GoCanvas is a mobile forms platform. Arkvos is a safety briefing attendance verification tool. Those are not the same product, and for a number of buyers GoCanvas is the correct choice. This page explains the actual difference so you can tell quickly which side of it you are on.
Form flexibility. GoCanvas lets you build essentially any mobile form and route the output wherever you need it, which suits companies with many distinct field data-capture workflows.
GoCanvas is a form builder — you construct a toolbox talk form and workers complete it. That produces a submitted form. Arkvos produces an evidence record: photo, GPS, and cryptographic seal generated by the worker's presence rather than by data entry. A form can be completed by anyone holding the device.
GoCanvas uses per-user subscription, commonly around $49–79 per user per month. Arkvos is $349 per month, flat, with unlimited workers, or $3,490 annually. The practical consequence is that the comparison inverts with crew size: per-user pricing is cheaper for very small teams and materially more expensive as headcount grows. Settle your enrolled headcount before comparing anything else, because it determines the answer more than any feature does.
Choose GoCanvas if you need to digitize many different field forms — inspections, work orders, timesheets, custom checklists — and want one flexible builder for all of them.
Choose Arkvos if you specifically need attendance that survives challenge, and if per-user pricing across a large field workforce is a problem.
Arkvos is not a full EHS suite. It does not manage incident investigations, corrective action workflows, chemical inventories, ergonomics assessments, or sustainability reporting. It documents that a specific worker attended a specific safety briefing at a specific place and time, and produces an audit package proving it. If you need a broad platform, buy one — and if attendance evidence is the gap in it, add this underneath.
Usually not. GoCanvas is a mobile forms platform; Arkvos verifies safety briefing attendance. Many companies run both. Replacement makes sense only if attendance documentation was the main reason you were evaluating GoCanvas in the first place.
GoCanvas uses per-user subscription, commonly around $49–79 per user per month. Arkvos is a flat $349 per month with unlimited workers. Below roughly fourteen enrolled workers, per-user pricing is often cheaper; above it, flat pricing costs less and the gap widens with headcount.
That a specific individual was physically present. A signature or a form submission records that data was entered. Arkvos captures a live photo and GPS coordinates inside a jobsite geofence, sealed with a SHA-256 hash at the moment of capture, so later modification is detectable.
Yes, and many companies do. GoCanvas handles its scope; Arkvos supplies the attendance evidence layer. Arkvos also pushes records into Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud where those are connected.
A supervisor can run a verified briefing the same day. Workers scan a QR code in their phone browser — no app install, no device provisioning, no implementation project.
Arkvos offers a free OSHA citation response generator. Upload the citation and get a formal response letter, a corrective action plan with dates, and a checklist of evidence to attach. Employers have 15 working days from receipt of a citation to contest it. Open the free citation responder.