Many nature restoration teams already run a stack: spreadsheets, a survey app, a GIS, a page for funders. Each comparison below says what the other tool does best, and where Restoration Scope fits beside it.
A proven survey tool, free for nonprofits, and the system that connects its submissions to sites, seasons and funders.
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Open-source forms you can host yourself, and the project record their submissions join.
CompareIcon-based field capture from a nonprofit, and the system that ties field records to sites, seasons and funders.
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A free, fixed seed-to-planting structure that is strongest in the nursery, and one complete system configured around your project.
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QGIS power in the field, and a configured app that keeps every visit tied to its site.
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Free desktop GIS for analysts, and the system the rest of the team works in.
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Esri's field apps for teams already on ArcGIS, and a system configured around restoration records and funders.
CompareA public story page for funders, and donor portals fed by the records field teams keep.
CompareCredits, sales and verification reports for developers, and the land and field records behind them.
CompareA registry with its own monitoring tech, and a project’s records under whichever standard it uses.
CompareSatellite carbon estimates and baselines, and the field plots and land records they rest on.
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Excel files move to a shared Google Sheet, and a map of sites and polygons sits beside it.
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A flexible database you build yourself, and a system built around sites and boundaries on a map.
CompareMany tree-planting projects start in Excel, Google Sheets or Airtable. Excel files on laptops should move to a shared Google Sheet; a shared sheet or a base can then carry a small project for a while. They are good at tables and weak at maps: sites become coordinate columns, boundaries live in separate files and photos sit in folders. The two comparisons below say when a sheet or a base is enough, and when to add a map of sites and polygons.
Often several tools: spreadsheets or Airtable, a survey app such as KoboToolbox, ODK or QField, a GIS such as QGIS, and sometimes a public page or funder portal. Restoration Scope connects these into one project record.
No. Restoration Scope connects Kobo, Google Sheets, spreadsheets and GIS files. Most teams keep the tools that work and add the links between them.
It is priced per project after a scoping call, because each system is configured around the project. There is no public price list.
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Bring in the spreadsheets, field forms and maps you already use, and see every site in one place.