Time to Move Beyond Social Media.
CityApp™ gives your city an easy‑to‑use, fully customizable messaging tool. It’s a private, one‑way platform that lets every department and community group speak directly to residents and local businesses. Just clear communication, no ads, no algorithms, no alternate social media realities.
No Ads, Algorithms or Alternate Realities.
A Simply Efficient Messaging Platform
Our innovative platform allows any department or affiliated community organization to send professional and secure mobile messages directly to residents. Impactful messages that include images, visual and descriptive links to services and timely information offer a notably superior informative experience to social media.
Secure Messages
CityApp™ lets your communicators send real-time, mobile messages via your own custom, secure CityApp™ web portal to our universal mobile app. Messages can be managed across your organization with a built-in message approval system.
Instant Notifications
CityApp™ delivers vital updates to residents instantly – enhanced by media-rich content and guaranteed with push notifications. Residents can customize their notifications to best suit their personal needs.
Engage Effectively
Enhance residents informative experience with messages featuring impactful images and direct visual links to essential resources – from online services to important web pages, timely information and downloads.
Alleviate Social Media Headaches
Don’t let your messages get buried by the algorithm. CityApp™ can keep your community informed without requiring them to participate in the increasingly toxic social media environment. Foster a more connected and informed community with direct and private, one-way messaging without the noise & distortions of social media.
Empower All Voices
Bring all the important voices in your city together with CityApp™. Our innovative platform allows every department—whether it's City Services, Fire, Police, or Libraries—to send professional and consistent messages directly to residents' mobile devices.
Always Anonymous
CityApp™ prioritizes resident privacy by offering access without requiring sign-up or account creation ensuring complete data anonymity.* CityApp™ is free of ad trackers and algorithmic manipulation of message streams.
* Basic, privacy-focused analytics provide valuable usage insights without compromising user privacy.
ZERO Social Chaos
Ensure impactful communication with a dedicated platform designed for clarity and consistency. Leave behind the toxic distractions, misinformation and alternate realities of social feeds behind and deliver your message with the professionalism it deserves.
See our white paper - Why Social Media Might Be Failing Government Communications.
Easy-To-Use Enterprise Features
Our affordable platform offers simple, enterprise‑grade features that boost efficiency for your communicators. A multi‑user, multi‑channel system lets any department or affiliated organization efficiently manage messages, channels and users with our secure web portal. Built‑in message approval, message scheduling and desktop/browser notifications provide a smooth workflow for both communicators and content managers.
Multi-User
Our multi-user platform allows the expert voices in your organization manage their messages and communicate authentically and consistently with residents. The built-in message approval feature allows your communication staff to manage, edit and post messages to ensure a strong and consistent online presence.
Multi-Channel
The CityApp™ platform enables targeted messaging through dedicated channels, allowing residents to easily identify content and take appropriate action. Unique channels can also be created for special events like; festivals, conventions, etc. and affiliated community organizations.
Custom To You
Create a custom CityApp™ experience for your city with custom icons, visually descriptive custom links to essential online services and timely web content. Enhanced links help residents quickly and easily locate the services and information they need in a seamless digital experience.
2FA Ready
Further enhance your security with Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). 2FA secrets and recovery codes are encrypted at rest to further strengthen your security.
Portal Notifications
Your CityApp™ portal sends browser and desktop alerts so you stay on task, plus optional email notifications for new channel posts—ensuring those who need to act can reply right away.
Message Scheduling
End last minute scrambles with message scheduling. You can plan posts for the exact date and time they are required. Set up recurring calendar events so you’ll never miss a key message. Let CityApp™ do the heavy lifting for your communications team.
Multi-Language
CityApp ™ offers easy bilingual messaging built directly into the platform. You can send messages in both languages with a click on a button. Additional languages can be added quickly and easily.
Affordable Solution
Forget expensive app development and maintenance. CityApp™ offers free mobile apps for both Android and iOS, making it easy for residents to stay updated on all community information. You get new platform features and integrations automatically.
Seamless Experience
The CityApp™ platform is designed for smooth transitions between CityApp™ communities. Users can switch effortlessly and receive messages instantly, ensuring a seamless and uninterrupted experience wherever they travel.
Frequently Asked Questions
The mobile app is free and requires no sign‑up or account creation to use. However, your city or municipality must have an active CityApp™ subscription to send real‑time mobile messages and provide direct access to online services, timely web content, and resources—complete with visually descriptive links—via the free universal CityApp™ mobile app.
No. CityApp™ is purposefully designed as a one-way messaging platform designed to provide real-time information and visually, descriptive links to important city services, timely web content and resources. This eliminates the misinformation and vitriol of social media comments.
CityApp™ offers a private, anonymous way to receive timely and accurate city and municipal information—without ads, algorithms, or the alternate realities of social media. This lets you become the single source of truth for your city or municipality, building a more trusting relationship with residents.
CityApp™ is an online platform that can be accessed securely via a web browser. No special software needs to be installed on your computer or mobile device to use your CityApp™ account.
CityApp™ offers a multi‑user environment that lets you distribute the messaging workload to subject‑matter experts throughout your organization, while the message‑approval feature ensures your communication specialists have full control over content before it is posted—maintaining consistent and coherent communications. Email and browser notifications help your communication staff focus on their important tasks without missing messages that need editing or approval, creating an efficient messaging workflow.
Absolutely. Your city has its own secure, customized CityApp™ portal that powers a dedicated mobile experience with our universal app. With the custom portal you can build channels featuring icons and visually descriptive links to essential online services, timely web content, and resources. Residents simply search for their city—or use our anonymous location service—to select their default city. Once selected, they immediately begin receiving messages from your CityApp™ portal. Residents in large municipalities can choose to receive notifications from multiple cities.
No, we do not offer free trials. We do offer a free online demostration of our platform and mobile app. Send us a note below to arrange your personal CityApp™ demo.
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Move Beyond Social Media.
If your organization is looking for a social media off ramp contact us to request more information and a private demonstration of the CityApp™ Messaging Platform.
