Marea vs Heidi
Heidi vs Marea, side by side.
Voice scribe across many medical specialties.
Heidi is good at
- Solid general-purpose ambient AI scribe across medicine.
- Easy to get started for individual clinicians.
- Active product, good developer momentum.
Where Marea wins
- Dental-native — every workflow, term, and template is built for dentistry, not configured for it.
- Goes deeper than the note — the referral drafts itself from the note, and perio charting works by voice in early access.
- Direct PMS write-back — Open Dental, Dentrix, Eaglesoft, TDO, and others — instead of copy/paste.
- Built by people who shipped a dental PMS. Not a horizontal team retro-fitting dental.
Feature by feature.
Marea
Heidi
AI scribe
✓
✓
Specialty-tuned to dentistry
✓
General medical
Letter generation from notes
✓
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Voice perio charting
Early access
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Inbound call capture (Marea Inbound)
✓
—
PMS write-back
Direct
Manual copy
Pricing model
Per-location
Per-doctor
BAA included
✓
Add-on
An honest take
When to pick which.
If you only need a scribe and your practice is comfortable copy-pasting notes into the chart, Heidi works fine. If you want documentation that is dental-native end to end — the note, the referral letter, and voice perio charting in early access — written straight back to your PMS, Marea Documentation is the right shape.
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