Everything you need to decide together
Structured discussions, customizable decision processes, powerful online voting tools, and facilitation features — designed by facilitators, for facilitators.
A place for your important discussions
Replace scattered email chains with organized, searchable conversations. Loomio discussions have a rich context area that frames the conversation, keeping everyone aligned from the start.
Every discussion is searchable, so your organization's knowledge is always at hand. Participants can reply by email without ever logging in.
- Threaded comments and replies with @mentions
- Emoji reactions to acknowledge without adding noise
- Pin important comments to the timeline
- Tags and categories for organization
- Reply by email — participate from your inbox
- Automatic translation for multilingual groups
Why not just use chat?
Chat is great for quick conversations, but important decisions get buried in the scroll. A week later, no one can find what was agreed or why.
Loomio is the place where your important decisions happen. Every discussion, every vote, every outcome is recorded and easy to find — months or years later.
Use chat for day-to-day coordination. Use Loomio when it matters.
Write together, right where the decisions happen
No more passing documents back and forth over email. Loomio has a full collaborative editor built in — draft proposals, co-author meeting minutes, and develop policy documents together in real time.
Tables, checklists, headings, embedded images — everything you'd expect from Google Docs, right inside your discussion. Drag and drop files to attach them instantly.
And because everything has full edit history, you can always see what changed, when, and who changed it. No more "which version is the latest?"
- Real-time collaborative editing
- Drag and drop images and file attachments
- Tables, checklists, headings, and rich formatting
- Full edit history — see every change and who made it
- Documents live alongside the discussion and decision
Files and documents
Attach files to discussions and comments with drag and drop. Find documents across your group with search.
Meeting minutes, agendas, reports, and shared documents stay with the decisions they relate to — nothing gets lost in email attachments or shared drives.
- Drag and drop file uploads
- Search across all group documents
- Documents stay with the decisions they relate to
- Export and print discussions as PDF or HTML
Every group decides differently
Every organization has its own rules and processes for making decisions. Loomio is designed from the ground up to support this. We include templates for common approaches — but these are just editable starting points. Customize them and continue to iterate as your processes evolve.
Sense check
Test a proposal with your group before committing. Get early feedback, surface concerns, and refine your thinking.
Consent
Check for objections to a proposal that is "safe to try". Integrate objections to improve the proposal, then move forward.
Consensus
Reach collective agreement with everyone involved. Discuss, amend, and seek broad support before moving ahead.
Majority
Simple majority decision-making for straightforward choices where a clear vote is all you need.
Create your own templates based on your governance practices, so your processes are encoded, repeatable, and easy for new members to follow.
Designed for shared understanding, not just counting votes
Most tools treat decisions as a transaction — put up a vote, count the result, move on. Loomio goes further. It's designed to help groups grow together.
People share their reasoning when they vote, so you don't just see what people think — you understand why. When someone votes differently from you, you can read their thinking and ask questions. Perspectives shift, understanding deepens, and better outcomes emerge.
Voters can change their position as the discussion evolves. A proposal isn't a fixed moment — it's a living conversation that converges toward a decision everyone can stand behind.
Organizations who use Loomio over time tell us something we didn't expect: it supports emergent leadership. When everyone has a voice, people step up. Quiet members find their confidence. The group develops a collective intelligence that's greater than any individual.
- Vote with reasoning — share why, not just what
- Change your vote as new information arises
- See who voted and read their reasoning
- Discuss and refine proposals through multiple rounds
- Record the outcome and what happens next
Polls and voting
The right voting tool for every situation.
Simple polls
Single or multiple choice to find the most popular option
Score polls
Measure level of support on a sliding scale
Dot voting
Reveal priorities by distributing a limited budget of points
Ranked choice
Find the group's order of preference
Time polls
Find the best meeting time across time zones, then send calendar invites
Opt-in
Find volunteers or confirm participation
STV elections
Proportional representation voting for board elections
Sense checks
Test group sentiment informally before a formal decision
Advanced voting features
Need a blind vote? Loomio supports anonymous voting and hidden results, so participants vote based on their own judgement — free from social pressure or bandwagon effects. Perfect for sensitive decisions, board elections, and honest feedback.
- Anonymous and blind voting
- Quorum requirements
- Scheduled poll opening
- Hidden results until voting closes
- Required vote reasons
- CSV export for analysis
Legally binding decisions
Reference Loomio in your constitution, bylaws, or founding documents to make decisions formally binding.
With clear audit trails, recorded outcomes, quorum requirements, delegated voters, and timestamped votes, Loomio provides the governance infrastructure organizations need for legitimate, defensible decisions. Anonymous and blind voting ensures secret ballots when your constitution requires them.
- Complete audit trail of every decision
- Recorded outcomes with next steps
- Configurable quorum thresholds
- Delegated voters for representative governance
- Timestamped votes and export for compliance
- Anonymous and blind voting for secret ballots
Facilitation tools
Loomio is designed by facilitators, for facilitators. Send the right notifications at the right time — remind only the people who haven't voted yet, or notify specific members when their input is needed.
See when people have read their notifications, so you know who's seen a proposal and who might need a nudge.
- Targeted reminders — remind only undecided voters
- Read receipts on notifications
- Participation report — see who engages and who needs encouragement
- Activity trends over time
- Closing-soon reminders sent automatically
Groups and subgroups
Mirror your organization's real structure with nested groups and subgroups. Organize by team, department, project, or governance body.
Each group has its own privacy settings, permissions, and member roles — giving you fine-grained control over who sees what and who can do what.
- Nested subgroups for teams, projects, and boards
- Open, closed, or secret privacy settings
- Granular member permissions
- Member roles, titles, and delegated voters
- Guest invitations for external participants
Notifications and engagement
Loomio is email-first by design. People can participate fully from their inbox without ever logging into the app.
Each member controls their own notification preferences per group. Reply to any Loomio email to post a comment. Start a discussion by emailing your group's unique email address.
- Daily catch-up summaries
- @mention and reply notifications
- Closing-soon reminders for polls
- Reply by email to participate
- Per-group notification controls
Integrations
Loomio fits into your existing tools. Send notifications and outcomes to your team's chat channels, log decisions to Notion, or build custom workflows with the API.
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- Matrix and Mattermost
- Notion — automatic decision logging
- API for custom integrations
Privacy, security, and data sovereignty
Loomio is open source. You can inspect the code, self-host your own server, or choose from regional cloud hosting. You are not the product.
- Open source code on GitHub
- Self-hosting available
- Cloud hosting in EU, US, or Australia/NZ
- Export data as CSV, HTML, or JSON
- SSO support for private host and self-hosted
Accessibility and inclusion
Loomio is designed for everyone — not just the tech-savvy. A simple, intuitive interface means people can focus on the conversation, not the tool.
- Available in multiple languages
- Automatic inline translation
- Works on any device with a browser
- Email participation for low-bandwidth access
Built by a cooperative
Loomio is made by a small, worker-owned cooperative based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. We practice what we preach — we use Loomio to run our own organization.
We're real people, and we're happy to talk with you. Start a free trial to explore the basics and get guided through setup. Then get in touch to schedule a demo or training call.
