ABA Data Notebook vs ABA Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABA Data Notebook
This app allows educators and therapists to track student skills and behaviors. It provides tools for defining behaviors, monitoring interventions, and generating reports. Data can be synced across devices and includes curriculum alignment with common assessment tools.
- Concurrent data collection for multiple students
- Skills and behavior management
- Graph and report generation
- Define behaviors, antecedents, and consequences
- Monitor interventions and assessments
- Curriculum alignment with ABLLS, VB_MAPP
- Cross-device data syncing
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Description - ABA Data Notebook - Full Feature, provides the capability to collect concurrently for multiple students both skills and behavior management data. Graphs and reports are both on the device and web. Operationally define behaviors, antecedents, consequences, prompt levels, settings, levels of intensity for each student. View the effects of interventions and monitor your Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans. Create new targets and Phase Change Lines which are synched with the web. Use a curriculum aligned with common assessment tools, e.g. ABLLS, VB_MAPP, or create your own. Share data amongst different devices and start a session from where you left off.
ABA Cloud
This app simplifies applied behavior analysis data management. It streamlines data collection for skill acquisition and behavior reduction, and provides analysis tools. Users can view progress snapshots and current targets.
- Streamlined data collection
- Skill acquisition tracking
- Behavior reduction tracking
- Data analysis tools
- Progress snapshots
- Current target monitoring
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The ABA cloud app was built to make applied behavior analysis data management an easy process. The data collection tool can streamline data collection for skill acquisition, behavior reduction, and data analysis. Users can also see snapshots of progress or current targets.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ABA Cloud at 5.0 against ABA Data Notebook's 3.3. ABA Cloud also leads on device support (3 vs 1). ABA Data Notebook's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ABA Cloud holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.
ABA Data Notebook ships an update monthly, ABA Cloud every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABA Data Notebook | ABA Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Operant Systems Inc. | ABA Cloud, Inc. |
Customer experience
ABA Data Notebook
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In-app purchases
ABA Data Notebook
No in-app purchases
ABA Cloud
No in-app purchases
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