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Alternatives to Lyra Health
22 healthcare tools sit alongside Lyra Health in this directory. Below is what separates each from Lyra Health on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 7
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Lyra Health starts at
- On request
Why people look past Lyra Health
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Lyra Health entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Lyra Health carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 7 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Lyra Health publishes a single plan, Lyra Health 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.
Meditation and mindfulness made simple
- Publishes an entry price of $12.99/month, where Lyra Health does not.
- 3 tiers to Lyra Health's 1.
Sleep, meditation and relaxation
- Can be used without paying; Lyra Health cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $12.99/month, where Lyra Health does not.
- 4 tiers to Lyra Health's 1.
Digital mental health platform with coaching and therapy
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Lyra Health does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
Open source hospital information system and EMR for low-resource hospitals, built on OpenMRS
- Can be used without paying; Lyra Health 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; Lyra Health 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; Lyra Health cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Every Lyra Health 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyra Health (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| HeadspaceHeadspace is far cheaper per employee where the need is preventative wellbeing rather than clinical therapy | $12.99/month | - | 3 | vs Lyra Health |
| CalmCalm covers sleep and stress at low cost but does not provide clinical care | Free, then $12.99/month | - | 4 | vs Lyra Health |
| GingerGinger provides on demand behavioural health coaching with a different acuity profile | Free | Subscription | - | vs Lyra Health |
| Bahmni | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Flo | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| OpenMRS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Clue | Free | Free with a Plus subscription | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| GNU Health | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Lyra Health |
| DHIS2 | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 3 | vs Lyra Health |
| Annalise.ai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Included Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Ambra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Lunit | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Ibex Medical Analytics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Fujifilm Synapse | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Gleamer | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Aidoc | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Koa Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Meru Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| PathAI | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Paige | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
| Beckman Coulter DxONE | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Lyra Health |
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 Lyra Health badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Lyra Health is most often brought in for an employer whose legacy employee assistance programme has utilisation in the low single digits and cannot demonstrate any clinical outcome, a company with a distributed workforce needing therapist availability outside major metropolitan areas where the health plan network is thin, an employer wanting behavioural health outcomes measured with validated instruments so the benefit can be evaluated rather than merely offered, a multinational standardising mental health support across several countries under one contract and one reporting view. 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 Lyra Health is broadly right and the question is cost, the Lyra Health 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.
Lyra Health runs on web, 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 Lyra Health alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Lyra Health?
- 22 other healthcare tools are listed in this directory, led by Headspace, Calm, Ginger, Bahmni. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Lyra Health?
- 7 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Calm, Bahmni, Flo, OpenMRS, Clue.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Lyra Health?
- 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 Lyra Health?
- Lyra Health is most often brought in for an employer whose legacy employee assistance programme has utilisation in the low single digits and cannot demonstrate any clinical outcome, a company with a distributed workforce needing therapist availability outside major metropolitan areas where the health plan network is thin, an employer wanting behavioural health outcomes measured with validated instruments so the benefit can be evaluated rather than merely offered, a multinational standardising mental health support across several countries under one contract and one reporting view. 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 Lyra Health?
- 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 Lyra Health 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 Lyra Health against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Lyra Health 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, 22 tools beside Lyra Health. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.






