BehaviorSnap
reviews and complaints

I love this app, but was somewhat skeptical at first when I heard about the subscription change. I paid for the app in its original version and it wasn't cheap. But I saw on the website that current users don't have to subscribe to continue using the app. I am going to subscribe though because I like the new teacher interaction tracker on Interval observations. I'm hoping one of the future enhancements will be the ability to add customized behaviors on Interval. Sometimes I see a behavior that doesn't necessarily fit into one of the provided categories. Developers, please add this! Love your app!

Used this app as I was teaching and working with students. Very easy to use and provides a lot of useful information. Using this app will help teachers write better behavior goals and can be used to provide visual information to parents. I also found myself managing /prompting student behavior more appropriately and effectively.

This app has made my job so much more manageable. I love everything about it and it's so easy to use! However, when creating reports, I cannot figure out how to graph or calculate the "typical peer" data and have had to do it by hand. The developer website does not have any support pages or contact information for help.

This app is very useful and I'm happy to have the update. I was having trouble generating graphs and retrieving completed observations, so I contacted support. They were very friendly and were already fixing the problem (which apparently had to do with iOS and not the app). They emailed me promptly when the update was available. I'm back to tracking behaviors and generating graphs from the data collected. This is a very handy tool!

I tried to set up a customized observation ahead of time, and you can't do that and close the app...it appears that you must enter your observation file and use it right then. I'm the only psych in the district, and I go from testing, to observation, to meetings in a single day. Everything I do must be extensively pre-planned and saved ahead of time...and scheduled in a calendar app with reminders. I'd die without the assistance of technology.

Now that I will be doing IQ tests on iPad as well, I'm prepared for the planning time for set up. I'd ideally like to be able to fully set up the observation by school, student, and target behaviors and just open that file when I get to the classroom and run with it. My time is too limited to set it up while I'm supposed to be observing... Then I get in trouble for not meeting the time requirement we have in-county. If I had wiggle room, it wouldn't be a big deal, but I'm constantly on-the-go and am lucky to get a lunch. There will be no crisis today; my schedule is full.

I am a special education teacher and have been looking for this sort of app for a while now. In the past, doing student observations required a clipboard, paper, timer, and pencil. I had to juggle those things while watching the behavior of the target student and other students in the class. This app allows you to select the sort of observation, time period, your specific behaviors and keeps track of the time with or without an audible signal at the interval selected. Each time the period ends and you record data, the timer stops and then restarts making sure no behaviors are missed while you are looking down. The reports contain data and snazzy graphics like pie charts. The problem is that they are printed in too large a font and take up to 8 printed pages. With three observations in different settings each student could have more than 20 pages added to their special education file, way too many. The biggest problem with this app is that after a maximum of 12 observations you must purchase a time limited subscription. So the app costs $10 and you get soaked for as long as you use the app. I'm probably not going to spend the money from my limited budget. Looks like it's back to clunky clipboard and juggling act.

This app has really helped me! It makes taking behavior data so much easier. The graphs are nice and easily understood. I would like to see some more flexibility with the report generator. I am having problems combining reports for the same child. It's well worth the cost.

This is a great tool and it makes me excited to do observations! Which is awesome! I do wish I could edit observation data after I have recorded it because sometimes I am not as accurate in the moment (especially during interval observations) as I would like to be - especially when there are so many options like off task, but still engaged (which are great options). Anyway - that is the one thing I wish I could do... Also, it would be nice to be able to do peer comparison frequency observations as well. Just some ideas!

Another reviewer mentioned this but I wanted to reiterate. Every time I try to email a report the app locks up and it takes a significant amount of time for me to be able to reaccess other pages. Please let me know if there is a way to fix this. Also, sometimes a report is generated, but sometimes it is not. Sometimes only a portion of the report is generated. Would re-installing the app help? Would I have to repay for the app if I did this? If these things are fixed I think it would be a great app

Please allow the observer to add their own behavior description after selecting on task or off task. Often time, it takes too long to find the proper description and then the ones offered at not adequate. Perhaps an "other" option could work. Other than that this a pretty nice app.

I've used the interval recording a couple of times. Doing the observation is a snap, but the output is a problem. There is no way to disaggregate the observations of the student from those of the comparison. And the graphs look nice, but there's no clear description of what data points each one includes. Until I have a better understanding of these, I can't use them in reports. A PDF manual of some kind, maybe on your website, would be helpful.

Let me be the first to say that this is the tool I've been waiting for. As a school psychologist this app has already helped me collect valuable data on student behavior. The charts are perfect, the user interface is easy and intuitive, and the design is sleek and modern. Great job!

I love this app! I have been looking for a comprehensive behavior tracking application for the iPad and I finally found one. There is one annoyance I have with the Time Sampling method of observation. The pop up menus for documenting behaviors move around and are never in the same place. It makes it difficult to tap on the behavior and distracts from the observation. I would suggest making the menses pop up in the same location each time you go to log a behavior.

DEVELOPERS, PLEASE NOTE! This is a great tool for classroom observations. As a school psychologist, I use it for every observation. I love the graphs produced by the data and use them in my reports. My only complaint is that there aren't options to add behaviors not listed. Yes, there's an option called "other behaviors," but when you are looking at a few particular behaviors, it would be brilliant to be able to operationally define those. Please consider it, developers! This app would then be worth the steep price tag.

So I go to use Behavior Lens at work today, having not upgraded to a subscription and find that I am over my max of 12 observations. So I begrudgingly delete a number of "less critical" observations and do a couple observations. I go to run a report and find that is grayed out. I just wanted the plain old report. The new version should have been launched as a different program. Time to go back to the clipboard.

The program had a few flaws, but was still better than most. I don't like that I paid for an app only to later be forced to pay again to be able to take full advantage of it. There is a reduced price for subscribers, but still is not what I bargained for when I first purchased the app.

Can't put in observation later or change dates and times. As a K teacher, I don't have time to enter data at that moment and need to do it in my preps or later that day. This app doesn't allow that. Confusing on how to save data. I've lost lots of data cause I didn't save correctly. Makes you buy app and pay subscription to use. Huge cost

I desperately want to use this product. The design is user friendly and information can be presented in easily understood visual format that is ideal when communicating with teachers and parents in the school environment.

However, the privacy policy does not indicate what information is collected by the publisher, how it is stored, or used. Given the laws around student data, I can not use this product without this information.

The use of this tool in the public education setting may be in violation of FERPA.

There are some great things going for this app, but it's completely useless to me until some changes are made. Namely, You cannot back date anything! As a behavioral interventionist, I rely on what is reported to me and use that information to identify patterns, generate reports. The fact that you can only do recordings in real time, even on the ABC data collection, is a HUGE FLAW. I'm very disappointed that I spent this much money on an app I can't even use.

Do not buy unless you'll be able to access the app right then and there at the exact time without going back and adding info later.

It was hard to part with 30 bucks for this app. The more I use it, the more difficulties I am finding. Currently, you can take data on a peer comparison but the data can't be graphed alongside the target student. You can't go back and edit a rating once you have clicked "Done" so if you accidentally click the wrong code you can't change it. In order to export whole reports, you need to have air printing or email capabilities (and since this is a school district Ipad I don't have access to either.) These are all issues that could be fixed, as could the price point. I am hoping that with future upgrades it will continually improve.

It's bad enough that the app is clunky and requires WAY too much tapping after one interval, but now they made this poorly executed app subscription based?! Imagine a 30 minute observation where you have to WAIT for the 15 or 30 seconds to elapse before you can choose on or off task, only to find that you have to navigate a labyrinth of multiple choice options and buttons before moving on to the next interval! My 30 minute observation has now turned into 90 minutes! I wonder how many subscribers they have or if the developers have actually ever done a classroom observation! Very frustrating, I wish my district could get their money back for buying the original app for 10+ people!

Such a waste of $10. I was super excited to use but you can't even add anything (yes I know you can do more with subscription) but even with the $10, you can't even input any ABC data since it prompts you every single time to add student. Don't purchase!

Also just realized, I cannot print or open in, as well as email the report. Nothing in the report viewer screen works after the report is generated. Ugh! So frustrating as I have an FBA due and basically took all of this data and notes for nothing.

There are many useful features to this app and it has potential, but there are some significant flaws to it as well. It's very easy to conduct an obs and recording behaviors is quick - once you get used to where all the descriptors are.

However, although you can track a typical peer, the data for that peer does not get graphed and cannot be printed. Why do i track this behavior and then not use it? Also your notes (a very helpful feature) can not be printed or even exported to a word document, which is something I really need. Overall, a decent app, but overpriced for where it is and it needs some major improvements.