A data collection platform trusted by thousands

Don’t compromise when it comes to data quality and data security. See why thousands choose SurveyCTO as their trusted platform for offline and mobile data collection projects.

SurveyCTO Overview: Collect your best data

As former researchers, we deeply understand the challenges that come with collecting high quality data needed for informed decision-making.

We also understand the need to protect PII, have granular user role management, and be able to comply with regulatory standards ranging from GDPR to Institutional Review Boards.

That’s why we developed SurveyCTO.

With SurveyCTO, you have limitless possibilities when creating data collection apps and workflows while also balancing robust data security, advanced features like offline case management, automated data quality checks, and seamless ways to share results with stakeholders.

Here's why SurveyCTO has become the trusted data collection platform for organizations in over 165 countries

Collect clean, error-free data on every project

Ensure you collect clean data for informed decision-making with:

Our real-time data monitoring and automated quality controls to identify potential data accuracy problems
Flexible survey design logic that allow you to control the quality of incoming responses
Our Review and Correction Workflow that allows you to choose which submissions to flag and hold for review before releasing for publishing or export

Case management
links respondents across surveys

Our advanced case management features allow you to:

Designate unique IDs to respondents, assign respondents to specific data collectors, and tie responses back to respondents across multiple surveys
Use unique IDs to establish a framework to automate and streamline data flow between systems

Collaborate and share
seamlessly with others

Make it easy for others to have visibility into your forms and results via:

Granular user permissions that allow easy sharing with external stakeholders
Exporting results and showing summaries with our Data Explorer tool

Protect sensitive data, survey respondents, and your reputation

End-to-end encryption that protects data from your devices all the way to our secure servers
Compliance and privacy protection that satisfies GDPR regulations and Institutional Review Boards

Scale your use as your needs grow

Easy purchase of extra submission credits
Unlimited forms, devices, users, custom user roles, and storage
Desktop application for customizing export settings for multiple projects
Flexibility to create teams for optimal project management

Rely on 24×7 expert help

Prompt and thoughtful support from our team of researchers and survey experts
Extensive capacity-building resources, including our SurveyCTO Academy, user Support Center, webinars and video tutorials, product documentation, feature guides, and pre-built forms in our Hub repository

Here’s what our users have to say:

“SurveyCTO is now widely accepted by our local M&E staff as the best data collection software for program evaluation they have used!”

“I have never programmed anything before in my life, and I managed in less than two weeks to programme our entire baseline survey!”

“One of the pieces that jumped out at me at first was the idea that there is this auditing capability. This is a group that has actually thought about some of the practical things that researchers will need in the field.”

“SurveyCTO is quick to learn and extremely useful in the field. In addition, the SurveyCTO team is very quick and competent at answering any issues you may have.”