MiniVAN

A Google user

7 years ago

Really useful tool when canvassing. I like to use the map for you to find my general area so I can navigate my way to it and then I use household view to make sure I don't miss any houses. A cool feature to add would be the ability to navigate within the app using either Google Maps or Here Maps. Using this app probably allows it canvasser to quickly visit twice the normal amount of houses that would have been visited using the paper method.

RJ C

3 years ago

My experience is similar to Darion's, and I am also using a galaxy phone with the latest OS. With a list of 2900 loaded, no GPS turned on, the app regularly zooms out to the world view, looses the house markers, and frequently crashes. It has been doing this to me since Feb. This frequently requires me to reload and re-zoom to find my location.

A Google user

5 years ago

This works well for iPhone, but it has completely stopped working on my android. I tried to delete and redownload, but the store states that it is already installed. It is nowhere to be found in my phone. 40 minutes with the play helpline led me to realize it is the developer's problem with android. Please fix soon!! We need you!

A Google user

6 years ago

before this last update, i didn't have any issues with Minivan. i always wrote down the data for a backup in case things went awry. i loaded data for 4 turfs rhis week. my phone synced data for 50% of 1 and 33% of another. nothing for the other 2. i knocked 112 doors! my phone still shows data for the last turf. it wont sync. says its synced. but wont. my data captain cant see the results. pathetic. you guys broke the syncing function. minivan lost my data. terrible!

A Google user

7 years ago

Our organization uses the app to load voter info from public records, and allows us to input our own fields as well. Administrators then load new scripts appropriate to a particular canvas. The app is amazingly simple to use. It is intuitive and requires no tutorial. Best thing in politics since sliced bread! As to the reviewer who believes the app doesn't work on Android, she is wrong. All of the features are visible and operational. If you don't know how to call them up, go to the HELP menu.

Jamie Constantino

3 years ago

I can't input someone into the app without it crashing and kicking me out. I have to uninstall and then reinstall it. I then lose all progress from my actual list. I'm in the process of losing my job simply because the app won't let me add someone's info into the app. It says that there's a bug. Wish I could attach the photo so you can read what it says when it kicks me out.

A Google user

7 years ago

I really wish this were better. Location detection misses my actual location by blocks, so it's useless. App regularly fails to initially locate me, and so refuses to allow me to enter a list number until I try multiple times. There is no way to mark an entire household is not home, which is far and away the most common thing to have happen when canvassing. there's also no simple way to mark that I was unable to locate a given address. It's better than a pen and paper, but with some bug fixes and interface improvements, it could be so much more useful.

Darion McGowan

3 years ago

Absolutely horrible experience today. As a user of this app for many years, I can firmly say that this update is my most negative experience. The app is constantly crashing, not syncing, zooming in and zooming out at will, grouping houses in inefficient groups so that I have to backtrack every time I do a street, and for kicks the GPS was about a block-and-a-half off showing me inside someone's house. Not sure if this is just an issue with Galaxy phones but it needs to be fixed PRONTO please.

A Google user

6 years ago

Working as part of a pair of canvassers, app quickly drained partner's phone battery so we had to switch to my phone. First phone indicated a sync, but second phone showed all of the initial houses unvisited. Then the app locked up 4 times and had to be reopened. Geographic locations of the houses on the map were off by as much as half a city block when using the map view. Would be nice to organize the houses by numerical order odd/even as most streets have houses arranged that way.

Alex Dambach

5 years ago

Engineered for situations where nothing goes wrong. Missing contingency assistance (like contact phone numbers for emergencies or some other method to deal with unforeseen issues) I used the app today, and it was a disaster. I encountered problems conducting the canvassing (flooded roads), so I needed to reach headquarters or change my list or make other changes. Nothing in the app provided for this. I was totally stuck stranded.

A Google user

6 years ago

The app really does drain battery, is there any possibility of a dark mode to save life on OLED devices? I've also had problems with the app crashing endlessly when trying to mark large groups as inaccessible. The service itself is super great for canvassing but there could definitely be some quality of life improvements.

David Brooks

4 years ago

So much potential but lots of issues and room for improvement. The good: Download lists w/o an account (list numbers). Viewing by map or household/people. The bad: I can mark an entire household as Lit Drop ONLY if you are in the household view. If you select a household from the map view you have to mark them individually if more than one person/address. The map itself had numbers far away from there actual location and or the actual house numbers on their map. The ugly: The "searching for location" loop it often gets stuck in when you try to load a new list.

Anthony Feig

3 years ago

The map problems from the last update have been fixed, thanks devs! Accuracy has been steadily improving over the last year, but some rural areas are still iffy. Last problem: list progress gets deleted if you d/l a new one before finishing. Why not save progress to device for access later? Canvassing is not always a linear process, esp in rural areas.

A Google user

7 years ago

As others have reported, the GPS is completely off when using the map view, such that my location may appear anywhere from several blocks to multiple miles away from where I am. Compounding this problem is that you cannot copy/paste or share an address from the app into Google Maps, so I have to manually enter an address to see where to go next. The app otherwise is good, but this is such a fundamental flaw that I cannot reward the developers any extra stars.

Hossam Banaja

3 years ago

Wish I could rate this based on the interface once you've logged in, but I was never able to get past the front screen. Crashed every time I tried to put my Action ID in. People have been reporting this since last year, and it's still an issue. Also, people weren't kidding; this app seems to drain your battery while you're not even using it.

A Google user

7 years ago

This is a good app, but there are some small tweaks that could make it MUCH better. Suggestions: 1. From house numbers, being able to quickly mark if they refused, inaccessible, moved, deceased just like NOT HOME is a quick option. 2. From the house numbers, being able to quickly mark if the entire neighborhood was inaccessible.

Rusty Lawrence

5 years ago

Worked very well for political canvassing. The lists always worked, it was perfectly capable of working without data on (synced at the beginning and end of day), and very well optimized. All I would ask for is better integration with Google Maps (one click to set the destination from the app), and better team features.