Key Takeaways

Thinking about switching from Catalyst to TallyFlex? TallyFlex is the ABA data collection app 10,000+ practitioners already chose - with transparent published pricing, Session Timeline, Chromebook and offline support, and founder-direct support. Here’s an honest walkthrough of what’s different, what the migration looks like, and what your team will feel on day one.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably already running the math on a switch. Maybe reliability has stopped feeling like a guarantee during sessions. Maybe pricing conversations keep ending in “we need to get on a call.” Maybe your team has stopped asking for new features and started asking when documentation will go back to being something they do inside the session, not at 10pm.

The problem isn’t your practice - it’s the tools. You built the workflows around what Catalyst (now Ensora Data Collection) said it would do. The workflows still work. The tool stopped being the ally.

TallyFlex was built for exactly this moment. You don’t need a vendor meeting to get pricing. You don’t need a multi-week rollout. You don’t need to train a team on a tool they’ll resent. You need software that respects the clinical work enough to stay out of the way. This is why I built TallyFlex - and why 10,000+ practitioners found it on their own, without a sales call. For a row-by-row breakdown, see our honest TallyFlex vs Catalyst comparison.

What your team will feel in the first session

When an RBT opens TallyFlex for the first time, three things happen that don’t happen on Ensora Data Collection.

The session is the center of the screen. Every tracker is one tap away - frequency, duration, latency, interval, percent correct, task analysis, ABC, momentary time sampling. Nine recording methods, all designed for the person actually running the session. No admin-first navigation. No clicks to find a timer. The session is the screen.

Session Timeline shows exactly when behaviors happened. No other ABA app has this. You see the visual chart of when a tantrum started, when it ended, when the next one began, and what was happening in between. BCBAs have told us it’s the single moment that changes how their team thinks about data. It’s also the reason most word-of-mouth switches happen.

Trends update as data comes in. 14-day trend graphs refresh automatically. You don’t wait until Friday to see what Tuesday looked like. You don’t open a spreadsheet. You don’t rebuild a dashboard. The graphs are just there.

The pricing that actually works for teams

TallyFlex’s pricing is published. No “contact sales” gate.

Solo: flat monthly rate, unlimited features
Teams: per-client pricing that drops in volume tiers as your caseload grows
Schools: per-student pricing with unlimited staff accounts, FERPA-compliant
Annual: 10 months for the price of 12 (two months free)

No setup fee. No per-staff charge. No implementation contract. See the full numbers on the pricing page.

One recovered hour per week pays for the whole team. That’s not a marketing claim - it’s arithmetic.

The migration path

Migration is simpler than most teams expect. Here’s the honest version.

Export what you can from Ensora Data Collection. Pull whatever session data, graphs, and reports your current plan lets you export. Your clinical history is yours - verify the export options in your account.
Create your account on TallyFlex. Five minutes. The 14-day Teams trial takes a credit card - cancel anytime in the app before day 14 and you are not charged. Your email becomes the admin account.
Set up your first client. Use the Program Wizard to build a program, add phases and targets, or start with a standalone tracker. If you have BCBA standards your team uses repeatedly, the Template Library has 100+ curated templates across 10 ABA domains and you can clone with PHI stripped.
Invite your team. Unlimited staff accounts on Teams. New hires auto-provision when they accept the invitation.
Run your first session. This is where you stop reading and start using.

Most teams we’ve helped through this have a working setup in an afternoon. Not weeks of enterprise implementation. Not a training class. An afternoon.

When Ensora Data Collection might still be the better fit

An honest guide says this out loud. If you are locked into a bundled billing and scheduling contract with Ensora Data Collection and switching mid-contract would create more friction than value, it may be worth riding out the term. TallyFlex is focused on data collection - it does not replace a full practice-management suite. If billing integration is the reason you chose Catalyst in the first place and it still works for that, the decision is closer.

Everything else - reliability, transparency, session-first design, team adoption, Chromebook support, offline sync - favors a switch.

Your laptop shouldn’t come out after 9pm

That’s the real test of an ABA data app. Can the people doing the work close their laptops at the end of the day with every session documented, every trend visible, and every report ready? If the answer is no, you’re paying for software that’s making the job harder.

TallyFlex was built for the people doing the work. Built for the RBT collecting data mid-session, the BCBA analyzing trends between supervisions, and the SPED teacher generating reports between IEP meetings. Trusted by 10,000+ practitioners. HIPAA and FERPA compliant. Support that actually responds.

Documentation shouldn’t follow you home.

See the difference for yourself. Start your first session on TallyFlex.