Democracy Apps & Tools
Most democracy tooling lives on the web. Native mobile apps are rare — the ones that exist tend to serve specific, offline-friendly use cases. This page maps the landscape of what's usable, pointing to organisation pages for the full story on each tool.
Mobile apps
Tools with a native Android or iOS app you can install and use offline or on the go.
| Tool | What it does | Open source |
|---|---|---|
| Urn | Pass-the-phone offline voting using Majority Judgment — works for a friend group picking a restaurant just as well as a formal meeting. F-Droid: com.illiouchine.jm |
Yes (GPL-3.0) |
| DEMOCRACY Deutschland | Shadow-vote on live Bundestag procedures; compare your choices with how your actual representatives voted. F-Droid: de.democracydeutschland.app |
Yes (Apache 2.0) |
Deliberation & participation platforms
Web platforms (responsive, no native app) used by governments, cities, and communities for structured participation — proposals, comments, participatory budgeting, citizens' assemblies.
| Tool | Made by | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Decidim | Decidim Association | Full-featured participatory democracy platform; used by Barcelona, Helsinki, and hundreds of cities |
| Consul | Madrid City Council (open source) | Citizen proposals, debates, and participatory budgeting; deployed in 250+ cities |
| Loomio | Loomio Co-op | Structured proposals and consent-based decisions for groups and organisations |
| Your Priorities | Citizens Foundation (Iceland) | Policy idea generation and deliberation; used in 45+ countries |
| Pol.is | Computational Democracy Project | Opinion mapping — surfaces areas of consensus across large groups |
| Kialo | Kialo | Structured pro/con argument trees for complex decisions |
| adhocracy+ | Liquid Democracy e.V. | Participatory proposal and comment platform for municipalities and organisations |
Voting & decision tools
Web tools focused on the mechanics of reaching a group decision — alternative voting methods, multi-criteria ranking, or prediction-based deliberation.
| Tool | Made by | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| MieuxVoter web app | MieuxVoter | Browser-based polls using Majority Judgment; also provides embeddable libraries for developers |
| Ethelo | Ethelo Decisions | Multi-criteria group decisions with analytics; used for participatory budgeting and policy design |
| Prediki | Prediki | Prediction markets applied to policy and organisational decisions |
See also
- Majority Judgment — the voting method behind the Urn app and MieuxVoter
- E-Government
- Deliberative Democracy
- Participatory Budgeting
- Liquid Democracy