Comparison · verified July 2026
Intrigma alternatives, compared without pretending
Intrigma is physician and provider scheduling software from Intrigma Inc., sold to hospitals, medical groups, urgent care chains and residency programmes. It offers per-specialty scheduling modules, rule-checked shift trading, a well-rated staff app, and a free viewing tier; paid plans are quoted through a sales conversation rather than published.
From $99/month per location · No sales call · No card to start
At a glance
- Intrigma's staff app is genuinely good and actively maintained: 4.7 out of 5 across roughly 1,600 App Store ratings, updated as recently as June 2026. In this category that is rare and worth saying plainly.
- It offers a real free tier: roughly 50 to 100 people can view a schedule with one designated editor (its own pages state both figures), with no card required.
- Paid pricing is not published (the pricing URL returns nothing, and directories list contact-for-pricing); paid plans go through a sales conversation.
- Its documentation is physician-first: specialty modules for emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anaesthesiology, urgent care and residency, including ACGME duty-hour logic. Facility compliance surfaces, credential expiry blocking, ratios, exclusion screening, PBJ, are not what it documents.
- MedAligna prices per location ($99–$249 per month, published), trials self-serve in 14 days, and treats whole-facility clinical rules as the product.
What Intrigma does well
The app is the headline. At 4.7 stars across roughly 1,600 ratings, actively updated, Intrigma's mobile experience is better liked than almost anything else in clinical scheduling, and that matters because the phone is where clinicians meet the product every day. Credit where due: this is the bar staff apps should be judged against.
The free tier is also honest in a way this category rarely is: real schedules, viewable by dozens of people, one editor, no card. And the per-specialty modules, emergency medicine through residency, mean the scheduling model matches how those services actually run, including documented ACGME duty-hour logic for residency programmes.
Where the fit breaks down
The first gap is the number. Intrigma does not publish paid pricing; the free tier is view-mostly with a single designated editor, and the moment a group needs more editors or more product, it is in a quoted sales conversation. That is a normal model, but it costs you the Thursday-afternoon comparison, and it means the free tier functions as the top of a funnel whose bottom has no visible price.
The second gap is scope. Intrigma's public documentation is physician-first: specialty scheduling, fairness, trading, duty hours. What it does not describe is the facility compliance surface: a licence expiry that blocks an assignment, federal exclusion screening, nurse-to-patient ratios against a census, or a CMS PBJ export. If you are scheduling a whole facility rather than a provider group, those are usually the rules you answer for, and you should ask any vendor, us included, to demonstrate them live.
Which one is right for you
These two products overlap on physician scheduling and diverge everywhere else. The honest split follows the buyer, not the feature list.
Stay with Intrigma if…
- You are a physician group, urgent care chain or residency programme and provider scheduling is the whole job.
- The specialty module for your service line fits how you actually schedule.
- Your clinicians live in the app, like it, and the free tier or your quoted plan covers you.
- ACGME duty-hour logic for residents is a first-class requirement.
Look at MedAligna if…
- You schedule a facility, not only providers: nurses, aides and allied staff with credentials that expire.
- You need exclusion screening, ratios against census, or a PBJ file, none of which is documented Intrigma territory.
- You want the paid price before the conversation, and month-to-month terms.
- More than one person needs to edit the schedule without negotiating a quote.
MedAligna vs Intrigma, row by row
Binary, verifiable facts only. No adjectives; an opinion is not a comparison.
| Capability | MedAligna | Intrigma |
|---|---|---|
| Staff mobile experience | Yes | Yes |
| Free tier for small schedules | No | Viewing tier, one editor |
| ACGME duty-hour rules | Yes | Yes |
| Rule-checked shift trading | Yes | Yes |
| Calendar sync (Google / Outlook) | Yes | Yes |
| Blocks a shift when a licence has expired | Yes | Not publicly documented |
| Federal exclusion (OIG) screening | Yes | Not publicly documented |
| Nurse-to-patient ratios with acuity | Yes | Not publicly documented |
| CMS Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) export | Yes | Not publicly documented |
| Self-serve paid signup | Yes | No |
| Published paid pricing | $99–249/mo per location | Not published |
Intrigma is a trademark of its owner. MedAligna is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Intrigma. Comparison compiled from publicly available documentation and pricing pages, verified July 2026. If anything here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
The honest bit
You should probably stay on Intrigma if…
It is good software for its buyer, and its app clears a bar most of this category misses.
- Provider scheduling is the whole job and the specialty module fits your service line.
- Your residents' duty-hour compliance is handled and the programme is happy.
- The free tier genuinely covers you, one editor and all.
- Your clinicians like the app, and a tool clinicians like is worth more than a feature list.
We would rather you stayed and told someone we were straight with you than switched and regretted it. This category is small, and reputations travel.
If you do move
- 01
Export your people
A CSV of your people is all MedAligna needs; roles and contract hours map across. The schedule is rebuilt rather than imported, and next month is the honest first target.
- 02
Add the facility rules
Credentials with expiry dates, exclusion screening, ratios, rest and overtime. These are the rules a provider-first tool never held, and they are stated once.
- 03
Run both for one period
Build next month in MedAligna while the current month runs where it is. Compare, then cut over. Nobody should switch a live roster in one step.
Intrigma questions, answered
- What is Intrigma?
- Intrigma is physician and provider scheduling software from Intrigma Inc., used by hospitals, medical groups, urgent care chains and residency programmes. It offers per-specialty scheduling modules, fairness-driven schedule generation, rule-checked shift trading, calendar sync, and a well-rated mobile app.
- Does Intrigma have a free version?
- Yes, genuinely: a free tier where roughly 50 to 100 people can view the schedule with one designated editor, and no card is required. Its own pages state both the 50 and 100 figures, so treat the exact ceiling as approximate. Paid plans, with more editors and modules, are quoted through sales.
- What does Intrigma cost?
- Intrigma does not publish paid pricing (verified July 2026: its pricing URL returns nothing and software directories list contact-for-pricing), so we will not invent a number. If you want one today, MedAligna is $99, $149 or $249 per month per location, on the pricing page.
- Is Intrigma good for residency programmes?
- Its residency module documents ACGME duty-hour logic: maximum work hours, time off and overnight limits. That is a real, documented capability. MedAligna models the same regulation as a rolling four-week average with rest rules, and checks swaps against the averaged limit; if you are choosing between us on residency alone, make both of us demonstrate a front-loaded compliant block passing and a breaching one refused.
- Does Intrigma handle nurse scheduling?
- Its public specialty modules are physician and provider lines: emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anaesthesiology, urgent care, residency. Nursing appears as an audience but the facility compliance surface, ratio enforcement against census, credential expiry blocking, exclusion screening, PBJ, is not in its public documentation. If those are your rules, that is the gap to probe in any demo.
- When should I stay with Intrigma?
- When provider scheduling is the whole job and it is doing that job: the specialty model fits, the residents are compliant, and your clinicians like the app, which at 4.7 stars they plausibly do. Switching a working provider schedule to gain rules you do not need would be a bad trade.
- What is a good Intrigma alternative?
- For a whole facility, one that enforces the clinical rules Intrigma does not document: MedAligna blocks expired credentials, screens against the OIG list, holds ratios against census and acuity, and exports the PBJ file, at a published $99–$249 per location per month with a 14-day self-serve trial and every seat able to edit.
Decide it for yourself
Drive the real scheduler with no signup, or trial it with your own staff for fourteen days. Nobody will call you either way.