Nookal

Australian allied health practice management priced per practitioner with usage charges on top

As of 31 August 2026, Nookal starts at 49/month. Cloud practice management for physiotherapy, chiropractic and other allied health clinics, sold per practitioner per month with a published price list. Softwr lists it under Healthcare. Nookal is available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Nookal does

Nookal is practice management software for allied health clinics, covering appointments, patient records, clinical notes, invoicing, online booking, reporting and claiming. It was built in Australia and has grown to serve clinics in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and further afield, with pricing published in AUD, GBP, EUR and USD. What distinguishes it commercially is that the pricing is published and stratified rather than negotiated. Essentials sits at AUD 49 per practitioner per month, Professional at AUD 59, and an Enterprise tier is quoted. The line between the two published tiers is not trivial: advanced reporting, KPI dashboards, custom forms, automated recalls and bulk messaging all sit in Professional, and those are precisely the features a clinic wants once it has more than two practitioners. On top of the seat price there are add-ons, including AI and voice at about USD 25 per active licence per month, the patient portal from about USD 10 per location, secure messaging from about USD 1.50 per user, plus per message SMS from around 7 cents and per claim fees for Medicare and ACC. Buyers are typically owner-operated multidisciplinary clinics with three to twenty practitioners, particularly in physiotherapy and chiropractic, who want Australian and New Zealand claiming rails without an enterprise sales process. The trade-off is stacking: a Professional seat plus AI, portal and secure messaging can land close to double the headline price, and the price differs materially by currency, with the USD and EUR figures well above a straight conversion of the AUD ones.

What people use it for

A three to ten practitioner physiotherapy clinic in Australia that wants Medicare claiming and published pricing rather than a quote process
A New Zealand practice that needs ACC claim submission integrated with its clinical notes and billing
A chiropractic group opening a second location that wants shared patient records and one reporting view across sites
A UK or Irish allied health clinic that wants an Australian-style clinical workflow with GBP or EUR billing

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Nookal.

The features most multi-practitioner clinics need, including advanced reporting, custom forms and automated recalls, are held back to the Professional tier, so the AUD 49 entry price is not a realistic budget for anything beyond a solo practice.
Add-ons stack quickly: AI and voice at about USD 25 per active licence, the patient portal from USD 10 per location and secure messaging from USD 1.50 per user can push a seat close to double its list price.
Pricing is not a simple currency conversion, with the USD Essentials tier at 65 and Professional at 89 against AUD 49 and 59, so overseas clinics pay a meaningful premium for the same software.
Messaging and claiming are metered per SMS and per claim, so a clinic that leans on reminders to control no-shows finds a variable line item that grows with appointment volume and is easy to underestimate at purchase.
Single sign-on is quoted rather than listed and sits with the Enterprise tier, which puts basic identity governance out of reach for mid-sized groups that would otherwise stay on Professional.

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What people choose instead of Nookal

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Cliniko
Cliniko: Simpler flat per practitioner pricing with fewer separately billed add-ons
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SimplePractice
SimplePractice: Deeper documentation and telehealth if Australian claiming is not your constraint
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Jane App
Jane App: Better fit if charting depth and an integrated patient experience matter more than Australian claiming rails

Pricing

What Nookal costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Essentials

$49 /mo

Per practitioner per month
Appointments, patient records and invoicing
Online booking
Basic reporting
SMS charged separately from about 7 cents per message

Professional

$59 /mo

Per practitioner per month
Advanced reporting and KPI dashboards
Custom forms
Automated recalls
Bulk messaging

Enterprise

On request

Quoted pricing
Multi-account management
Dedicated support
Custom integrations
Single sign-on quoted separately

Capabilities

Features

Per practitioner pricing
Published rates in AUD, GBP, EUR and USD with no lock-in contract
Clinical notes
Templated notes, body charts and outcome measures per discipline
Online booking
Public booking with class and group appointment support
Automated recalls
Scheduled patient recall campaigns, on the Professional tier
KPI dashboards
Practitioner utilisation and revenue reporting, on the Professional tier
Claiming
Medicare and New Zealand ACC claim submission charged per claim
Patient portal
Self-service forms and appointment management sold as a per location add-on
AI and voice
Note dictation and assistance sold as a per active licence add-on

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

How much does Nookal cost per practitioner?

Essentials is AUD 49 per practitioner per month and Professional is AUD 59, with published equivalents of GBP 29 and 39, EUR 65 and 89, and USD 65 and 89. Enterprise is quoted.

What is not included in the subscription?

SMS from about 7 cents per message, Medicare claims from about 10 cents, ACC claims at about 12 cents, the patient portal, secure messaging, AI and voice, and single sign-on are all charged separately.

Is there a contract?

No lock-in contract, and the free trial does not require a credit card.

Which countries does the claiming work in?

Medicare claiming is Australian and ACC claiming is New Zealand. Elsewhere the software works but you invoice and reconcile manually.

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