PbN Grow vs DSS2026
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PbN Grow
This app provides dental practices with mobile access to essential management tools. It allows for patient communication, appointment scheduling, payment requests, and performance analytics, all while ensuring HIPAA compliance.
- Patient messaging
- Review requests
- Payment collection
- Missed call notifications
- Schedule viewing
- KPI dashboards
- Patient search
- Task management
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With the PbN Grow app, dental practices now have on-the-go access to software that keeps your practice running at an optimal level 24/7 – message your patients, get notified for missed calls, access actionable analytics, view your schedule, and more. Key Features include: Messaging > Stay in touch with your patients by sending and receiving text messages. Patient Reviews > Ask your patients to leave a review after their visit. Payments > Request your patients to pay their balance via text or email. Calls > Receive notifications for every missed call at your practice. > View all of your call logs for missed, incoming, and outgoing calls. Schedule > View your daily schedule from the comfort of your home for any operatory or provider. > See your patient’s key information such as outstanding balance, unfinished treatments, pending forms, unscheduled family members, and much more. KPIs > View your built-in and customized dashboards from anywhere. > Access KPIs, reports, and all relevant information across multi-location practices. Patient search > Find any patient in your practice to access their profile information, including the date of their most recent visit, the date of their next recall appointment, their service history, their communication history, and much more. Tasks > Follow up with your patients as you go through the task list, to fill gaps in your schedule and increase practice profitability. Privacy and Security > HIPAA-compliant > Face ID and Touch ID enabled
DSS2026
This app provides a two-day roadmap for dental practice leaders to enhance personal income, efficiency, and create systems for sustained growth. It focuses on the key roles of CEO, CFO, and COO within a dental practice.
- CEO, CFO, COO roadmap
- Increase personal income
- Improve efficiency
- Create growth systems
- Time away from practice
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In two power-packed days, you’ll get the roadmap to becoming an effective CEO, CFO, and COO of your dental practice. You’ll learn how to dramatically increase your personal income, efficiency, and time away from the dental chair while creating the systems for perpetual growth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DSS2026 at 100% against PbN Grow's 50%. DSS2026 also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4). PbN Grow's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
DSS2026 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of PbN Grow's written reviews are positive against 100% of DSS2026's.
PbN Grow ships an update every 2 months, DSS2026 every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PbN Grow | DSS2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Practice by Numbers | Dental Success Institute, LLC |
Customer experience
PbN Grow
DSS2026
In-app purchases
PbN Grow
No in-app purchases
DSS2026
No in-app purchases









