ActBlue Field Tools vs Roots
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.
Roots
This app is a community safety and organizing tool for real-time coordination and information sharing. It allows users to report events, receive alerts, and discover local resources while prioritizing privacy and mutual aid.
- Drop pins for protests and alerts
- Real-time event and threat updates
- Discover safe local resources
- Privacy protection and no tracking
- Build collective safety through mutual reporting
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Roots – From The Ground Up is a real-time community safety and organizing tool built for resilience, solidarity, and mutual aid. Whether you’re coordinating a protest, avoiding police or ICE checkpoints, or sharing vital local information, Roots gives you the power to: - Drop pins to report protests, alerts, or urgent activity - Get real-time updates about nearby events or threats - Discover safe resources like legal aid, shelters, and more - Protect your privacy – we never track you or share your identity - Build collective safety through mutual reporting and trust
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: ActBlue Field Tools at 3.5K against Roots's 3. Roots's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
Roots 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ActBlue Field Tools ships an update every 2 months, Roots every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActBlue Field Tools | Roots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.5K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Outvote Inc | Gage Van Kuilenburg |
Customer experience
ActBlue Field Tools
Roots
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
Roots
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ActBlue Field Tools
No in-app purchases
Roots
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ActBlue Field Tools free?
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