Leaner Teams, Tighter Budgets: Product Updates to Help You Do More with Less
On October 7th, we gathered with partners from around the world for our “What’s New in CommCare: Fall 2025” webinar. The conversation was grounded in a reality we all share: this is a challenging time for the global health and development sectors. With leaner teams, tighter budgets, and growing global complexity, your work is more critical than ever, and your tools need to be more supportive than ever.
This context is precisely what’s driving our product vision. As our Director of Technology and Product, Kai Cowger, explained during the webinar, CommCare’s power is meaningless if it’s difficult to unlock. That’s why our team has made it a priority to refine our core platform so it’s more intuitive and accessible; simplifying the path to impact so that any organization, regardless of size or technical capacity, can realize value from day one.
If you missed the live session, you can watch the full webinar recording here!
A Direct Response to Today’s Challenges
Our Fall 2025 updates were built around three challenges we hear from partners every day. Here’s how CommCare is helping you meet them:
1. Doing More with Leaner Teams
As workloads grow and program staff take on increasingly technical roles, these updates make it easier for smaller teams to manage their digital tools with confidence. During the webinar, Rishabh Rath, Dimagi’s Director of Sales Engineering, delivered live demos of these tools in action, which participants voted as the top three features they’re most excited about:
- The CommCare Companion: Participants got a first-look at our brand new AI-powered support bot. When you’re stuck in the app builder and time is of the essence, the CommCare Companion provides instant, step-by-step guidance right where you’re working.
- Bulk Case Data Editing: Our new bulk case data editing feature on the Advanced Plan puts an end to the tedious process of exporting and re-importing spreadsheets. Now you can clean, update, and manage thousands of cases directly and safely within the CommCare platform, giving your team back valuable hours.
- Making Case Management Truly Accessible: We’ve rolled out a series of enhancements and a brand new free case management course on Dimagi Academy to make our platform’s core strength easier for everyone to master.
- Smart Performance Alerts: Introducing real-time guidance directly in the App Builder, warning you before your app slows down. This helps your team build faster, more reliable apps, without needing to be performance experts.
2. Navigating Growing Global Complexity
As the digital and regulatory environments get more complex, we’re focused on lowering technical barriers so your vital work isn’t slowed down.
- New Cloud Locations: Your Data, Your Choice To help you meet stricter data residency requirements, CommCare projects can now be hosted in the United States, the EU or India.
- AI-Based Language Translations: The entire CommCare HQ interface is now available in 9 key languages, including Arabic, French, Spanish, and Hindi, making our platform truly global and meeting your teams where they are.
3. Maximizing Your Impact with Tighter Budgets
With funding cuts impacting the entire sector, every tool must demonstrate a clear return on investment. In the webinar, Kai Cowger and Dimagi’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, Amie Vaccaro, walked participants through several ways that CommCare is addressing these needs.
- A More Accessible Standard Plan We’ve made our powerful CommCare Standard plan more affordable, providing robust data collection, case management, and top-tier security at just $100/month, a price point that supports today’s budget realities.
- One Platform for All Your Use Cases CommCare brings all your work together on a single platform, supporting you across programs, sectors, and workflows. Our new template apps for Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Child Sponsorship are just a few examples of how CommCare helps organizations deliver impact across diverse use cases.
Your valuable work is shaping the systems and communities that need access to essential services and the opportunities that drive health, education, agriculture, and livelihoods forward. Our goal is to make sure CommCare continues to meet you there, by removing complexity, saving you time, and helping you focus on what matters most: delivering services where they’re needed most.
Thank you for being part of this journey, and we look forward to sharing what’s next in CommCare with you soon. Watch the full recording of our What’s New in CommCare: Fall 2025 webinar.
