> Volunteers take open tasks with one tap, see them on their phone and are free on every plan. Dates by poll without an account, data in the EU. Source: https://contals.com/en/for/volunteers/ Language: en # Helpers who know their task. With Contals, volunteers take open tasks with one tap and see them on their phone – and no helper costs a thing. [Start free](https://app.contals.com/login?mode=signup) [What volunteers can do](https://contals.com/docs/en/team/invitations/) Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card. Video: a card moves to the next list of a project board with drag and drop. ## Coordinating shouldn’t mean chasing people. In a group chat of 80 people every task scrolls away – and on Friday evening you message everyone one by one. Contals is made for people who drop in now and then. Video: with “My cards” and “This week”, the board shows only what matters now. Video: the search finds the boards and cards with “plan” in every project. - Volunteers always free - Take a task with one tap - Simple view for phones - Polls without an account ## In by QR code Volunteers scan the code, sign up free and take a task. [Learn more – In by QR code](https://contals.com/docs/en/team/invite-links/) Print the invite link as a QR code. Volunteers scan it and sign up, free. In the simple view they take a task for the volunteer day with “I’ll do it” and find it in “My tasks”. Video: a status update “At risk” is published for the open day, and the current status turns yellow. Status at a glance Video: in the workspace calendar, a due date moves to the next day with drag and drop, between the cards of the other projects. Every date, one calendar Video: the last two shifts of a checklist are ticked and its progress bar fills to 100 percent. Tick it off ## The simple view Large cards, plain words, few buttons – on for volunteers from the start. [Learn more – The simple view](https://contals.com/docs/en/settings/simple-view/) ![A volunteer’s phone in the simple view: large cards with an “Open” button each, plain words and few controls.](https://contals.com/_astro/simple-phone-en-light.FnyOwtSh_Z1znMW3.jpg) ![A volunteer’s phone in the simple view: large cards with an “Open” button each, plain words and few controls.](https://contals.com/_astro/simple-phone-en-light.FnyOwtSh_Z1znMW3.jpg) ## Find dates without an account Helpers vote by link; the best date lands in the calendar. [Learn more – Find dates without an account](https://contals.com/docs/en/power-ups/scheduling/) Propose dates for the team evening on a card. Guests vote by link, without an account. Pick the best date: it becomes the card’s due date and shows in the calendar. ## Up and running in three steps 1. ### A board per event Empty or from a template, in two minutes. Video: a new idea goes onto the content calendar in a few keystrokes. 2. ### Invite helpers By link or QR code – free, signing in with a link instead of a password. Video: on a phone, from the start page into the volunteer day and the website relaunch and back – every project on its own board, in its own colour. 3. ### Jobs as cards Open items show everyone where help is needed. Video: on a phone in the simple view, a volunteer opens a card of the volunteer day and taps “I’ll do it”. [Start free](https://app.contals.com/login?mode=signup) ## For anyone coordinating many occasional helpers Food banks, festivals, clubs, refugee aid: wherever work is shared across many shoulders. - Recurring volunteer days - Events and festivals - Onboarding new helpers - Finding dates There are no text-message reminders – every helper needs an e-mail address. ### Ready-made templates for this - ### [Volunteer day](https://contals.com/en/templates/volunteer-day/) 5 lists · 11 cards - ### [Club event](https://contals.com/en/templates/club-event/) 5 lists · 13 cards [All templates](https://contals.com/en/templates/) ## The catch? Contals is new. Only people who create and organize boards pay – volunteers are free on every plan, on any number of boards. Without an account, people can only answer a date poll or make a booking; everything else needs a free account. The full picture: costs, export, cancelling, where data lives What it costs Full members (people who create and organize boards) pay per month. Volunteers, guests and viewers are free on every plan, forever. A small team uses Contals for free: up to 5 full members and 10 active boards. On the free plan, notifications arrive in the app, by push and in the weekly summary e-mail. A free organization nobody uses for 90 days is paused until an owner signs in again. Prices are early-access prices and become final before the public launch. Your data stays yours Export a board or a workspace as JSON at any time, on every plan – cards, comments, Power-Up data and the activity of the last 13 months; the whole organization in one file on Team and Business. No support ticket, no fee. Leaving is easy Cancel any time; paid plans run to the end of the period, then the organization continues on the free plan – nothing is deleted. An organization is deleted only when an owner asks for it, 30 days later; deleting your account removes your personal data after a 30-day grace period. Billing records are kept only as long as tax law requires. Where your data lives Board data, the database and backups are stored in Cloudflare’s EU jurisdiction; a second, encrypted copy of the backups lies at DigitalOcean in Frankfurt (Germany). Cloudflare is a US company; we say “EU data residency”, not “sovereign”. Details on the security page. How we make money From full members on paid plans. No ads, no selling or sharing of data, no tracking cookies, no metered AI credits. Visits to the website and the sign-in pages are counted with privacy-friendly, cookieless statistics (Fathom); signed-in pages load none. [Pricing](https://contals.com/en/pricing/) [Our promises](https://contals.com/en/promise/) ## Two pay. 45 volunteers don’t. You pay for the coordination, never for the helpers. 2 full members pay45 volunteers free Video: a guest answers the date poll for the team evening on a phone, without an account. Vote without an account Example: 2 coordinators and 45 volunteers - Contals TeamEarly-access price 2 full members × CHF 4.50 / €4.50 / $4.50; 45 volunteers free CHF 9 / €9 / $9 - Trello Standard Guests on 2+ boards count as members: 47 × $5 ≈ $235 - monday.com Standard Everyone who edits needs a seat: 50-seat package × €12 ≈ €600 - Asana Starter 2 × $10.99; volunteers as guests with limited rights ≈ $22 List prices per user and month with annual billing, rounded, as published on the vendors’ pricing pages and checked on 13 October 2026. Rules for guests and seat steps differ in detail – please check the linked pages before you decide. Contals is shown with annual billing too; its prices are early-access prices and become final before the launch. ## Every job filled before Saturday comes What a week can look like – an invented example. 1. Mon 19:00 You set up Saturday’s jobs: one card per job. 2. Wed 12:10 A helper taps “Give it back” – the item is open again. 3. Wed 20:30 A newcomer takes it with “I’ll do it”. 4. Sat 08:00 Every job is filled. You unlock the doors. ### Without one place - A group chat with 80 people. - Gaps show up on Friday evening. - You message everyone one by one. ### With Contals - Helpers take tasks themselves. - Open items show where help is needed. - Everyone finds their tasks in “My cards”. Video: a comment on the card asks a colleague with an @mention. Ask on the card ## Questions and answers ### Do volunteers pay or count as seats? No. The volunteer role is free on every plan and never counts as a billable seat. People who only answer a date poll need no account at all. ### What can volunteers do in Contals? They see the boards shared with them, comment, tick checklist items, take an open checklist item or give it back, vote, answer date polls and mark the cards assigned to them as done. Creating cards and boards and changing their structure is for full members. ### Can volunteers pick their tasks themselves? Yes. Put the jobs on a card as checklist items – one per job or per place on a team, with a date and a time if you like. Volunteers tap “I’ll do it” on an open item and see it in “My cards”, in the summary e-mail and in their calendar subscription; “Give it back” frees it again. Everyone on the board sees who took what. ### What happens to volunteers’ contact details? Volunteers have their own free account. Their e-mail address is shown only to the board’s editors and admins, like every member’s, and goes when they delete the account. People who answer a date poll without an account leave a name, and an address only if they want the result; that address is deleted once the final date has been sent. ### Is Contals easy for older or occasional volunteers? Volunteers, viewers and guests start in the simple view: fewer buttons, larger text, every control at least 44 pixels and plain words. Everything also works with the keyboard; Contals aims to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA and is partially conformant – the accessibility statement lists the known limitations. ### Does it work on old phones? Contals runs in any modern mobile browser; open boards stay readable from a local copy with a weak connection, and a date poll is a plain page that works without the app. ## Set up your first volunteer day. [Start free](https://app.contals.com/login?mode=signup) Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.