Doximity Scribe is a genuinely good product, and it’s free. If your question is “why would I pay for an AI scribe when Doximity gives me one for nothing,” that’s the right question, and this page is our attempt at an honest answer.

I’m Patrick Proctor, a practicing cardiologist and the founder of NovaScribe™, so I have an obvious interest here. I’ll try to earn your trust the same way I’d want a colleague to: by being specific about what Doximity does well, and specific about what you’d be paying us for.

The short answer

Doximity Scribe is free ambient documentation inside an app you probably already have. It produces a clean draft note from your patient conversation, works with any EHR by copy-paste, and can add billing codes to a note when you ask it to. For low visit volumes or a first taste of ambient documentation, it’s hard to argue with.

NovaScribe is a dedicated documentation and revenue tool. It starts free (10 notes a month, no credit card), and the paid Professional tier ($229/month) attaches CPT codes with wRVU estimates, ICD-10 diagnoses, E/M level analysis, and medical-decision-making suggestions to every note automatically. If you’re paid on productivity, the real comparison is $229 against whatever your documentation currently leaves unbilled. At 2026 Medicare rates, the gap between a 99213 and a 99214 is about $40 per visit — one supported level increase per clinic day covers the subscription.

What Doximity Scribe does well

Credit where it’s due.

• It’s free, permanently. Not a trial. Free for all verified U.S. physicians, NPs, PAs, and medical students, with no paid tier at all.
• Zero friction. If you already use Doximity for Dialer calls or messaging, Scribe is right there. No new account, no IT setup, copy-paste into any EHR.
• Useful drafting tools. Default templates for progress notes, H&Ps, and consult notes, plus “smart changes” that make a note more or less detailed — and one that adds billing codes to the bottom of the note on request.
• A trusted platform. Doximity has verified most U.S. physicians and has run HIPAA-compliant clinician tools for years.

Where the two products differ

What the note comes with

This is the core difference. Doximity Scribe’s job ends at the note; billing codes are an on-request add-on appended to the draft. NovaScribe’s Professional tier treats the note as the input to a second question: what does this documentation support? Every note comes with suggested CPT codes and their wRVU values, ICD-10 codes, an E/M level analysis, and flags where your documented medical decision making could support a different level than you might reflexively pick. Whether that matters depends entirely on how you’re paid. If you’re salaried with no productivity component, it may not. If your compensation runs through wRVUs or collections, it’s the product.

Customization

Doximity offers custom note templates and smart-change buttons. NovaScribe takes plain-language instructions: tell it “write my assessment as a numbered problem list,” “always carry forward the ejection fraction,” or “keep patient quotes out of the HPI,” and every future note follows suit. You’re describing your preferences to the software the way you’d orient a new human scribe.

Speed and dedicated features

NovaScribe generates a formatted note in under 20 seconds and includes features a free tool has no reason to build: a problem list that persists and evolves across a patient’s visits, prior-visit context, operative note generation for cardiology and orthopedics, and evidence-graded literature search. Doximity Scribe is one feature within a larger clinical networking platform; NovaScribe is only this.

Business model

Worth stating plainly, without insinuation: Doximity is a public company whose revenue comes principally from pharmaceutical marketing and health-system hiring solutions delivered through its network. Scribe is free because it strengthens that network. There’s nothing wrong with that model — but it means Scribe’s roadmap serves the platform. NovaScribe’s revenue is subscriptions from physicians, so the roadmap serves the subscriber. Every feature we’ve shipped came from a physician using it in clinic, starting with me.

Side by side

	Doximity Scribe	NovaScribe
Price	Free, no paid tier	Free (10 notes/mo) · Basic $99/mo · Professional $229/mo
EHR	Any, copy-paste	Any, copy-paste
Note generation	Ambient, templated	Ambient, plain-language customization, <20 seconds
Billing codes	Appended on request	CPT + wRVU estimates, ICD-10, E/M level, MDM analysis on every note (Professional)
Patient memory	Per-encounter	Problem list and context persist across visits
Operative notes	No	Cardiology and orthopedics
Audio retention	Per Doximity policy	Deleted within 6 hours; never used to train AI
Support	Platform help center	Founder-direct (the person who wrote the code answers support email)

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Try NovaScribe For Free. Ten notes a month, every Professional feature switched on, no credit card.

Who should use Doximity Scribe

Choose Doximity Scribe if you see a low volume of documented visits, you’re a student or trainee, your compensation has no productivity component, or you simply want to experience ambient documentation before deciding whether it belongs in your workflow. It costs nothing and it works. We’d rather you use a free scribe than type notes at 9 p.m.

Who should use NovaScribe

Choose NovaScribe if documentation is a daily, high-volume part of your work and your pay depends on what your notes support. The billing layer is the honest reason to pay us: if undercoded E/M visits are costing you more per month than the subscription — and for most productivity-paid physicians, they are — free stops being the cheapest option.

Try both. That’s the point of free.

Our free tier exists for exactly this comparison: 10 notes a month with every Professional feature, no credit card. Run your next clinic morning through Doximity Scribe and the afternoon through NovaScribe, read both sets of drafts, and look at what the billing analysis surfaces. Your own notes will settle it faster than we can.

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Try NovaScribe For Free. Ten notes a month, every Professional feature switched on, no credit card.