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Name: iDispense

Price: Free (basic)

£199.99 (full version)

£299.99 (multi user version)

I am a big fan of electronic dispensing tools so was interested to try out this new app from Optisoft. There are essentially three components. A ‘capture’ function exploits the camera in a tablet allowing the capture of stills or videos of a patient wearing frames they might be considering (figure 1 - above).

Anything that allows the patient to see clearly how they look in frames is to be welcomed and this program is flexible enough to provide a range of high quality presentations and easy enough to use to allow even the novice to present different captures at once for comparison purposes.