activist vs Changemaker Lite

activist is a free, open-source web platform for activists and organizations working toward social and ecological change. It helps people discover organizations and events, participate in activism, and coordinate political action. Organizations can create Learn events for seminars, meetings, and panels, or Action events for protests, direct action, and volunteering. Event pages support live updates, reusable templates, printable flyers or posters with QR codes, and organizer notes about risks or logistics. Organization profiles can represent internal groups and provide pages for resources, FAQs, and onboarding. Organizations, groups, and events can collect links in resource hubs; those links are publicly visible for now, and the service does not provide file storage. The maker describes the project as privacy-focused and community-governed. Accounts can be created without personal information such as an email address. Data is hosted in Iceland, and the privacy policy describes encryption, access controls, security assessments, and audits. Documentation provides a request-access form, while the roadmap places the product in MVP development and launch.

Changemaker Lite is a self-hosted campaign toolkit for growing political movements, combining advocacy, canvassing, volunteer scheduling and newsletters. Influence campaigns can look up representatives by postal code, send tracked advocacy emails and collect responses. Its mobile canvassing map supports live GPS, walking routes, visit recording and outcome tracking. Shift scheduling provides public signup, confirmation emails, cut assignment and capacity management. The Listmonk newsletter feature includes subscriber management, templates and analytics, with unlimited subscribers listed. Named integrations include Rocket.Chat, Gancio, Listmonk, n8n, Gitea, NocoDB and Vaultwarden. Deployment documentation covers Docker Compose and options including a reverse proxy, tunnel or private VPN. An included script backs up PostgreSQL databases and uploaded media, with optional S3 upload. REST endpoints cover authentication, campaigns, locations, shifts, media and more. The Self-Hosted plan is free, billed forever, and includes all 45+ campaign tools, unlimited users and data, community support and use of your own infrastructure. The homepage describes the product as beta and under active development, with possible breaking changes.