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ZigBuddy
Features

Everything that goes into your day.

Seven years of feedback from home health PTs, OTs, SLPs, and nurses — distilled into one app. Here's how it actually works.

The route screen before optimization: stops listed in the order they were added, with longer drive times in between.
The route screen after one tap: optimized order with map, color-coded pins, and a timeline of drive times between visits.
Before After one tap
Drive

The fastest order. In one tap.

Real maps. Real pins. ZigBuddy AI sequences your day around time windows, your start point, and your home base — then drops you into Drive Mode for the windshield.

  • AI route optimization that respects time windows
  • Color-coded pins by notebook, tag, or status
  • Service area overlays (Show Areas)
  • Day Cluster view across the week
  • Drive Mode: big buttons, hands-free
  • Hand off to Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze
Planning

Let AI sort it. Or take the wheel.

Two modes, one tap apart. ZigBuddy AI handles the order around the visits you lock down — or you do every stop yourself. Switch any time.

Intelligent routing view: 'Visit first' locks the start of the day, ZigBuddy AI optimizes a middle section of three stops (A, B, C), 'Visit last' locks the end. Phone-call patients can be excluded from routing entirely.

Let AI handle the order.

Lock the visits that have to go first or last — as many as you need. Exclude the phone-call ones. AI sequences everything in between, around time windows, your start, and your home base.

Manual Routing view: a striped MANUAL ROUTING banner reading 'Your route, your rules, your problem' sits above the day's stops listed in the order you've chosen — drag to rearrange.

Or take the wheel.

Manual mode drops the AI guardrails. Drag, drop, lock — your route, your call.

Drive Mode

A day on ZigBuddy, hands-free.

Drive Mode is the windshield view. Big buttons, one stop at a time, the next address always queued. Scroll through a day.

8:30 am

Good morning. Let's go.

5 stops, 111 miles, back by 2:35 pm. The whole day, sized up before you turn the key. One button to start.

Drive Mode overview: 5 stops, 6 hours 4 minutes total, 111 miles, with a 'Let's Go' button.

11:07 am

Stop 3 of 5.

Beyoncé Knolls, 14.7 miles. One tap to Navigate, one tap to text "On my way." Status set with a thumb without taking your eyes off the road.

Drive Mode active stop: Beyoncé Knolls, stop 3 of 5, 14.7 miles, with big Navigate and Contact buttons.

Between stops

Notes without breaking flow.

A snippet. A type change. A quick "patient mentioned dizziness." Drop it in and keep driving. Auto-syncs to the patient's record.

Drive Mode quick-edit panel: Type, Snippet, and Notes fields appear inside Drive Mode without leaving the flow.

2:35 pm

Going home. $460 earned.

"Great job today." Tomorrow's pre-flight checklist is already on the next screen — add new patients, schedule, route. Closes the loop.

Drive Mode done: Going Home, 4 hours 2 minutes total, 69.2 miles, $460 earned, with a Before Tomorrow checklist.
The Map

Your service area, at a glance.

Every active patient pinned on a real map. Color-coded by notebook (your agencies). Toggle Show Areas for service-area overlays. Pull-to-search from the top.

And yes — Map looks just as good in dark mode, the way you actually use the app on a 6 a.m. start.

ZigBuddy Map in light mode: 28 patient pins across the San Francisco Bay Area, color-coded by notebook, with a Show Areas toggle and Search bar at the top.
The same Map in dark mode: same patient pins on a teal-tinted dark map with Show Areas overlay enabled.
Z ZigBuddy AI

Four superpowers, exactly where you need them.

Not a chatbot. Contextual magic-button moments — embedded right inside the screens where you'd otherwise click for ten minutes. Every AI action shows a preview first; you apply only what you want.

Tap any card to see the preview AI hands back before you commit.

ZigBuddy AI accepting a pasted patient referral on the New Patient screen — name and address ready to extract. ZigBuddy AI's extraction preview — Name and Address rows the user can uncheck before applying.

Create patients from thin air.

Paste a referral, snap a fax, screenshot an email. AI fills the form — you uncheck anything you don't want before saving.

ZigBuddy AI accepting plain-English scheduling: 'Schedule for the next two weeks on Mon & Wed.' ZigBuddy AI's schedule preview — 4 proposed appointments listed by date, with a Do It button.

Schedule visits with words.

"Schedule Taylor for the next two weeks on Mondays and Wednesdays." AI proposes each appointment. You hit Do it.

ZigBuddy AI accepting plain-English availability: 'She's not available on Tuesdays and Thursdays.' ZigBuddy AI's availability preview — Tuesdays and Thursdays set to Blocked, Before / After rows ready to apply.

Set availability the way you'd say it.

"Never Mondays." "Block Jan 4 through 15." "She works mornings only." AI builds the recurring or one-time rule.

The Organize Week AI showing Before/Both/After with per-day deltas in visits, miles, and hours — saving ~160 miles across 8 changes.

Reshuffle the whole week in a tap.

Organize Week proposes a better arrangement around availability, time windows, and home base. Before / After side by side — accept what you like.

Patients

One patient list. Three densities.

Tap the layout that fits the moment — the whole roster at a glance, or every field in a sortable table.

Tap to switch the phone

  • Per-patient notes, tags, photos, and pinned info
  • Patient Portal link copy from any patient card
  • Search across every field — name, address, phone, tag
  • Bulk import from CSV or your last app
  • Archive or delete — your call
  • Star VIPs; color-code by notebook for instant scanning
ZigBuddy Patients in Card view — each patient on its own card with notebook chip, address, phone, tags, and a note. ZigBuddy Patients in Simple view — initials, name, and address per row. ZigBuddy Patients in Detailed view — spreadsheet-like sortable columns for star, name, notebook, tags.
ZigBuddy patient profile in light mode: hero card with name and address, action row (Schedule, Availability, Notes), notebook chip, tags, multiple phone numbers, and pinned info.
The same patient profile in dark mode — same layout, deep ink background, color-coded chips and tags pop against the dark surface.
Patient profile

Tap in for the whole picture.

Every patient has a full profile a tap away — notes, tags, photos, every phone number, the address you actually drive to. Light or dark — switch any time.

Quick texts

“On my way.” Two taps.

Write the messages you send fifty times a week — once. “On my way,” “Running late,” “Be there in ten,” whatever you say the most. Tap the message icon next to any patient’s phone, pick a template, the text opens pre-filled. Hit send.

  • Build your own library of templates — as many as you want
  • Copy or send — your choice
  • Works mid-drive in Drive Mode too
A phone overlay over Taylor Swiftly's contact: the number 888-888-8888 sits at top, with three rows beneath — New Message, On my way, and Running late — each with copy and send icons.
On the laptop

The whole roster, room to breathe.

Open ZigBuddy in any browser when you're at your desk. Same patients, more screen — bulk edits, paste-in import, side-by-side comparisons.

ZigBuddy Patients in the browser: full roster with notebook color codes, tags, stars, and a search bar across every field.
Calendar

Three views, one canvas.

Month for the bird's-eye. Week for the working view. Grid for patients-across-days. Different question, different view — pick what helps.

Tap a view

  • Drag and drop visits between days
  • Notebooks group patients by agency
  • Availability conflicts surface as you drag — override when you need to
  • Filter by notebook
ZigBuddy Calendar Month view: full-month grid with color-coded event blocks across each day. ZigBuddy Calendar Week view: 7-day columns with timed event blocks. ZigBuddy Calendar Grid view: patients down the rows, days across the columns, scheduled visits checked.
Mobile Week view with a bottom filter sheet open: Notebooks (Company A, B, C, Unassigned) shown as colored checkboxes plus a Calendars section — toggle anything off to focus the week on what you need to see.
Focus

See only what matters this week.

Working four agencies? Toggle three off and just see one. Filter the week by notebook so the visit you’re thinking about isn’t buried under everything else. One tap to focus, one tap to bring it all back.

  • Toggle any notebook on or off — focus on one agency at a time
  • Works on every calendar view — Month, Week, and Grid
  • Only changes what you see — nothing’s deleted, nothing un-syncs
Patient Portal

Your patients confirm. You stay in sync.

Send a one-tap link. Patients see a friendly page, mark their week, and hit Send. Their answer lands in your inbox in real time.

See the patient view →

ZigBuddy patient portal: Hi Ben, please mark any days you'll be unavailable, with day-by-day Available/Unavailable buttons.
ZigBuddy Notes: a yellow sticky 'Things to bring' with checklist items Saline, Care kit, and a struck-through Gauze; plus a pink 'End of Week — Send in report' note.
The same Notes screen in dark mode — yellow and pink sticky notes with darker, saturated backgrounds.
Notes

Sticky notes that come with you.

Things to bring. End-of-week reports. The detail your supervisor wanted you to remember. Color-coded, pinnable, checklist-capable — attach to a specific day, or keep one floating that follows you all week.

  • Free-form text or checklist mode per note
  • Twelve sticky-note colors; pin the important ones
  • Per-appointment notes too, right on each visit
  • Archive or delete for end-of-quarter cleanup
ZigBuddy Pay & Rates sheet for Company B: per-visit pricing with per-type rates — SOC $140, Evaluation $90, Follow-Up $80, Re-Assessment $80, Recertification $80, Discharge $90, Supervisory $80.
Set rates once

Per-visit-type rates. Per agency.

Tell ZigBuddy what each agency pays for each visit type — SOC, Eval, Follow-Up, Discharge. Every report after that does the math for you.

  • Per-visit pricing, salary, or hybrid — pick what matches each contract
  • Different rates per visit type, per agency, per pay period
  • Per-visit overrides for the one-off "I negotiated extra for this drive"
  • Rate-change history kept; past reports stay accurate
Reports

Every mile, every visit, every agency.

W2, 1099, or just reporting up to the agency — ZigBuddy keeps the books either way. Built for the way home health clinicians actually get paid.

ZigBuddy Mileage Report showing 5,498.6 mi, 87 hr 29 min, 23 visits with per-day breakdown.

Mileage

Tax-time math, already done.

ZigBuddy Earnings Report with $1,180 earned and line chart vs prior month.

Earnings

See the month at a glance.

ZigBuddy Financial Report with per-company cards and recent pay periods bar charts.

Financial

Every agency, side by side.

ZigBuddy Inbound section in dark mode: Company A $660 earned + $660 pending (last period's pay $1,260), Company B $360 + $440 pending ($780), Company C $570 + $810 pending ($1,290). Below: the Video Guides strip.
Inbound

Every agency, every dollar — on your home screen.

Inbound sits right below your day plan. Each notebook (agency) gets a card with this period's earned, pending, and last period's pay. No reports to open.

When you're working three or four agencies, "where do I stand with each of them this pay period?" used to take a spreadsheet to answer. Now it's the first thing you see when you open the app.

Availability

Recurring rules and one-time blocks. Side by side.

Diagonal stripes for recurring blocks. Solid blocks for one-time. At a glance, you know what's a forever rule and what's a single day.

  • Per-patient availability calendar
  • Recurring weekday rules (Never Tuesdays)
  • One-time blocks and one-time availability
  • Partial-day rules — block mornings only
  • AI sets all of this from plain English
A patient availability calendar with diagonal-stripe Recurring Blocked days and solid one-time blocked days.
Calendar Grid view: all patients down the rows, days across — diagonal-stripe availability blocks show right in the cells so you can see who can't see you this week, at a glance.

Per-patient rules · One-week roster at a glance

And everything else

The dozens of small things that add up.

The supporting cast — small touches you stop noticing because they just work.

Patient management

  • Notebooks per agency
  • Tags, stars, color codes
  • Per-patient availability rules
  • Manual lat/lng for rural addresses
  • Bulk import from existing data
  • Archive without losing history

Communication

  • Tap-to-call from any patient
  • Patient Portal link sharing
  • Multiple phone numbers per patient
  • Patient response tracking

Built for the road

  • iOS, Android, and web — same data
  • Drive Mode for hands-free use
  • Auto-sync across every device
  • Full dark mode across every screen
  • Display zoom for any screen
  • Calendar Sync (Google, Apple, Outlook)

Privacy & security

  • HIPAA-aligned safeguards
  • BAAs available for agencies
  • Encryption in transit and at rest
  • Sign in with Apple, Google, or email
  • No selling or sharing of data

See it work in your own week.

Drop in your real patient list. Plan a real day. 14 days free. No credit card.