230/AT — Appointmint is not the certified software, it is who operates it for you. | kiCLINICInvoicing, cash and fees, with electronic billing to the public health service. The vendor states certification by both the tax and health system authorities. |
| Communication and automations | AppointmintWhatsApp on the clinic's own number, approved by Meta, or on the shared number; SMS and email. Automations written by the clinic — event, conditions, actions — and client pipelines by stage. | kiCLINICWe found no public detail on reminders, campaigns or WhatsApp. We found no AI. |
| Electronic prescribing (PEM) | AppointmintComing soon. The integration with the Portuguese health service's PEM platform is built, with prescriber signing by Chave Móvel Digital or Citizen Card, and is switched on per eligible clinic. We hold no clinical certification of our own. | kiCLINICMedicine prescribing and diagnostic test requests, stated as certified by the health system authority. |
| Mobile apps | AppointmintTwo native Android apps: admin and client portal. The iPhone version is coming soon; until then the iPhone opens the web version, which is complete. | kiCLINICWe found no native app. |
| Public pricing and trial | AppointmintPlans and add-ons published on the site. Thirty days without a card, and free data migration. | kiCLINICPublishes no prices. Two models described without figures: monthly rental with local installation, or one-off purchase with paid upgrades. |
Checked on 12 September 2026. See our pricing
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Ana PatríciaDirector · Boeira Garden Hotel SpaA Portuguese medical clinic that bills public agreements, needs certified prescribing and test requests, or works in dentistry with charting and radiography, or in occupational medicine. And anyone who requires local installation rather than cloud.
Private clinics that bill the client rather than public schemes, and where what costs time is operations and communication.
No. We have protocol-based invoicing for different price lists per partnership, which is a different thing. If most of your volume is under public agreements, kiCLINIC is better prepared for that than we are today.
It is not public. The vendor describes two models — monthly rental with local installation, or purchase with paid upgrades — without figures. Ask for a dated quote, and ask for the cost of upgrades and support after the first period too.
It depends on what decides your purchase. If it is running the clinic — diary, packages, invoicing, communication — then yes. If it is certified prescribing, diagnostic requests or public agreements, then no, and this page says so at the top. If you do switch, data migration is free and we do it, not you: tell us what has to come across — clients, appointments, history, packages, invoicing — and before we start we will tell you what we can bring and what we cannot.
This analysis was carried out by an artificial intelligence agent, under explicit instructions to be impartial, to cite only public sources, and to record what it could not confirm rather than filling it in with something plausible. It was then reviewed by us, and whatever is said here about Appointmint has to hold up in the product.
The research closed on 12 September 2026. Products change and so do prices — always confirm with the vendor before deciding.
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