Free medical practice management software in Algeria: Yadoct Pro, what is free and what is billed

If you are looking for free medical practice management software in Algeria, the short answer is Yadoct Pro. It is free with no time limit, with no licence to buy and no installation fee. The calendar, the appointments you enter at the practice, patient records, prescriptions and your team's accounts cost nothing. You only pay when your patients book their own appointment or take their own queue ticket from the app — in other words, only when the platform has actually brought you a patient.

This article says exactly what the software does, what is free and what is not, how your patients' records are protected — including the mode where your practice is the only holder of the decryption key — and the questions to ask any vendor before you commit.

What is free, and what is not

Software is always paid for by someone, and a practice has the right to know how before trusting it with its calendar. At Yadoct the line is clear.

Free, with no time limit:

• the practice calendar, on computer and on phone;
• the appointments you or your assistant enter yourselves;
• patient records: history, consultations, prescriptions, lab results, documents and photos;
• prescriptions and documents printed with your letterhead;
• the on-site queue and the tickets printed at reception;
• team accounts, each with its own rights;
• your public profile on Yadoct, in French and in Arabic;
• practice statistics and payment tracking.

Billed — and nothing else:

• the appointments a patient books themselves through the app: 25 DZD per completed appointment, or 1990 DZD a month unlimited (see the pricing);
• the queue tickets taken remotely by the patient: 35 DZD per ticket, or 3500 DZD a month unlimited (see the pricing). Tickets printed at reception stay free.

Both start with a 30-day free trial. There is no commitment, no per-seat licence and no cap on patients: the reception computer, yours and your phone open the same practice at no extra cost.

What Yadoct Pro actually does

• A shared calendar between the doctor and reception, readable from the phone as well as the computer, with your consultation reasons, their durations and their colours.
• Online booking: the patient books a real slot on your public profile, from the website or from the app, you confirm, they get an automatic reminder. Fewer calls, fewer no-shows. See the appointment system.
• The waiting-room queue for walk-in consultations: a ticket printed at reception or taken remotely from the patient app, calling the next turn, and a waiting-room screen showing the number being served. See the queue system.
• The patient record: history, chronic conditions, allergies, consultations, prescriptions, lab results, documents and photos, found in one search.
• Prescriptions and documents printed cleanly with your letterhead.
• Teleconsultation, when the consultation can happen remotely. Learn more.
• The consultation assistant: Yadoct's AI writes the consultation note, even in Darija, you read it over and approve it. Learn more.
• Team accounts: assistant, receptionist, colleague — each with their own rights, and nothing more.
• Arabic, French and English, for the team and for patients.
• Practice statistics: patients seen, appointments honoured, most frequent reasons, payments.

And to start without retyping six months of appointments: import your upcoming appointments from an Excel file, from Google Calendar, or from a plain photo of your paper book — Yadoct extracts the appointments from it.

Your medical records, and who can read them

This is the question doctors leaving paper behind ask most often. It deserves a precise answer, not a sales argument.

By default, your patients' data is kept securely on servers located in Algeria — encrypted, backed up, accessible only to the authorised people of your practice — in line with law 18-07 on the protection of individuals in the processing of personal data. No data leaves Algerian territory.

For practices that want to go further, Yadoct adds an extra layer of protection: the practice-encrypted records mode.

The "records encrypted by the practice" mode

Switched on, this mode changes one essential thing: your patients' clinical records are encrypted with a key only your practice holds. Nobody else can open them, not even Yadoct.

Every computer in the practice carries on working normally, group practices and clinics too, and each person still sees only what their rights allow. The rest does not move: the calendar, the queue, online booking, reminders and payments work exactly as before. And if you change your mind, you can return to the normal mode.

The trade-off is real and worth stating: the key exists only at your practice. If you lose what opens it, Yadoct cannot open the records for you. In this mode medical records are read and written from Yadoct Web, on a practice computer; the mobile app keeps the calendar, the queue and the appointments.

The mode is optional and is switched on practice by practice. Everything written above stays true if you do not switch it on.

Why Algerian practices are going digital now

The movement is national. In summer 2026 the Ministry of Health began rolling out the electronic medical record across public facilities, with the explicit ambition of better coordinating the public and private sectors (El Moudjahid). On the patient side the habit is already there: people look for a doctor on their phone, want to see the opening hours and book without calling. A practice that is invisible online and runs its waiting room on patients' memory loses time — and patients.

"Free": the three models you will meet

In Algeria three models coexist, and the word "free" does not mean the same thing in all three.

• The classic licence, paid once or yearly, often installed on a single computer. "Free" there usually means a limited trial version, or an old version that is no longer updated.
• The monthly subscription per doctor: you pay every month, whether the software brought you a patient or not.
• Free, pay-per-use: the practice software costs nothing and only one specific service is billed. That is Yadoct's model — you only pay for the appointments and tickets your patients take themselves.

Always check three things behind the word "free": the duration (a fifteen-day trial is not free software), the number of computers, and what happens the day you go past a limit on patients or appointments. At Yadoct there is no duration, no seat limit and no cap on patients.

Seven questions to ask before choosing

1. Does it work on phone, tablet and computer? Yadoct opens in the browser of any practice computer, and in the Yadoct Pro app. Nothing to install on each machine.
2. Can I get my data back? Importing takes one click (Excel, Google Calendar, a photo of your book), and your records stay yours.
3. Where is the data kept, and is it encrypted? On servers located in Algeria, encrypted, in line with law 18-07 — and under your own key if you switch on the encrypted-records mode.
4. Can my patients book online without the assistant typing everything by hand? Yes: the booking lands straight in the calendar, and the reminder goes out automatically.
5. Is the queue handled, including for walk-ins? Yes: tickets printed at reception, tickets taken remotely from the app, calling the next turn and a waiting-room screen.
6. Can I try it with real patients before committing? The software is free permanently, and the billed services start with a 30-day trial.
7. Is support reachable, in Arabic and French? Yes — and the software's interface exists in Arabic, French and English.

Solo practice, group practice or clinic

One account covers all three. A solo doctor works with their calendar and their assistant. A group practice adds colleagues, each with their own calendar and patients. A clinic runs several specialties under a single account, with one queue per specialty, rooms, and reception accounts that see only what they should. See queue management for clinics.

How to start

1. Download Yadoct Pro from the partners page, then create your doctor account in the app.
2. Submit your credentials. The Yadoct team reviews the file before activating the account: that is what assures patients that the practitioners on the site are real.
3. Set up your calendar: hours, consultation reasons, durations, time off.
4. Import your upcoming appointments from Excel, Google Calendar or a photo of your paper book.
5. Open the door to patients when you are ready: your public profile appears on Yadoct and in the patient app, and the 30-day trial starts.

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