Bonterra Apricot vs CommCare

Bonterra Apricot is a paid web platform for fundraising, participant services and grant-award management. Fundraising tools include online donation forms, recurring donations, automated receipts, donor segmentation, peer-to-peer fundraising, event fundraising and advanced campaign reporting. Program teams can use forms and surveys, custom application intake and review workflows, outcome tracking and a participant portal. Award management and reporting and compliance are listed as advanced, with a full grantee portal and reporting dashboards. Apricot Essentials includes forms and records, case management, native reporting, secure web forms and mobile access. Apricot Pro adds advanced forms and workflows, scheduling and referrals, the Participant Connect portal, advanced auditing and API integrations. Apricot Enterprise adds advanced reporting and dashboards, single sign-on, inventory management, API access and a sandbox site. Payment processing is separate. Pricing is on request, and no free plan is listed. Bonterra Apricot is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and the maker was founded in 2021.

CommCare is a digital platform for frontline work that supports data collection, service delivery and case management. Its no-code builder lets teams assemble apps using drag-and-drop forms, skip logic, case configuration, multilingual forms, referrals and reporting. The Android app operates fully offline and synchronizes when a connection returns; workflows can also run in browser-based web apps, and both formats can connect to two-way SMS. Integration options include exports, OData feeds, data-forwarding tools, third-party connectors and REST APIs, including connections to Power BI, Tableau, DHIS2, Salesforce and Azure. The API can read and write cases, forms and users and automate submissions and updates. CommCare is open source: the web platform uses a BSD license and the Android app an Apache 2.0 license. The free testing edition includes one project space and five mobile workers. Standard costs $100 a month billed annually; Pro is $500 a month billed annually; Advanced is $1,000 a month billed annually; Enterprise starts at $4,000 a month.