Looking for a GovTrack app?
GovTrack.us has tracked Congress on the web since 2004. It does not offer a mobile app. QuorumCivic is a free, nonpartisan Congress tracker built for iOS and Android from the same public record. The two fit together, and this page tries to say plainly where each is the one to reach for.
Where GovTrack is the one to reach for
GovTrack is the reference, and it earned that the slow way. Its roll-call vote records run from 1789 to the present; its bill records and text run from the 103rd Congress (1993) onward, with enacted laws back to 1951. Keeping that much of the record current for twenty-two years is the unglamorous part of civic technology, and GovTrack has simply done it.
Its analyses are its own original work — a Prognosis that models a bill’s odds of getting out of committee and becoming law, and Ideology and Leadership scores drawn from who cosponsors whose bills — and there is nothing like them in QuorumCivic. It sends email updates on the bills and members you track, offers RSS feeds, and is free to use.
In 2005 it became the first site to publish federal legislative information as open, structured data. A generation of civic tools stands on that, and so does part of this one: QuorumCivic’s roster of members comes from the open congress-legislators project that GovTrack’s founder helps maintain. We owe it that.
If you want to know how a senator voted in 1994, or the modeled odds that a bill clears committee, GovTrack is where to go — and we would rather send you there than pretend otherwise.
Where QuorumCivic is the one to reach for
It lives on your phone. Native iOS and Android. Enter your ZIP and the first screen is your one representative and two senators. Follow them, and you get a push notification when they act.
The money sits next to the votes. $1.9B in direct PAC contributions across the 2020–2026 election cycles, mapped to more than 550 members of Congress and to the companies behind the PACs. More than 46,000 congressional STOCK Act trades since 2012. More than 160,000 federal lobbying filings, with the specific bills each one names — 68,000 filing-to-bill links across 7,900 bills. Corporate insider trades from SEC Form 4, and federal contract awards. All of it laid beside the votes and bills it touches.
Plain-English analysis, with the method shown. More than 11,000 bills of the current Congress carry a full-text analysis: what the bill does, a transparency score, flagged riders and carve-outs, and a reading of who it helps and who it costs. Every analysis states how it was produced. The model can be wrong; we say so, and the primary record is one tap away.
Every fact traces to one of 15 government sources, from Congress.gov and the FEC to Senate lobbying disclosures and USAspending. None of it replaces the depth of GovTrack’s record; it is a different layer, laid on the same foundation.
Where we are narrower
- Bills: the current Congress, the 119th (2025–2027). GovTrack goes back to 1993.
- Votes: from 2017. GovTrack goes back to 1789.
- Age: we launched in 2026. GovTrack has twenty-two years of continuity.
- Cost: the app is free, with an optional Quorum Supporter subscription ($3.99/month or $34.99/year) for unlimited new AI analyses. GovTrack is free.
- Delivery: push notifications, not email digests or RSS.
Side by side
| GovTrack.us | QuorumCivic | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Web | iOS and Android |
| Since | 2004 | 2026 |
| Bill records | 1993–present, plus enacted laws 1951–72 | 119th Congress (2025–) |
| Roll-call votes | 1789–present | 2017–present |
| Alerts | Email tracker lists, RSS | Push notifications |
| Its own analysis | Prognosis, Ideology and Leadership scores, report cards | Plain-English impact analysis, transparency score, rider and carve-out detection |
| Price | Free | Free; optional Supporter, $3.99/mo or $34.99/yr |
Use both
Plenty of people will, and we think they should. GovTrack for depth of history and its own modeled analyses; QuorumCivic for your three representatives, on your phone, the day something happens, with the money beside it. Neither is trying to be the other, and Congress is easier to keep an eye on with both.