SurveyCTO Collect

4.4
1.69K reviews
500K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

SurveyCTO Collect for Android is a powerful tool for mobile data collection (a.k.a. Computer Assisted Personal Interviews, or CAPI) and telephone surveying (a.k.a. Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews, or CATI).

In mobile-data-collection applications, Collect allows you to collect data offline so that you can conduct household interviews, facility inspections, or any other kind of data collection even in remote, poorly-connected environments.

In telephone-survey applications, Collect can take over as your default phone app, deeply integrating call-management features with form-filling features, effectively turning any Android device into a mobile call center. Survey forms can launch and manage phone calls, you can receive calls within the app, and the entire user experience has been optimized for interviewing.

For multi-use devices, Collect makes it easy to switch between Collect and other phone apps, so that you're always using the right phone app for your needs. A setting allows you to use Collect as your default phone app either on-demand, whenever-running, or always.

Collect is a core part of the overall SurveyCTO product, which also includes web and desktop software components. After data has been collected with Collect, it is uploaded to the SurveyCTO server when an Internet connection is available or transferred to a supervisor's laptop over a local (offline) wi-fi connection.

SurveyCTO was initially built on the Open Data Kit (ODK) open-source platform, and has specialized in data quality, data security, and overall reliability. Learn more at https://www.surveycto.com or in the documentation at https://docs.surveycto.com.
Updated on
Nov 29, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
1.51K reviews
Khanyisa Mzimane
February 25, 2025
It keeps on telling me to encrypt my phone, whereas I did encrypt it, and it erased you everything in my phone, only to find out that the encryption did not work, it still says that I should encrypt my device. I am using a Hisense Infinity U60, and I have work to do tomorrow...
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Dobility, Inc.
May 8, 2025
Sorry for the trouble you experienced. The requirement that your device be encrypted is set by the organization you're working with, not directly by SurveyCTO. Please work with your team/organization to resolve these issues and get support. We support users via https://support.surveycto.com/hc/en-us
Redwane Hamma
December 26, 2024
The offline features makes it easy especially in remote areas. But why it requires unnecessary permissions like mic. Also it collects some user info like the type of browser they are using and mobile phone details that puts users in doubt so the responsible would be embarrassed
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Shafiuddin Ahmed
September 19, 2020
New update version 2.70 "Added support for fully-embedded phone surveys. Added a quick setup feature." Plz roll out the update. Becoz this feature always takes user to the set up of "default dialing app" as and when initiate a phone survey. By clicking the SCTO dialer it shows the number in international format or sumething like that.
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Dobility, Inc.
September 19, 2020
Yes, to take advantage of the new phone integration, you must temporarily switch the default phone app to SurveyCTO. If there is any problem please contact support at https://support.surveycto.com (or, if you are not the SurveyCTO subscriber, ask the subscriber to contact support).

What’s new

SurveyCTO Collect 2.81.4 contains fixes for regressions in 2.81.3.