Comparison
HelpDental Assist vs Kiroku
Prices and features checked 17 August 2026
Kiroku is a UK dental notes company, founded in 2017 by a dentist and a machine learning engineer, and the longest established of the products on this list. It started with clickable templates and now also offers ambient listening through a feature it calls Co-Pilot.
Assist is ambient only. It shows the source of note text for the clinician to review before copying.
One thing to get straight before the table. Kiroku publishes two tiers and the ambient voice notes are on the upper one. Compared like for like against Pro, the two products are priced within pennies of each other on monthly billing, and Assist is the cheaper of the two on annual. The Essential tier is the cheaper number you will see quoted, and it is the tier without the ambient feature.
01The comparison
Assist and Kiroku side by side.
Price
Assist:£99 per dentist per month. £79 a month if you pay for the year.
Kiroku:Two tiers, per clinician, all plus VAT. Essential is £29.99 a month, or £26.99 a month billed annually. Pro is £99.99 a month, or £89.99 a month billed annually. Practice plans are offered.
Ambient voice notes sit on Pro, so Pro is the tier to compare against Assist. Kiroku also lists free access for dental students and a discount for new graduates.
Source: Kiroku's own pageFree trial
Assist:28 days free. No card.
Kiroku:14 days, or 30 days with a referral code. Card details are required up front and you are charged when the trial ends.
Source: Kiroku's own pageHow it captures the appointment
Assist:Ambient. It listens to the appointment and the words appear on screen as they are said.
Kiroku:Co-Pilot listens to the appointment, on the Pro tier. Clickable templates and a freestyle voice mode are offered as alternatives.
Source: Kiroku's own pageGoes into your practice software
Assist:Copy and paste into any system. There is no native integration.
Kiroku:A Chrome extension inserts notes into Aerona, Dentally and Dental4Web in one click. Everything else is copy and paste.
Source: Kiroku's own pageTemplates
Assist:Your own templates and protocols, written and edited by you.
Kiroku:Over 80 ready made templates, fully customisable, and you can upload your own. Custom templates and the AI editor sit on the Pro plan.
Source: Kiroku's own pageShows where each line came from
Assist:Shows whether text came from the appointment, a selected template or clinician-approved saved wording. The clinician reviews and edits the note before copying.
Kiroku:Not described on their public pages.
Source: Kiroku's own pagePatient facing documents
Assist:Notes only. Assist does one job.
Kiroku:Kiroku Docs turns a note into consent forms, referrals and reports, with signatures collected in the app. Pro plan only.
Source: Kiroku's own pageAudio recordings
Assist:Unsaved audio is removed after processing. Saved audio stays with the note until you delete it. We do not opt patient data into a provider's model-training programme.
Kiroku:Never stored. Converted to text in real time and the recording is deleted. Data is not used to retrain the model.
Source: Kiroku's own pageWhere the data sits
Assist:UK and EU cloud services. The full processor list is in the data processing agreement.
Kiroku:Google Cloud, with storage and processing in the UK. Australian customers are stored in Australia.
Source: Kiroku's own pageWho builds it
Assist:Built in the UK by a practising dentist.
Kiroku:Kiroku Limited, registered in England and Wales since 2017, London.
Source: Kiroku's own page| Assist | Kiroku | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | £99 per dentist per month. £79 a month if you pay for the year. | Two tiers, per clinician, all plus VAT. Essential is £29.99 a month, or £26.99 a month billed annually. Pro is £99.99 a month, or £89.99 a month billed annually. Practice plans are offered. Ambient voice notes sit on Pro, so Pro is the tier to compare against Assist. Kiroku also lists free access for dental students and a discount for new graduates. |
| Free trial | 28 days free. No card. | 14 days, or 30 days with a referral code. Card details are required up front and you are charged when the trial ends. |
| How it captures the appointment | Ambient. It listens to the appointment and the words appear on screen as they are said. | Co-Pilot listens to the appointment, on the Pro tier. Clickable templates and a freestyle voice mode are offered as alternatives. |
| Goes into your practice software | Copy and paste into any system. There is no native integration. | A Chrome extension inserts notes into Aerona, Dentally and Dental4Web in one click. Everything else is copy and paste. |
| Templates | Your own templates and protocols, written and edited by you. | Over 80 ready made templates, fully customisable, and you can upload your own. Custom templates and the AI editor sit on the Pro plan. |
| Shows where each line came from | Shows whether text came from the appointment, a selected template or clinician-approved saved wording. The clinician reviews and edits the note before copying. | Not described on their public pages. |
| Patient facing documents | Notes only. Assist does one job. | Kiroku Docs turns a note into consent forms, referrals and reports, with signatures collected in the app. Pro plan only. |
| Audio recordings | Unsaved audio is removed after processing. Saved audio stays with the note until you delete it. We do not opt patient data into a provider's model-training programme. | Never stored. Converted to text in real time and the recording is deleted. Data is not used to retrain the model. |
| Where the data sits | UK and EU cloud services. The full processor list is in the data processing agreement. | Google Cloud, with storage and processing in the UK. Australian customers are stored in Australia. |
| Who builds it | Built in the UK by a practising dentist. | Kiroku Limited, registered in England and Wales since 2017, London. |
02Which to pick
When Kiroku is the better pick
- You use Aerona, Dentally or Dental4Web and you want the note pushed in with one click rather than pasted.
- You want consent forms, referrals and patient signatures in the same tool as the notes.
- You are happy working from clickable templates and do not need ambient listening, which puts you on their cheaper Essential tier.
When Assist is the better pick
- You want to try it properly without handing over a card and without a date in the diary to cancel.
- You want to see the source of note text before copying.
28 days free. No card required.
03Questions
Questions about Kiroku.
Is Kiroku cheaper than Assist?
It depends which tier you mean. Kiroku puts ambient voice notes on Pro, at £99.99 a month plus VAT, or £89.99 a month plus VAT billed annually. Assist is £99 monthly or £79 a month paid annually. So on the tier that actually does the same job, monthly is level and Assist is lower on annual. Their Essential tier at £29.99, or £26.99 billed annually, is the cheaper number people quote, and it is the tier without the ambient feature. At the same money Assist shows the source of note text for the clinician to review before copying. Their pricing page is the place to check the current figures.
Do both listen to the appointment?
Yes, though Kiroku puts it on the Pro tier. They call it Co-Pilot and also offer clickable templates and a freestyle voice mode. Assist is ambient on the one plan.
Which one connects to my practice software?
Kiroku does, for Aerona, Dentally and Dental4Web, through a Chrome extension. Assist does not connect to any practice software. You copy the note and paste it in.