License & Deployment Mix: 12 tools – 4 OSS, 8 SaaS. (OSS and SaaS counts can overlap when an open-source tool also offers a vendor-hosted edition.)

What Is GovTech?

Software built for state / local government and public agencies – as opposed to generic business tools that merely happen to have government customers. It spans:

• Public-administration ERP – fund accounting, budgeting, procurement.
• Permitting & licensing / community development.
• Citizen engagement, meetings & legislative management.
• Public safety – CAD, records management (RMS), 911.
• Open civic-tech – open-data portals, participatory democracy, FOI.

Boundaries

• Generic tools that merely serve gov (CAD, diagramming, scheduling) stay in their own categories.
• Nonprofit / donor / human-services case management -> nonprofit-donor.
• GIS -> gis-geospatial.

The information on these pages was researched by a combination of human review and large language models. To suggest an addition or correction, please contact us. Prepared by Rhodium Systems Inc., author of the ResorsIT platform — a unified IT operations management platform for IT teams and MSPs that integrates a curated suite of open-source, commercial, and SaaS applications into a single system with shared identity, single sign-on, access control, and a common audit trail. Use this catalogue only as a starting point for your own research, and review any tool carefully against your own requirements before relying on it. Catalogue data version 2026.197.

Comparison

At a glance

How to choose

• Public-administration ERP / fund accounting – Tyler, OpenGov, or CentralSquare.
• Permitting & licensing – Accela or OpenGov.
• Citizen comms + meetings / legislative – Granicus or CivicPlus.
• Public safety (CAD/RMS) – Mark43 or CentralSquare.
• Self-hosted civic tech – CKAN (open data), Decidim / Consul Democracy (participation), Alaveteli (FOI).

Boundaries

• Nonprofit / human-services case management -> nonprofit-donor; GIS -> gis-geospatial; generic tools stay in their own categories.

Tools

12 tools.

Accela

Accela is a cloud Civic Platform for permitting, licensing, land management, code enforcement, and citizen access used by state and local government agencies.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML

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Alaveteli

Alaveteli is mySociety’s open-source Freedom-of-Information request platform (Ruby on Rails) – it powers sites like WhatDoTheyKnow, letting citizens send, track, and publish FOI requests to public bodies.

License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, native · SSO: none

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CentralSquare Technologies

CentralSquare is a public-sector software suite spanning public safety (CAD, RMS, 911) and public administration (finance/ERP, community development, utility billing) for cities and counties.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

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Cityworks

GIS-centric public-asset, work-order and permitting management for local government, now delivered as Trimble Unity Maintain cloud SaaS on Esri ArcGIS.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML

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CivicPlus

CivicPlus is a local-government digital-services platform: municipal websites, 311/citizen request management (SeeClickFix), agenda and meeting management, recreation, and other citizen-facing services.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

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CKAN

CKAN is the leading open-source open-data portal platform, widely used by governments to publish, catalogue, and share datasets with rich metadata, an API, and a data-preview UI.

License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, native · SSO: OIDC, SAML

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Consul Democracy

Consul Democracy is an open-source citizen-participation and e-government platform (Ruby on Rails): debates, proposals, participatory budgeting, voting, and consultations, used by governments worldwide.

License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, native · SSO: OIDC

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Decidim

Decidim is an open-source participatory-democracy platform (Ruby on Rails) for citizen participation: proposals, participatory budgeting, consultations, assemblies, and votes, used by cities and organisations.

License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, native · SSO: OIDC, SAML

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Granicus

Granicus is a government citizen-engagement and digital-services platform: constituent communications (govDelivery), meetings/agenda/legislative management, website and digital services for public agencies.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

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Mark43

Mark43 is a cloud public-safety platform: records management (RMS), computer-aided dispatch (CAD), and analytics for police and public-safety agencies, delivered as government-cloud SaaS.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

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OpenGov

OpenGov is a cloud ERP and civic platform for local government: budgeting and planning, permitting and licensing, procurement, and fund accounting, delivered as government SaaS.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

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Tyler Technologies

Tyler Technologies is the largest US public-sector software vendor, providing ERP (Munis/Enterprise), courts & justice, appraisal & tax, permitting, and payments to state and local government.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML

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