Comparison

Reach vs The Lore

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Reach

This app facilitates grassroots organizing by enabling users to connect with people, manage teams, and gather data. It supports in-person and online interactions, fostering relationship building and campaign engagement.

Highlights
  • Voter data collection
  • Relational organizing
  • Team management
  • Live chat and notifications
  • Offline access
  • Multilingual support
  • Gamification
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Reach is the grassroots organizing app that lets you truly meet people where they are, build relationships, manage your team, and get results. Originally built by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's groundbreaking campaign, this canvassing and relational organizing app is changing the way progressives connect with voters and supporters. Reach's direct search features let your team find voters and collect data from them in person or online, turning every voter interaction into a canvassing attempt. The relational organizing features allow each user to build and activate their own personal network of voters including both people they've known for years and new people they meet during their work. The home screen, live chat, push notifications, and gamification make Reach the perfect digital organizing hub for your volunteers and activists. Plus, best-in-class accessibility features like expandable multilingual support, full offline access, and the ability to override core voter file data like dead-names make Reach is an inclusive tool that is welcoming to everyone in the movement. Anyone can download Reach and create an account, but the action begins when your campaign joins the app. Check with your campaign to see if they’re using Reach yet so they can get you plugged in. You can join as many campaigns as you like with the same Reach account. If you are a representative of a righteous progressive campaign or organization and you're interested in using Reach to revolutionize your field efforts, please visit us at www.reach.vote to get started.

About

The Lore

Features
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A quiet place to gather what matters. Lore is an archive for your group's shared history — built around a ritual rather than a feed. One memory of the day, surfaced from what you've collected together. Quiet, considered, worth pausing for. What you can preserve — Artifacts: photos, scans, documents, recordings — Stories: the context that gives an artifact meaning — People: who was there, who it mattered to — Places, recipes, traditions — anything worth keeping How it works Each day, one memory surfaces from your group's archive. A photo from twenty years ago. A story someone wrote down. A recipe passed down. A recording of a voice you'd otherwise forget. You read it, respond if you like, and let it pass — until tomorrow. Members submit what they want to preserve. Each piece is curated and scheduled before it surfaces. The archive grows with intention, not noise. Built for any group with shared history — Families across generations — Camps, churches, neighborhoods, bands — Anyone whose memory is bigger than one person's Not a social network. Not a feed. A library with a heartbeat. Begin an archive. Invite the people who share it. Let one memory at a time keep what would otherwise be lost.

Screenshots

Reach4 screens
The Lore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: The Lore at every 8 days against Reach's every 3 months. Reach's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reach ships an update every 3 months, The Lore every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Reach versus The Lore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReachThe Lore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (67 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings67 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.4 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB42 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperReach Progress PBCRyan Buckley

In-app purchases

None

Reach

No in-app purchases

None

The Lore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reach free?
Reach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Lore free?
The Lore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Reach or The Lore have ads?
Neither Reach nor The Lore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reach or The Lore?
Reach ships an update every 3 months, and The Lore every 8 days. Most recently, Reach was updated on October 24, 2026 and The Lore on October 18, 2026.

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