ADA Chairside Instructor vs Chromatcher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ADA Chairside Instructor
This app provides dental professionals with a comprehensive visual guide for patient education. It features over 250 full-color images and 25 animations covering a wide range of dental topics, from prevention to complex restorations. Users can also draw on images and email them to patients.
- 250+ full-color dental images
- 25 animations
- Draw on images and email
- iCloud photo access
- Upload from Camera Roll
- English and Spanish text
- WiFi printing
- Favorites list
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Chairside Instructor - the best-selling dental case guide from the American Dental Association – is now available as an app for iPhone and iPad! With over 250 full-color dental images and 25 animations, the ADA Chairside Instructor App is your all-in-one resource for visual patient education. Content covers a wide range of prevention and treatment topics, including hygiene; anatomy; x-rays; periodontal disease; decay; crown, bridge, dentures, root canal, and other restorations; orthodontics; cosmetic treatment; TMJ; pathologies; and now cracked tooth and bruxism. Ideal for patient education or as a teaching tool for dental assistants. Eight categories include Oral Anatomy, Prevention and Diagnosis, Gum Disease, Caries and Restorations, Tooth Replacement, Orthodontics, Cosmetic Options, and Other Oral Conditions. Also includes effects of sugar on oral health; steps of filling a cavity; tooth erosion; gum recession; peri-implantitis; and tobacco use. - Plus, these award-winning features: - 51 new/revised full-color images - Show 25 silent animations on your device. - Draw on pictures and email them to patients. - Access pictures across multiple devices from iCloud. - Upload photos from your own Camera Roll - Includes both English and Spanish text - WiFi printing - Add frequently viewed topics to your Favorites list for quick access or create your own - Use in both portrait and landscape orientation for both iPhone and iPad - Download on up to 6 devices for your dental team to use
Chromatcher
This application helps dental professionals quickly and easily match composite shades for restorations. By taking a photo of a patient's tooth, it digitally identifies the correct shade from a specific system, eliminating the need for traditional shade guides.
- Digital shade guide
- Photo-based shade matching
- Eliminates conventional shade guides
- Supports DMP's shade system
- Effortless restoration matching
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Fast and easy composite shade matcher! The Chromatcher is the first digital shade guide application that offers the user (dentist or technician) the ability to accomplish the restoration effortlessly. The Chromatcher is used to determine the tooth shade of the patient by taking a photo of the desired tooth area and match it with DMP’s shade system for restorative materials. Therefore, the user knows the required shade immediately through the Chromatcher avoiding the use of conventional shade guides. This process applies for all aesthetic restorations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ADA Chairside Instructor at 3.3 against Chromatcher's 1.0. ADA Chairside Instructor also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). Chromatcher's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). On price, review sentiment, 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.
ADA Chairside Instructor holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ADA Chairside Instructor has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 50% positive.
| Parameter | ADA Chairside Instructor | Chromatcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (8 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Dental Association | DMP DENTAL INDUSTRY S.A. |
Customer experience
ADA Chairside Instructor
Chromatcher
In-app purchases
ADA Chairside Instructor
No in-app purchases
Chromatcher
No in-app purchases
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