About this app

The Burg is a community where you live. We live in a day and age where we are more connected to people in other countries than the people down the street. It’s time we build community with our real, actual communities, and in the process, make voting much easier.

How? By giving you the keys to your city. Local News, Reps, Nonprofits, Neighbors.

All in one place, built for you.

*available only in CA, email us and @ us with the area you want us to come to next!


The Burg Features:

Hangout in the group chat for your city

• Frustrated about traffic? Tired of expensive rent? Looking for a coffee shop recommendation? Ask those who know best– your neighbors

• Chat & repost news to the group chat and organize your neighbors for a cause

• Poll your city and find out what people think (then @ your reps with the results)

• First names and neighborhoods only, so we can be friendly and safe


News, built for you and where you live

• Anytime your city, state, and neighborhood are mentioned, we send the news straight to your phone

• Follow issues you're passionate about– and learn how these issues hit home

• Every morning and evening, receive briefs on the city in the group chat


Politics isn’t an Olympic Sport– it's not election day, once every four years. It’s local and it’s every day, and we make it easier than ever.

• Assign your reps a to-do list, @ your reps on news articles, and include your reps in the conversation

• Anytime your reps are mentioned in the news, we’ll send the story straight to your phone

• Receive your ballot during election season so you can read up on everything, run polls, and talk with your fellow voters about who and what to vote for


Get involved with local nonprofits & orgs

• Follow your favorite nonprofits, and even repost them to the group chat

• Learn from these community leaders and @ them when you need an expert

• Go outside and volunteer

New features

Politics isn’t an Olympic Sport– it's not once every four years. It’s local and it’s every day, and we are on a mission to make it accessible and easy, every day. How? By giving you the keys to your city.

With over 50+ changes, here are the highlights:

• A group chat for your city

• A news engine that sends the important stuff from around the world, state, and neighborhood, straight to you

• Direct message your Reps & get them to better represent you

App Permissions

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.