Roadmap for a new Citizen Science App
We take care of your project's app development from the start. After the concept phase, we start building your Citizen Science or volunteer monitoring toolkit and create custom design elements for your app. The whole process is done in close collaboration to optimize your apps for your project's requirements. We put our 15+ years of experience in digital design and development at work to provide the best solutions and innovative features in an online mobile world.
Since SPOTTERON is built as a platform by concept, the time-frame for a new Citizen Science app release can be just around 4 - 6 weeks. After the release of your project's Citizen Science apps, we continue to provide updates and improvements during the whole run-time.
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Fixed prices - more Citizen Science
From your smartphone apps to your custom features - we will provide a fixed price tag for your project without any hidden costs. SPOTTERON is available in 3 different package sizes to fit even smaller research grants. For ongoing compatibility, stability, and user or data security in a fast-changing digital world, two years of free updates, support and hosting on a professional server structure are already included in every package.
What's all included?
DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
All packages include the design and development of the apps for Android & IOS and the interactive map (web-app) for browsers. We create custom designs for your apps, such as buttons, app icons, project logo, and other media elements.
UPDATES & SUPPORT
During the whole runtime of your project, we provide full support and regular updates for optimal stability, security, and compatibility in the fast-changing world of mobile technology while also introducing new platform features.
APP STORE SETUP
We take care of setting up the presence of your project's apps on the app stores for Android & IOS with your project descriptions, image teasers, and phone mockups for a high-quality first impression for new users.
DATA MANAGEMENT
All projects on the platform have full access to the secure data and community management administration area. The admin area also provides data filters and an export tool of all contributions in the project's app in real time.
OFFLINE MODE
Outdoor apps are often in use where web connectivity is low. All apps on the platform include an offline mode with map area downloads, spot saving, and a waiting queue for new observations saved locally without an internet connection.
COMMUNITY PACK
Every app on the platform includes a full-feature social community toolkit with many advanced functionalities like a user's newsfeed, comments, liking, following, and even push messaging for getting in contact with the participants directly.
DATA QUALITY PACK
To foster data quality in your project, various tools are built into all apps on the platform for giving feedback, highlighting well-done observations for training and promoting experienced users to help with classifications of all contributions.
USER MOTIVATION PACK
Increasing the long-term motivation of the participants is an essential key element in running volunteer-based projects. All apps include tools for automatically rewarding users for their data submissions and community activity.
Increasing the long-term motivation of the participants is an essential key element in ongoing volunteer-based projects. All apps include tools for automatically rewarding users for their data submissions and community activity.
All available SPOTTERON packages can be found here:
App Features
On the SPOTTERON platform, every Citizen Science app gets all the available features without additional costs. Your project's tools will have a feature set ready from the start, which not only covers data collection and includes tools for improving data quality, community interaction, and long-term motivation. To further foster the networking aspects between projects, we run a web forum for partners in which new features are introduced, and project scientists can provide direct feedback.
We can also develop new functionalities individually for your project based on your requirements. After creating a concept, we provide a free quote for the development costs. Such new extensions will be shared with all other platforms' projects for free after development. By that principle, all projects on the SPOTTERON platform strengthen their Citizen Science apps together.
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Project Migration
For those already running Citizen Science or Volunteer Monitoring projects, we can develop custom importers to migrate all your data. Additionally, we provide a -10% deduction for projects which want to migrate to the SPOTTERON platform and its growing network of Citizen Science and Community Monitoring projects.
Like in every new project on the platform, we provide all features and extensions for the apps, data administration interface, and interactive maps without any additional costs. By migrating to the SPOTTERON platform, we can improve your existing project with a rich set of exciting features, a professional technical basis for stability, performance, and security, and high-quality custom design.
Talk to us!
We are always happy to share over 15 years of experience in design and development for consultation and advise - because we care.
You can easily reach us at office@spotteron.net or via Signal on +436765982272