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Every voice in the room
Participants join from any phone with a short code — no app to install, no account to create. The quiet people contribute as easily as the loud ones.
Collaboration, made simple
Solve hard problems together.
Samvinas is the simple tool for running group sessions where every voice counts — brainstorm, vote, cluster, and decide, all in one place, from any phone.
Been invited to a session? You just need a code →
The best ideas are already in the room. Samvinas gets them out.
Whiteboards fill up with the loudest voices. Sticky notes get lost. Great sessions need structure — a way to move a group from many ideas to a shared decision without losing anyone along the way.
Samvinas gives you that structure as a set of small, sharp tools that connect: brainstorm feeds voting, voting feeds prioritisation, prioritisation feeds action. You run it live; everyone takes part from the phone already in their pocket.
Why Samvinas
Built for the way groups actually think.
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One flow, many tools
Brainstorm, vote, cluster, score, prioritise — each a focused tool, piped together so ideas move from divergence to a shared decision.
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You run the room
Open a tool, lock it, reveal results when you're ready. Or split into breakout groups that self-facilitate and report back.
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From talk to outcome
A real creative process, not just a wall of notes — and a clean export of everything the group produced when you're done.
How it works
Up and running in three steps.
STEP 01
Build your session
Create an event and drop in the tools you need — from a blank flow or a ready-made template.
STEP 02
Share one code
Everyone joins in seconds from a short code or QR. No logins, no downloads, no friction.
STEP 03
Run it live
Move the group through the flow together, watch results build in real time, and export the outcome.
The toolkit
Small tools that do one thing well.
Each does its job and hands off to the next — the Unix philosophy, applied to a workshop.
BrainstormIdeas from everyone, at once
VotingSurface what matters most
ClusteringGroup ideas into themes
Value / Do-abilityScore ideas on two axes
Breakout GroupsSmall teams, self-facilitating
Ranking · Word Cloud · moreA growing set
Pricing
Simple plans. Participants always free.
One facilitator licence, billed annually. Everyone you invite joins free — you only pay for the person running the room.
Starter
For individuals & small teams
$449/ year
Up to 50 participants per event
- Core tools: Brainstorm, Voting, Clustering, Ranking, Word Cloud
- Unlimited events
- Templates & one-click export
- Join by code or QR — no participant accounts
Most popular
Pro
For facilitators who run the room often
$1,299/ year
Up to 200 participants per event
- Everything in Starter
- All pro tools: Breakout Groups, Value / Do-ability, Personal Workspaces, Five Whys, Elaboration
- Advanced pipes & multi-tool flows
- Priority support
Teams & Education
Universities, nonprofits & large orgs
Let's talk
500+ participants · multiple facilitators
- Bigger events & co-facilitation
- Free or discounted for eligible universities & nonprofits
- Onboarding & training options
Prices in USD, billed annually. Been invited to a session? Joining is always free — just get the code from your organiser.
Invited to a session?
You don't need an account.
If someone invited you to a Samvinas session, you just need the join code they'll give you. Ask your organiser for the code, then head to the app to join.
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Want a hand?
Training & coaching, too.
Samvinas grew out of two decades of designing innovation workshops and Ideas Labs. If you'd like expert help, we can train your team to run their own sessions — or facilitate the big ones for you.
samvinna
/ˈsamˌvɪnːa/ · Icelandic, noun
“working together.” The root of our name — and the whole point of the product. We took the idea, and the fire-and-ice character of the place it comes from.
About us
We make collaboration effortless.
For twenty years we've designed and run creative problem-solving events — Ideas Labs, innovation workshops, sandpits — for universities, research institutes, and companies tackling genuinely hard questions.
Samvinas is that experience turned into software: the facilitation methods we trust, in tools simple enough that anyone can pick them up. Whether you run one workshop a year or one a week, the goal is the same — get a group from scattered thinking to a decision they own.
Contact
Let's talk.
Questions about the app, a demo, training, or getting an account set up — drop us a line.