I have had a great experience with Ecobot. The customer support has been unparalleled. I appreciate how willing the Ecobot team is to hearing about the user experience. They are always willing to hear suggestions and in some cases incorporate those into the app!

Offline capabilities make the biggest difference in the field. Having the description of every hydric soil and wetland hydrology indicator stored within the app makes delineating more efficient and more accurate. I love that the wetland plant list is contained within the app as well.

Recording soil colors within the app took the most adjustment. This is the only feature that is slower compared to writing by hand.

From the initial contact with the Ecobot team, it has been nothing but a great experience. They have been more than accommodating to all of our company's questions and concerns; they have bent over backwards to provide our field teams ample time to fully explore the capabilities of Ecobot; and they continue to support our field staff with answers to their many questions. All of our field-based and office-based questions and issues have been quickly addressed and/or resolved.

First and foremost, the platform is easy to use when in the field. It is intuitive and very user-friendly. Inputting data is quick and easy. Although not a critical component, the visual aesthetics make working with the app enjoyable. The text is easy to read, the colors provide good contrast, etc. All-in-all, it is just a great product and worth the investment. The staff at Ecobot is obviously invested in every aspect of the app.

I am looking forward to the integration with the NRCS Soils layer and the LRR layer. There is still some background research that needs to be done to fully complete the datasheet. The idea of being able to drop a point and have all static information auto-populate is very exciting. While it may be a ways off, if potential hydric soils could be identified, or even minimized to "likely to be one of the following:" that would be beyond impressive.

The interface on the app is fairly user friendly, and the plant look up is pretty quick.

The app is useless without a web interface editing. Although it may speed things up in the field, the office time to make any edits after the fact is annoying and time consuming. For example, if I collect 45 sample points and then have to post-edit the lat/longs to match our GPS data, the time it takes to go into each individual data sheet in the app and hand-type the coordinates makes the app basically non-useable compared to a simple excel data form. Also, I want my forms to sort by time/date collected and not name. It is annoying that I can't change the way they are sorted. Sometimes I collect forms in Wetland A, Upland-1, Wetland A2, Upland 2, etc.... and the app auto sorts it by uplands/wetlands even if that wasn't the order I collected it. Regarding the above: our GIS generates our GPS data into an excel document with lat/longs, soil data, etc in the order that it was collected. There needs to be a grid style editing that I can copy and paste data in for all forms at once so that I don't need to individually access each form Also, it is a hassle for my coworkers to finalize my forms. It can be difficult for them to access my PDFs if I didn't have time to create the pdf in my app before they try to download it from the web. As of now, you literally have to delete the app, reinstall it, log in with my user name, create the pdf, delete the app again, reinstall it and log in with your own data, and then access the PDF from the web.

I think it takes as much time to enter data in the app as on a hard copy field notebook, but this eliminates the time in the office for data entry to create datasheets. The only office time required for datasheets is for proofreading and editing. I like returning from the field with datasheets completed and ready to proofread.

This app is easy to use in the field if you are familiar with wetland delineation datasheet content. There's a small investment of time needed to learn how to enter project and site data, but then the app allows for efficient data entry in the field. It customizes datasheets for all regions of the US. It has an easy to use database of plant species and indicator status for each region, and it has definitions of all hydrology and hydric soil indicators. Ecobot also does the vegetation calculations instantly.

Editing datasheets can only be done on an iPhone or iPad. It would be nice if there were a web interface for easier editing in the office. The price is a bit high for pay as you go datasheets, and the contract options require a significant up front cost for packages of datasheets.

We have had a lot of success using the app. It was trial and error at the beginning while the app was still in development but now it works fast a efficiently and that is exactly what we need.

The Ecobot app is easy to use and there is little to no set up involved. It's easy to deploy to field crews no matter where they are. You have everything at your fingers that you would need to complete your USACE forms and submit.

Currently there is no way to edit the PDF after you have completed the form. You must manually go back in and make the corrections. That makes it hard for project managers to edit data from multiple field crews and get the data forms back.