Jane App vs SimplePractice: Which Fits a Therapy Practice?

Short answer: Jane App is the better choice if your clinic is multi-disciplinary, mixing mental health with physical therapy, chiropractic, or speech pathology. SimplePractice is the better choice if you are purely mental health, because Jane's breadth comes at the cost of some therapy-specific depth. The clearest example: Jane has no treatment-plan module, which matters if your payers expect one.

We make a competing product, so treat the closing section as an advertisement. Everything before it is what practices told us and what the vendors publish. Oasys sits at the infrastructure layer of working practices, and from our ongoing conversations with therapists and group practice owners we hear the same trade-off described from both directions.

At a glance

On pricing. SimplePractice publishes Starter at $49, Essential at $79 and Plus at $99 a month. Group practices need Plus, with additional clinicians tiered at $74 each for two to five, $72 for six to fifteen, and $69 for sixteen or more. Jane publishes Balance, Practice and Thrive tiers; insurance billing needs an add-on plus a clearinghouse subscription, and payment processing runs through Jane Payments at 2.85% plus $0.25. Verified 30 July 2026; confirm before you sign anything.

Where Jane wins

Scheduling. This is Jane's reputation and it is deserved. If your practice runs complicated availability, multiple rooms, or several disciplines against one calendar, Jane handles it better than anything else in the category.

One platform for a mixed clinic. If you employ therapists alongside physios or chiropractors, Jane removes the need to run two systems. That is a real operational win, and it is the single best reason to choose it.

Charting flexibility. Jane's chart templates are adaptable across disciplines, which is what lets one platform serve very different clinical workflows.

Where SimplePractice wins

Therapy-specific depth. Treatment plans, mental-health intake flows, and documentation built for talk therapy rather than adapted to it. Jane's lack of a treatment-plan module is the sharpest instance of the difference, and if your payers expect documented treatment plans, that gap is not cosmetic.

Mobile app. SimplePractice's is the better one.

Ecosystem. A larger mental-health user base means templates, forum answers, and established workflows for most problems you will hit.

Simpler insurance path. Insurance billing on Jane means a paid add-on plus a separate clearinghouse subscription. SimplePractice folds more of that into its tiers.

What both share

Both are built around one clinician and one client, with group functionality layered on. For solo and small practices that is exactly right. Past roughly fifteen clinicians the same gaps appear in both:

• Supervision that does not distinguish an intern from a provisionally licensed clinician

who is independently credentialed with payers and does not legally require a co-signature

• Per-seat pricing that charges full rate for unlicensed trainees
• No payroll modeling, so practices rebuild compensation in spreadsheets

On that last point, the number that stuck with us came from a practice with a couple of dozen clinicians: about 20 hours a week of their billing manager's time went into converting EHR data into a payroll ledger. That is half a full-time role, permanently, and it appears on no invoice.

Which should you choose?

Choose Jane if you run a multi-disciplinary clinic, scheduling complexity is your daily pain, and you can live without a treatment-plan module.

Choose SimplePractice if you are purely mental health, you want therapy-specific documentation, or your payers expect treatment plans.

Consider neither if you are past fifteen clinicians and the friction you feel is supervision, permissions, or payroll rather than scheduling or charting.

If you do switch

Whichever way you go, the migration is the part that decides whether you actually move. Practices tell us the same thing in different words: we cannot do this twice. Group practices in this category typically carry eight to eleven years of records, and failed migrations are common enough that the fear is rational rather than superstitious.

Migration is the question we are asked about most. Rather than make promises in a blog post, ask us directly what moving your particular system would involve, what comes across, and what happens to appointments already booked.

Our position, labeled

We make Oasys, an EHR for mental health group practices, priced at $80 per clinician per month on an annual contract with no add-ons. We built it for the gaps described above: supervision configured per role, role-based permissions, and native revenue-split payroll. Other platforms are built differently and may suit you better.

If you run a multi-disciplinary clinic, we would genuinely point you at Jane.