Homeo AI vs Homeorep: Boenninghausen App or Review Copilot?

Quick answer

Choose Homeorep when the practitioner specifically wants an Apple app centered on Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocketbook, polarity analysis, contraindicated remedies, editable rubrics, and stored repertorisations. Choose Homeo AI when the practitioner wants to begin with a completed narrative and inspect how it becomes proposed symptoms, editable rubric mappings, linked source passages, a remedy differential, and a reviewed follow-up trail.

Homeorep is a focused method tool, not a general AI assistant or a broad clinic operating system. Its official English page identifies version 3.9 for iPhone, iPad, and Macs with Apple silicon. Apple's French storefront reviewed on 10 August 2026 lists EUR 34.99, labels the app as designed for iPad, and says it is not verified for macOS. Treat that amount and platform statement as specific to the French storefront and the current listing. Confirm the price, tax, device compatibility, family-sharing rights, and refund terms in the account and country that will actually buy it.

The choice is therefore not simply manual software versus AI. It is a decision between a method-specific editable repertory that the practitioner directly operates and a narrative-led copilot whose proposed mappings and sources must be reviewed.

What Homeorep currently includes

Homeorep's official page says the app uses the 1846 Therapeutic Pocketbook as the core of its rubric database and also includes Boenninghausen's 1853 Sides of the Body and Drug Affinities. It supports repertorisation using polar rubrics and contraindications. Practitioners can rename or create sections and rubrics, edit remedy lists, keep their own content, save repertorisations, and maintain case records.

That editability is a real strength for a practitioner who understands the method and wants the tool to reflect a carefully maintained working repertory. It also creates a governance duty. Once local additions, renamed rubrics, remedy-grade changes, and custom lists accumulate, two devices or two practitioners may no longer be using the same knowledge base. A clinic should version its changes, record authorship, preserve an untouched reference copy, and test whether exports contain the custom structure.

The current App Store history lists version 3.9 from August 2025. The official site also identifies version 3.9 and provides feature demonstrations. The product is still available for purchase, but its last visible release is older than the 2026 releases used for some recent comparisons. That does not make it unsuitable. It means a buyer should test current operating-system support and ask how maintenance, device migration, and future store compatibility are handled.

Where Homeorep is genuinely strong

Homeorep has a clear intellectual center. It does not claim to be every repertory, every materia medica, an ambient scribe, a scheduling system, or an autonomous prescriber. A practitioner choosing it knows that the core job is Boenninghausen repertorisation with polar relationships, contraindications, an evaluation grid, and an editable database.

The interface can suit someone who already thinks in locations, sensations, complaints, modalities, concomitants, polar rubrics, and counter-rubrics. The ability to edit the database is valuable for teaching, method development, and long-term personal use. A one-time storefront purchase can also be easier to budget than a recurring AI plan, provided the practice has a supported Apple device and a reliable migration path.

The app's limits are equally clear. The current first-party pages do not present Homeorep as a large materia medica library, multilingual narrative interpreter, cloud clinic suite, or AI explanation engine. A narrow product can be preferable when that narrow job is exactly what the practitioner needs.

Price and platform need a dated record

The French App Store displays EUR 34.99. Another country's storefront can show a different currency and amount, so the French figure should not be generalized into a universal price. Save the intended storefront, device, account country, displayed amount, tax treatment, and purchase date.

The official Homeorep page says iPhone, iPad, and Apple-silicon Mac. The French storefront says the app is designed for iPad and not verified for macOS, while also listing iPhone and iPad compatibility. Test the exact Mac, iPad, or iPhone that will be used. Do not infer that a device can safely carry a clinic workflow merely because it can download the app.

Before purchase, verify keyboard and screen usability, current OS support, backup behavior, restore to a second device, printer or PDF needs, and whether a future account or country change affects access. If several practitioners need shared records, confirm whether the product supports that workflow or whether each device becomes a separate editable knowledge base.

How Homeo AI differs

Homeo AI starts from ordinary case language. It proposes a structured reading of the narrative, lets the practitioner accept, edit, or reject symptom and rubric mappings, links source passages for inspection, and carries reviewed reasoning into follow-up. Its value depends on whether the practitioner can see and correct the transformation rather than merely accept a ranked result.

Homeorep begins after the practitioner has decided how to express the case inside a Boenninghausen framework. The practitioner selects and manages rubrics and reads the resulting grid. Homeo AI is aimed at the earlier translation and review problem: what did the narrative mean, which proposed structure is justified, and can another practitioner reconstruct the decision?

Neither product should be credited with the other's job. Homeo AI should not be described as providing Homeorep's exact Pocketbook implementation, polar evaluation, contraindication display, or editable personal repertory. Homeorep should not be assumed to provide Homeo AI's narrative interpretation, linked source-review path, or AI-assisted differential merely because both end near a remedy comparison.

The privacy claim has an iCloud boundary

Homeorep's privacy page says the developer does not collect information through downloading or running the app, and that support emails are retained for personal contact until deletion is requested. This is useful and narrower than many cloud services.

Apple's current storefront also says patient data can synchronize through iCloud. These statements are not necessarily contradictory. The developer may not receive routine app data while Apple's account and storage services still process synchronized records. A clinic must evaluate the full path, not only developer collection.

Confirm whether iCloud sync is optional, which fields and custom repertory changes enter it, whether records are encrypted end to end under the configured account, how shared devices are controlled, what appears in device backups, and how deletion propagates. Test a restore to a clean device. Ask what export exists outside the Apple ecosystem and whether patient records, repertorisations, rubric edits, and timestamps remain readable without the app.

Use only completed, de-identified cases during evaluation. Remove names, dates of birth, contact details, record numbers, exact visit dates, photographs, uncommon locations, and combinations that could identify a person. Device-local storage and iCloud are still clinical-data environments that require access control, account recovery, screen locks, update policy, and tested backup.

A reproducible clinic test

Prepare eight completed, de-identified cases that have already been reviewed. Include two cases suited to Boenninghausen analysis, two close differentials, one sparse but characteristic symptom set, one follow-up, one case with conflicting modalities, and one case that another practitioner must reconstruct. Keep an answer packet outside both products with original wording, accepted symptom elements, source passages, chosen rubrics, corrections, and the final differential.

In Homeorep, create each case without changing the reference database at first. Record the selected rubrics, polar pairs, counter-rubrics, contraindications, grades, evaluation order, time spent, and any external materia medica lookup. Repeat two cases after harmless wording changes to the notes and confirm that the practitioner selects the same structure. Then create one clearly labelled custom rubric in a test copy, synchronize or back up, restore on a second device, and verify that the case and custom content remain distinguishable from the original database.

In Homeo AI, enter the same narratives. Record every proposed symptom and rubric accepted, edited, or rejected, which source passages are opened, how long a material correction takes, and whether the second practitioner can reconstruct the differential from the saved trail. For the sparse case, record whether the system expresses uncertainty rather than filling gaps with plausible language.

Score Homeorep on method fit, repertory transparency, edit control, stability, device usability, backup, migration, and total purchase cost. Score Homeo AI on narrative fidelity, source traceability, correction burden, repeatability, and follow-up reconstruction. Do not award either product points merely because its leading remedy matches the historical prescription.

Known limits and clinical responsibility

An editable repertory can preserve expert work, but it can also preserve an unnoticed mistake. Polar analysis can make a decision more structured without proving that the selected rubrics, grades, or clinical interpretation are correct. A current App Store listing does not establish clinical validation or long-term platform support.

Homeo AI can misread narrative language, suggest an unsuitable rubric, omit an important source, or create a plausible differential that requires correction. An inspectable trail improves review but does not guarantee a correct answer.

Neither product replaces diagnosis, referral, an emergency-care decision, practitioner judgment, prescription, potency, dosage, or follow-up responsibility. Urgent, severe, or rapidly worsening symptoms require appropriate medical assessment. The practitioner remains responsible for the original record, every edit, each accepted rubric, the sources reviewed, and every clinical action.

Conditional verdict

Choose Homeorep if the practitioner's primary job is hands-on Boenninghausen repertorisation on a tested Apple device, with control over polar rubrics, contraindications, saved cases, and an editable personal database. Purchase only after platform, storefront, iCloud, restore, export, and custom-content behavior are proven on the intended setup.

Choose Homeo AI if the primary job is preserving a reviewable path from ordinary narrative through corrected symptom and rubric structure to source inspection, remedy differentiation, and follow-up. If both are used, define which system owns the original narrative and which owns the practitioner-approved repertorisation so later reviewers do not inherit two competing records.

Official sources checked

• Homeorep official English product page
• Homeorep official Apple App Store listing
• Homeorep official privacy policy

Product facts reviewed 2026-08-10. Confirm current features, prices, source libraries, and terms with the vendor.