TBS Dental vs A
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TBS Dental
This application aims to modernize dentistry by providing dealer partners with tools to educate and train customers on efficient everyday procedures. It fosters a community for learning, accessing resources, and receiving updates on new products and promotions.
- Dealer partner education and training
- Customer procedure efficiency tools
- Access to sales resources
- Community polls and discussions
- Real-time product and promotion notifications
- Return processing
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TBS Dental has designed and developed several contemporary, state-of-the-art instruments with the intent of modernization. Over the years, TBS has transformed into a powerhouse of innovation and excellence with one goal in mind: Make Dentistry as Efficient as Possible. We created our TBS app to help our dealer partners to educate, train and help their customers to do everyday procedures more efficiently. Download our TBS app to join our growing community, learn from your colleagues, access sales resources, participate in polls and discussions, get real-time push notifications on new products and promotions, process returns, and more.
A
This app serves as a central hub for managing dental equipment. It allows users to register devices, access new features via software updates, and monitor equipment performance and diagnostics. Manage multiple locations from a single interface.
- Register A-dec+ enabled dental equipment
- Access new product features via software updates
- Monitor equipment performance and diagnostics
- Manage equipment across single or multi-clinic organizations
- Centralized technology ecosystem access
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Access the A-dec+ technology ecosystem through a centralized hub—the A‑dec+ app - Register your A-dec+ enabled dental equipment to access new product features and the latest integrations through software updates - Gain improved visibility into equipment performance and diagnostics - Manage and monitor equipment across a single practice or multi-clinic organization
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TBS Dental at 5.0 against A's 4.3. A's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
TBS Dental holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TBS Dental ships an update every 2 months, A every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TBS Dental | A |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TBS Dental LLC | A-dec |
Customer experience
TBS Dental
A
In-app purchases
TBS Dental
No in-app purchases
A
No in-app purchases
