IEP Progress vs Progress Desk

IEP Progress helps special-education teachers monitor IEP goals, collect evidence, and prepare progress reports. Uploading an IEP extracts its goals, objectives, baselines, and dates. As users log data, each goal is graphed against its target line; graphs can be printed with reports or copied into district systems. The app can draft progress narratives, Present Levels, and annual goals from logged data for the teacher to review and finalize. Evidence can include marked trials and photos of student work. Behavioral goals support daily check-ins, while the related ABC Tracker records antecedent, behavior, and consequence data and can draft behavior plans for editing. Progress reports, including graphs, can be translated into family languages, but the official IEP remains in English. Care plans can be exported as PDFs. The service is available on Android, iOS, and web. Individual IEP Progress and ABC Tracker plans each cost $79/year and list a 15-day trial; school plans for either app start at $59/teacher/year with a five-teacher minimum. AI features have a fair-use limit sized for a caseload of about 30.

Progress Desk is a case management application for special education professionals, including case managers. It creates 18 documents, such as PLAAFPs, quarterly progress reports, family summaries, prior written notices, and meeting invitations. For goal measurement, it offers 15 methods and shows the baseline, target, data points, and trend on a goal card. Its schedule brings sessions, meetings, deadlines, and class availability into one view; moving sessions recalculates make-up time and service-minute totals. Student records are stored and processed locally, and the maker says the software does not collect, access, transmit, store, or process student data through the software. The Mac app needs internet for a one-time license check, then can work offline. The iPad edition costs $59, paid once, billed one-time per iPad, and requires iPadOS 16 or later. The Mac edition costs $99, paid once, billed one-time for up to two Macs, and requires macOS 12 or later. A 14-day trial and 30-day money-back guarantee are advertised.