God awful
App was absolutely and utterly terrible
Not good, and not getting any better
I have a GIS degree. I’ve had the displeasure of using this app for the past 7 years for work both collecting field data and configuring forms for others. It’s a simple app that somehow remains very difficult to use due to numerous bugs, battery drain, lag, crashing, authentication loops, etc. These issues get exacerbated in areas of poor cell service, causing errors that only resolve by force quitting the app and re-opening in airplane mode. There have been basically no improvements to this platform or support which make the predatory pricing practices of ESRI even more egregious. A billion dollar company that can’t make a simple app functional.
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Potential held back by battery life and design issues
It looks bad and runs worse draining your battery. The Survey123 app experience is even worse when developers don’t recognize or address its limitations.
Good, with bugs
Solid overall functionality, but crashes when uploading photos on iPhone 17
Solid Tool
Survey123 is a solid tool and part of many of our data collection efforts with my students. That said there are a few buggy aspects that seem to take a relatively long time to address.
First there is the perpetual issue of data entry with a keyboard STILL often hanging up the advancement through the form.
Most recently I discovered that (while doing a demo to my class as we were about to head out into the field with Survey123) my new iPhone 17 causes the app to completely crash if you attempt to take a photo. We replicated the issue with other students who also had new iPhone 17s.
Again, a solid app, but the responsiveness/speed of revisions leaves much to be desired.
First there is the perpetual issue of data entry with a keyboard STILL often hanging up the advancement through the form.
Most recently I discovered that (while doing a demo to my class as we were about to head out into the field with Survey123) my new iPhone 17 causes the app to completely crash if you attempt to take a photo. We replicated the issue with other students who also had new iPhone 17s.
Again, a solid app, but the responsiveness/speed of revisions leaves much to be desired.
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