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Plan the walk on a laptop and knock it on a phone. doornoc shows who lives at each door and saves the common results with one tap. When the signal drops it keeps recording, and those knocks upload once the phone reconnects.
doornoc is a door knocking app for political and advocacy campaigns. Walking mode splits the phone screen: the route map on top, the household list below, and the knock form opens over both.
Save a new knock and walking mode moves on to the next household in the list. Doors not yet knocked keep their party color on the map, so what is left is easy to see.
Name, party and household members show before the knock, so the canvasser can ask for the right person. Each voter's voting history is a tap away.
Supporter, Not home, Against and Lit drop each save with a single tap. Yard sign, issues, follow-up and notes sit below, for when a conversation earns them.
The Routes list shows how many people are walking each route right now. Observe live opens that route's map with a pin for each of them, updated about every 15 seconds.
Open the route once with signal, then knock anywhere. Knocks wait on the phone and upload by themselves when the connection comes back.
People you invite knock under your campaign's plan and need no subscription themselves. Starter is a single login; Pro covers 20 team members and Campaign 50.
The routine a candidate and a volunteer crew repeat every weekend. For a feature-by-feature tour of the field app, see the canvassing app page.
Open the email invite within seven days, set a password if you are new, and sign in at app.doornoc.com. Added to the home screen, it opens like an app. Then open the assigned route while you still have signal, so its doors are saved on the phone.
Tap the household and the knock form lists the voters who live there, with their party. Supporter, Not home, Against and Lit drop save in one tap. The details below take yard signs, issues, follow-ups, notes and a separate result for each voter in the house.
Saving moves you on to the next household in the list. With no signal, the knock waits in a queue on the phone, and a banner says the phone is offline. A wrong result can be fixed later by the person who logged it, and the edit keeps the original time and canvasser.
Pending knocks upload a couple of seconds after the phone reconnects, and from then on they count in Reports. Yard-sign requests show on the route map as yellow pins, and Reports can be filtered by the yard-sign answer when it is time to plan sign drops.
Every door ends in one of four outcomes. The details are optional, so a quick knock stays quick.
| Outcome | Use it when | What doornoc does with it |
|---|---|---|
| Answered: Supporter, Undecided or Non-Supporter | Someone answered and you got a read on their support | Feeds the answer rate and the results breakdown in Reports |
| Not home | Nobody answered | Logged with the time and the canvasser, so the campaign knows the door was tried |
| Lit drop | You left literature without a conversation | Counts the door as covered but not as a contact; a later real knock replaces it. Purple pin. |
| No Solicit | The resident asks not to be visited, or the door has a no-soliciting sign | Flags the household with an orange pin and warns whoever opens that door later |
| Details (optional) | The conversation earned more than a tap | Yard sign (Yes, No or Maybe; a yellow pin on a request, teal once a placement photo is added), a star rating, key issues (Schools, Taxes, Economy, Housing, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Public Safety), follow-up (Donation, Email, In Person, Phone Call, Text), notes, the voter's email and phone, and an extra person at the address |
The issue and follow-up lists are fixed and there is no survey or script screen, so bring your own canvassing script. On lit-drop days, select a run of households on the map or list and mark them Lit drop (or Not home) in one go, with Undo.
Rural roads and apartment stairwells are where paper walk lists used to win. This is how doornoc behaves there.
Most door manners are common sense. The app helps where they depend on a record, such as who asked not to be visited and which voters another campaign already reached.
A canvasser drops off the Observe live map after two minutes without a location update. That also happens when walking mode is closed or the phone loses signal, so treat it as a reason to check in, not as an alarm.
Location comes from the phone's browser, with the canvasser's permission, and only while walking mode is open. Close it and sharing stops. A manager watching through Observe live shares no location.
No Solicit flags the household and turns its pin orange. Anyone who opens that door later sees a warning that it is marked No Solicit before recording anything.
When another campaign on the same account already knocked a door, walking mode shows a chip with that campaign and date, and the knock form lists the earlier visits.
Auto Turf estimates each route's walking hours, labels it easy, moderate or hard and suggests how many canvassers it needs. Give first-timers the easy ones.
Campaign admins can switch on effectiveness tracking in the campaign settings. By default it flags knocks logged more than 300 yards from the door or with under 5 seconds spent there, and it never stops a save.
Rules on canvassing hours and permits vary by town. This overview of door-to-door canvassing laws is a starting point.
The phone covers the walk. Choosing doors, building routes and reading results happen on a laptop in the same app, under the same subscription; the canvassing software page covers that side in depth.
Filter the voter file by party, vote history, age and district. doornoc carries the file for Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania; anywhere else, bring your own voter file as a CSV or JSON.
Draw a polygon route on the map, let Auto Turf cut an area into routes that follow the streets and never overlap, or, in those six states, match a list you already have with List Upload. Doors already walked on paper can come in from a spreadsheet as past knocks.
Invite the team by email as admins, consultants, managers, canvassers or volunteers. Managers run routes, team and reports; volunteers see only the routes assigned to them. To assign a route, pick a name in the assign dialog.
Reports chart knocks over time, answer rate, results, issues, yard signs, hour of day and a canvasser leaderboard from the newest 10,000 knocks, and export as a summary CSV or a PDF. The Knock Center exports the knock list itself as a CSV.
Plans are billed monthly and differ by credits, campaigns and team size. Credits mostly pay for building routes; recording knocks is free.
| Who is knocking | Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| A candidate walking alone | Starter | $49 / month | 1 login, 1 campaign, 25,000 credits (roughly 4,500 to 5,000 voters routed a month) |
| A candidate with a volunteer crew | Pro | $149 / month | 20 team members, 2 campaigns, 75,000 credits (roughly 13,600 to 15,000 voters routed a month) |
| A coordinated field program | Campaign | $349 / month | 50 team members, 5 campaigns, 200,000 credits (roughly 36,000 to 40,000 voters routed a month) |
| Larger programs | Enterprise | $599 | 500,000 credits, unlimited campaigns and team members |
A route costs 50 credits plus 5 per voter, and 200 more if you draw it on the map. Recording knocks, searching voters and creating a campaign cost nothing. There is no free plan or trial.
Cancelling takes effect at the end of the paid period. Campaigns, routes and knocks are then kept for 90 days before they are deleted, or stay readable between races on the $10-a-month Archive plan. Current plans are in the pricing section. If price is the deciding factor, read what a free canvassing app usually leaves out.
Better to find out now than on the first Saturday of canvassing.
To weigh doornoc against MiniVAN, Ecanvasser and i360 Walk side by side, see the roundup of the best canvassing apps.
A door knocking app, sometimes called a door knock app, replaces the paper walk list. It holds the doors for a shift, shows who lives at each one and records each outcome with a tap, so nobody retypes a clipboard afterwards.
doornoc has no free plan or trial; plans start at $49 a month. The people you invite do not need a plan of their own: they knock on yours, up to its team limit. When comparing free tools, check how many volunteers they allow and whether voter data costs extra.
No. doornoc runs in the phone's browser at app.doornoc.com and can be added to the home screen, where it opens like an app. There is no App Store or Google Play download: volunteers accept the email invite and sign in.
Yes, once the route has been opened with signal. Its doors are saved on the phone, a reload still opens offline, and knocks queue on the device until they upload, about two seconds after the phone reconnects.
Yes, while they have walking mode open, so doornoc also works as a door to door tracking app. The Routes list shows how many people are walking each route, and Observe live puts each of them on that route's map, updated about every 15 seconds. Anyone whose phone sends no location for 120 seconds drops off the map.
Yes. Whoever recorded a knock can edit it later, even before it has uploaded. The edit keeps the original time and the name of the canvasser who knocked.
No. doornoc is built for political and advocacy campaigns: voter files, party and vote-history targeting, and outcomes such as Supporter and Lit drop. Solar, roofing, alarm and real estate teams need lead and appointment tracking, which sales door knocking apps are designed around.
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Starter is $49 a month for a candidate knocking alone. Pro is $149 a month for a crew of up to 20.