Open Foris Collect Mobile

Collect Mobile is a fast, intuitive and flexible data collection tool for field-based surveys.

This Android app allows the completion of complex data structures, such as biophysical, socio-economic or biodiversity surveys. Its many features include:

• On-the-fly validation to improve data quality


• Handling of large lists of species or other attributes


• Geo-location through embedded GPS


• Integration with Collect for data management, analysis and export to commonly used formats


• Processes inputs and calculates attributes for quality control in the field

Collect Mobile is part of the Open Foris tools suite for designing and managing field-based inventories. To setup a survey, download and install Open Foris Collect, create your survey, and export it for Collect Mobile. Once the data has been collected, import it into Collect for data cleansing and analysis. Go to http://www.openforis.org to find out more.

Recent changes:
2024-04-18
- submit only current record to Collect server;
Previous improvements:
- improved backup/restore;
- record edit lock;
- Long descriptions: added show more/less button;
- Android 13 permissions;
- summary list attributes;
- taxon: Unknown/Unlisted items
- font size and lock screen options in Settings
- file attribute: support Document type
- pictures: fit max size; rotate
- sampling point data labels
- coordinate: show in map
- audio and video file attributes
- barcode scanner