Naven
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A volunteer rota that survives the week

Volunteer coordination fails on the same thing every time: nobody can tell what has already been done, or by whom. A tick with a name on it answers that.

Who this is for

Small charities, mutual aid groups and event volunteers coordinating people who are not colleagues and have no shared systems.

A Naven group chat on a phone, with a member typing
What it looks like in Naven: a screenshot of the app.

How it is usually set up

A checklist that carries who ticked what, a poll for the shift nobody has claimed, and channels that people can join by link.

What Naven does not claim

Naven promises no security and no moderation. Messages are screened before they send against twelve published categories, by automated software — it misses things, and it is weaker in languages other than English. Calls are not screened at all. Naven is not end-to-end encrypted, which is what makes screening possible; anyone whose first requirement is end-to-end encryption should use Signal.

What it costs

Nothing. Naven is free, with no advertising, no paid tier and no data sale.

Naven is a free messenger that runs in your browser. No phone number, nothing to install, and no new password.

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