Reach your team live. Let them reply.
Zelos pushes shifts and tasks to native iOS and Android apps, with a chat channel on every task so the crew can sort it out between them. Free, for unlimited members.
Onboarding, agreements, safeguarding, outcomes, and funder reporting
Fits charities where the record matters most.
Open shifts, task dispatch, notice board, and team chat
Fits teams where the response matters most.
No credit card · Unlimited members on every plan · Set up in under 5 minutes
How signup works in each app
A portal volunteers sign in to
Volunteers complete an onboarding journey, sign agreements, then log into their portal to view and apply for open tasks and report dated activity and outcomes against your questions.
A private team space with shift signup and chats
Members join your workspace once, fill in their own profile, then browse and claim what fits their skills and schedule, with a chat channel attached to every task.
What Volunteeria is better at
If your workflow depends on the things below, Volunteeria is the right pick.
Evidence for funders
You set your own reporting questions per task: hours, expenditure, products sold, people reached, anything specific to your service. Volunteers answer them against dated activity. Corrections keep an audit trail of what changed and why, and it exports as a structured Excel workbook. Zelos records hours and completion, not outcomes.
Onboarding and digital agreements
Reusable onboarding programmes combining volunteer-facing steps with staff-only internal checks, policy confirmations, digital signatures and dated records. Zelos assumes people are already cleared to join your workspace.
Safeguarding records
Concerns get a dedicated, permission-controlled record with an append-only action trail, alongside background check tracking with expiry warnings. Nothing in Zelos does this, and for a charity working with vulnerable people it's not an optional extra.
Volunteers without an email address
Their code-and-date-of-birth sign-in, with printable invitations, is a genuinely thoughtful piece of inclusion for older or digitally excluded volunteers. Zelos requires an email address to join a workspace.
If these bullet points are non-negotiable, you're a Volunteeria customer.
What Zelos is sharper at
If the daily problem is filling shifts rather than evidencing them, Zelos is a better fit.
A notification, not a login
Zelos has native iOS and Android apps, so a new shift arrives as a push notification and a reminder lands the night before. Volunteeria is a responsive web portal, which works on a phone but relies on volunteers remembering to open it or spotting an email.
Conversation attached to the work
Zelos gives each task its own chat channel, plus group chats and direct messages between members, all admin-supervised. Volunteeria has an inbox between admins and volunteers. Good for reaching someone, but every thread runs through the coordinator. The crew can't sort a swap between themselves, and questions about Saturday's shift don't sit with Saturday's shift.
Free, permanently
The Zelos free plan covers unlimited members, unlimited admins, full shift signup, chat, push and CSV export, with no card and no expiry. Volunteeria has one paid plan with a one-month money-back guarantee. Generous, but you start by paying.
Recognition built in
Points, badges and leaderboards are on every Zelos plan, for teams that run on visible contribution rather than reporting. Volunteeria has no gamification.
If you're drawn to this kind of simplicity, you should spin up a free project in Zelos right away.
per month to start
Volunteeria has one plan and no free tier. Zelos runs unlimited members and admins on the free plan.
What you'll actually pay
Both are flat-priced with unlimited people, which makes this an unusually clean comparison. Neither charges per volunteer or per seat.
| Zelos | Zelos Pro | Volunteeria* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $99/mo | $59/mo, $599/yr |
| Free plan | Yes | No | No |
| Members and admins | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Mobile apps | iOS and Android | iOS and Android | Mobile web |
| Push notifications | Yes | Yes | Email and in-platform |
| Chat between members | Yes | Yes | Admin–volunteer inbox |
| Outcome reporting questions | No | No | Yes |
* Volunteeria pricing from volunteeria.com, August 2026. One plan with full access, priced per organisation: £49/month or £499/year, with local pricing in USD ($59 / $599), EUR (€59 / €599), CAD (C$79 / C$799) and AUD (A$89 / A$899). Unlimited staff users and volunteers, no feature tiers, and a one-month money-back guarantee. Not VAT registered, so no tax is added.
Volunteeria is cheaper than Zelos Pro and says so plainly on its own pricing page. The question is whether you need a free plan, phone apps and member-to-member chat, or onboarding, safeguarding and funder-grade outcome reporting. Nonprofits and education teams get additional discounts on Zelos Pro and Enterprise.
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Teams that pick Zelos over Volunteeria
Grassroots and mutual aid groups
No budget line and no procurement process, with organising shared between whoever is available that week. Zelos is free for unlimited people and unlimited organisers, with nothing to approve and nothing to pay.
Learn moreEvent staffing and festival crews
Event crews assemble in weeks, mix volunteers with paid staff and contractors, and need dispatch and a chat channel per shift rather than an onboarding journey. Zelos treats everyone as a member who claims work, paid or not.
Learn moreContractor pools and gig dispatch
Contractors are paid for the work, manage their own compliance, and need the job to reach their phone. Post it, let the right people claim it, coordinate in the task chat.
Learn moreSports clubs and leagues
Match-day shifts across a season, run by a parent committee. Parents claim from their phones with a push reminder the night before, and nobody has to remember to log into anything.
Learn moreBrand ambassadors and street teams
Ambassador programmes are marketing rather than charitable work, and run on responsiveness and recognition. Self-signup, targeting, chat and leaderboards, with no funder reporting to configure.
Learn moreDisaster and rapid response teams
When something happens tonight, the tool has to reach people in minutes. Push notifications to native apps and a chat thread on the task beat an email and a portal login.
Learn moreFrom teams who picked Zelos
What teams who picked Zelos say
"It helped us a lot reducing the planning overhead. It is way more motivating for staff to pick their task than just getting assigned!"
Manuel W.
Coordinator, Events Services
"We were looking for a system to handle our concert staff. Zelos is really easy to access both for the administrator and the users!"
Niels Peter H.
Board member, Music
"The overall experience has been great, the customer service is amazing and I can't wait for all the new changes coming up in the app!"
Celia D.
Coordinator, Motion Pictures and Film
Free for teams of any size
No credit card, no trial expiration.
Pro starts at $99/month, never per person.
Nonprofit and education discounts on Pro and Enterprise.
Frequently asked questions
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