Comparison

ABA Data Notebook vs Portia Pro V5

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Portia Pro V5

This comprehensive software streamlines ABA clinic operations, offering data collection, practice management, and insurance billing. It helps therapists track client progress, manage curriculums, and generate reports, improving therapy outcomes and freeing up valuable clinician time.

Highlights
  • ABA data collection
  • Practice management
  • Insurance billing
  • Real-time session data
  • Curriculum management
  • Automatic report generation
  • Cloud storage
Features
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Your all-in-one Solution for ABA Data Collection, Practice Management, and Insurance Billing. Portia is therapy-first ABA software for your ABA clinic that combines practice management, electronic medical records, insurance billing, curriculum, and data collection. Dramatically improve the therapy results for your clients for a small monthly fee. Accurately, consistently, and correctly capturing all session data in real-time, from each session, anywhere in the world. Track mand frequency, skill acquisition, task analysis, implement behavior reduction plans, manage multiple curriculums, and add programs seamlessly. USA Clinics can add the Insurance Billing Module and easily have their insurance billing taken care of by our USA-based billing team. Finally, you can track the life cycle of each and every target...from baseline, to acquisition, to generalization and maintenance, without a massive and error-prone paper trail! As the data is captured, PortiaPro’s analytical engine analyzes it, applies rules, and presents the results immediately for use by Behavior Analysts and seamlessly readies the next session for the Learner. * No more guesswork on paper notes. * No more manual graphing. * GPS location. * Automatic report generation. * All stored securely in the cloud. * Accessible anywhere. Revising therapies and programs with greater frequency and accuracy increases the rate at which students progress toward behavior goals. Free up your valuable therapist time by removing the mountainous burden of manual, paper-driven data tracking and reporting. Portia allows users to enter their own curriculum, utilize Portia’s curriculum out of the box, including over 480 tasks (with full teaching procedures) and 2,000 targets currently in practice at the world-leading centers) OR customize the Portia curriculum to craft individual learner’s programs on an as-needed basis. Portia's curriculum is available in English, French, and Spanish. * Subscription to Portia is required

Screenshots

Portia Pro V54 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: ABA Data Notebook at free against Portia Pro V5's subscription. ABA Data Notebook also leads on rating (3.3 vs 2.8) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). Portia Pro V5's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ABA Data Notebook holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of ABA Data Notebook's written reviews are positive against 50% of Portia Pro V5's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ABA Data Notebook versus Portia Pro V5: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABA Data NotebookPortia Pro V5
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (9 ratings) — better2.8 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings911 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOperant Systems Inc.PortiaPro Inc.

Customer experience

ABA Data Notebook

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

Portia Pro V5

All ratings11 ratings
Positive45.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative54.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

ABA Data Notebook

No in-app purchases

None

Portia Pro V5

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ABA Data Notebook free?
ABA Data Notebook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Portia Pro V5 free?
Portia Pro V5 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ABA Data Notebook or Portia Pro V5?
ABA Data Notebook is rated higher. ABA Data Notebook averages 3.3 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Portia Pro V5 averages 2.8 from 11 ratings.
Do ABA Data Notebook or Portia Pro V5 have ads?
Neither ABA Data Notebook nor Portia Pro V5 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ABA Data Notebook or Portia Pro V5?
ABA Data Notebook ships an update monthly, and Portia Pro V5 monthly. Most recently, ABA Data Notebook was updated on October 24, 2026 and Portia Pro V5 on October 24, 2026.

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