Muncoordinated vs Gavelling: Which Free MUN Software in 2026?

Muncoordinated (sometimes written MUN Coordinated) has earned real goodwill in the Model UN community: it is free, open-source, and has removed the cost barrier to digital committee management for years. If you are choosing between it and Gavelling — also free — the decision comes down to scope and philosophy, not price. Here is the honest breakdown.

What Muncoordinated does well

• Genuinely free and open-source. Every feature is available at no cost, and the code is public — anyone can inspect it or contribute.
• Multi-director collaboration. Several directors can manage the same committee simultaneously from a shared account.
• Persistence. Committee activity saves to the server, so day two picks up where day one ended.
• Runs in the browser. No installation for the dais.

Where the scope differs

Muncoordinated is a committee-room tool for the dais: the directors run the software and the room watches a projection. That is a deliberate, lightweight design — and its limits are exactly where Gavelling starts:

• Delegates get their own live view. On Gavelling, every delegate joins with a 6-character code and sees their queue position, the current speaker, documents, and a direct chat line to the dais from their own device. No more "am I still on the list?"
• Faculty advisors get a view too. A read-only observer mode shows advisors their whole delegation live.
• A full conference layer. Delegate applications, smart country-role allocation, delegation management for schools, payments and financial aid, study guide distribution, position paper review, staff recruitment, awards, and a public conference directory with a world map. Muncoordinated, as a community project, does not attempt registration, payments, or conference logistics.
• Active product development. Gavelling ships new features continuously as a maintained product; Muncoordinated advances at the pace of community contribution, and support is community-based.

Side-by-side

Muncoordinated details from muncoordinated.io as of July 2026. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

When Muncoordinated is the better pick

If open source is a hard requirement for your institution, or you specifically want a minimal dais-only tool with nothing delegates need to touch, Muncoordinated remains a dependable choice with a long track record. It asks very little and delivers the committee-room basics reliably.

When Gavelling is the better pick

If you want delegates and advisors in the loop live, or you are running an actual conference — applications, allocations, fees, study guides — rather than a single committee room, Gavelling covers the whole lifecycle in one free platform. There is no paid tier waiting behind the free one.

See also: Best MUN Software in 2026 for the full field, including MUN Command and desktop options.