ORB Leader vs ABA Pocketbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ORB Leader
This tool helps Award Leaders manage participants for The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award. It allows for quick processing of registrations and section approvals directly from a mobile device. Requires the latest Online Record Book system and a valid Award Leader login.
- Manage Award participants
- Process registrations
- Approve sections
- Mobile device management
- Works with ORB Next Generation
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This application was developed by The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation as a simple, and fast tool, to assist Award Leaders in managing their Award participants from a mobile device. From this App, the Award Leader is able to quickly and easily process multiple actions, such as Award Registrations and Section Approvals, anytime, anywhere. Your Award must be using the latest version of the Online Record Book system (sometimes known as "ORB Next Generation") and have a valid Award Leader login to the system in order to be able to use this App.
ABA Pocketbook
This app facilitates the collection of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) data, recording frequency and duration for skills and behavior management programs. It supports detailed tracking of prompts, comments, ABC data, and intensity levels. Student planners and behavior plans sync automatically from the web.
- Frequency and duration recording
- Skills and behavior program tracking
- Prompt levels and trial comments
- ABC data and intensity levels
- Offline data collection
- Web sync functionality
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ABA Pocketbook - is a phone version for collecting ABA data . It records frequency and duration information for both Skills and Behavior management programs .This includes prompt levels, trial comments, behavior instance abc details and levels of intensity. A students daily planner and behavior plan is set up on the web and automatically updated on the phone. Data can be collected without internet connection and later synched with the web.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ORB Leader at 5.0 against ABA Pocketbook's 3.8. ABA Pocketbook's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 33%) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). 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.
ORB Leader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABA Pocketbook has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of ORB Leader's written reviews are positive against 71% of ABA Pocketbook's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ORB Leader ships an update every 4 months, ABA Pocketbook every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ORB Leader | ABA Pocketbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation | Operant Systems Inc. |
Customer experience
ORB Leader
ABA Pocketbook
In-app purchases
ORB Leader
No in-app purchases
ABA Pocketbook
No in-app purchases
