when Jane is too clinical or too expensive

Jane App alternatives for women's health practitioners

Jane App is great for clinics that bill insurance, run SOAP notes, and need a real EHR. If you're a cash-pay women's health practitioner running a solo practice, you might be paying CAD $55 to $99 a month for features that never get used. The honest comparison.

the wall you hit

When Jane App is overkill

Jane is built for clinics. Multi-practitioner support, SOAP notes, billing codes, insurance claim submission, telehealth integrated with charting. For a cash-pay solo pelvic-floor specialist or postnatal Pilates teacher, the price (CAD $55 to $99 per month) is paying for infrastructure that does not earn its keep. Packages and memberships sit on the CAD $99 Thrive tier only. The intake form has more clinical depth than most cash-pay practices need, and the UI optimises for clinical workflows that slow down a non-clinical booking flow.

side by side

Junocal vs Jane App

The features that matter to a solo Pilates instructor, on the tiers you'd actually consider.

FeatureJunocal Starter ($39/mo)Jane Practice (CAD $55/mo)Jane Thrive (CAD $99/mo)
Online booking with conditional-logic intakeYesYes (more clinical)Yes (more clinical)
Packages and membershipsIncluded on SoloNot includedIncluded
Branded storefront URLYesLimited (Jane URL)Limited (Jane URL)
SOAP notes / clinical chartingNo (free-text session notes only)Yes — full chartingYes — full charting
Insurance billing / claim submissionNoYes (Canada and US)Yes (Canada and US)
Multi-practitioner / clinic featuresSingle practitionerMulti-practitionerMulti-practitioner
GDPR / UK data handlingGDPR-first, UK-foundedCompliant, Canadian companyCompliant, Canadian company
HIPAA complianceNoYes (BAA available)Yes (BAA available)

Pricing as of 2026. Jane tiers verified against jane.app; Junocal Starter $39/month on the published /pricing page. Jane prices in CAD; rough USD equivalent for comparison: Practice ≈ $40, Thrive ≈ $72.

the honest call

Why Junocal fits cash-pay women's health

Conditional-logic intake tuned for postnatal and pelvic-floor work, including POP-Q grading, incontinence severity, and postnatal-specific fields. Sensitive-section handling that collapses sensitive content by default in the operator dashboard for client dignity. Per-service deposits sized for the 60 and 90-minute clinical session. A branded storefront at your own URL (junocal.com/yourstudio) that signals a real practice. Stripe Connect Standard direct with no payment markup. GDPR-grade privacy from day one. The product is shaped for cash-pay solo women's health work, not adapted from a clinic-management EHR.

the things we get asked

Questions

Can I import my Jane client list?

Yes. Export your Jane client list as CSV from Settings → Patients → Export. Import the CSV into Junocal at /app/clients/import. Names, emails, phone numbers, and notes carry across in one step. Booking history exports separately as CSV and can be imported for historical reference.

What about my Jane SOAP notes?

Junocal uses a free-text session notes field per booking, not SOAP-style clinical charting. The deliberate scope is cash-pay wellness rather than clinical record-keeping. Most cash-pay practitioners who transition to Junocal find that brief practitioner-reference notes are what their non-clinical practice actually needs; historical SOAP records stay accessible in your existing Jane export for as long as you keep that account.

What if I add insurance billing in the future?

Junocal's free data export at any time means there's no lock-in either direction; your client list, booking history, payments, and intake responses come with you as CSV whenever you want. Most cash-pay practitioners who consider adding insurance billing find the administrative overhead (claim submission, denials management, EOB reconciliation) ends up costing more than the higher unit price of cash-pay practice, so the question often resolves toward staying cash-pay rather than switching tools.

Will my clients have to re-onboard?

Re-attestation, not re-onboarding. Their account exists from the CSV import. On their next visit, they get a magic-link login prompt and a request to complete the Junocal intake form (which is shorter and more conditional than Jane's clinical intake). They keep their identity and history; just the form changes.

What is Junocal's deliberate scope?

Junocal handles booking, conditional-logic intake, per-service deposits, packs and memberships, branded storefront, automated client emails, and Stripe Connect Standard. It does not include SOAP-style clinical charting, insurance claim submission, treatment-plan templates, multi-practitioner clinic scheduling, EHR-grade audit trails, or telehealth with integrated charting. The scope is the cash-pay solo women's-health practice, not the multi-practitioner insurance-billed clinic.

Is Junocal HIPAA compliant?

Junocal is built for cash-pay wellness practitioners — wellness-coded, not clinical — and the product scope is intentionally outside HIPAA. If your practice handles protected health information under HIPAA, you need software with a Business Associate Agreement; you can still run Junocal for the cash-pay portion of your practice alongside HIPAA-compliant tools for the insurance-billed portion.

How much will I save annually?

Jane Thrive is roughly CAD $1,188 per year (about USD $866). Junocal Starter is USD $948 per year. The headline saving is modest. The real saving is in the time you don't spend in clinical-workflow steps that don't apply to your cash-pay practice, and in not paying for SOAP-notes and insurance-billing infrastructure you never use.

Try Junocal on the work you actually do

14 days free, no card. Import your client list from Jane App on day one. If it doesn't fit, your data exports in one click and we never charge you.

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