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Replace Podium. Run your whole wellness practice on one platform.

Podium texts patients, collects reviews, and takes payments. Annabelle Health does all of that, plus books, charts, and runs your practice — one HIPAA-compliant platform, month to month.

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Podium is a messaging app. It's not a practice management system.

Podium does reviews, two-way texting, webchat, and payments well — for restaurants, auto shops, and general SMBs. But a chiropractic, PT, or acupuncture practice running Podium still pays for scheduling somewhere else, charts somewhere else, and stitches the patient's texts to their file by hand. Annabelle Health was built so every conversation, appointment, note, outcome score, and payment lives on one patient record — because it's all one platform.

Annabelle Health vs. Podium.

Everything you use Podium for — reviews, texting, webchat, payments — plus the scheduling and charting tools Podium was never built to do.

Feature

Podium

Reviews & messaging for SMBs
One patient record

Annabelle Health

All-in-one wellness platform
Reviews & reputation management ✓ ✓
Two-way SMS texting ✓ ✓
Website chat / webchat ✓ ✓
Integrated payments ✓ ✓
Online scheduling & check-in ✕ ✓
Clinical charting for allied health ✕ ✓
Custom outcome instruments, auto-scored & trended ✕ ✓
Patient portal & mobile app ✕ ✓
Patient balance & A/R tracking ✕ ✓
AI Scribe for chart notes ✕ ✓
Month-to-month, no long-term contract ✕ ✓

One platform instead of a point solution plus a stack.

Scheduling Podium can't do

Online booking, provider and room management, and self check-in — the front desk Podium lacks.

Charting on the same record

Flexible charting and custom outcome instruments live on the same record as texts and payments.

Reviews & messaging, still first-class

AI review requests, SMS, and webchat — Podium's jobs, inside the platform that runs your practice.

Payments without a middleman

Deposits, checkout, and membership billing run through your own Stripe account, pass-through rates.

AI Scribe & AI receptionist

Turn visits into chart notes, answer, triage, and book inbound messages around the clock — included.

No annual lock-in

Month-to-month billing and full data export — no 12-month contract, no cancellation window.

Pay less — and get an entire platform.

Podium starts at $399 a month per location for Core and $599 for Pro (verified on podium.com/pricing, September 2026), and that's before Podium Phones — $30/user/mo for 1-4 users or $25/user/mo for 5+, plus a $500 network optimization fee per location. Annabelle Health Core is $249 and Pro is $399 a month, and that includes reviews, two-way SMS, webchat, and payments alongside the entire clinical platform — scheduling, charting, patient portal, and AI. One bill, month to month.

Where Podium fits — and where it doesn't.

Podium is a polished, capable tool used across dozens of industries, and if all you need is reviews and texting for a non-clinical business you already run well, it does that job. For a wellness practice, though, it's a premium point solution that still leaves scheduling and charting to other software. If you're consolidating your stack onto one patient record, Annabelle is the better economics and the better clinical fit.

Last updated: October 10, 2026.

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