PbN Grow vs DS Core Link
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
DS Core Link
Connect your Dentsply Sirona equipment to DS Core for remote support and troubleshooting. Share equipment status with service technicians for real-time assistance and save time on maintenance.
- Connect Dentsply Sirona equipment
- DS Core integration
- Remote support for troubleshooting
- Share equipment technical status
- Real-time remote assistance
- Save time on maintenance
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With the DS Core Link app you can easily connect your Dentsply Sirona equipment to DS Core. After downloading the app, log in with your DS Core credentials and the app will guide you through the onboarding process. Benefits of connecting your Dentsply Sirona equipment with DS Core include: - allows you to share the equipment's info/technical status with your service technician to get realtime remote support for troubleshooting - the remote service capabilities can help you save time compared to making an appointment with a field engineer to physically check equipment health status and errors
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Verdict
PbN Grow and DS Core Link are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for PbN Grow against 3.7 for DS Core Link. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 16 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PbN Grow | DS Core Link |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (8 ratings) — better | 3.7 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Practice by Numbers | Zetta25 AG |
Customer experience
PbN Grow
DS Core Link
In-app purchases
PbN Grow
No in-app purchases
DS Core Link
No in-app purchases
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