Looking for an alternative to Magpi? You’re in the right place.
If you’ve been a Magpi user, you may have heard the news: Magpi is discontinuing their operations in February 2025. If you’ve relied on Magpi as your primary tool for mobile data collection, you might be wondering what comes next.
Fortunately, there are mobile data collection alternatives to Magpi that provide all the features you need to continue collecting high-quality data in the field.
SurveyCTO is a reliable, low-code, highly secure mobile data collection platform. We’re used in over 165 countries by organizations and researchers at NGOs, universities, survey firms, nonprofits, and more. From global health to monitoring & evaluation to supply chain management and agriculture, our users are making a difference using SurveyCTO for projects like field surveys, evaluations, impact reporting, longitudinal studies, and inspections.
Guided by a strong set of principles, SurveyCTO is designed to streamline fieldwork and increase data quality. Check out a few of our capabilities:
Key functionalities for collecting high-quality data
Choose from the user-friendly online form designer, or program forms in Excel or Google Sheets. Our flexible skip logic allows for complex forms with sophisticated survey logic, while test-as-you-go features like our Form inspector and more ensure quality from form deployment through your data collection projects.
Say goodbye to limits with the SurveyCTO Collect app. With features for offline data collection, you can easily carry out your surveys and data flows in areas with no internet connectivity.
Make sure that only authorized parties have access to your data with customizable user roles. Want even more access control? Use Teams to keep projects completely separate from each other.
Know how your data is actually being collected on the ground through live data summaries, which helps solve problems and make workflow changes as needed to ensure better-quality data for your projects. Use our review and corrections workflow and built-in automated quality checks to manage incoming data and ensure accuracy and completeness.
SurveyCTO offers users end-to-end encryption, SSL, features to restrict access, and passwords to make your forms and data secure. Our platform is also SOC-2 certified and offers GDPR compliance, because data security is a top priority.
Our geolocation data collection capabilities let you take measurements, calculate areas and distances, plot routes on maps, and more for efficient fieldwork.
Integrate with the platforms you already use for data management and visualization, like Google Sheets and PowerBI, and with tools like Zapier for streamlined field communications. Want to build custom integrations? Create what you need with our REST API.
Track projects, facilities, survey respondents, and other entities across time or in multiple forms. Our case management functionality makes complex projects and longitudinal studies easier than ever! Combine with the advanced offline features to make data collected in one form immediately available in the next form while offline.
Making the jump: next steps
If you’re concerned about the difficulty of learning a new platform, rest assured: We have all the resources you need, from an online training course to extensive product documentation to a robust set of guides and templates in our Support Center. Our global Customer Support team is industry-leading in their response times and knowledge, so there’s always someone available to assist you. We’ve even put together a step-by-step guide to help you make the transition:
Beyond our capabilities, SurveyCTO offers a number of positive benefits. Principle-driven innovation is part of our DNA, and we’re steadily rolling out a suite of AI-related features to enhance data quality in users’ fieldwork. We’re also hard at work inventing new ways to make your data collection better than ever before, like our ever-expanding suite of field plug-ins for easy form customization. We also make sure that help is always available to users by providing best-in-class customer support that’s 24/7, global, and has (on average) same-day response times.
SurveyCTO offers tiered subscription options for maximum flexibility–explore them today to choose your best fit. If you need a subscription package tailored to your team’s unique needs, our team is ready to discuss Enterprise options with you.
Ready to take the leap and explore SurveyCTO as your next data collection tool? Request a demo today to get in touch with our team. We’re here to guide you every step of the way. You will have the option of handling the migration yourself, or working with our team if you want technical support.
