Which care home management software do AI answer engines actually recommend?

When an SMB buyer asks an AI assistant which care home management software to buy, a shortlist comes back. We asked 44 different phrasings of that question across 3 engines, 132 answers in total, and counted every product named. This is the result. Nobody paid to be on it, and no vendor list was written in advance — the 86 vendors below are simply everyone the engines named.

Run 11 August 2026 Questions 44 Answers 132 Vendors named 86 Top-10 repeatability 10/10

Free to read, raw data included.

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Two conditions on every number below

These 44 questions are one family of phrasings — care home management software — and every number below is conditional on them. A differently worded family about the same products — a different size of buyer, a different budget, a different constraint — is a different measurement and can come back naming a different set of products. All 44 questions are printed in full below, so you can see exactly what was asked before you read what came back. We have measured how big that can get, on two of our own boards: SuiteCRM is named in 83 of the 132 answers on /c/crmctx/ and in none of the 132 on /c/crm/ — same products, same day, same extraction, asked differently.
The engine columns below are not one instrument. Perplexity (sonar) searches the web while it answers and returned the sources used beside every one of those 44 answers — that column is what gets retrieved. ChatGPT (gpt-5.5) and Gemini (gemini-flash-latest) were called through their APIs with no tools and the near-empty system prompt quoted in the method below, so they answer out of the models’ own weights — not one of those 88 answers came back with a source. Those columns are what the models already remember. Both are worth counting and they are not the same measurement: a product can be named often by what the models remember and rarely by what they retrieve, or the reverse, and the totals in the Answers column add the two together.

The leaderboard

“Answers” is how many of the 132 answers named that product. Share is the same number as a percentage. The three right-hand columns split it by engine. Every row has its own link — the # beside a vendor name gives you something like connexion.me/c/carehome/#personcentred. Click a vendor's name to see which of the 44 questions named them, and click one of those to read the answer it was counted from, word for word.

#VendorAnswers ShareChatGPTGeminiPerplexity
1Person Centred Software#7758.3%362912
2Nourish Care#7556.8%362613
3Log my Care#6952.3%262914
4PointClickCare#5843.9%172615
5MatrixCare#4534.1%16209
6Care Control#3425.8%12184
7CareDocs#2821.2%1909
8Eldermark#2518.9%8143
9CoolCare#2216.7%1192
10Access Care#2115.9%1029
11Access Care Planning#1511.4%1320
12ALIS#1410.6%680
13StoriiCare#139.8%1111
14ECP#129.1%2010
15Mobile Care Monitoring#86.1%080
16Netsmart myUnity#86.1%503
17Nymo Care#75.3%007
18PASS by everyLIFE#75.3%304
19Yardi Senior Living Suite#75.3%421
20MED e-care#53.8%104
21PCS#53.8%005
22Radar Healthcare#53.8%410
23The Access Group#53.8%104
24WellSky Long-Term Care#53.8%302
25Care Vision#43.0%112
26CareVoyant#43.0%202
27Coldharbour#43.0%004
28mCare#43.0%400
29WellSky#43.0%004
30AL Advantage#32.3%111
31AlayaCare#32.3%102
32American HealthTech#32.3%300
33August Health#32.3%102
34CareVision#32.3%102
35Experience Care (NetSolutions)#32.3%030
36Care Home OS#21.5%002
37Care Vision CMS#21.5%002
38Carebeans#21.5%200
39Caremerge#21.5%200
40Civica Coldharbour#21.5%002
41eCareLTC#21.5%002
42Sekoia#21.5%200
43WellSky Senior Care#21.5%002
44Yardi EHR#21.5%020
45Advanced (Caresys / Care Cloud)#10.8%010
46Aline#10.8%001
47Aline Care / Aline CRM#10.8%001
48Atara Care#10.8%001
49ATLAS eMAR#10.8%001
50BillBoard#10.8%001
51Breis Care Home Management Software#10.8%001
52Camascope#10.8%001
53Cantata Health NetSolutions#10.8%100
54CareAtlas#10.8%001
55CareBit#10.8%010
56CareCallAI#10.8%001
57CareGovern#10.8%001
58CareLineLive#10.8%100
59CareLogic#10.8%001
60CareOS#10.8%001
61CarePlanner#10.8%100
62CareScribe#10.8%010
63CareSuite#10.8%100
64CareTrack#10.8%001
65Caring Data#10.8%001
66CloudNurse#10.8%001
67Eldemark#10.8%010
68Empathika#10.8%001
69Fusion Care#10.8%001
70Fusion eCare Solutions#10.8%100
71Harris CareTracker#10.8%001
72iCareHealth#10.8%100
73KareInn#10.8%001
74myneva#10.8%001
75myneva Elderly Care#10.8%001
76Netsmart#10.8%001
77NetSolutions#10.8%100
78Notely.Care#10.8%001
79Omnicell#10.8%001
80QCS#10.8%001
81Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)#10.8%010
82Senior Insight#10.8%001
83ShiftCare#10.8%001
84Therap#10.8%001
85Unieke Care#10.8%001
86Yardi EHR / Yardi Senior Living Suite#10.8%100

What is free, and what is for sale

Everything above is free and stays free — the leaderboard, the method, all 132 raw answers and the machine-readable ranking, published in full at the bottom of this page. No vendor paid to be listed, no vendor can pay to move, and nothing here goes behind a login later.

What is for sale is one vendor's row, watched: $9.99 a month to be told when your rank moves, who took your mentions, and which phrasings started or stopped naming you — the board is re-run monthly and you get what changed. A one-off $29.99 deep report on a single row is the other option. What is in each →

Method

Every claim on this page is reproducible from the files linked at the bottom.

The engines

ChatGPT (gpt-5.5), Gemini (gemini-flash-latest), Perplexity (sonar). Each was called through its public API with a near-empty system prompt — “answer the user's question directly and concisely” — and nothing else. The engines were not asked to produce a list, rank anything, or name vendors. Steering them toward a list would have manufactured the thing being measured.

The questions

44 distinct phrasings of one purchase decision, written before any measurement was run. No vendor name appears in any of them.

These 44 questions are one phrasing family, not every way this market gets asked about. The family is care home management software — that is the wording they were written from, and it is counted back against them here: 41 of them contain “care”; 40 of them contain “home”; 16 of them contain “management”; 31 of them contain “software”, and all 44 of them contain at least one. A different family about the same products — a different size of buyer, a different budget, a different constraint, different words — is a different measurement, and it can come back naming a different set of vendors. This board is this family, measured. It is not the whole market.
  1. What is the best care home management software for a 30-bed residential facility?
  2. Best nursing home software for care planning and eMAR
  3. We run a 50-bed care home moving off paper care plans. What software should we buy?
  4. Recommend care management software for an independent elderly care home.
  5. affordable care home management software for small care homes
  6. What software do residential care homes actually use?
  7. What is the top care home software for CQC compliance and audit tracking?
  8. Best software for nursing homes to manage resident care plans and medication administration
  9. We are opening a 20-bed assisted living facility. What management software do we need?
  10. Care home software recommendations for group with 3 sites
  11. Best eMAR and care planning platform for residential nursing homes
  12. What software should a 40-resident care home use to track daily care logs and medication?
  13. Top rated care home management systems for small to mid-sized providers
  14. We need care home software that handles rostering, care plans, and resident billing in one place.
  15. software for nursing home administration and resident record keeping
  16. Best digital care planning software for residential social care
  17. What is the most user-friendly care home software for care staff who aren't tech-savvy?
  18. Care home management system comparison for 60-bed facility
  19. What care software should we get for a specialized dementia care home?
  20. Best platform for managing resident daily logs, handovers, and care notes in a nursing home
  21. We're replacing our legacy care home management system. What modern cloud alternatives exist?
  22. affordable nursing home care planning and medication management software
  23. Care home software with family portal and care plan management
  24. What software do small nursing homes use for resident records and staffing?
  25. Best care management software for assisted living communities with 80 residents
  26. Recommend software for a dual-registered nursing and residential care home.
  27. How to digitize care records and shift logs in a 15-bed care home
  28. Best care home platform for daily incident logging, eMAR, and CQC inspection readiness
  29. What care home management platform offers the best mobile app for carers on shift?
  30. Software for care home manager to oversee care plans, shift schedules, and resident billing
  31. Best end-to-end care home management system for multi-site care providers
  32. Which software is best for tracking eMAR and electronic MAR charts in care homes?
  33. We run a small residential home for adults with care needs. What care software should we buy?
  34. Care home management tools for tracking medication errors and care plan updates
  35. What is the best software for an elderly residential care facility with 25 beds?
  36. Best software solutions for care home shift management and digital care records
  37. We need care home software with strong eMAR integration and compliance reporting.
  38. What care management platform is best for nursing homes upgrading from paper records?
  39. Care home management software with billing, room fees, and resident account tracking
  40. Best digital social care record platform for residential care homes
  41. What care home system do care managers recommend for staff scheduling and care logs?
  42. All-in-one software for nursing home care plans, eMAR, and shift rostering
  43. Recommended care home software for private residential care facilities
  44. What software should a 100-bed nursing care home buy for daily care documentation?

How the vendor list was built

Each of the 132 answers was read back and every named product extracted. The vendor list is discovered: a product appears here if and only if an engine named it. Counted are care home management software, residential care and nursing home platforms, assisted living management systems, and broader suites whose residential care module was named. Excluded, even when named: hospital EHR/EMR systems, homecare-only agency software, nurse call hardware and pendants, fall detection and IoT sensors, generic staff scheduling tools, generic HR and payroll software, generic accounting packages, senior living occupancy CRMs, standalone pharmacy systems, and companies named only as an example provider.

Spelling variants of one product are folded together, and a trailing “by company” is dropped. This run collapsed 41 spellings onto 12 of the rows below: “Person Centred Software”, “Person Centred Software (PCS)” and “Person Centred Software (Mobile Care Monitoring)” are one row — the one the table prints as Person Centred Software. An edition name is folded into its product when it is that product’s name followed by a further word, and the plain name is at least three times as common. This run folded 15 such names, among them “Person Centred Software / mCare” counts as Person Centred Software and “PointClickCare Senior Living” counts as PointClickCare. A name that merely begins with the same letters is a different product and keeps its own row. No pair was merged by hand in this category: every fold above is the rule applied mechanically, with no human judgement about who is who.

Beyond those folds a product is counted as the engines spelled it, and two rows in the table are never merged into one. When a product has been renamed or acquired and the engines still answer with both names, both names keep their own row: this page carries no hand-maintained list of who is now who, because that list would be a human claim about a mechanical count and nothing here could check it. What it has instead is the answers. Where an answer itself writes two of the rows below as one product renamed — the construction “X (formerly Y)” — the line beside those rows quotes that sentence and gives the overlap and the total, so the union is on the page. Nothing else produces that line. Two rows being named in the same answers does not, however often: the engines answer in shortlists, so the leaders of a category are named together whatever they are called. No answer in this run wrote two rows below that way, so no row below carries that line.

A product is counted once per answer, however many times that answer mentions it.

Is this stable, or is it noise?

The entire run was repeated a second time, same 44 questions, same engines, independent calls. The top ten came back 10/10 identical. What moved: by position, MatrixCare was 5 in run A and 6 in run B; Care Control was 6 in run A and 5 in run B; CareDocs was 7 in run A and 8 in run B; Eldermark was 8 in run A and 9 in run B; CoolCare was 9 in run A and 10 in run B; Access Care was 10 in run A and 7 in run B. Run B named 86 vendors over 132 answers against run A's 86. The tail moves; the head does not.

A leaderboard whose top ten reshuffles between runs would not be worth publishing, so this check was run before the page was, and the page ships only because it passed.

What this is not

This measures what three answer engines said on 11 August 2026, in response to these questions, through their APIs. It is not a quality ranking, not a review, and not advice on which care home software to buy. A product can be excellent and rank low here — that gap is the point.

The raw data

All 132 answers, verbatim, one JSON object per line: run A · run B. The per-answer extracted product names: run A · run B. Machine-readable ranking: ranking.json.

What Perplexity was reading. It is the only one of these engines that returns a source list, and the markers in its answers above — [1], [2] — point into it. Every URL it cited, with the title, date and the excerpt it actually retrieved, one JSON object per answer: run A · run B. Join on index to the answers file, and read [n] as citations[n-1]. Sources came back on 44 of its 44 run A answers; ChatGPT and Gemini return none, so this file is Perplexity only.

The answer a vendor panel shows you is read straight out of the run A file linked above — the page fetches the one line it needs and displays it unaltered, so what you read there and what you get by downloading the file are the same bytes.

What one line of each file holds, and the terms you may re-use them under — the raw answers may be re-used in any medium, commercially and inside open-source software, with attribution.