Studybugs vs Dentomation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Studybugs
Easily report your child's absence from school with a few taps. This app automatically updates school registers, enhances safeguarding through identity verification, and offers guidance on illnesses. It also reminds you to keep the school informed.
- Report child's absence
- Automatic register updates
- Identity verification
- Illness guidance
- Absence reminders
- Website access for illness map
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A better, safer way to report when your child’s sick and off school. With a few quick taps, you can give the school all they need to know to record your child’s absence. • Automatically updates the school’s electronic registers, so if any children are unaccounted for, they’ll know right away • Improves safeguarding by enabling your identity to be verified • Provides guidance about your child’s illness and whether they should be kept off school • Reminds you to keep the school posted When you first sign in, we’ll automatically create you a free account on Studybugs and you’ll also have access to additional features on the Studybugs website, including a map showing illnesses going around near you. Questions, problems or feedback? Get in touch at feedback@studybugs.com.
Dentomation
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Dentomation® is the staff companion app for dental practices running on the Dentomation® platform. It puts the day's diary, the patient in the chair, the team and the paperwork on the device in your pocket, so clinicians and reception are not tied to the front desk computer. Access requires an account issued by your practice administrator. There is nothing to buy inside the app. TODAY Open straight into the surgery day: now and next, later today, and a needs-attention list that pulls out unconfirmed appointments, no-shows and gaps in the book. Every appointment carries a live status - confirmed, arrived, waiting, in chair, no-show, cancelled - updated as the front desk moves people through. CALENDAR The full practice diary by day, by surgery and by clinician. Open an appointment to see the patient, the treatment and the notes, move it, or book a new one without walking back to reception. PATIENTS Search the whole patient list, open a record, and read history, treatment plans, notes and documents. The dental chart is there in full: tooth-by-tooth charting with the same conditions and surfaces the desktop uses, written straight back to the practice record. TEAM Practice-wide and per-team chat for handovers, cover requests and the "who is free at four" question, so the working day stops living in a personal messaging app. ASSISTANT Ask the practice assistant a question in plain English and get an answer back in the app. TASKS AND COMPLIANCE Open tasks across the practice, incident reports with a photo attached from the camera or your library, and a CQC readiness view you can put in front of an inspector. STAFF AND ATTENDANCE Geo-fenced check in and check out. Your location is read once, at the moment you tap, only to confirm you are on site - no movement trail is kept. Holiday requests and manager approvals in the same place. CLINICAL GUIDANCE Quick reference to NICE, SDCEP, Delivering Better Oral Health and HTM 01-05, for looking something up between patients. NHS SNAPSHOT UDA progress and FP17 status for the contract year at a glance. REFERRALS Specialist referrals and two-week-wait, tracked through to the outcome. WORKS WHEN THE CONNECTION DOES NOT What you need for today is held on the device in an AES-256 encrypted store, so the app keeps working through a broadband outage and syncs the moment the connection returns. BUILT FOR UK PRACTICES NHS and private, UDA and FP17, CQC and HTM 01-05, written in UK English for how UK practices actually run. SECURITY Individual sign-in with role-based access, credentials held in the iOS keychain, encrypted local storage, TLS to the Dentomation® cloud, and an audit trail on the record. Dentomation® is a practice management tool for dental professionals. It does not diagnose, and it does not calculate doses, measurements or drug quantities. Dentomation® is software by Silverstone Digital.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dentomation at weekly against Studybugs's every 2 months. Dentomation also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
Studybugs ships an update every 2 months, Dentomation weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Studybugs | Dentomation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 13.6% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Studybugs Ltd | Dentomation |
In-app purchases
Studybugs
No in-app purchases
Dentomation
No in-app purchases






