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title: Democracy Apps & Tools
summary: A curated list of apps and web platforms for democratic participation, collective decision-making, and civic engagement — from mobile voting apps to city-scale deliberation platforms.
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# 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.

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## 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](../organisations/mieuxvoter.md) | 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](../organisations/democracy-deutschland.md) | Shadow-vote on live Bundestag procedures; compare your choices with how your actual representatives voted. F-Droid: `de.democracydeutschland.app` | Yes (Apache 2.0) |

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## 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](../organisations/decidim.md) | Decidim Association | Full-featured participatory democracy platform; used by Barcelona, Helsinki, and hundreds of cities |
| [Consul](../organisations/consul-democracy.md) | Madrid City Council (open source) | Citizen proposals, debates, and participatory budgeting; deployed in 250+ cities |
| [Loomio](../organisations/loomio.md) | Loomio Co-op | Structured proposals and consent-based decisions for groups and organisations |
| [Your Priorities](../organisations/citizens-foundation.md) | Citizens Foundation (Iceland) | Policy idea generation and deliberation; used in 45+ countries |
| [Pol.is](../organisations/polis.md) | Computational Democracy Project | Opinion mapping — surfaces areas of consensus across large groups |
| [Kialo](../organisations/kialo.md) | Kialo | Structured pro/con argument trees for complex decisions |
| [adhocracy+](../organisations/liquid-democracy-ev.md) | Liquid Democracy e.V. | Participatory proposal and comment platform for municipalities and organisations |
| [DemocracyOS](../organisations/democracyos.md) | Net Party / Democracy Earth founders | Open-source proposal debate and structured voting; influential 2012–2017, now inactive |
| [E-Democracy](../organisations/e-democracy.md) | E-Democracy (Minnesota) | Place-based neighbourhood forums connecting residents with local officials; running since 1994 |

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## 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](../organisations/mieuxvoter.md) | MieuxVoter | Browser-based polls using Majority Judgment; also provides embeddable libraries for developers |
| [Ethelo](../organisations/ethelo.md) | Ethelo Decisions | Multi-criteria group decisions with analytics; used for participatory budgeting and policy design |
| [Prediki](../organisations/prediki.md) | Prediki | Prediction markets applied to policy and organisational decisions |
| [LiquidFeedback](../organisations/liquidfeedback.md) | Public Software Group (Berlin) | Initiative-based liquid democracy with transitive delegation; used by German Pirate Party |
| [Democracy Earth](../organisations/democracy-earth.md) | Democracy Earth Foundation | Quadratic voting and sovereign identity tools; open-source, blockchain-backed |

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## Election monitoring & civic data

Tools for observing elections, aggregating electoral data, and building open infrastructure for democratic accountability.

| Tool | Made by | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| [Vote Monitor](../organisations/vote-monitor.md) | Code for Romania | Mobile app for accredited election observers to submit real-time field reports |
| [Ushahidi](../organisations/ushahidi.md) | Ushahidi (Nairobi) | Crowdsourced crisis and election monitoring maps; submit reports via SMS or web |
| [Democracy Club tools](../organisations/democracy-club.md) | Democracy Club (UK) | Open candidate database, polling place finder, and election data infrastructure for UK elections |
| [They Vote For You](../organisations/they-vote-for-you.md) | OpenAustralia Foundation | Tracks and publishes how every Australian MP and Senator votes on legislation |

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## See also

- [Majority Judgment](majority-judgment.md) — the voting method behind the Urn app and MieuxVoter
- [E-Government](e-government.md)
- [Deliberative Democracy](deliberative-democracy.md)
- [Participatory Budgeting](participatory-budgeting.md)
- [Liquid Democracy](liquid-democracy.md)

## Sources

- [Apps and Software related to Government and Politics](https://javul.org/wiki/Apps_and_Software_related_to_Government_and_Politics) (Javul.org) — civic tech survey used to identify several of the tools above (DemocracyOS, E-Democracy, LiquidFeedback, Democracy Earth, Vote Monitor, Ushahidi, Democracy Club).
