Software
Discover our comprehensive dental software catalog, featuring a full range of free tools designed to support modern practices of any size. Our platform brings together essential applications such as digital charting, appointment scheduling, radiology viewers, billing support, and tele-dentistry — all in one convenient hub. For official standards and guidelines on digital practice, see the American Dental Association’s resources. To learn more about our mission, visit the About Softprodents page, and for the latest industry updates, check our Tech News section. We continuously update this dental software catalog to meet the evolving needs of clinics.
MRIcroGL is a free, open-source volume viewer for DICOM and NIfTI images with fast 3D rendering, scripting and a DICOM-to-NIfTI converter. It can open CBCT series for research and teaching, but it is not a dental or clinical product. Windows, macOS and Linux.
MeVisLab is a modular development environment for medical image processing and visualisation. Shareware (conditionally free): a free SDK with restrictions for non-commercial institutions, a Professional SDK for commercial work. Windows and Linux. A research tool, not dental software.
DTX Studio Clinic by Nobel Biocare and DEXIS combines intraoral X-rays, CBCT, intraoral scans and photos in one workspace with AI sorting and implant planning. Shareware (conditionally free): a free Starter licence covers viewing; full use needs a paid licence. Windows and macOS.
Dragonfly 3D World by Comet Technologies Canada visualises, segments and measures CT and micro-CT volumes, with deep-learning tools. Shareware (conditionally free): trial version, free academic licence for university research, paid otherwise. Not a medical device. Windows and Linux.
Amira Software by Thermo Fisher Scientific segments, measures and visualises CT, micro-CT, CBCT, MRI and microscopy data for life-science research. Shareware (conditionally free): trial on request and a free ToGo Viewer; licences are paid. Research use only. Windows and Linux.
ITK (Insight Toolkit) is a free, open-source Apache 2.0 library for segmenting, registering and filtering medical images from C++ or Python. It has no GUI and no dental tools; researchers use it to build CBCT processing pipelines.
VTK (Visualization Toolkit) is a free, open-source BSD library for 3D rendering, volume rendering and mesh processing from C++ or Python. It has no dental module, but it can turn a segmented CBCT into an STL and powers tools like ParaView and 3D Slicer.
ParaView is Kitware’s free, open-source (BSD 3-Clause) application for 3D scientific visualisation. It can load CT/CBCT DICOM series, volume-render them and export surfaces as STL for research and teaching. There is no separate medical or dental edition.
InVivoDental Viewer is Anatomage’s free Windows viewer for Invivo (.inv) CBCT case files. It is legacy software: Osteoid, which now runs Invivo, no longer offers it and points users to Invivo Workspace for viewing .inv files.
Meshroom is free, open-source (MPL-2.0) photogrammetry software from AliceVision that turns overlapping photos into a textured 3D mesh. Official builds are for Windows and Linux; full-quality reconstruction needs an NVIDIA CUDA GPU.
Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) is a free, open-source C++ CAD geometry kernel (LGPL 2.1 with exception) for solid modeling, STEP/IGES/STL exchange and 3D display. It has no dental features; developers use it to build their own CAD tools.
GNUmed is a free, open-source (GPL) electronic medical record for ambulatory care, with a PostgreSQL server and a desktop client for Linux, Windows and macOS. It has no dental module or dental forms package, but offers templates, a document archive and image annotation.
Elexis is free, open-source (Eclipse Public License) practice software for Swiss medical practices, with patient records, lab findings and Swiss billing. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. There is no dental fork or dental module.
Apteryx XrayVision is Planet DDS’s device-agnostic dental X-ray capture and storage software for Windows. It is commercial, with no free viewer. Classic XrayVision 4 is discontinued (support ended 2022); the enterprise XrayVision DCV continues, and XVWeb is the cloud successor.
OSCAR EMR is a free, open-source (GPL v2) web-based medical record from McMaster University for Canadian primary care. OSCAR Pro is a separate commercial product by WELLSTAR (WELL Health). Neither has dental templates or tooth charting.
NOSH ChartingSystem is a free, open-source (AGPL) web-based EHR created by family physician Michael Chen. NOSH 3 is a FHIR-native Progressive Web App run in Docker. There is no dental plugin, and the code has not been updated since March 2025.
Free, open-source (MPL 2.0) web-based EHR and practice-management system forked from OpenEMR. There is no dental edition or odontogram, and the project is dormant: the last release, 2.0.0, dates from 2017.
3D Tooth Atlas 10 by eHuman teaches tooth morphology and dental anatomy with more than 500 rotatable 3D tooth models, a course, quizzes and periodontal content. It is shareware (conditionally free): the Windows download includes a trial, and the App Store app is a free download with in-app purchase.
Primal Pictures delivers 3D anatomy through the Anatomy.tv web platform, with dentistry modules on head and neck anatomy, tooth morphology, TMJ, cranial nerves and radiology, plus Dentistry VR. It is shareware (conditionally free): licensed to institutions, which can request a free demo or trial.
Simodont is a commercial haptic virtual-reality dental trainer from Nissin Dental Products, used by dental schools for pre-clinical training. Its software runs only on Simodont hardware; there is no download, free version or ‘academic edition’. Current release: V4.22.
ImageJ and its plugin-rich distribution Fiji are free, open-source image analysis programs for Windows, macOS and Linux. Dental researchers use them to calibrate and measure radiographs, histology slides and photographs, and to analyse bone with BoneJ.
Ez3D Plus is Vatech’s legacy Windows program for viewing and planning on CBCT scans, made by Ewoosoft. It is no longer supported and new licences are not issued; its successor Ez3D-i exports cases with a free Simple Viewer, and Clever One is Vatech’s newest platform.
The Anatomage Table is a commercial, life-size touchscreen virtual dissection system with digitised real human cadavers. The software ships with Anatomage hardware: there is no free demo, trial or download. The current version is Table 12.
OpenFlipper is a free, open-source (BSD 3-Clause) 3D mesh processing framework from RWTH Aachen, with plugins for hole filling, decimation, smoothing and remeshing of STL/OBJ/PLY meshes. There is no medical edition. The last release is 4.1 (2019).
OnDemand3D by Cybermed is Windows software for dental CBCT diagnosis, implant planning, TMJ and airway review and 3D cephalometrics. It is shareware (conditionally free): a trial runs after installation and a free Project Viewer opens shared cases; full use needs a paid licence.
medInria is free, open-source medical image software from Inria for 2D/3D/4D viewing, segmentation, registration, filtering and diffusion MRI. It imports DICOM (including CBCT) but has no dental tools and is not CE marked or FDA approved.
BioImage Suite Web is a free, open-source (Apache 2.0) medical image analysis suite from Yale that runs in the browser, with desktop and command-line versions. It targets neuroimaging, reads NIfTI, keeps data local and is not approved for clinical use.
GIMIAS is a free, open-source (BSD) framework for medical image analysis and simulation from CISTIB, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Its prototypes target cardiology and neurology; it has no dental tools and has not been updated since 1.8.r1 in 2016.
NIRFAST is a free, open-source (BSD) toolkit from Dartmouth for modeling near-infrared light in tissue and reconstructing optical tomography images. It is a research tool with no dental features; releases stopped in 2018 and work continues in NIRFASTer.
SMILI is a free, open-source (BSD-style, CSIRO) framework for biomedical imaging apps; its sMILX viewer opens images and STL/PLY/OBJ models by drag and drop, overlays labels and smooths or decimates meshes. General research tool, no dental features.
dcm4che is a free, open-source Java DICOM toolkit and library with more than 50 command-line tools for sending, receiving, querying, converting and checking DICOM data. It is not a viewer; the dcm4chee archive is a separate project built on it.
Sante DICOM Viewer Lite by Santesoft is a free 2D/3D DICOM viewer for Windows and macOS. Open CBCT and CT exports or patient CDs, scroll MPR slices and measure. The paid Pro edition (shareware, free demo) adds anonymising, editing and CD burning.
OpenREM is a free, open-source (GPLv3) web application for patient radiation dose monitoring. It imports dose data from X-ray, CT, fluoroscopy and mammography equipment and shows charts and exports. Stable version 0.10.0; version 1.0 is in beta.
dicompyler is a free, open-source (BSD) radiation therapy research platform and DICOM RT viewer. It shows dose and structure overlays and DVHs. The project is archived; the last release is 0.4.2 from 2014.
K-PACS is a free Windows DICOM workstation: viewer, local archive, store and query/retrieve, CD burning. The vendor allows evaluation and non-commercial use only. It is legacy software; the last version is 1.6 and it is no longer developed.
EHRbase is a free, open-source (Apache 2.0) openEHR server: a Java and PostgreSQL back end with the openEHR REST API and AQL queries for building clinical apps. It has no user interface and no dental templates; dental data models must be built as openEHR templates.