Alternatives to Felt

{"intro": "Felt puts maps, dashboards, and apps in a cloud GIS, with spatial SQL, cross-table analysis, plain-language Felt AI, live data connections, QGIS publishing, and field collection. Teams can work together in real time, use threaded comments and role-based permissions, embed maps, and connect through APIs or SDKs. Its mobile Field App supports GPS capture, geotagged photos, offline work, and later syncing. Felt runs on web, desktop, mobile, Linux, self-hosted, and API environments. The free Personal plan allows unlimited maps and sharing, but only for personal use and without your own data uploads.\n\nAlternatives make sense when you need another balance of cost, deployment, or specialist GIS work. Felt’s Professional and Enterprise tiers use annual contracts, while Professional specifies 25 GB of monthly data processing and 100K monthly map views. Compare those limits with desktop editing, open-source hosting, OGC services, large analysis libraries, territory planning, embedded dashboards, or QGIS-centered workflows. Also weigh offline collection, platform coverage, collaboration, integrations, printing, and control over where the software runs.", "rows": [{"ref": "sw:gis-cloud", "name": "GIS Cloud", "best_for": "Teams needing low-cost web and mobile field mapping", "pricing": "Free plan; paid from $5/mo; 14-day trial", "key_difference": "GIS Cloud emphasizes shared web maps, custom mobile forms, offline collection, and QGIS or ArcMap publishing rather than Felt’s AI analysis.", "choose_when": "Choose it for inexpensive field forms and automatic offline synchronization across Android and iOS."}, {"ref": "sw:qgis-cloud", "name": "QGIS Cloud", "best_for": "QGIS users publishing styled maps and OGC services", "pricing": "Free plan", "key_difference": "QGIS Cloud publishes QGIS Desktop projects with matching styling and provides PostGIS, WMS, WFS, and WFS-T services.", "choose_when": "Choose it when QGIS-native publishing, editable WFS-T services, or high-resolution map printing matters more than Felt’s collaboration and AI."}, {"ref": "sw:statsilk", "name": "StatSilk", "best_for": "Interactive dashboards from spreadsheets and statistical sources", "pricing": "Free plan; paid from $495/yr", "key_difference": "StatSilk focuses on interactive embedded dashboards across web and desktop, using spreadsheets, databases, and named statistical sources.", "choose_when": "Choose it for dashboard embedding and statistical-source connections rather than Felt’s GIS collaboration and field workflows."}, {"ref": "sw:supermap-gis", "name": "SuperMap GIS", "best_for": "Large organizations needing broad enterprise GIS deployment", "pricing": "Pricing on request; 90-day trial", "key_difference": "SuperMap GIS spans remote sensing, 3D, GeoAI, distributed GIS, and more than 900 server analysis tools with several deployment modes.", "choose_when": "Choose it for extensive enterprise analysis, 3D or GeoAI work, and cluster, microservice, or Docker deployment."}, {"ref": "sw:nextgis-web", "name": "NextGIS Web", "best_for": "Open-source teams managing editable web geodata", "pricing": "Free plan; paid from €15/mo (annual)", "key_difference": "NextGIS Web adds open-source self-hosting, QGIS Teamspace editing, version history, and broad tile, OGC, and REST services.", "choose_when": "Choose it when QGIS-centered multi-user editing, rollbackable data history, and hosting control outweigh Felt’s AI features."}, {"ref": "sw:maptitude", "name": "Maptitude", "best_for": "Businesses planning territories, routes, and facilities", "pricing": "From $795/user/yr; 30-day trial", "key_difference": "Maptitude specializes in territory balancing, vehicle routing, drive-time analysis, site selection, and desktop data synchronization.", "choose_when": "Choose it for sales territories, delivery planning, facility analysis, and extensive desktop GISDK automation."}, {"ref": "sw:qgis", "name": "QGIS", "best_for": "Free desktop GIS with extensive analysis and plugins", "pricing": "Free plan", "key_difference": "QGIS is free desktop GIS with hundreds of analysis tools, more than 2,000 plugins, print layouts, and QGIS Server OGC publishing.", "choose_when": "Choose it for broad desktop editing, reproducible analysis, community extensions, and standards-based server publishing without a subscription."}]}