The Oclean X Pro Digital is a smarter-than-normal electric toothbrush that can improve your brushing habits. While part of the pitch is a mobile companion app for tracking your brushing, this is buggy and unreliable.
- Can genuinely encourage better brushing
- Solid battery life
- Buggy app
- Micro-USB charging
The number of home appliances that have become "smart" over the recent years is almost a little bewildering, but also not entirely surprising. Chucking a giant screen on your fridge sure is going to make it standout. For better or for worse.
Smarts have also infiltrated products once thought of as disposable, like toothbrushes. After all, once you've made your toothbrush electric, Bluetooth is only one more step away.
The Oclean X Pro Digital Sonic electric toothbrush is one such device, and the smarts aren't unwarranted. There are some genuinely clever features that have improved my brushing, but there's also a connected mobile app experience that's both buggy and superfluous.
One of the Oclean X Pro Digital's defining features is its tiny touchscreen. This is used to pick a cleaning mode and to check in on your progress while cleaning. There are three basic modes out of the box: a two-minute clean, a three-minute clean, and an "unlimited" clean, which still maxes out at four minutes.
If you don't nail your clean within the allotted time frame, you're able to add 30 seconds to try and get spots you missed, but you can't keep adding. You also can't brush for more than four minutes at a time. Because of this, I've taken to using the unlimited clean so I've got the longest amount of time possible to get a "perfect score".
Each time you brush, you're rated out of 100, and you know what, it's a surprisingly good motivator. The Oclean X Pro Digital divides your mouth into eight areas - the front and back of each quadrant - and as you brush, you get a little vibration when it's time to move on. Alternatively, you can stop brushing to look at the display, which will show you which areas need more work.
It would be nice if these details were a little more granular, and if you got a different vibration pattern for when you've hit 100%, but these are small quirks. Even if you disregard the app experience entirely, getting a rating and being able to see which areas of your mouth need more cleaning has definitely improved my brushing. I haven't gone to the dentist since I got the Oclean X Pro Digital, but I hope they're impressed when I go in for my next check-up.
The Oclean app (available on both iPhone and Android) experience is where things start falling apart. While the premise is pretty basic - a way to keep a log of your brushing metrics - the app is buggy and full of questionable choices.
The most confusing is that you have to open the app before you start brushing, otherwise it won't save data. That's a weird step to take before you start brushing your teeth. There's no way to get any historical data from the toothbrush. Given most smartwatches and smart rings can save at least some information if you're using them independently of your phone, it's odd that a smart toothbrush can't.
There are other interesting decisions, like how metrics are counted. If you exceed the app's suggestions for metrics like daily brush time, it says "four plus minutes" rather than logging your actual brush time.
I've also consistently experienced a bug where the Oclean app logs a single brush as two. Naturally, this has thrown off all my brushing metrics entirely.
One last bit of weirdness is that after you finish brushing your teeth, you earn points toward a "rank". Over the couple of months I've been testing the Oclean X Pro Digital, I've worked my way up from bronze to gold. While this is ultimately meaningless, this data seemingly only lives on the toothbrush - there's no way to check your rank in the app. (It also shows the toothbrush can save data, making it even weirder that you can't sync historical brushing to the app.)
On the battery front, the Oclean X Pro Digital will comfortably last at least a month per charge. The downside is that you need to recharge it via micro USB. It's 2025, people. We've had USB-C products since 2016. It's a confounding measure that forces one to keep otherwise deprecated cables around.
(Side note: the Oclean website says the included cable is USB-C, but this is not the case. My review unit and the unit a colleague bought from Amazon during Prime Day bought charge via micro-USB.)
It's also worth considering the price of brush heads. A two-pack will cost you $29.95, and Oclean says you should replace the head every three months. That's $60 a year in brush heads if you want to stick with the official option. That's not out of line with what Oral-B charges for its iO brush heads, but those are easier to find on sale. Alternatively, you can always hit up Temu and get a 12-pack for $14.
Oclean X Pro Digital - Final Thoughts
If the Oclean X Pro Digital completely stripped away the app experience, I wouldn't complain. You could comfortably use it and get a smarter-than-normal brushing experience while ignoring the app. The Oclean X Pro Digital's niftiest tricks live in the toothbrush rather than in your phone.
Other than a mid (but ignorable) companion app and micro-USB charging, there's not much to complain about. Retailing for $229.95, the Oclean X Pro Digital is a little pricey when compared to international pricing - there's some Australia tax at play here. Fortunately, you can often find it for sale for $150 or less, which makes it a lot more palatable.
The Oclean X Pro Digital has genuinely improved my brushing habits, and if you're looking to do the same, this could genuinely do the trick. But if you want a smart toothbrush that reliably keeps track of your brushing metrics, I'd look elsewhere.
Alex Choros
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