This is an honest comparison from the team behind Prescriply, written for a doctor deciding between the two. Details about MedicBD / Prescriber® are drawn from its public website (medicbd.com) as of October 2026: its doctors page was read on 17 October 2026 (see the table below). Any of it may change — confirm the current feature set and pricing with each vendor before deciding.
What the two products have in common
Both let a BMDC-registered doctor stop handwriting and produce a clean, standards-compliant prescription, store structured patient records (complaints, history, exam, investigations, diagnosis, drugs and advice), reuse previous encounters with one click, manage multiple chambers with assistant access, and schedule appointments. Both keep clinical images and documents against the patient record. If your need is “a proper EMR and a printed prescription,” either delivers.
Where they differ most
The real decision is price versus chamber depth. Here is a capability view based on each site’s public information.
What MedicBD publishes (as of October 2026)
The price wording, the eligibility rule and the feature list as the vendor states them, each row linked to the page it was read from.
Corrections: Prescriply publishes this page and is one of the products compared. Every figure about another vendor was read from that vendor’s own pages in October 2026 (read on 17 October 2026), and each row links the page it came from. If you represent a vendor named here and a figure is out of date or wrong, email info@prescriply.bd (or use the contact page) with the correct figure and a link to your page. We check it against your public page, then correct this page and its date.
Is Prescriply a good MedicBD alternative?
Yes, if you need chamber fee settlement, an income and tax statement, live drug-safety checks, ICD-10, a serial queue or an AI scribe, which the MedicBD page does not advertise. If a completely free EMR for BMDC-registered doctors is your only requirement, MedicBD’s Prescriber® fits.
Be fair about the trade-off
Prescriber® being free with no end date, as MedicBD describes it, is a real, generous proposition, and the wider MedicBD platform — a citizen Q&A side and a student side — is a genuine ecosystem. If your only requirement is a no-cost EMR that prints a compliant prescription, it is a strong pick. Prescriply takes a different bet: a free plan that also owns the parts a growing chamber runs into —the money, the safety and the trust: automatic fee settlement across chambers, a cross-chamber income statement, live drug-interaction checks, ICD-10, a serial queue, and a public way for patients to confirm a prescription is genuine.
Who should pick which
Choose MedicBD / Prescriber® if a completely free EMR is your priority and you value its barcoded records and broader citizen/student ecosystem. Choose Prescriply if your chamber’s real pain is economics and workflow — fee settlement, income & tax reporting, drug safety, ICD-10, serial queue and Rx authenticity. You can start Prescriply free in about a minute with a mobile OTP on the free plan and see the settlement report for yourself.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Prescriply and MedicBD (Prescriber®)?
MedicBD's Prescriber® is a free electronic medical record for BMDC-registered doctors: structured patient data and barcoded, BMDC-compliant prescriptions, inside a broader e-health platform. Prescriply is a chamber-and-prescription tool that adds automatic FULL, SPLIT or RENT fee settlement with an income and tax statement, live drug-interaction checks, ICD-10 coding, a serial queue, an AI scribe and a public prescription link.
MedicBD's platform also serves citizens and students. Prescriply also adds allergy checks, medical certificates and a BM&DC-tied authenticity link. The headline difference is depth rather than price: Prescriber® is free, and so is Prescriply's free plan, which goes deeper on chamber economics, safety and workflow.
Is MedicBD really free? What does Prescriply cost?
MedicBD describes Prescriber® as free of charge with no end date, for BMDC-registered doctors who prove their registration by sending documents; no paid plan or taka price is shown on its page. Prescriply's free plan has unlimited prescriptions under a published fair-use limit, with the full settlement engine included and no card required.
MedicBD's page says "We will not charge you anything for getting started. It is totally FREE forever." If a completely free tool with no limits is your single most important requirement, that is a genuine point for MedicBD; if the chamber-economics features below solve a real problem for you, Prescriply's free plan covers them. Plus is an optional add-on: ৳199 for 30 days or ৳1,990 for 365 days (save ৳398), VAT included. On a plan you pay for yourself it adds ৳200 of AI credit every 30 days (12 times on a 365-day plan), and unlimited assistant seats while the plan is running. A plan you buy never renews by itself; you renew with one tap. Everything listed in the Free plan stays in the Free plan. The payment page (EPS) may add about 2% of its own fee to what you pay. Confirm current terms with each vendor.
Does MedicBD track chamber income and settlement like Prescriply?
Based on MedicBD's public site (read October 2026), Prescriber® offers multi-chamber management with assistant access and appointment scheduling, but it does not advertise fee, revenue or settlement math: no automatic split of a visit's fee between the doctor and chamber owner, and no income or tax report.
That doctor↔chamber settlement engine (FULL/SPLIT/RENT), the outstanding-fee ledger and the annual income (tax) statement are Prescriply's core focus. For a doctor who works across chambers on different share terms and needs a clean tax-season report, that difference matters most.
What about drug safety, ICD-10 and AI?
Prescriply runs live drug-interaction and duplicate-therapy checks in the builder, supports ICD-10 coded diagnoses, and includes an AI scribe that turns a note into a structured draft. MedicBD's public site does not advertise drug-interaction safety alerts, ICD-10 coding or an AI assistant.
MedicBD's Prescriber® records structured clinical data (complaints, history, exam, investigations, a diagnosis, drugs and advice) and stores clinical images and documents. If clinical safety checks and coded diagnoses matter to your practice, that is a gap.
How do prescriptions differ — barcode vs authenticity link?
MedicBD prints barcoded prescriptions, and the barcode is used to search a patient's records quickly. Prescriply attaches a public authenticity link to each prescription, which a patient or pharmacy can open to confirm it is genuine, tied to a BM&DC registration number an admin has reviewed. They solve different problems: MedicBD's barcode speeds up internal record lookup.
Prescriply's link answers the patient-facing question of whether the prescription and the doctor are real. If forgery-resistance and patient trust are priorities, Prescriply's approach is aimed there.
Does MedicBD have a serial and queue system?
MedicBD's public site markets appointment scheduling and multi-chamber management, but not a live serial-number and patient-queue-display system for the waiting area. Prescriply includes serial-number allocation and a live queue that assistants can run, plus a waiting-room-friendly flow. If managing the day's serials and the waiting queue is part of your chamber, that is another point of difference.
See also: all features, the free plan, free vs paid prescription software, and pricing.