Petition Platforms Compared
How Petitions.com compares with Change.org, Avaaz, Action Network, iPetitions, GoPetition, OpenPetition, Petities.nl and Jotform, at a glance. Hover any mark to see the detail, and open a head-to-head comparison for the full story.
Why Petitions.com
- Free, with unlimited signatures, and full access to the contact details you collect.
- Open to any cause, with no political agenda.
- EU-based hosting and per-purpose GDPR consent.
- One petition in many languages, on memorable language-specific domains.
Why language-specific sites matter: on a single global platform every petition competes for the same front page. A study of the UK government petition site found that a 'trending' list did not increase total signatures but concentrated them on the biggest petitions (Gini coefficient from 0.85 to 0.92). Hale, John, Margetts and Yasseri, PLOS ONE, 2018.
At a Glance
| Feature | Petitions.com | Change.org | Avaaz | Action Network | Care2 | 38 Degrees | MoveOn | iPetitions | GoPetition | OpenPetition | Jotform | Google Forms |
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| Access to Signer Emails | ? | |||||||||||
| Custom Consent Choices | ||||||||||||
| Petition-Specific Privacy Policy | ? | ? | – | – | – | ? | – | |||||
| Multiple Images in the Petition | ? | – | – | – | – | – | ? | – | – | |||
| Embed Video (e.g. YouTube) | ? | – | – | – | – | – | ? | – | – | |||
| Multilingual Petitions | – | ? | – | |||||||||
| Language-Specific Domains | – | |||||||||||
| Embed on Your Own Website | – | – | – | – | ? | – | – | |||||
| Combine Paper & Online Signatures | – | – | – | – | ? | ? | – | |||||
| Public or Private Petitions | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Open to Any Cause | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| EU-Based Hosting | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | – | ? | ? | |||
| Cost to Create a Petition | – |
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