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Comparing Pendragon Forms and SurveyCTO

Pendragon Forms is a mobile development software used by organizations to create forms, capture information (including barcodes and geolocation data), integrate with other data platforms, work offline, and export data for reporting or visualization.

This year, after 30 years in business, Pendragon announced their decision to close their company. Their plan is to wind down operations over the next 12 months.

If you’re a current Pendragon Forms user who’s now looking for alternatives and want to ensure business continuity, consider SurveyCTO as your next solution.

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How does SurveyCTO compare to Pendragon Forms?

SurveyCTO is a secure mobile data collection platform used by thousands of organizations around the world to:
  • Create and customize forms, surveys, or mobile apps
  • Keep data secure from start to finish with end-to-end, at-rest, and in-transit encryption
  • Capture high-quality data with a suite of proactive data quality tools
  • Build mobile software solutions
  • Operate reliably everywhere, with 100% offline functionality
  • Integrate smoothly with external platforms (like PowerBI, Salesforce, Stata, Zapier, and Google Sheets) for automated data workflows
Capability Platform Features
Form & app customization SurveyCTO
  • Create and customize forms in our online form designer or via spreadsheet
  • Robust survey logic supports both simple and advanced branching and routing needs
  • Field plug-ins allow for complete control over how form fields look and feel
  • Workflow profiles provide a custom data collection experience for users
Pendragon Forms
  • Build forms in a web-based form designer, with functionality for custom scripted rules
  • Custom user groups allows different users to see different forms in the field
Data security SurveyCTO
  • End-to-end, at-rest-, in-transit encryption
  • Granular user roles, permissions, and team workspaces
  • SOC 2 certified
  • GDPR, HIPAA, and DPDP compliant
Pendragon Forms
  • Remote, encrypted ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) connection
Proactive data quality tools SurveyCTO
  • Field-level validation blocks implausible incoming submissions
  • Audio and text audits allow supervisors to monitor responses
  • Review and correct incoming submissions before they land in your database
  • Automated data quality checks flag unusual responses
Pendragon Forms
  • Real-time data monitoring via native dashboard
  • Advanced survey logic like branching, calculations, and custom validation promote data quality
Support for longitudinal or long-term, ongoing projects SurveyCTO
  • Native case management functionality assigns unique IDs that allow cases to be tracked over time
  • Smoothly capture and link data from multiple, successive surveys back to the original case
  • Prepopulate data from earlier surveys in current surveys
  • 100% offline functionality means all case-based workflows work without a connection
Pendragon Forms
  • Synchronization rules allow users to refer to previously collected records
100% offline functionality SurveyCTO
  • Capture data offline and sync once online
  • Supports full end-to-end workflows that can keep moving without connectivity, including sharing data between devices or forms and reassigning tasks in the field
Pendragon Forms
  • Allows for offline data collection using the Pendragon Forms app on iOS or Android devices
Easy exports and integrations with external platforms SurveyCTO
  • Native integrations to popular tools, including Google Sheets, Zapier, OpenFN, and DevResults
  • Custom integrations via REST API or webhooks
  • Easy data downloads in multiple formats
Pendragon Forms
  • Data can be exported into an Excel
  • Captured images can be downloaded

SurveyCTO pricing allows large teams to operate comfortably within the platform through submission-based, not user-based pricing. This means no matter how many data collectors, supervisors, or managers you have in your organization or for a specific project, you can find a cost-effective plan at SurveyCTO.

How to ensure a smooth transition from Pendragon to SurveyCTO

Our team has worked with countless organizations who are transitioning from other tools to SurveyCTO, so we understand the intricacies that come with migrating forms and apps, as well as ensuring your teams are comfortable with a new tool and what that means for your processes.

To ensure a smooth transition from Pendragon Forms to SurveyCTO, our Professional Services team is designed to ease change management in a variety of ways, including:

  • Organizational onboarding sessions
  • Custom consulting services, including custom form or field functionality and user interfaces
  • Recreating Pendragon forms, apps, and workflows in SurveyCTO
  • Integrating SurveyCTO with other tools you use today for business continuity

Our 24/7 Customer Success team also provides an additional layer of communicative, accessible support no matter where and when you are.

Existing Pendragon users have already sought us out. See how we recreated a barcode scanning workflow for a research organization.

SurveyCTO also invests in principled innovation regarding AI usage in data collection. This means intentional, selective incorporation of AI to improve data quality, data collection, and post-collection processing activities. 

This includes: 

These AI capabilities can help organizations onboard (or self-service should they choose to) much quicker. Our agent skill and MCP server can even create first drafts of SurveyCTO forms for you, ensuring a swift and smooth transition to our solution.

Interested in learning more about SurveyCTO?

Transitioning from platforms, particularly those ingrained in your existing teams and processes, is no easy task.

Our team has experience in making system migrations smooth and ensuring that teams and projects are well equipped to onboard new tools.

If you are looking for a robust, secure, and flexible alternative to Pendragon Forms, we’d love to support your data collection efforts. Explore our pricing, or reach out to us below to start a conversation.

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Shirley Sweeney

Director of Digital Marketing

Shirley leads the Marketing team at Dobility, makers of SurveyCTO. Her mission is simple: helping others achieve theirs. She works towards this goal by listening closely to users, colleagues, and the broader market, translating their needs into both compelling stories and the data systems to support them.

Shirley draws from extensive experience as a data-driven marketer to make informed decisions to better serve internal and external stakeholders.