Experience Sampling App
Inclivio prompts participants to report what they are doing, thinking, and feeling throughout the day, by text, WhatsApp, email, or our iOS and Android apps, so your data reflect daily life as it is lived.
Experience sampling without the engineering
The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) captures daily life by asking people to report on their current experience at moments spread across the day. Repeated reports from each person build intensive longitudinal data that show how experiences vary between situations and unfold over time.
Inclivio lets you run an experience sampling study without writing code or building an app. Design your questionnaire in the survey platform you already use, set your sampling scheme in our no-code schedule builder, and Inclivio delivers every prompt, sends reminders, and records each response.
Built for experience sampling research
Signal-contingent sampling
Prompt participants at random moments inside daily windows, at fixed times, or a mix of both, all in each participant's own time zone.
Event-contingent sampling
Let participants report whenever an event happens, from a button on their dashboard, with display hours you control.
Daily diaries and bursts
Combine daily diaries, measurement bursts, and long-term follow-ups by delaying when each schedule starts after enrollment.
Response-contingent triggers
Your survey can start, pause, or stop schedules based on what a participant reports, a building block for just-in-time adaptive interventions.
Real-time compliance
Watch prompts being sent, opened, and completed as it happens, and message participants inside the app when they need a nudge.
Privacy by design
Responses stay in your survey platform, data are encrypted at rest and in transit, and anonymous projects hide participant contact details from the team.
Frequently asked questions
What is an experience sampling app?
An experience sampling app prompts participants to report on their current experience several times a day as they go about their lives. Inclivio sends those prompts on a schedule you design, delivers them by text, WhatsApp, email, or push notification, and records which ones were answered.
What is the difference between experience sampling and EMA?
The terms emerged from overlapping research traditions: ESM developed primarily within psychology, particularly research on subjective experience, whereas EMA became established in behavioral medicine and health psychology, particularly research on health behaviors and symptoms.
Can participants answer on their own phones?
Yes. Prompts open the survey in the participant's phone browser from a text, WhatsApp message, or email, or arrive as push notifications in the Inclivio app for iOS and Android.
How much does Inclivio cost?
You can start with a free account, which includes unlimited participant-initiated prompts and free protocol consultations. Licenses for scheduled prompts come with a 14-day free trial.
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