Ecanvasser is a door-to-door field tool with a native mobile app, sold internationally to campaigns and increasingly to field sales teams. Cadrify covers the same doorstep and then keeps going, into the register, polling day and the paperwork. Of everything on this list, this is the closest comparison.
On the doorstep itself these two are comparable, and Ecanvasser has the better mobile app. It is a native app your door-knockers install, it carries your own branding and it works in more countries than Cadrify does. If door-to-door contact is your whole programme, you campaign outside Britain or you want an app in the app stores, Ecanvasser is a reasonable choice and Cadrify is not obviously better.
Cadrify goes further into British practice. It imports the council electoral register as electors, digitises the marked register, plans leaflet rounds alongside door-knocking rounds, runs telling and knocking up on polling day and produces the nomination pack and the election agent's return.
The other difference is price. Ecanvasser's published entry plan is $99 a month. Cadrify's minimum is £150 a year, and a ward of 17,000 electors is £695 a year. For a local branch that gap settles most of these conversations.
Every row carries a verdict as well as a tick. Where a row says Cadrify does not do something, it does not.
| Capability | Cadrify | Ecanvasser | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| British electoral register | Imports the council register as electors, matched to wards and polling districts by GSS code | Contact and household data import | Both will get the rows in. Cadrify treats them as a register, with polling districts, a marked register and a knock-up list behind them. |
| Native mobile app | No app to install. Runs in a phone browser | Native iOS and Android app, customisable to your campaign | Ecanvasser wins this row. If your door-knockers want an app from the store with your branding on it, that is Ecanvasser and not Cadrify. |
| Working with no signal | Captures at the door with no signal and syncs when it returns | Offline working in the app | Both handle a tower block with no bars. One is a native app, the other is the browser. |
| Round generation | Rounds cut from a ward boundary and the road network, balanced by door count, colour-coded and printable | Territory management, mapping and a route planner | Both divide a patch into workable pieces. Cadrify starts from a British ward boundary and prints sheets in the form British organisers already use. |
| Leaflet and literature rounds | Delivery rounds with counts, deliverers and a delivery record | Not published as a separate leaflet feature | If your branch delivers more than it knocks, Cadrify plans that as first-class work and Ecanvasser does not advertise it. |
| Marked register and turnout history | Digitise the marked register after each ballot | Not published | Knowing who voted last time is a British data job. Cadrify does it. Ask Ecanvasser whether they handle it for your council. |
| Polling day: telling and knocking up | Telling sheets by polling station, and knock-up lists that shrink as tellers report | General field tools rather than British polling-day practice | Tellers at the door of a polling station feeding a knock-up list is a specific British routine. Cadrify models it directly. |
| Nomination paperwork and agent's return | Nomination forms, subscriber checks and spend recorded against PPERA categories | Not offered | British electoral compliance paperwork is outside what Ecanvasser sets out to do. |
| Live tracking of door-knockers | Not offered. You see rounds, who holds them and every result logged | Real-time field tracking, sold as an add-on on the entry plan | A genuine difference of philosophy. If you want to see where a volunteer is right now, Ecanvasser sells that and Cadrify does not. |
| Volunteer and staff accounts | Unlimited. No per-seat charge | Unlimited users and teams on the published plans | Neither charges per seat. Add every door-knocker in either one. |
| How the price is set | Electorate of the geography your organisation claims. Records unlimited | Plan tier, with a household ceiling on each tier | Cadrify's price follows the size of your patch. Ecanvasser's follows which plan you are on. |
| Data residency | EEA. Hosted in Frankfurt | Not published. Ask them | Ecanvasser is a European company, which is a reasonable starting point, but get the hosting answer in writing. |
Cadrify's own rows describe what the product does today. The Ecanvasser rows reflect our reading of its public documentation and pricing as of August 2026, and vendors change both. Check anything that would decide your purchase with Ecanvasser directly. Unfamiliar with a term? See the British campaign glossary.
If the right-hand column describes your campaign, Ecanvasser is the better buy.
Cadrify fits when door-knocking is one part of a British election rather than the whole job.
Ecanvasser is the nearest thing to a direct rival, and there are clear cases where it is the better tool.
Cadrify's figures are our published rate card. The Ecanvasser figures are what that vendor published when we last read it, in its own currency.
One plan. Every feature at every size, unlimited volunteers and unlimited branches. The price follows the electorate of the geography your organisation claims, never the number of records you hold.
Rates are marginal, per 1,000 electors per year. A ward of 5,000 electors is £150 a year. A Leeds ward of 17,000 is £695. A constituency party covering 70,000 is £2,450. Broadcast email, per-address geocoding and AI features are metered separately, each with an allowance most campaigns never reach, and postcode-level geocoding is free. 30 days free. Full pricing
Published self-serve plans, in US dollars. Enterprise is quoted.
Read from ecanvasser.com/pricing in August 2026. Prices are in US dollars. Add-ons listed there include API access and lead prospecting. Vendors change pricing, so check the current page before you decide anything.
At the entry level Cadrify is cheaper. Ecanvasser's published Core plan is $99 a month, which is $1,188 a year, and a ward of 17,000 electors is £695 a year on Cadrify. Priced on database size, which is how Ecanvasser quotes larger organisations, 50,000 records came to about £300 a month when we checked in September 2026, against £185 a month on Cadrify. At 250,000 records it was about £600 a month, where Cadrify is £785, so above roughly 140,000 electors Ecanvasser is the cheaper tool. Convert at whatever rate applies on the day, and compare on your own numbers.
Written for the person who has to do it. Do every step while the old account is still live.
Take your contacts, survey answers and team structure out while the account is still live. Do it before anything is cancelled.
Volunteers, members and supporters import into Cadrify as activists and members with column mapping. This part is a straight copy.
This is the step Ecanvasser did not do for you. Request the electoral register from your council, then load it into Cadrify as electors matched to wards and polling districts by GSS code.
Ecanvasser survey answers become Cadrify door-knocking outcomes and a score from 1 to 5, where 1 is a supporter and 5 is an opponent. Agree the mapping once, before you import, so the history stays readable.
Cadrify cuts rounds from the ward boundary and the road network, balanced by door count. Redrawing them takes minutes and produces better rounds than a hand-drawn territory.
Do it inside the 30-day trial, on your own register, while Ecanvasser is still running.
For a British campaign, yes, and it covers more of the election: the register, leaflet rounds, polling day and the paperwork. Ecanvasser has the better native mobile app and works in more countries. Pick on whichever of those matters to you.
There is no app to install. Cadrify runs in a phone browser, with door-knocking built for a phone held one-handed on a doorstep, and it captures results where there is no signal. Some organisers prefer a native app, and that is a fair reason to choose Ecanvasser.
For a local branch, Cadrify by a wide margin. Ecanvasser's published Core plan is $99 a month. Cadrify starts at £150 a year, and a ward of 17,000 electors is £695 a year. Above roughly 140,000 electors Ecanvasser is cheaper. Check both current pricing pages, because vendors change them.
Not in Cadrify. You see the rounds, who is holding them and every result logged. Ecanvasser sells real-time field tracking. The difference is deliberate: Cadrify tracks the work, not the person.
Yes, British campaigns use it, and the company is European. The question is not whether it works here. It is how much of a British election it models, and the register, the marked register, telling and the nomination paperwork are the parts it does not.
30 days, the whole product. Import your register, generate a round and knock it this week.