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Alternatives to Fujifilm Synapse
21 healthcare tools sit alongside Fujifilm Synapse in this directory. Below is what separates each from Fujifilm Synapse on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 6
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Fujifilm Synapse starts at
- On request
Why people look past Fujifilm Synapse
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Fujifilm Synapse entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Fujifilm Synapse carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 6 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Fujifilm Synapse publishes a single plan, Synapse at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Enterprise radiology PACS and diagnostic image viewing from Philips
Priced and rated the same as Fujifilm Synapse on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Cloud medical image exchange and vendor neutral archive, now part of Intelerad
Priced and rated the same as Fujifilm Synapse on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Leading electronic health records system for healthcare organizations
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Fujifilm Synapse does not.
Open source hospital information system and EMR for low-resource hospitals, built on OpenMRS
- Can be used without paying; Fujifilm Synapse cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Period and cycle tracking app that settled with the US FTC in 2021 over sharing health data with third parties despite promising not to
- Can be used without paying; Fujifilm Synapse cannot.
- Sold on a Free with a Premium subscription model rather than quote.
Open source electronic medical record platform for low-resource settings, with no vendor and paid implementers instead
- Can be used without paying; Fujifilm Synapse cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Every Fujifilm Synapse alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fujifilm Synapse (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| Philips IntelliSpace PACSPhilips IntelliSpace PACS is the better fit where the site is already standardised on Philips modalities and wants one capital negotiation | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Ambra HealthAmbra Health is cloud first and cheaper to stand up when the requirement is image exchange rather than in department diagnostic reading | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Epic SystemsEpic Radiant keeps radiology workflow inside the existing electronic health record for sites unwilling to run a separate imaging stack | Free | Quote | - | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Bahmni | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Flo | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| OpenMRS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Clue | Free | Free with a Plus subscription | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| GNU Health | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| DHIS2 | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 3 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Annalise.ai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Included Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Lunit | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Ibex Medical Analytics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Gleamer | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Aidoc | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Lyra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Koa Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Meru Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| PathAI | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Paige | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
| Beckman Coulter DxONE | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Fujifilm Synapse |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Fujifilm Synapse badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Fujifilm Synapse is most often brought in for a hospital replacing pacs that wants the archive decoupled from its scanner vendor so future modality purchases stay competitive, a health system consolidating radiology, cardiology, ophthalmology and wound images into one vendor neutral archive with a single retention policy, an outpatient imaging chain that needs one worklist across multiple sites and radiologists reading remotely, a site pursuing a deconstructed pacs strategy that wants to replace the viewer later without touching the archive. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Fujifilm Synapse is broadly right and the question is cost, the Fujifilm Synapse pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Healthcare category lists everything the directory holds, and best healthcare tools ranks them.
Fujifilm Synapse runs on web, windows, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Fujifilm Synapse alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Fujifilm Synapse?
- 21 other healthcare tools are listed in this directory, led by Philips IntelliSpace PACS, Ambra Health, Epic Systems, Bahmni. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Fujifilm Synapse?
- 6 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Bahmni, Flo, OpenMRS, Clue, GNU Health.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Fujifilm Synapse?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Fujifilm Synapse?
- Fujifilm Synapse is most often brought in for a hospital replacing pacs that wants the archive decoupled from its scanner vendor so future modality purchases stay competitive, a health system consolidating radiology, cardiology, ophthalmology and wound images into one vendor neutral archive with a single retention policy, an outpatient imaging chain that needs one worklist across multiple sites and radiologists reading remotely, a site pursuing a deconstructed pacs strategy that wants to replace the viewer later without touching the archive. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Fujifilm Synapse?
- None of the healthcare tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Fujifilm Synapse alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Healthcare, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Fujifilm Synapse against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Fujifilm Synapse covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every healthcare tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Healthcare category, 21 tools beside Fujifilm Synapse. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.