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We compared six canvassing apps on what decides a door program: voter data, turf cutting, offline mode, a live view of the field, and price. Here is how they stack up, which one fits which campaign, and why doornoc is our top pick.
Six things to check in any app before you sign.
Nobody should hand-cut walk lists in 2026. The app should turn a map area or a filtered list into routes that don't overlap. See how Auto Turf does it.
If the voter file is sold separately, you pay twice. Ask which states are covered and how you load your own file where they aren't.
Signal drops in apartment stairwells and on rural roads. The route should open without signal, even after a reload, and knocks should queue and sync on their own.
Waiting for clipboards costs a day. A live map of where canvassers are shows a stalled crew while there is still daylight to fix it.
Look for a published price, what the voter data costs on top of it, and a straight answer to what happens when the team outgrows its plan.
Doors knocked measures effort. In Gerber and Green's 1998 New Haven field experiment, canvassers reached about 36% of the voters assigned to them, and reaching a voter raised turnout by an estimated 6 percentage points. Reports should show answer rate and results, not just doors.
We lead with our own platform. Details on the others come from each vendor's own website, checked in October 2026.
Our pick for one self-serve tool: voter data, turf from polygon routes, Auto Turf or a list upload, an app that records offline, and reports. The trade-off is scope: it covers the doors, not calls, texts, email or fundraising.
NGP VAN calls MiniVAN the leading app for canvassing among Democratic and progressive campaigns; by its count, 92% of the 41 million doors knocked in 2023 were logged through it. You need VoteBuilder from your state party or SmartVAN from NGP VAN. Turf is cut in VAN, and results go back into it automatically. Compare the NGP VAN alternative.
Ecanvasser now markets itself as field sales software, with political campaigns one of its industries. It cuts turf, plans walking routes and works offline, and it fits a campaign that already owns a voter file. Compare the Ecanvasser alternative.
i360 calls Grassroots the next generation of i360 Walk: walk routes, survey scripts and data collection in one app. It fits campaigns already buying i360's data, since full use needs an active i360 account. See our doornoc vs. i360 Walk comparison.
Qomon is an organizing platform for campaigns, nonprofits and unions, and says it is used in more than 80 countries. Door-to-door is one action among several, so it suits groups that canvass, phone bank and run events from one app.
Political Data Inc. calls itself California's leader in voter data and software tools. For a progressive campaign in the state, it puts voter data and built-in canvassing, texting, phone banking and email under one vendor.
| App | Who can use it | Voter data | Pricing | Beyond the door |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| doornoc | Any campaign of any party; sign up directly | Built in for Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania; elsewhere, upload your own voter file | Published: $49, $149, $349 and $599 a month; no free plan | No calling, texting, campaign email or fundraising |
| NGP VAN MiniVAN | Democratic and progressive campaigns with VAN access | Your VAN database: VoteBuilder through the state party, or SmartVAN | Not published; NGP VAN offers demos | NGP VAN adds phone banking (OpenVPB), events (Mobilize), fundraising and compliance |
| Ecanvasser | Field sales teams and political campaigns | Import your own file, or sync it from L2 or NationBuilder | By database size; unlimited users; 7-day free trial | Surveys; live canvasser tracking is an add-on on the entry plan |
| i360 Grassroots | Right-of-center organizations with an i360 account | i360's voter and consumer data | By quote | Calling and texting in the same app |
| Qomon | Campaigns, nonprofits and unions in many countries | A separate Qomon Data add-on | Three plans with unlimited users; contact count can affect the bill; offline canvassing from the Advanced plan | Phone banking and events |
| PDI | Progressive campaigns and organizations in California | PDI's California voter data | Mostly by the number of voters in your district | Texting, phone banking and email |
Plans and prices change, so confirm them with each vendor before you buy.
Voter data, turf, the field app and reports in one self-serve account, at a published price.
Any party can sign up on its own. Starter, Pro and Campaign are bought online at checkout, with no state-party access, demo or sales quote.
Each plan includes a set team size, 20 team members on Pro and 50 on Campaign, with no per-seat fees inside it. Recording a knock never uses credits. See the current plans.
Open a route once with signal and its doors stay on the phone. Without signal the app still reloads, and knocks wait in a queue that syncs by itself when the phone reconnects.
Open Observe live on a route and each canvasser walking it shows on the map, updating about every 15 seconds, so you can move people mid-shift. Location is shared only while walking mode is open.
Draw a shape, run Auto Turf, upload a list or import a MailVotes list. Auto Turf cuts routes that never overlap, balanced by estimated walk time, each with doors, hours and a suggested canvasser count.
Walking mode shows the route as a household list and a map, with one-tap buttons for Supporter, Not home, Against and Lit drop. See the door knocking app in detail.
Some field tools never touch a door. Each fills a gap doornoc leaves open; for how the pieces fit, see campaign management software.
doornoc has no shift scheduling, sign-up sheets or event RSVPs. Mobilize is an event-management and volunteer-recruitment system for sign-ups, shifts and attendance, and NGP VAN lists it among its organizing tools.
doornoc works from the voter file, not from your supporters' own networks. Reach, a relational organizing app marketed to progressive campaigns, lets supporters identify and activate the people they know or meet.
doornoc is not a dialer, sends no texts or campaign email and takes no donations. Hustle runs peer-to-peer texting, calls and video messages, and NationBuilder pairs a website and people database with email and donations. See how doornoc sits beside phone banking software, or compare the NationBuilder alternative.
Buy the simplest tool that will survive your busiest week.
| Your campaign | Start with | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A candidate knocking their own doors | doornoc Starter | $49 a month for one login and 25,000 credits, enough to route up to about 5,000 voters a month. Under a few hundred doors, paper still works. |
| A local or legislative race with volunteers | doornoc Pro | 20 team members and two campaigns for $149 a month, with the voter file built in for six states. |
| A Democratic campaign with VoteBuilder | MiniVAN | Turf and results stay in VAN. Choose doornoc if you can't get VAN access. |
| A campaign already buying i360 data | i360 Grassroots | The app runs on your i360 account, with calling and texting beside canvassing. |
| A progressive campaign in California | PDI | California voter data and the field tools from one vendor. |
| A consultant running several races | doornoc Campaign | Five campaigns and 50 team members for $349 a month, and a door knocked in one campaign is flagged in the account's others. |
| A ballot measure or youth program built on texts and friends | Hustle or Reach, plus a canvassing tool | Hustle runs peer-to-peer texting and Reach runs relational organizing. The canvassing tool covers the doors you still want to knock. |
| An organization outside the US | Qomon or Ecanvasser | Both sell across dozens of countries; doornoc is built on US state voter files. |
Move up when the tool becomes the bottleneck: when turf gets re-cut by hand every week, when nobody knows which doors are done until the clipboards come back, or when the team outgrows its plan's cap.
doornoc is our own product, so here is what the ranking rests on.
We weighed every app against the six checks at the top of this page and gave the most weight to three: time to first door (how fast a manager gets from a blank map to a volunteer knocking), reliability on the worst block for signal, and the full cost of running a program, data included. Apps that need hand-cut turf or a separate data vendor lose time on the first, which favors all-in-one canvassing software.
We did not test the other apps ourselves, so where a vendor's site is silent, as on offline mode for MiniVAN, i360 Grassroots and PDI, we make no claim.
Run your own test before you sign. Put one real shift on representative turf, with weak signal and mixed housing, and check:
Test the tool before your volunteers do. This order works with any app.
Spot-check the universe on the map. Wrong precincts, missing addresses and duplicates are cheaper to fix now than at the door.
Look for routes that cross highways, split apartment complexes or run longer than a crew can walk. In doornoc, a route that runs too long can be split with Auto Turf.
Two phones, one block: open a route, switch on airplane mode, reload, record a few knocks, reconnect, and check that every knock arrives once.
Assign every route to a named person. In doornoc, invitations go out by email, and managers can invite canvassers and volunteers.
Keep it short and repeatable: the outcomes, the offline banner and one practice knock. A long classroom session burns the attention volunteers need at the door.
Watch the first shift on Observe live, review answer rate and the leaderboard in Reports, and export the Knocks page as a CSV to check the file loads cleanly where you report.
It depends on your party and your data. For one self-serve tool with voter data, turf cutting, an offline app and reports, our pick is doornoc, from $49 a month. Democratic campaigns with VAN access usually knock with MiniVAN, and campaigns that buy i360's data can use i360 Grassroots, the successor to i360 Walk.
Voter data that is included or easy to load, turf cutting that needs no hand-cutting, offline recording that survives a dead zone, a live view of the field, reports built on contacts, and a price you can read before you call sales. Then run one pilot shift on real turf before you sign.
Only if the free tier covers what your program needs: voter data, turf cutting, offline recording and enough logins for the team. doornoc has no free plan or trial; plans start at $49 a month, with the voter file included in six states. Read what to check before you trust a free canvassing app.
The good ones do, but test it before you buy. doornoc keeps working once a route has been opened with signal: the app reloads offline, and knocks wait in a queue that starts syncing about two seconds after the phone reconnects. Ecanvasser also advertises offline canvassing, and Qomon includes it from its Advanced plan.
Pricing models vary: Ecanvasser prices by database size, Qomon says contact count can affect the bill, NGP VAN and i360 publish no prices for their field tools, and PDI prices mostly by the number of voters in your district. doornoc publishes its plans: Starter $49 a month, Pro $149, Campaign $349 and Enterprise $599, with no per-seat fees inside a plan.
Most need a short practice on a real block, not a classroom session. In doornoc, the common outcomes are one-tap buttons, and after each new knock walking mode moves on to the next household in the list.
NGP VAN calls MiniVAN the leading app for canvassing among Democratic and progressive campaigns. It needs VAN access: VoteBuilder through your state party, or SmartVAN from NGP VAN. On the right, i360, which says it works with right-of-center organizations, offers i360 Grassroots. doornoc is not tied to a party, and any campaign can sign up on its own.
Not for doornoc. It runs in the phone's browser on iPhone and Android and can be added to the home screen, and there is no App Store or Google Play listing to find. i360 Grassroots is a free download from both stores, but full use needs an active i360 account.
Yes, as files. Export your lists and past results as CSV. doornoc matches an uploaded list (CSV, JSON or Excel) against the voter file in its six built-in states, takes your own voter file as CSV or JSON elsewhere, and imports past door outcomes onto a route, matched by voter ID or address. Nothing syncs live with VAN, PDI or another CRM.
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Voter files for six states, four ways to build turf, an app that keeps working offline and a live map of each route. Plans start at $49 a month, and the canvassers you invite need no plan of their own, within the team size your plan lists.