Comparison

Truthbrush vs BrushPal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Truthbrush

This app helps you monitor and improve your family's oral hygiene by tracking toothbrushing duration, coverage, and frequency. It provides insights into brushing habits, allows for goal setting and rewards, and can share data with your dentist.

Highlights
  • Track toothbrushing events
  • Monitor duration and coverage
  • Set goals and rewards
  • Configurable beep timer
  • Share data with dentist
  • Performance reports
  • Brushing tips
Features
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The Truthbrush is a small, decorative device that fits easily on any manual or electric toothbrush. It allows you to track all toothbrush events and monitor the duration and coverage. We all know that brushing twice a day for two minutes is essential to your health. Children often brush for a short duration, miss coverage areas, or simply forget to brush at all. You can't be with your kids for every brushing, Truthbrush can. With Truthbrush you can collect all brush event data seamlessly in the background. There is no start or stop button, it passively collects data so that you can view the trends over time. Truthbrush ends the "did you brush" argument and allows you to coach and reward your family for better oral health. According to the World Health Organization, dental care is the most unmet healthcare need in children and adolescents. Poor brushing leads to increased dental visits, cavities, periodontal disease, discolored teeth, and the loss of confidence that you get with a great smile. Studies have shown that bacteria in the mouth is related to heart disease, diabetes, pneumonia, and other serious health issues. Your family's health is the most important thing in your life. Truthbrush makes it possible to keep track of your family's toothbrush behavior and build great healthy habits. The Truthbrush app shows daily toothbrush events and charts them over time. Understanding behavior and trends are critical to building great habits. The app displays the time of brushing, duration, and coverage. Truthbrush knows the difference between brushing teeth, applying toothpaste, and cleaning the brush. The app makes it easy to set goals and rewards, configure alerts and even share the brush event data with your dentist. Your dentist is a key partner in the health of your family. Truthbrush allows your dentist to check-in and helps without waiting for a six-month visit. The app allows you to set the beeping timer on the Truthbrush tracker for two minutes or any duration that you set. Key Features: Track and monitor all brush behavior Configurable beep timer Weekly goals and rewards Coverage analysis Tips to guide better brushing Alerts and notifications Performance report Share data with your dentist

About

BrushPal

This app helps you track your tooth-brushing duration on your iPhone or Apple Watch. It offers customization options, reminders, and automatically saves your progress to Apple Health, all while prioritizing your privacy with offline data storage.

Highlights
  • Track brushing time on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Automatic saving to Apple Health
  • Offline data storage for total privacy
  • Customizable themes and brushing goals
  • Morning and evening brushing reminders
  • No in-app purchases or additional fees
Features
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Track your tooth-brushing time directly from your iPhone or Apple Watch! BrushPal is a sleek, lightweight tracker that's easy to use. All data is stored on the device - we don't connect to the internet at all Automatically store in Apple Health ---- Get credits for your great habit. Toothbrushing times are automatically saved to Apple Health Total Privacy --- BrushPal has no user analytics tracking. No advertising. No 3rd party code. In fact, the app does not connect to the internet at all. All of the data is stored to Apple Health safely and privately. Customize --- Customize your own theme and set your toothbrushing time goal Reminders --- Set a morning and evening reminder to brush your teeth Everything included --- No in-app purchase. No additional fees. Just a simple, lightweight toothbrushing time tracker

Screenshots

Truthbrush4 screens
BrushPal3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Truthbrush at 52% against BrushPal's 0%. Truthbrush also leads on ratings volume (684 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). BrushPal's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BrushPal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Truthbrush has 684 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Truthbrush's written reviews are positive against 0% of BrushPal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Truthbrush ships an update every 9 days, BrushPal every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Truthbrush versus BrushPal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTruthbrushBrushPal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (684 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings684 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCandibellMender LLC

Customer experience

Truthbrush

All ratings684 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral4.1%
Negative9.2%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive52.1%
Neutral10.4%
Negative37.5%

BrushPal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Truthbrush

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App crashes when linking trackers to profiles
  • Hub fails to stay connected and frequently disconnects
  • Brushing sessions not recorded or missed
  • Inaccurate tracking accuracy (false high scores)
  • Version 2.0 regularly fails to record brushing
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  • Wet fingers accidentally disconnect tracker
  • Inconsistent badge awarding between similar brushing patterns
  • Customer service unresponsive to support requests

Requested features

12 requests
  • Percentage tracker for active/passive/interrupted brushing
  • 30-minute increment options for activity alerts
  • Child-friendly badge designs (more engaging graphics)
  • Separate child and parent app profiles/interfaces
  • Child lock/read-only mode with PIN protection
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  • Flexible reward system based on quality thresholds
  • Recurring scheduling for split custody situations
  • Family scoreboard/leaderboard feature
  • Adjustable badge sensitivity settings
  • More consistent and transparent badge awarding logic
  • Themed badges for specific achievements
  • Improved movement section color coding

BrushPal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Truthbrush

No in-app purchases

None

BrushPal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Truthbrush free?
Truthbrush is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BrushPal free?
BrushPal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Truthbrush or BrushPal?
BrushPal is rated higher. Truthbrush averages 4.5 out of 5 from 684 ratings, while BrushPal averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Truthbrush or BrushPal have ads?
Neither Truthbrush nor BrushPal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Truthbrush or BrushPal?
Truthbrush ships an update every 9 days, and BrushPal every 2 days. Most recently, Truthbrush was updated on October 16, 2026 and BrushPal on October 5, 2026.

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