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Apps for the Community

Engage your audience


Governments, nonprofits, journalists, and businesses alike need more effective ways to communicate with specific audiences. Whether you need to reach the public at large or particular stakeholders, powerful ArcGIS Apps for the Community let you do this and more.

Share information and stories

Try 30+ different configurable app templates and the powerful storytelling capabilities in Esri Story Maps. Create map-based apps that can be used inside your organization, embedded on websites, or shared with the world. With these apps you can:

  • Engage your community
  • Showcase plans, projects, and infrastructure
  • Communicate with customers
  • Crowdsource community observations, input, and data
  • Educate decision makers
  • Rally your supporters

Connect people to data

Everyone benefits from being able to find the authoritative information they need, when they need it—citizens, journalists, academics, start-ups, even the people inside your organization. Make it accessible via open data portals. Capitalize on existing GIS resources by using ArcGIS Open Data to turn on the data so you can engage and communicate with your audiences.

Innovate and take action together

Empower your audience with access to data, maps, and apps they can use to create new information products and take new actions to benefit their communities. It’s the space where governments, NGOs, startups, businesses, and citizens work together to make forward-thinking, problem-solving apps.

Find the right app


Start communicating more effectively with your audiences using any of these apps. Most of them come included with ArcGIS.
  • Esri Story Maps

    Tell stories that inform, engage, and inspire your audience. Combine web maps with narrative text, photos, and other media.
  • ArcGIS Open Data

    Share your authoritative information through public-facing websites for others to search and download data needed in a variety of open formats.
  • Configurable Apps

    Choose from a comprehensive set of templates to quickly configure focused apps, for example for parcel editing or displaying social content.
  • Quick Report Template

    Create a citizen engagement native app that allows users to capture an observation and submit it to an online service.
  • Crowdsource Reporter

    Users can report problems or observations then track the status. They can comment and vote on reports or observations submitted by other users.
  • Crowdsource Manager

    Review problems or observations submitted by users. Look for patterns and clusters, update status, and assign responsibility.
  • Crowdsource Polling

    Solicit feedback on plans and proposals to gauge public sentiment. Users can comment, vote, and participate in open discussions.
  • Photo Survey

    Publish street-level photo collections and conduct focused property surveys to identify blight, damaged structures, or construction activity.
  • Industry-Specific Apps

    Jumpstart work with pre-configured apps for your industry. Choose from hundreds of focused apps to accomplish industry-specific workflows.
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