Multilingual canvassing
The best volunteer isn't always the best English speaker.
Activate's interface ships in nine languages — English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, with right-to-left layout for Arabic. Each person on your team picks theirs on their own phone, and everyone's work lands in the same campaign.
How it works
- 1Each volunteer picks a language on their own phone — and on first open, the app follows the phone's own language setting.
- 2Every screen they touch switches with it: joining the campaign, opening an assignment, swiping a response, adding a note.
- 3Choose Arabic and the whole layout mirrors, not just the words — the page reads right-to-left the way the language does.
What your campaign gets
- Nine interface languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.
- Full right-to-left layout for Arabic, so the interface runs the same direction the reader does.
- One campaign, several languages at once. A volunteer's choice changes their screen only — not your data, and not anyone else's view.
- Nothing to switch on and nothing to buy — the languages are part of free core canvassing.
In a field program
In a precinct where several languages are spoken at home, a campaign could recruit volunteers from those blocks and let each one open the app in the language they read fastest — one working in Spanish, another in English, another in Arabic — with every door they log landing on the same campaign dashboard.
Limits — and what stays yours
- Activate translates the app, not your campaign. Your script, your talking points, and the voter records you import stay exactly in the language you wrote and imported them — we don't translate those, and we don't claim to.
- Nine languages ship today. If a volunteer's language isn't one of them, there's no half-finished version waiting — they work in the closest of the nine.
- What gets said at the door is still a human skill. The app can tell a canvasser which door and record what happened; the conversation belongs to your volunteer.
See it in your own language.
Create a campaign, switch the language in the menu, and walk one route with a friend — free core canvassing, no credit card.
Last reviewed: 2026-08-01