ActBlue Field Tools vs Vandal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActBlue Field Tools
This app serves as a central platform for organizing online volunteer efforts for campaigns, advocacy groups, and nonprofits. It facilitates relational organizing, peer-to-peer texting, phone banking, and social media outreach to help users make a significant impact.
- Relational organizing
- Peer-to-peer texting
- Phone banking
- Social media amplification
- Volunteer coordination
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Welcome! Have you been invited to download ActBlue Field Tools by a campaign or organization? You’re in the right place: ActBlue Field Tools is your all-in-one hub for organizing online: volunteer for your favorite campaign, advocacy organization, nonprofit, union, and more. Get involved with relational organizing (reaching out to your friends and family with information about the campaign/organization you’re volunteering for), peer-to-peer texting, phone banking, social media amplification, and more. ActBlue Field Tools empowers activists with technology that makes it easy to make an impact. We’re trusted by thousands of campaigns and organizations, like Biden for President 2020, the DCCC, SEIU, Voters of Tomorrow, Community Change, and many more.
Vandal
Discover and describe local places using user-generated tags instead of traditional reviews. Shape community culture by creating and upvoting unique tags, influencing others, and potentially monetizing your tag ownership.
- User-generated tags for places
- Tag ownership and follower system
- Community-driven content curation
- Potential tag marketplace for businesses
- Leaderboards for user influence
- Tag meetup and RSVP features
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Reviews? Ratings? Categories? We don’t play that. Vandal says more about a spot in ten tags than any four-paragraph review could do. And what even is ‘Coffee Shops Nearby’? How about a café tagged “clandestine napping”, “man bun baristas”, “spinning vinyl”, “pristine poop spot”, “donut itis”, and “ski lodge vibes”? That’s the beauty of Vandal: it’s a blank canvas for local explorers and culture curators alike to see the color in their community. Tags are the language of Vandal, but upvotes are the currency — that’s why you’ll want to be an early user and tag your fingers to the bone. If you’re the first person to tag a restaurant as “vegan”, you own that tag at that location. Yep, you! Anyone who upvotes it becomes your follower for that specific tag, which will be YUGE in the future as it means you can message those followers to gather at the location for some vegan-related antics… or, sell your tag and its followers to the restaurant itself once it joins Vandal as a business user. Drop out of college and tell your mom you’ve got a better idea: 1) tag, 2) influence, 3) ??? Vandal Roadmap: - Street Cred (Leaderboards) - Tag Meetup & RSVP Platform - Business Users - Tag Marketplace
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: ActBlue Field Tools at 3.5K against Vandal's 15. Vandal's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Vandal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ActBlue Field Tools has 3.5K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ActBlue Field Tools ships an update every 2 months, Vandal monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActBlue Field Tools | Vandal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.5K ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Outvote Inc | Vandal Inc. |
Customer experience
ActBlue Field Tools
Vandal
Bugs and requests
ActBlue Field Tools
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login screen freezes
- Inability to add new organizations
- Outdated contact data
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to mark messages as seen or completed
- More comprehensive list of causes and organizations
- Improved accessibility (font size, layout, etc.)
- Ability to group message contacts
- Bipartisan approach, not just left-leaning
Vandal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ActBlue Field Tools
No in-app purchases
Vandal
No in-app purchases
