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# Hanah vs Lyrebird in 2026: a Lyrebird alternative compared

The Hanah team · 5 July 2026

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If you're looking for a Lyrebird alternative, this is how Hanah compares. Everything here about Lyrebird comes from their own public pages, linked so you can verify it. Hanah publishes a standing [accuracy and hallucination report](https://hanah.health/au/trust/transparency/?from=blog), with the full method.

## What each product is

Lyrebird is an AI scribe. Its product is the documentation — consult notes, dictation, letters and care plan paperwork.

Hanah includes the same scribe workflow, and also produces the clinical outputs that follow the note: filled Word and PDF forms, exercise programs with video, outcome measures, and a patient portal with plain-language summaries — all drafted from the same consult.

## Recording recovery

Wifi drops, browsers reload tabs and microphones disconnect mid-consult, and Hanah keeps the consult when that happens. When the connection drops, Hanah saves the audio on your computer and uploads it by itself once the connection is back, even if the page was refreshed or closed in between. A microphone that stops sending sound is reconnected, or Hanah switches to another working microphone and keeps recording. If the browser reloads the page mid-consult, everything transcribed up to that point is kept and the recording picks back up.

Lyrebird's help centre says it [will not record without internet](https://help.lyrebirdhealth.com/en/articles/15322446-what-is-lyrebird-health). Its [lost consult guide](https://help.lyrebirdhealth.com/en/articles/9310134-retrieve-a-lost-consult) says that if the browser closes, the session times out or the network drops before the consult is saved, Lyrebird does not keep the audio. Recovery there means regenerating a note from a consult that was already saved.

If you work somewhere with a poor network, or you've been losing transcripts, Hanah is the winner.

## Side by side

|  | Hanah | Lyrebird |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Consult transcription, dictation, and notes | Yes | Yes |
| Recording recovery | Audio saved on your computer during a dropout and uploaded automatically; microphone reconnects by itself; recording picks back up after a page reload | Will not record without internet; audio from a consult lost before saving is not retained |
| Note templates | Yes | Yes |
| Works inside your web-based PMS | Browser extension for Cliniko, Halaxy, Nookal and Zanda, included with no add-on | Best Practice and Gentu, on the Pro plan; free plan states "No EMR Integrations" |
| Document generation | Fills your own Word and PDF templates, GP care plan paperwork included; outputs the DOCX or PDF itself | Letters and documents from templates; GP care plan paperwork |
| Photos and video in the note | Yes — captured in session, flows into notes and documents | No |
| Exercise programs with video | Yes | No |
| Outcome measures and check-ins | Yes — sent to the patient's app, answers tracked over time | No |
| Patient portal and plain-language summaries | Yes | No |
| Published error rates | Standing accuracy and hallucination report | Time-saved figures; no vendor-published error rate we could find. An independent hospital trial reports clinician-observed rates |
| Pricing | Free Basic plan (patient portal, exercise programs, PROMs); Practice at $100 per clinician/month ($80 billed annually), everything included, with a 1-month free trial | Free plan metered at 50 consult/dictation actions and 10 documents a month; Pro at A$160 per clinician/month billed annually |

## Notes on the table

**Working inside your PMS.** Hanah runs inside Cliniko, Halaxy, Nookal and Zanda: you open a patient, the panel is already on that patient, and the note files into the note form. On other systems, including Best Practice and MedicalDirector, Hanah runs alongside in your browser and the finished note copies into the record with its formatting kept. Lyrebird integrates with Best Practice and Gentu in Australia. Check which plan the integration sits on. As of writing, Lyrebird's [free plan](https://www.lyrebirdhealth.com/au/pricing) states "No EMR Integrations", with integrations on Pro at A$160 per clinician per month. Hanah's integrations are included, with no add-on.

**Accuracy.** We could not find a published error rate or methodology from Lyrebird. The largest independent evaluation we could find is a [peer-reviewed trial at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12882620/) — 100 clinicians, 21 specialties, 7,499 consultations. 47% of staff reported hallucinations — output that is factually incorrect, misleading or fabricated, presented as if it were true — with 20% of those saying it happened frequently, and 58% of outputs went into the record without modification.

That study also scored 18 note pairs on a modified PDQI-9 rubric and placed the AI's unedited notes above the clinicians' own, 37.06 out of 40 against 34.6. Taken at face value, the AI wrote the better documents: more thorough, better organised, easier to read. Accuracy was one of the eight domains it won on, and that is the part worth reading closely. There was no independent record of the consultation. A single senior clinician on the project team, with no stated blinding, compared each pair using a transcript the scribe itself had generated — so on the AI's side, the check for accuracy ran partly against the AI's own output. A rubric that rates notes more accurate than a clinician's while half the users report fabrication is not measuring fabrication. Notes that read better are not the same as notes that are true, and neither a quality score nor a transcription percentage is an error rate.

What matters is whether a vendor measures hallucination and shows you how. We publish a standing [accuracy and hallucination report](https://hanah.health/au/trust/transparency/?from=blog) with the methodology, the raw machine-readable data behind every number, and our worst results alongside our best. Ask every vendor you evaluate for their measured error rates and the corpus behind them.

**Pricing.** Prices move, so check both pricing pages. As of writing: [Lyrebird's free plan](https://www.lyrebirdhealth.com/au/pricing) is metered — 50 "actions" a month for consults and dictation, 10 for documents and letters, with no care plans. Unlimited use sits on its Pro plan at A$160 per clinician per month billed annually, or A$240 per clinician per month if you pay monthly. Hanah has a free Basic plan — patient portal, exercise programs, and PROMs, no card required — and its [Practice plan](https://hanah.health/pricing/), $100 per clinician per month ($80 billed annually) with a 1-month free trial, includes everything in the table, with no metering and no add-ons.

## The bottom line

If all you want is the note, Hanah writes it, and we [publish our benchmarks](https://hanah.health/au/trust/transparency/?from=blog) so you can check how well.

Lyrebird's product is the documentation. Hanah does the documentation and the workflow it sits in — the filled form, the exercise program, the outcome measure and the patient plan, out of the same consult, landing where you already work. Whether your problem is the note or everything the note is supposed to set in motion, Hanah handles both.

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