DBD App vs Paragonix
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DBD App
This app serves as a quick reference for optimizing organ donation and managing patients during procedures. It focuses on stabilizing patients before testing for brain-stem death to maximize the number and quality of organs retrieved.
- Donor optimization guide
- In-theater patient management
- Brain-stem death testing reference
- Maximizing organ retrieval
- Quick reference tool
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To provide a handy, quick reference guide for donor optimisation and in theatre management for DBD. Donor optimisation builds on the stabilisation of the patient prior to brain-stem death testing and is essential to ensure the number and quality of organs retrieved are maximised.
Paragonix
This app offers real-time, secure coordination for transplant teams. It allows for centralized sharing of organ status, temperature tracking, and GPS location of procurement teams. HIPAA-compliant messaging ensures all parties remain informed throughout the transplant process.
- Real-time organ status sharing
- Organ temperature monitoring
- Procurement team GPS tracking
- HIPAA-compliant messaging
- Secure team member invitations
- Case status graphic trackers
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The Paragonix App provides real-time, centralized, secure coordination for transplant teams including pairing with the Paragonix organ transport systems to share organ status with the entire team. ORGAN STATUS * Bluetooth pairing with all the Paragonix organ preservation systems enables team members in a session to track the organ conditions including both organ temperature and ambient temperature. LOCATION * GPS tracking of procurement team en route to and from the donor center. CASE STATUS * At-a-glance graphic status trackers provide a snapshot summary of timing of key events in the transplant case. COMMUNICATION * HIPAA compliant messaging and communications to keep the procurement team, OPO, donor hospital, and recipient team informed. * Flexibility to invite members from different hospital systems and organizations in a secure manner.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Paragonix at fortnightly against DBD App's every 15 months. Paragonix also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). DBD App's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DBD App against 5.0 for Paragonix. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paragonix has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DBD App ships an update every 15 months, Paragonix fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DBD App | Paragonix |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MOHAN Foundation | Paragonix Technologies, Inc. |
Customer experience
DBD App
Paragonix
In-app purchases
DBD App
No in-app purchases
Paragonix
No in-app purchases
