Spear Patient Education2.5.0 - App Store

Transform every patient conversation with the Patient Education app from Spear. Available on phones and tablets, the app gives your team instant access to engaging educational content that helps patients better understand their oral health and recommended treatment.

For the first time, you can access both Chairside and Lobby videos in a single app. Review videos together with patients using built-in drawing and annotation tools, create personalized playlists, and easily share videos or handouts via email or text so patients can continue learning at home.

Key Features

NEW! Available on both phones and tablets
NEW! Access Chairside and Lobby videos in one app
Library of 250+ professionally produced patient education videos
Draw and annotate videos to personalize treatment discussions
Create custom playlists for each patient's needs
Share videos, playlists, and handouts via email or SMS
Search, filter, favorite, and quickly access the content you need
Customize emails and video landing pages with your practice branding
View sharing history to track patient engagement

Empower your team with the tools to communicate more effectively, improve patient understanding, and help patients make informed decisions about their care.

Available exclusively to eligible Spear members.

Version History We've expanded the Patient Education experience with phone support, Lobby video access, improved sharing, playlists, and annotation tools. 2.5.0 Sep 7 Bug fixes and improvements. 1.18.3 07/16/2025 Bug fixes and improvements! 1.18.2 06/17/2024 Bug fixes and improvements 1.18.1 06/24/2023 Updates to user experience including updating colors for increased accessibility
Improved functionality for annotations
Bug fixes and improvements 1.18.0 03/28/2023 Fixes annotations & other improvements. 1.17.2 05/19/2022 - Bug fixes and performance improvements. 1.17.1 05/10/2021 - Bug fixes and performance improvements. 1.17 11/30/2020 - Bug fixes and performance improvements. 1.16 05/22/2020 - Bug fixes and performance improvements. 1.15 01/16/2020 - Bug fixes and performance improvements. 1.14 12/18/2019 - Bug fixes. 1.11 05/16/2019 What's New:
- Spanish captions
- Email video handouts
- Team leaders can edit and delete their members playlists

Bug Fixes:
- Improved video annotation stability
- Improved text messaging share error messaging
- Captions in portrait now display correctly 1.10 05/03/2019 - Bug fixes. 1.9 04/02/2019 - Bug fixes. 1.8 03/26/2019 - Video history icon now appears correctly.
- Better handling of playlist reordering and creation.
- Performance enhancements for users with a large history of views or shares. 1.7 03/09/2019 - Bug fixes. 1.6 01/18/2019 - Display captions on videos.
- Setting to have captions displayed by default. 1.5 01/04/2019 - Bug fixes. 1.4 12/12/2018 Improvements:
- Audio from videos will no longer be muted by the silent mode iOS system setting.
- Login quicker by using the keyboard "Go" button to submit credentials.
- Navigate between fields using the "Next" button to speed up sharing playlists and videos to patients.
- No more flickering during the initial load of the videos.
- Improved animation when traveling between the list of videos and a specific video.
- Selecting the category of a video will now take you to the list of videos with the selected category filter applied.
- The equalizer for the current playing video in a playlist now animates.
- Filler image if a playlist has no videos.

Bug Fixes:
- Crash during logout.
- Deleting a playlist was not navigating back to the list of playlists.
- Recently viewed playlists no longer show only deleted playlists.
- Minor interface cleanup. 1.3 10/26/2018 - Performance improvements for scrolling and loading. 1.2 10/09/2018 - Bug fixes and performance improvements. 1.1 10/06/2018 1.0 10/05/2018