Pulsar by CampaignSidekick vs Stride Canvassing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pulsar by CampaignSidekick
This app provides a comprehensive voter contact and data management system for political campaigns and advocacy groups. It offers tools for voter identification, phone banking, and data flow, making campaigns more efficient and effective.
- Voter contact and data management
- Customizable surveys
- Real-time data flow
- Walking and phone banking
- Nationwide voter database
- Map views and GPS tracking
- Offline capabilities
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The premier app for political campaigns and advocacy organizations, Pulsar is a complete voter contact and data management system for any size campaign. From city council to United States Senate, we help you find your target set of voters with customizable surveys, an easy to use app and real time data flow. With a nationwide database, our app lets you connect with voters, making your campaign efficient and effective. Pulsar is an "all in one" app with walking and phone banking capabilities, built with every voter contact scenario in mind. For your username and password, please contact the campaign you are currently working on. The Pulsar app is a voter contact app for political campaigns and advocacy organizations. With an "all in one" door knocking and phone banking components, the Pulsar app supercharges your campaigns voter ID and GOTV efforts. Tied to a relational database, the Pulsar app creates seamless data flow from voter contact efforts back to your data inside the Pulsar system. With map views, GPS tracking, offline capabilities and more, the Pulsar app is the premier app in politics today. Built by a team of grassroots operators, the app has been used in local, state and federal elections for years.
Stride Canvassing
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Stride Canvassing makes it easy to start knocking doors for political campaigns. Sign in with your email, see your doors on the map, and log visits as you go. Accounts are provided by your campaign. The app works offline and syncs automatically so the whole team stays up to date.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Pulsar by CampaignSidekick at 3 against Stride Canvassing's 1. 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.
Pulsar by CampaignSidekick ships an update every 11 days, Stride Canvassing every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pulsar by CampaignSidekick | Stride Canvassing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CampaignSidekick LLC | Stride Canvassing |
In-app purchases
Pulsar by CampaignSidekick
No in-app purchases
Stride Canvassing
No in-app purchases
Questions
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