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The Modern, All-in-One Alternative to Archy.
Switching from Archy? Gnathos adds a waitlist ranked by pending treatment value, membership plans with auto-billing, an AI morning brief, Retention Radar risk scores, insurance card photos that fill in the plan, predictive inventory and much more.
Lakeside Dental StudioTuesday · production through yesterday
Live✦
Morning huddle"12 patients expected today. 9% of slots booked over the next 3 days. $18,183 in open balances across 37 accounts. 288 patients are 6+ months overdue."
Total recoverable
$128,617
$116,241Unscheduled treatment
$1,860Lapsed recall
$10,516Open balances
Compare Gnathos with
Every Gnathos Feature, Side by Side with Archy.
Gnathos's 85 features across ten areas, and how Archy handles each.
Gnathos84 of 85 Included1 through partners
ArchyIncludes 40 of Gnathos's 85 Features26 partial · 5 paid add-on or third party · 14 not found
| Feature | Gnathos | Archy |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule & Front Desk | ||
| Day, week and month schedule by operatory and provider | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| ASAP list: cancellations refilled automatically | ✓ | ◐ASAP list and appointment finder; matching is manual |
| Smart waitlist ranked by pending treatment value | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Online booking with live availability | ✓ | ✓Online scheduling built in, updating the schedule in real time |
| Self-reschedule link for patients | ✓ | ◐Text confirmations, portal booking; no reschedule found |
| Check-in board: arrived, seated, done, live for the team | ✓ | ◐Kiosk mode and appointment statuses |
| One-click counters: treatment due, x-rays due, recall overdue, insurance unverified | ✓ | ◐Dashboards and lists |
| Production goals shown on the schedule | ✓ | ✓Production numbers and goals shown on the schedule |
| Patient search with PHI hidden until hovered | ✓ | ◐HIPAA view hides sensitive patient information on the schedule |
| Clinical | ||
| Tooth chart with conditions, planned work and history | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Perio charting | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Voice perio charting | ✓ | $AI Voice Perio, in the separately priced Clinical Suite |
| Dictated note becomes a structured clinical note (AI) | ✓ | $Archy Scribe, in the separately priced Clinical Suite |
| Note templates, typed or dictated from any page | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Sign and lock restricted to providers | ✓ | ◐Notes are e-signed; provider-only locking not found |
| Treatment plans with versions and acceptance tracking | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Patient-facing estimates with e-signature | ✓ | ✓Plan estimates e-signed chairside or by text link |
| Treatment plan sender: plan, notes and quote by text, email or print | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Plans and estimates sent by secure text link to review and e-sign |
| Plan Optimizer: sequencing across insurance years and benefits | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Phased plans flag deductibles and remaining maximums; no cross-year optimizer found |
| Treatment acceptance prediction per plan | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Imaging viewer opens from the chart | ✓Efficiency plan; cloud DICOM viewer built in | ✓Imaging built in, with offline capture |
| AI findings on x-rays | ◐Efficiency plan; Pearl and Overjet findings open in the chart; AI reads billed by the partner | $Clinical AI Imaging (Pearl), in the separately priced Clinical Suite |
| E-prescribing with controlled substances (EPCS) | ✓Efficiency plan, through an e-prescribing partner | $E-Prescribe powered by DoseSpot |
| Lab case tracking with a schedule alert when a case is not back | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Lab case tracking with schedule status updates |
| Medical alerts and allergies on every patient | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Patient Records & Portal | ||
| Full profile: demographics, insurance, plans, recall, history, activity log | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Ledger with charges, payments, adjustments and statements | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Documents and forms stored per patient | ✓ | ✓Document center |
| Pre-visit intake forms by link | ✓ | ✓Online forms |
| Patient portal: book, pay, sign, message, view records | ✓ | ✓Patient portal listed |
| Insurance card scanned from a photo | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Family linking with an unscheduled-family view | ✓ | ✓Family payments and linking |
| Insurance & Claims | ||
| Real-time insurance eligibility | ✓Through a clearinghouse | ✓Real-time eligibility built in; unlimited checks |
| Week-ahead verification page | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Huddle flags this week's unverified insurance; checks auto-run 1–10 days ahead |
| Claims built from completed procedures, reviewed before submission | ✓ | ✓Claims drafted after appointments |
| AI claim scrubber: likely rejections and missing attachments flagged | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Basic validation; no AI scrubber found |
| Electronic claims with attachments | ✓Through a clearinghouse; attachments on the Efficiency plan | ✓Unlimited claim submissions with attachments |
| ERAs post automatically | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Uploaded ERAs post across claims automatically; AI posting is a paid add-on |
| Automatic claim status checks | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Claim tracking in the insurance hub |
| Denied-claim alerts with the reason | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Denials auto-routed to a work queue; claim errors shown |
| Payer portal link on every claim row | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Money | ||
| Card payments at the desk and online | ✓Through Payzli | ✓Payment processing built in |
| Text-to-pay links | ✓ | ✓Texts with payment links |
| Membership plans with auto-billing | ✓ | —Not found on Archy's site |
| Payment plans with consent and auto-charge | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Payment plans built in with automated payments |
| Financing partners recorded on the patient | ✓ | ◐CareCredit and Cherry payments post through an integration |
| Loyalty points and rewards | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Daily financial check: collected, patient portion, insurance portion, deposit line | ✓ | ◐Reports and dashboards |
| Card processing on the same bill as the software | ✓Payzli processing, on the Gnathos bill | ✓Processing built in; card fees can be passed to patients |
| Communication & Reputation | ||
| Two-way texting on your practice number | ✓ | ✓Unlimited texting |
| Reminders, confirmations and recall campaigns | ✓ | ✓Automated reminders, confirmations and recall texts |
| Review requests sent the same way to every patient | ✓ | ◐Review requests built in; their site describes asking happy patients |
| One inbox: text, email, chat and voicemail per patient | ✓ | ◐Texts and email; voicemail not found |
| AI-drafted replies waiting for a person | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐AI writing assistant for marketing emails; AI reply drafts not found |
| Incoming call opens the patient (call pop, click-to-call) | ✓Efficiency plan; works with your existing phone line | $Phone partners |
| Consent built in: STOP handling and frequency caps per patient | ✓ | ◐STOP handling standard; per-patient caps not found |
| Morning Huddle, Reports & AI | ||
| Morning huddle screen: yesterday, today, tomorrow | ✓ | ✓Huddle included |
| AI morning brief written from your own numbers | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Post the huddle to team chat in one click | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Standard reports: production, collections, AR aging, payer mix, utilization | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Ask Gnathos: plain-English questions answered from your data | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Ask Archy |
| Daily AI insights | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐AI-powered reporting |
| Practice Health: benchmarks and overhead so owners see take-home | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Goal dashboards; overhead and take-home not found |
| Revenue Recovery | ||
| Dead-revenue ledger: dollars by category, ranked recovery queue | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Actionable A/R and treatment reports; ranked dollar ledger not found |
| Automated recovery campaigns tracked in dollars | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Automated and bulk texts, including from reports; dollar tracking not found |
| Anna: AI treatment coordinator drafting follow-ups from the chart | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Texting patients about treatment from reports; AI follow-up drafting not found |
| Recall Outreach with one-click batches | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Automated recalls |
| Retention Radar: risk score per patient with reasons and a call script | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Payment recall on open balances with text-to-pay | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Payment links by text and statement automation |
| Inactive patient reactivation | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Recall and email campaigns |
| Unscheduled treatment follow-ups | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Unscheduled-treatment list with group texts |
| Recovery mode: see your number on live data before you switch | ✓ | —Not found in Archy's published features |
| Team & Operations | ||
| Clock-in and timesheets; payroll export coming soon | ✓ | ✓Time tracking built in |
| Tasks with due dates, self-added and assigned | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Team chat with patient tagging that opens the profile | ✓ | ◐HIPAA-compliant team chat; no patient tagging found |
| HR documents with expiry reminders | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Predictive inventory | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Roles and permissions; controls hidden, not greyed out | ✓ | ◐Role-based permissions listed; details not published |
| Audit log on every record access and change | ✓ | ◐Chart, claim and payment edits logged; views not found |
| Migration, Security & Support | ||
| Live sync with your current system within minutes | ✓ | —Not found; Archy converts with a trial extraction and a final conversion at go-live |
| Migration and onboarding included, no setup fees | ✓ | ◐Comprehensive migration; fees not published |
| Line-by-line reconciliation against your old system before go-live | ✓ | ◐Practice audits converted data in a sample account before go-live; no reconciliation report published |
| Cloud-based, works from any device | ✓ | ✓Cloud-native |
| Encryption in transit and at rest | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Signed BAA available | ✓ | ✓Included |
✓ Included◐ Partial or basic$ Paid add-on or third party— Not found in published features
Competitor information comes from each vendor's public website, help center and documentation, checked September 25, 2026, with updates from October 27, 2026, and every cell says why it's marked the way it is. Add-ons and inclusions vary by plan and change often; if something here is out of date, email matt@carifyone.com and we'll correct it. Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, CareStack, Curve Dental and Archy are trademarks of their owners; Gnathos is not affiliated with them.
Switching from Archy, Plainly.
What You Keep
Every patient, appointment, procedure, plan, claim, ledger balance, note, perio chart and document. Reconciled line by line before go-live, so nothing is left behind.
What Changes
The whole practice runs in Gnathos, and your team learns one system.
How Long
Live sync within minutes of connecting, recovery mode from the first week, and a cutover that is scheduled and staffed once your numbers reconcile.
Ready to Make the Move?
Book a 15-minute demo and we'll map your migration from Archy on the call.