MacRepertory alternatives for repertorisation

MacRepertory is the long-running repertorisation application from Synergy Homeopathic, paired with the ReferenceWorks materia-medica library and rooted in the product line that grew out of Kent Homeopathic Associates. For decades it was a fixture of advanced classical and analytic practice, valued for its graphical repertory analysis, its bundled repertories, and one of the richer source-text research environments in the category.

A practical note for 2026: Synergy ended technical support for MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks on 30 April 2025. The actively-developed Synergy product is now Synergy Viva. Practitioners looking past MacRepertory are usually after one of three things — a lower or more transparent price than the desktop commercial model, fully web and multi-device delivery, or AI-assisted case-taking.

A researcher who built a workflow around MacRepertory's graphical analysis and ReferenceWorks source texts will find those tools still capable. For multi-device practice, transparent pricing, and AI assistance, Similia leads; Complete Dynamics is the budget desktop option; RadarOpus is the Synthesis-anchored desktop alternative, and now ships a free ChatGPT-based practice companion.

Scorecard: MacRepertory against the field

What MacRepertory does better

Research depth is the lead. Paired with ReferenceWorks, MacRepertory built one of the richer source-text research environments in homeopathic software: graphical repertory analysis on one side, a cross-referenced materia-medica and provings library on the other. For a practitioner or scholar whose work centres on differential study across many authors and original sources, that pairing has few equals. The graphical analysis tools — visualising remedy families, grades, and relationships across a repertorisation — are a mature, distinctive feature that newer cloud tools approach but do not simply reproduce. With technical support ended in April 2025, however, a practitioner starting fresh on a new machine faces a riskier setup than with a supported product.

Why practitioners look for an alternative

Four motives now recur. First, support: Synergy ended MacRepertory technical support on 30 April 2025, making a new install or OS-upgrade genuinely unsupported. Second, delivery: MacRepertory is a desktop application for macOS and Windows, so a practitioner who wants fully browser-based, multi-device continuity must look elsewhere. Third, pricing transparency: the desktop commercial model, with module and edition pricing, is less transparent than the subscription and free-tier models that now dominate the category. Fourth, the AI layer: the classic line never shipped LLM-grade semantic search, note-to-rubric analysis, photo analysis, or live-consultation transcription.

The alternatives, ranked

1. Similia — for web delivery, transparent pricing, and AI assistance

Similia is the cloud-native alternative. Its permanent Free tier carries the classic repertories and materia medica, semantic search, and up to three new cases and three new analyses per month. Pro (Base $19.99 USD/mo; Murphy and Complete editions $29.99 USD/mo; Saine $26.99 USD/mo, with annual billing yielding roughly one month free, a student discount, and a 14-day free trial for first-time subscribers) adds unlimited cases and the AI surface — Notes to Rubrics with handwriting OCR, Photos to Rubrics, Live Mode, Live Audio Mode (Beta), AI Case Timeline — plus the Periodic Table view and a premium repertory per edition. For materia-medica research specifically, semantic Materia Medica search spans the classic corpus plus premium sources you own (Murphy, Vermeulen, Scholten, Mangialavori, Pitt, Griffith). Similia's graphical-analysis depth does not match MacRepertory's, the platform requires an internet connection, and the AI features draw from a credits budget that renews with each billing cycle. The fastest test is the free tier plus the 14-day Pro trial on real cases.

2. RadarOpus — for the deepest desktop classical bundle

A practitioner who wants to stay on the desktop and consolidate around Synthesis and a large multi-author library, with the Vithoulkas Expert System available under licence, should weigh RadarOpus at reseller-quoted perpetual-licence prices. On the AI side, Zeus Soft ships a free "Homeopathic Practice Partner" — a custom GPT built on ChatGPT, positioned as a reflective companion for extracting rubric ideas and exploring remedy differentials, not as an in-app prescriber. It is an external tool rather than an integrated LLM module, so the gap with Similia's in-app AI surface remains real, but the "RadarOpus has no AI at all" picture is out of date.

3. Complete Dynamics — the budget desktop option

For an offline-first, low-cost setup, Complete Dynamics offers a free Browser edition, published subscriptions, native Windows/macOS/Linux plus mobile, and the continuously maintained Complete Repertory.

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Switching considerations

A practitioner moving off MacRepertory faces a familiar set of costs. Data lives in a local database, so migration means exporting and re-importing cases. Method matters: confirm the destination ships the repertories and the materia-medica breadth your analysis depends on before switching — Similia carries the classics on Free and licenses Murphy, Complete 2026, or Saine 2025 by Pro edition, with semantic Materia Medica search across owned premium sources. The graphical-analysis habit is real: a researcher who works visually will want to confirm the destination's analysis tooling fits their method, since that is MacRepertory's signature strength. The disciplined test is to run a destination's free entry on real cases alongside an existing install before committing.

Verdict

For existing users, MacRepertory with ReferenceWorks remains a capable research environment for graphical analysis and source-text work — but with technical support ended in April 2025, it cannot be recommended for new deployments. For web delivery, transparent pricing, and AI-assisted case-taking, Similia ranks first.

References

Synergy Homeopathic (2025–2026) MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks product and support pages; support-end notice at https://www.synergyhomeopathic.com/macrepertory ("As of April 30, 2025, we stopped accepting MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks tickets for Technical Support"); current active product Synergy Viva at https://www.synergyhomeopathic.com; fetched 2026-06-18.

Similia (2026) Knowledge base — Pricing and Subscription FAQ (USD/EUR/GBP/INR tables), Free vs Pro, AI credits, Materia Medica search, included resources, https://similia.crisp.help/, fetched 2026-04-22 and 2026-06-14.

Zeus Soft (2026) RadarOpus product pages and AI offering, https://www.radaropus.com; Homeopathic Practice Partner at https://ai.zeus-soft.com (external ChatGPT-based custom GPT); fetched 2026-06-14.

Complete Dynamics (2026) Editions and price list, https://www.completedynamics.com, fetched 2026-06-14.