Noterro is clinic software for massage therapists, physiotherapists and bodyworkers — SOAP notes, body charts, intake forms, and scheduling, at a price well below most of the category. Mako is the business platform underneath a practice: booking, payments, memberships, practitioner pay, retail, and profit reporting, without a clinical records layer. Those two sentences contain most of the decision.
Noterro: Published. Core at $33/month, Plus at $55/month, and Max at $77/month. Additional practitioners are charged on top — roughly $13.20, $22 and $27.50 each respectively by tier.
Mako: Pulse is free. Basic at $139/month — the complete operational platform with three team members. Team at $249/month — fifteen team members, extra locations at $75/month each, advanced reporting, QuickBooks sync. Enterprise at $999/month. Roughly 20% off annually, no contract, and no per-practitioner charge.
Where the lines cross. Solo on Plus, Noterro is $55 against Mako's $139 — Noterro, comfortably. A five-practitioner clinic on Plus is $55 plus four at $22, about $143, near enough level with Mako Basic. A ten-practitioner clinic on Plus is $55 plus nine at $22, about $253, against Mako Team at $249 which covers fifteen. Below five practitioners Noterro is clearly cheaper; past ten the per-head charge takes over.
Noterro includes SOAP notes and body charting. Mako does not, and we are not going to imply otherwise.
If your practice requires clinical documentation — for licensing, insurance, or because your regulator may review your records — that is a hard requirement and Noterro meets it at a price nothing general-purpose matches. Verify the specifics against your own licensing body rather than any vendor's marketing page, including ours.
If you keep working notes rather than clinical records, the comparison moves to everything else the software does.
$33 to $77 is among the lowest in the category, and for a solo or two-person practice the gap against any business platform is substantial.
SOAP notes and charting built for bodywork, in the same system as the diary.
Intake, consent and treatment records structured for how massage and manual therapy actually run.
It does its job without asking you to configure a reporting suite.
Fifteen practitioners on Team at $249 with nothing added per head. On a growing clinic that is the whole argument.
Profit per treatment after therapist pay and consumables, cash-flow forecasting, unit economics, LTV. Noterro records what happened; it is not built to tell you which treatments fund the clinic.
Splits that vary by service and practitioner, tips, timesheets and payouts — native, calculated at the rate that applied on the day.
Oils, supplements and take-home products with stock levels, low-stock alerts, and margin per item.
Pulse compares your rebooking rate against market averages and names who has drifted — free, imports from other platforms, and usable alongside Noterro without switching.
Pick Noterro if:
Pick Mako if:
Your practice is a business. Not a hobby, not a side project, not a calendar with a cash register. It deserves software that treats it accordingly. If your platform cannot tell you whether you are financially healthy, it is not doing its job. And in 2026, you have better options.
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