Best Electronic Data Capture Apps for Android

KoboToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments. Our software is free and open source. Most of our users are people working in humanitarian crises, as well as aid professionals and researchers working in developing countries. Our teams of developers and researchers are based in Cambridge, MA, and many other places around the world. Quickly collecting reliable information in a humanitarian crisis, especially following a natural disaster such as a large earthquake or a typhoon, is the critical link to saving the lives of the most vulnerable. Understanding the population’s needs is often neglected for lack of quick means to gather and analyze this crucial information. KoboToolbox was created as a free and open-source toolkit for data collection and analysis in humanitarian emergencies and other challenging environments to address this urgent need. KoboToolbox is funded entirely through generous grants and partnerships with our partners.

We enable organizations to measure and maximize their impact by digitizing their fieldwork and data collection. Say goodbye to paper-based forms & surveys by digitizing your fieldwork and data collection. Whether your organization has a few basic forms or hundreds of complex surveys, our tools will present them in a simple, intuitive way to fieldworkers and respondents, on any device. Using our Android mobile app, data can be captured offline and responses upload automatically in the background. New form assignments or versions download automatically ensuring your fieldworkers always have the right forms. Improve productivity, data accuracy, and compliance using rules to automate skip logic and validation. Guide workflow using logic and prevent errors by embedding validation into your forms. Build date-based logic to guide scheduling and provide decision support. Cater for repeating data scenarios such as enumerating a household roster.

Magpi is a leading provider of configurable, cloud-based mobile data collection and data visualization tools to let organizations improve the effectiveness of their mobile workforce and improve field operations. Magpi enables organizations across various industries to easily and cost-effectively develop flexible and robust mobile forms, and access and visualize real-time data, and generate reports. Recognizing that the most expensive element of any data collection activity at the time was the money spent on programmers and tech consultants, they produced EpiSurveyor, the first self-service, cloud-based application in the development sector. Often described as “like Gmail but for data collection,” EpiSurveyor brought Silicon Valley ways of scaling software to global health and international development. Since its introduction, and name change to “Magpi” in 2013, the software has evolved and been adapted to new use cases, in industries as diverse as microfinance, energy, education, etc.