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Should I use Loomio?

Make important decisions together without endless meetings. Loomio keeps discussion, voting, outcomes, and the reasoning behind them in one clear place. - loomio.org

· 1 week ago

Buy if you're a co-op, board, or member-led group that needs async decisions with a written trail of votes and reasoning. Skip if you just need quick team polls — Slack polls or Google Forms already do that job.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 40+ public sources; many review snippets were truncated, limiting quote extraction.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of useReview snippets truncated; no reliable signal
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo support data in evidence
  • Security posture

Pricing

Not disclosed

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed

Best for

  • Co-ops and collectives
  • Async boards and committees
  • Member-led organizations
  • Distributed teams with genuine consensus needs

Not for

  • Teams that only need a quick poll — Slack or Forms suffice
  • Buyers wanting published, transparent prices
  • Orgs needing enterprise SSO and compliance certifications
  • Managers who decide top-down anyway

Gotchas - check before you buy

high

Self-hosting via Docker/VPS means you own patching — CVE-2024-1297 shows why that matters

medium

Pricing page shows no numbers; no confirmed free tier — verify trial terms before rollout

low

Support runs through a small co-op team; enterprise SLAs are unlikely

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Open source; self-host or buy a private hosted instance
  • Discussion, voting, outcomes, and reasoning stored in one place
  • Owned by a worker cooperative, not venture investors
  • Proven in real governance — Welsh parliament committee and NYC DSA use it
  • Connects to your existing tools via integrations

Cons

  • Small team; support and roadmap bandwidth is limited
  • 2024 remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-1297)
  • No published prices found in any reviewed source
  • Adoption concentrated in co-ops and activism; thin business case studies

Sources & method

- 12 sources - One RCE vulnerability (CVE-2024-1297, 2024); fixes tracked publicly; hosted option offloads patching.

official x4review x3security x2news x3
  • CVE-2024-1297, Remote code execution vulnerability in Loomio, disclosed and tracked in public vulnerability databases.

Key stats

  • Value for money: 4/5

    Rating

  • Not disclosed

    Starting price

  • 12

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 4/5. Open source and self-hostable; hosted pricing opaque
  • Ease of use. Review snippets truncated; no reliable signal
  • Feature depth: 4/5. Discussions, proposals, polls, integrations, private hosting
  • Support quality. No support data in evidence
  • Security posture: 3/5. One public RCE CVE; active patching process
  • 4.8/5 FeaturedCustomers rating aggregated customer reviews
  • Yes Open source self-host or use hosted
  • 224 reviewers Trustpilot (loomio.nl) Dutch distributor
  • Crowdfunded Funding raised via 2014 campaign

Pricing

Not disclosed

Security

One RCE vulnerability (CVE-2024-1297, 2024); fixes tracked publicly; hosted option offloads patching.

  • CVE-2024-1297Remote code execution vulnerability in Loomio, disclosed and tracked in public vulnerability databases.⁴

What users say

feedback is sparse; available sources show a strong 4.8/5 aggregate rating and a user base skewed toward co-ops and movement organizations.

Alternatives

Compare Loomio with each alternative.

  • Decidim

    Fuller participatory-democracy platform; New York City chose it

  • Dotvoter

    Lightweight dot-voting for fast team prioritization

  • myDirectVote

    Formal voting for boards and member organizations

    Loomio vs myDirectVote

  • ThinkTank

    Enterprise ideation and workshop tooling

Companies that use it

  • Senedd (Welsh Parliament) committee⁹
  • NYC DSA
  • Podemos
  • Enspiral network

Companies that could

  • NYC Civic Engagement Commission11 Uses Decidim instead
Full analysis

Based on 40+ public sources; many review snippets were truncated, limiting quote extraction.

Great for co-ops and boards needing async consensus; overkill if a Slack poll settles your decisions.

Methodology

Based on 40+ public sources; many review snippets were truncated, limiting quote extraction.

Read how a report is made.

Sources

  1. Loomio pricing pageloomio.com
    official
  2. Private Loomio hostingloomio.com
    official
  3. Loomio GitHub Sponsorsgithub.com
    official
  4. CVE-2024-1297: Loomio RCEsentinelone.com
    security
  5. Loomio SECURITY.mdgithub.com
    security
  6. FeaturedCustomers testimonials (4.8/5)featuredcustomers.com
    review
  7. G2 reviewsg2.com
    review
  8. Capterra (Italy) reviewscapterra.it
    review
  9. Senedd committee report using Loomiosenedd.wales
    news
  10. Wikipedia: Loomioen.wikipedia.org
    news
  11. NYC partners with Decidimfacebook.com
    news
  12. Loomio tool profiledemocracy-technologies.org
    official

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