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What it is

Felt is a cloud-based GIS platform for building maps, dashboards, and apps from spatial data. It combines spatial SQL and cross-table analysis with plain-language analysis through Felt AI. Connections include Amazon S3, BigQuery, Databricks, Esri, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, MS SQL, Postgres, Snowflake, STAC, WFS, WMTS, Wherobots, and Amazon Redshift. A QGIS plugin carries styling, symbology, and layer structure into Felt when publishing. Its iOS and Android Field App supports surveys, GPS capture, geotagged photos, offline work, and later syncing. Teams can collaborate on maps in real time, share them, use threaded comments, and manage permissions. The Personal plan is free forever and allows unlimited maps and sharing, but it is for personal use and excludes uploads of your own data files. Professional and Enterprise are annual contracts with prices not published; Professional lists 25 GB monthly data processing and 100K monthly map views. A seven-day trial is listed. Felt supports web, desktop, mobile, API, and self-hosted platforms.

Spec sheet

What it does
Felt is a browser-based GIS platform for creating, analyzing, collaborating on and sharing interactive maps, dashboards and spatial applications.Read 14 Oct 2026 · help.felt.com
Product
Felt is an AI-native, cloud-based GIS platform for making maps, dashboards, and apps from spatial data.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Intended users
Felt lists GIS teams, field and operations teams, data science and analytics teams, product and engineering teams, and large GIS organizations as audiences.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Security
Felt states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, encrypts web traffic and credentials, and monitors its systems 24/7.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Support
Professional includes priority email and chat support and a one-hour onboarding session; Enterprise includes a dedicated customer success manager, technical support, and custom onboarding.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Headquarters
Oakland, California, United StatesRead 23 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Founded
2021Read 23 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Company
Felt says it was founded by Sam Hashemi and Rachel Zack; the About page does not state a founding year or headquarters.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
AI capabilities
Felt AI can create maps and applications from prompts, generate SQL and custom HTML popups, and connect AI assistants through MCP.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
AI data privacy
Felt says AI requests run through Amazon Bedrock, are not used to train models, are not made public and can access only data the user already has permission to see.Read 14 Oct 2026 · help.felt.com
Analysis
Felt supports spatial SQL, spatial analysis across tables, and plain-language analysis with Felt AI.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
App limitation
The App Store listing requires iOS 15.5 or later and identifies the app as designed for iPhone and iPad rather than a verified macOS app.Read 14 Oct 2026 · apps.apple.com
Authentication limitation
Felt supports password, Google and enterprise SAML SSO login but does not provide its own built-in two-factor authentication.Read 14 Oct 2026 · help.felt.com
Cloud integrations
Documented data connections include Postgres/PostGIS, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Amazon S3, Redshift, Google Cloud, Azure, Esri services, STAC, WFS and WMTS.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Collaboration
Felt supports real-time map collaboration, threaded comments, sharing, and permission controls.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Company facts
LinkedIn lists Felt as privately held, founded in 2021, headquartered in Oakland, California, with 11–50 employees.Read 14 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com
Company legal name
Crunchbase identifies the legal entity as Felt Maps Inc.Read 14 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com
Dashboards
Felt dashboards support statistics, bar and line charts, histograms, time series, filters, viewer interactions and H3 visualizations.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Data connections
Listed data sources and services include Amazon S3, BigQuery, Databricks, Esri, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, MS SQL, Postgres, Snowflake, STAC, WFS, WMTS, Wherobots, and Amazon Redshift.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Data formats
Felt accepts spatial files including CSV, Excel, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, Shapefile, File Geodatabase, KML/KMZ and GeoTIFF.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Developer documentation
Public developer documentation includes API getting-started material, endpoint references, SDK guides, webhooks, authenticated embeds, style language and MCP instructions.Read 14 Oct 2026 · developers.felt.com
Developer tools
The Enterprise plan lists a REST API and JavaScript SDK, and the app development page also describes a Python SDK and webhooks.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Embeds
Dashboards and maps can be embedded in Power BI, Notion, WordPress, SharePoint, Tableau, Retool and other websites, including private embeds using tokens.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Field app
The Field App runs on iPhone, iPad and Android for GPS capture, custom forms, photos, comments and synchronized office review.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Field collection
The iOS and Android Field App supports surveys, GPS-based capture, geotagged photos, offline work, and syncing when connectivity returns.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Founders and investors
Crunchbase names Can Duruk and Sam Hashemi as founders and lists 22 investors, including Energize Capital and Footwork; the latest round is categorized as Venture–Series Unknown.Read 14 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com
Hosting
Felt says data is hosted in the U.S. by default, with enterprise regional hosting, data residency options, and customer VPC deployment available.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
License status
Felt is a proprietary hosted product; the company describes sponsoring or contributing to open-source projects such as QGIS, Tippecanoe, Protomaps and MapLibre rather than releasing Felt itself as open source.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Limit: hyperlinking
A G2 reviewer requested hyperlinking in text annotations.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Limit: missing workspace tools
A G2 reviewer says Felt lacks some workspace measuring and calculating tools and creates a learning curve for teams accustomed to CAD or Bluebeam.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Limit: S3 workflow
A G2 reviewer reports that S3 integration needs better handling of files whose names differ only by extension and some large-dataset processing.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Limits
Professional lists 25 GB of monthly data processing and 100K monthly map views; the pricing FAQ says Felt does not automatically bill overages or throttle maps.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Map collaboration
Users can edit maps together in real time, see live cursors, comment and control map, project and workspace permissions.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
MCP integrations
Felt's MCP endpoint works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot and can query connected warehouses while leaving source data in place.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Notable news: AI release
Felt published an article dated July 14, 2025 announcing Felt AI for building spatial applications from prompts.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Notable news: developer APIs
Felt published a developer announcement dated April 15, 2025 describing new APIs intended to speed application development.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Notable news: security deployment
Felt published a security announcement dated January 28, 2025 covering SSO, authenticated embeds and self-hosted VPC deployment.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Offline field work
Business and Enterprise plans support downloading map areas, collecting features, forms, photos and comments offline, then synchronizing after reconnection.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Praise: ease and large datasets
G2 reviewers repeatedly praise easy setup, attractive fast maps, handling of large or multi-GB datasets, flexible uploads, styling, sharing and embedding.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Praise: Trustpilot reviewer
The visible Trustpilot reviewer said the web GIS worked very well during a short test session.Read 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com
QGIS
Felt's QGIS plugin preserves styling, symbology, and layer structure when publishing from QGIS to Felt.Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Rating on Apple App Store
5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratingsRead 14 Oct 2026 · apps.apple.com
Rating on Capterra
0.0 out of 5 from 0 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · capterra.com
Rating on G2
No aggregate score is supplied; G2 says there are not enough Felt reviews to provide buying insight, while displayed reviews include 4.5/5 and 5/5 scores.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Rating on Google Play
No star rating was displayed on the opened listing; the page showed 1K+ downloads.Read 14 Oct 2026 · play.google.com
Rating on Trustpilot
3.8 out of 5 from 2 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com
REST API
The REST API at https://felt.com/api/v2 can create and manipulate maps, layers, annotations, sources and projects; it is available on Business and Enterprise plans.Read 14 Oct 2026 · developers.felt.com
SDKs and extensibility
Developers can embed maps with the JavaScript SDK, install the felt-python client from PyPI, use webhooks and run extensions inside Felt maps.Read 14 Oct 2026 · developers.felt.com
Security controls
Felt states that every plan has encryption in transit and at rest, employee access controls, SOC 2 Type 2 controls and GDPR compliance.Read 14 Oct 2026 · help.felt.com
Self-hosting
Enterprise includes regional deployment options and makes self-hosted deployment available.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Spatial analysis
The platform provides buffer, join, dissolve and clip operations, SQL, drive-time areas, raster analysis, geocoding and H3 hexagon analysis.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Spreadsheet and GIS integrations
Team and higher plans can refresh Google Sheets, Airtable, ArcGIS, WMS/WFS, URLs and SharePoint, and include a QGIS plugin.Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
System and storage details
The service runs on public clouds including AWS, uses HTTPS/TLS, Cloudflare DDoS protection, encrypted versioned S3 storage, daily application backups and annual disaster-recovery exercises.Read 14 Oct 2026 · help.felt.com

Plans and prices

Free Free free forever 3 seats · 25 viewers · 10k map views/month · maps, annotations, real-time collaboration and public sharing Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Personal Free Free, forever Unlimited maps and sharing · No own data file uploads · Personal use only, not business Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com
Team $199 a month annual billing; $249/month monthly billing 3 seats · 25 viewers · 5 GB processing/month · 25k views/month · daily Sheets/ArcGIS/SharePoint refresh · forms and photos · 250 AI credits/month Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Business $599 a month annual billing; $749/month monthly billing 5 seats · 100 viewers · 1 database or bucket · hourly refresh · 25 GB processing/month · 100k views/month · SQL, dashboards, drive times, offline maps, REST API, extensions and 1,000 AI credits/month Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Platform $1,000 a month annual billing; $1,250/month monthly billing JavaScript SDK and authenticated embeds · customer users need no Felt accounts or seats · free for first three months with a paid plan Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Enterprise $1,250 a month from $1,250/month paid yearly 10 seats · unlimited viewers · unlimited databases · 15-minute refresh · SSO/SAML · regional or self-hosted deployment · SLA · 100 GB processing/month · 250k views/month · 2,500 AI credits/month Read 14 Oct 2026 · felt.com
Professional Price not published Annual contract; price not published 10 full seats · Unlimited free viewers · 25 GB monthly data processing · 100K monthly map views · 1-hour onboarding · 7-day trial Read 28 Sep 2026 · felt.com

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Strong points and limits

Strong points

  • Spatial SQL and plain-language analysis with Felt AI
  • Broad listed data-source and service connections
  • Offline field capture with later syncing
  • Real-time collaboration with comments and permissions
  • QGIS publishing preserves layer presentation and structure

Limits

  • Free Personal plan excludes own data-file uploads
  • Personal use only, not business
  • Professional and Enterprise prices are not published
  • Professional lists monthly processing and map-view limits

Who it suits

Felt suits GIS, field operations, data science, analytics, product, and engineering teams working with spatial data. Enterprise options include SSO/SAML, regional hosting, and customer VPC deployment for larger GIS organizations.

Felt in depth

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Felt is a cloud GIS platform for teams that need to analyze spatial data, build maps and apps, and coordinate work around them. It is best suited to GIS, field, analytics, and product teams that can use an annual business plan. Its strongest case is the breadth from analysis to field collection; the free plan is personal-only and cannot upload your own data.

Overview

Felt combines mapping with spatial SQL, analysis across tables, and plain-language analysis through Felt AI. Live connections span cloud storage and databases such as Amazon S3, BigQuery, Databricks, Google Cloud, Azure, Postgres, Snowflake, and Amazon Redshift, alongside Esri and standards-based sources including WFS and WMTS. That breadth suits teams whose data already lives across several systems, while the platform's value is less clear for someone who only needs to make a simple standalone map.

Maps support real-time collaboration, threaded comments, sharing, role-based permissions, custom branding, and iframe embeds. The QGIS plugin retains styling, symbology, and layer structure when publishing a project, a practical advantage for teams that have already organized work in QGIS. Felt also provides an iOS and Android Field App for surveys, GPS capture, and geotagged photos; offline collection and later syncing help keep field work moving without a connection.

Key features

Spatial analysis: Spatial SQL, cross-table analysis, and Felt AI's plain-language analysis cover different ways teams may explore geographic data.

Data connectivity: Connections include cloud platforms, databases, GIS services, and STAC. Live refresh helps keep connected data current without making Felt only a static-map tool.

QGIS publishing: Preserving layer structure and styling reduces the work of recreating an existing project's presentation in Felt.

Field collection: Surveys, GPS capture, photos, offline work, and later syncing make the mobile app relevant to operations teams gathering information in the field.

Development and deployment: Enterprise includes a REST API and JavaScript SDK; Felt's app development offering also describes a Python SDK and webhooks. Enterprise additionally offers regional hosting, data residency options, and customer VPC deployment.

Security: Felt states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, encrypts web traffic and credentials, and monitors systems around the clock.

Pricing

Felt uses a freemium model, but its free tier is a narrow personal option rather than a starter business plan. Personal costs nothing, forever. It includes unlimited maps and sharing, but prohibits business use and does not allow your own data file uploads. That makes it suitable for personal exploration, not for evaluating a team workflow with business data.

Professional has custom pricing on an annual contract, with a 7-day trial. It includes 10 full seats, unlimited free viewers, 25 GB of monthly data processing, and 100K monthly map views, plus a one-hour onboarding session and priority email and chat support. The seat count and monthly quotas make it a defined team tier; Felt says it does not automatically bill for overages or throttle maps, so exceeding those thresholds does not trigger either of those stated consequences.

Enterprise also uses custom pricing and an annual contract. It includes 10 full seats, unlimited free viewers, usage scaled to the plan, live cloud sources, a REST API and JavaScript SDK, SSO/SAML, and regional hosting and VPC deployment. It is the better fit for large organizations needing identity controls, deployment options, or developer access beyond the Professional package. Both business plans require an annual commitment, and neither has a published price.

Platforms

Felt supports web, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as API and self-hosted options. The dedicated Field App runs on iOS and Android, where its offline capture and syncing support mobile collection. This wide platform coverage is useful for mixed-device teams, though the platform list alone does not establish what self-hosted deployment entails.

Who it's for

Felt is a strong candidate for GIS teams that need analysis and map collaboration, field and operations teams collecting geospatial information, and data science, analytics, product, or engineering groups building on spatial data. Large GIS organizations are the clearest audience for Enterprise's SSO/SAML, API, and hosting controls. It is a weaker fit for individuals who need to upload their own data for free or businesses that want a low-commitment, transparently priced entry tier.

Pros and cons

Pro: Analysis, live data connections, QGIS publishing, and map collaboration sit in one platform, reducing the need to separate those parts of a team workflow.

Pro: Offline field capture with later syncing supports collection where connectivity is unreliable.

Pro: Enterprise offers SSO/SAML and regional or VPC deployment for organizations with access and hosting requirements.

Con: The free plan bars business use and own-file uploads, so it cannot serve as a free business pilot with company data.

Con: Professional and Enterprise both require annual contracts with custom pricing, making costs harder to compare before speaking with sales.

Con: Professional has monthly processing and map-view limits, which teams with heavier usage must account for even though overages are not automatically billed and maps are not throttled.

Alternatives

For lighter chart-and-map publishing, Datawrapper is worth considering: its free plan includes charts, maps, and tables, web publishing and embedding, and PNG downloads, with attribution shown. Choose it when those presentation needs matter more than Felt's GIS analysis, QGIS workflow, and field collection.

BatchGeo may suit a simpler marker-mapping need: its Pro plan costs $99 a month and includes 100,000 markers per map, password protection, 10 users, Street View integration, and PDF, PNG, and KML exports. MapTiler Cloud is another freemium option for readers comparing cloud mapping services.

For map drawing, Scribble Maps offers a Pro Basic monthly plan at $19 a month, while its free plan is capped at five lifetime map saves, one user, and 450×450px images. That makes it a more focused option when those map-creation limits and price suit the task better than Felt's team GIS plans. NextGIS Web is an alternative for readers considering a GIS service with self-hosted support.

Maptitude is a paid alternative with a 1095.00 USD one-time desktop option for one user and a 10-year term, or an online plan at $795 a year; consider it when those licensing formats fit better than Felt's annual custom-priced contracts. MapHub is another freemium mapping option, and Mapotic offers a free Map Builder plan capped at 100 places, with ads potentially shown.

Verdict

Choose Felt if your team needs GIS analysis, collaborative maps, and field collection tied together, especially when QGIS continuity or enterprise deployment controls matter. Its free tier is not a business on-ramp, and annual custom-priced contracts make it a poor choice for buyers who need to test with their own business data or compare clear prices before committing.

Verdict

Felt brings spatial analysis, map collaboration, and field collection into one platform. The free plan is limited to personal use; business plans require annual contracts with unpublished prices.

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