ADA Chairside Instructor vs mConsent Eaglesoft
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
mConsent Eaglesoft
Streamline the process of submitting consent forms directly from an iPad to the Eaglesoft dental practice management system. This application simplifies patient intake and record-keeping for dental professionals.
- Submit consent forms
- Directly from iPad
- Integrates with Eaglesoft
- Simplifies patient intake
- Digital record-keeping
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Submit consent forms directly from iPad to Eaglesoft
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: mConsent Eaglesoft at 4.0 against ADA Chairside Instructor's 3.3. mConsent Eaglesoft also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). 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.
mConsent Eaglesoft holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively.
ADA Chairside Instructor ships an update every 7 months, mConsent Eaglesoft every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ADA Chairside Instructor | mConsent Eaglesoft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (8 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Dental Association | SRS web solutions inc |
Customer experience
ADA Chairside Instructor
mConsent Eaglesoft
In-app purchases
ADA Chairside Instructor
No in-app purchases
mConsent Eaglesoft
No in-app purchases
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