MacPractice API
MacPractice DDS has no public API, no developer portal and no partner program a customer can join. Data sits in an on-premise MySQL database and leaves only through built in CSV and Excel exports or a paid custom export from Account Management.
Frequently asked questions
MacPractice scores F on Supergood's API Report Card. MacPractice DDS has no public API, no developer portal and no partner program a customer can join. Data sits in an on-premise MySQL database and leaves only through built in CSV and Excel exports or a paid custom export from Account Management.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
MacPractice DDS is the dental edition of MacPractice, a macOS native practice management and clinical suite that also ships MD, DC and 20/20 editions on the same codebase.
Healthcare, specifically small to medium sized dental practices that standardize on Apple hardware. A front desk schedules, posts charges and payments to the ledger, and files eClaims through Change Healthcare, Inovalon or DentalXChange.
MacPractice is a niche, Mac only vendor with 51 employees listed on LinkedIn (company size 51 to 200, https://www.linkedin.com/company/macpractice-inc-), 7 Capterra reviews (https://www.capterra.com/p/77176/MacPractice-DDS/reviews/) and 10 G2 reviews for the DDS edition (https://www.g2.com/products/macpractice-dds/reviews).
The MacPractice database holds the practice's patient demographics and family accounts, appointment schedule, ledger with charges, payments and adjustments, insurance plans and claim history, treatment plans, dental and perio charts, EDR and EHR narratives, digital radiographs and attachments, prescriptions, inventory and time clock records.
MacPractice was founded in 2004 as the successor to DentalMac (1984) and remains an on-premise macOS application with a practice owned Mac server and a MySQL database.
A dentist reports that after the company was sold to a foreign owner all previous pricing arrangements were cancelled, the yearly fee more than doubled, and two calls to renegotiate went unreturned for six weeks. A Capterra reviewer notes the software is built for multiple healthcare fields, so many data fields are mislabeled or irrelevant for dentistry and harder for staff to learn. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Curve Dental, Datacon Dental Systems. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. As of October 2026 there is no official MacPractice MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. MacPractice doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.