PbN Grow vs DDSmatch
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
DDSmatch
This app connects dentists with dental practice opportunities nationwide. It features a swipe-based discovery system for buying, selling, and associateship listings, making it easier to find your next career move.
- Swipe-based discovery
- Nationwide practice listings
- Connect with opportunities
- Browse listings on the go
- Push notifications for new listings
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The first dental-practice-specific app helping dentists find their perfect match. Successfully connecting the dentist's present with their future. Featuring swipe-based discovery, the free app instantly connects dentists nationwide with buying, selling, and associateship opportunities. Swipe through curated practice listings tailored to your specified location, bringing a nationwide dental practice marketplace directly into your hands. More than a marketplace, the app is a resource that lets you: - Browse active practice listings on the go, from anywhere - Swipe-based discovery to pass or connect to request more information, right from your phone - Reach out to a DDSmatch professional directly over text or email from within the app - Stay up to date with new listings and resources as soon as they drop with push notifications
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DDSmatch at 5.0 against PbN Grow's 3.8. DDSmatch also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 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.
DDSmatch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of PbN Grow's written reviews are positive against 100% of DDSmatch's.
PbN Grow ships an update every 2 months, DDSmatch every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PbN Grow | DDSmatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Practice by Numbers | DDSMATCH.COM, LLC |
Customer experience
PbN Grow
DDSmatch
In-app purchases
PbN Grow
No in-app purchases
DDSmatch
No in-app purchases
