SurveyCTO

I have found SurveyCTO to be an incredible set of survey software, and I have used many others. It is simple to set up, easy to use, surveyors love it, even those who have little to no experience using electronics, and submission (in my experience) has been flawless. There are one or two other sets of software that beat it in specialized niches, but by and large there is nothing else like it in terms of the ease and quality from start to finish.

My international research organization trusts our millions (perhaps soon to be billions) of data points to be collected through SurveyCTO. We work in dozens of countries with often limited connectivity, with staff of extremely variable skill levels, with many different requirements for instruments/indicators, and with different process requirements. While super-complicated survey forms can take some time to put together, the combination of skip logic (relevance), response constraints, repeat-question tables, data preloading, random number generation, calculations, ability to connect forms to each other, and more will get you where you need to be. If you're doing something simple, you could be ready in minutes.

One nice thing, among many nice things, is SurveyCTO's scalability. Even if you're not running a big show, but rather your own simple M&E project, you can get set up quickly on your own. Create a server on their website right away, pay by credit card, use the excellent online documentation and templates to get started, get lightning-fast support along the way, and then sit back and watch the data come in to your central server from wherever your Android devices are collecting survey information. Your staff will love how simple the forms are to work through, and they can even collect data offline to be sent to the server later.

Perhaps the best thing of all is how quickly new features are released. SurveyCTO knows what I want before I do. Highly recommended!