TBC Now vs Palmetto Proactive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TBC Now
Easily find and schedule appointments at donation centers and mobile blood drives. Donors can access their account to view donation history, eligibility, and vital signs.
- Schedule donation appointments
- Find donation centers
- Locate mobile blood drives
- Access donor account
- View donation history
- Check eligibility
- See vital signs
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The Blood Connection (TBC) service areas include South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. Anyone can use our app to easily find and schedule appointments at The Blood Connection donation centers and mobile blood drives. TBC blood donors may access their donor account to see blood type, blood pressure, hemoglobin and pulse taken at the time of donation, donation history, and eligibility to donate. TBC accepts volunteer blood donors at age 16 (with signed parental consent) and older. Blood drives are held regularly throughout Upstate South Carolina, Western North Carolina, Raleigh/Triangle Area of North Carolina and Northeast Georgia. Donation centers are located in Greenville, Spartanburg, Easley, Oconee, and Greenwood South Carolina; Hendersonville, Asheville and Raleigh North Carolina. TBC is a 501(c)3 nonprofit licensed by the FDA.
Palmetto Proactive
This app facilitates a proactive partnership between patients and their primary care physician. It helps members track progress towards personalized care goals by integrating with Apple HealthKit to display health data.
- Proactive physician-patient partnership
- Affordable and transparent care costs
- Apple HealthKit integration
- Progress tracking towards care goals
- Direct primary care model
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We are a direct primary care (DPC) family medicine practice that reunites the physician and patient in a proactive partnership. We dedicate our efforts to your care while keeping the cost of care affordable, always transparent and known to our patients. Our app uses Apple HealthKit to read data and show that data to our members for them to track how they are progressing towards the care goals set for them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Palmetto Proactive at 5.0 against TBC Now's 2.3. Palmetto Proactive also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). TBC Now's advantage is ratings volume (122 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Palmetto Proactive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TBC Now has 122 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TBC Now ships an update every 5 months, Palmetto Proactive every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TBC Now | Palmetto Proactive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (122 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 221 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Blood Connection | Palmetto Proactive Healthcare, LLC |
Bugs and requests
TBC Now
Reported bugs
16 issues- Login failures
- Server connection errors
- Gift store malfunctions
- Points not displaying correctly
- Point expiration issues
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- Cart functionality broken
- Two-factor authentication not working
- Address editing unavailable
- App performance issues (slowness, crashes)
- Push notification settings missing
- Account creation errors
- Appointment rescheduling unavailable
- Password manager integration problems
- App opening to a blank screen
- Unable to change email address
- Password reset issues
Requested features
8 requests- AI debugging for coding issues
- Better handling of reward redemption issues
- Clearer expiration policy for points
- Ability to change email address
- Improved appointment scheduling functionality
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- Ability to tell donor level from app
- Combine menus for better navigation
- Face ID/Biometric login improvements
Palmetto Proactive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TBC Now
No in-app purchases
Palmetto Proactive
No in-app purchases
Questions
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