The short answer
Should you choose Mallowa or Motivity?
They answer different questions. Motivity answers "how does our ABA organization run and document clinical programs?" Mallowa answers "does this family have one coordinated record across every provider — and is that coordination work reimbursed?" Many teams would use both.
What Motivity is best at
Clinical ABA, with the data at the center
Motivity describes itself as an all-in-one, clinically driven ABA platform, and by its own figures supports 800+ organizations across 7 countries. Its data-collection product is built around real-time visibility — data an RBT records is immediately visible to the supervising BCBA, with live-updating graphs, a large template library, and customizable phases, prompts, and measurement types. It states it is the only ABA data-collection platform funded through research grants (NIH/NIMH), staffs support with BCBAs, publishes a completed SOC 2 Type II audit, and publishes its pricing openly: $24 per learner per month for data collection, $24 for practice management, $48 for the all-in-one platform.
If clinical rigor is the product for your organization, that's exactly what Motivity is built for — Mallowa doesn't compete for that work.
What Mallowa is best at
The space between providers
Mallowa is the record the family owns and controls, spanning every provider and setting in a person's life — ABA, pediatrics, specialists, school, other therapies — with per-note visibility, per-member permissions, and a shared timeline everyone works from. Providers can capture reimbursable care-coordination time as they work under CMS care-management programs, a different reimbursement lane from the ABA CPT units clinical systems process. The record stays with the family through every provider change.
Mallowa does not do trial-by-trial data collection, program authoring, clinical graphing, or insurance revenue-cycle management — deliberately.
Common questions
Choosing between them
Is Mallowa an alternative to Motivity?
No — they're different categories, not different tiers. Motivity is clinical ABA software an organization runs its programs and billing on: trial-by-trial data collection, live graphing, scheduling, claims. Mallowa does none of that, deliberately. Mallowa is the family-owned record that spans every provider in a person's life.
What does Motivity cost?
Motivity publishes its pricing: $24 per learner per month for data collection, $24 per learner per month for practice management, and $48 per learner per month for the all-in-one platform, with enterprise quoted separately (motivity.net/pricing, as of July 2026). Mallowa publishes pricing too — free forever for families on Roots, $9 and $19 monthly tiers, and separate provider plans.
Can a practice use Motivity and Mallowa together?
Yes, and that's the intended shape. The practice runs Motivity as its clinical and billing backbone; the families it serves use Mallowa to carry the whole picture between the ABA team and everyone else — pediatrician, school, specialists, other therapists.
Does Mallowa do ABA data collection?
No. Trial-by-trial data capture, program authoring, mastery criteria, and clinical graphing are Motivity's domain and it's genuinely strong at them. Mallowa captures the coordination layer around care — notes, goals, medications, appointments, plans — and the care-management reimbursement that goes with it.
Last reviewed July 17, 2026. Motivity details and pricing are drawn from motivity.net's own published pages as of that date; Motivity figures are their own reported numbers.