Appenate vs GIS Cloud

Appenate is a no-code platform for building data-driven business apps, including mobile forms for field data capture. Its apps can continue collecting information offline and sync when connectivity returns; native apps run on iOS, Android, and Windows. Capture options include signatures, photos, and GPS, and the platform supports advanced workflow handoffs. Its AI tools include form generation, a conversational assistant, voice fill, and photo fill. Listed connectors include Salesforce, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, SharePoint, PowerBI, SQL Server, Google Drive, and ArcGIS, alongside REST API integration. Appenate says its hosted platform runs on Microsoft Azure and offers two-factor authentication. Appenate Server provides an on-premises option with customer control over data, backups, and network security. The company says it uses GDPR as a benchmark for privacy and data protection efforts. Plans start at $20/user/mo billed annually, and the 15-day trial includes free support and training. Paid plans require a minimum of five users. Standard is $20 a month billed annually and includes 1,500 form submissions; Premium is $28 a month billed annually with unlimited submissions and all connectors. Pro costs $36 a month billed annually and adds unlimited AI access and the AI tools.

GIS Cloud provides web and mobile tools for mapping, data management and field collection, with maps that teams can share privately, with collaborators or publicly. Map Editor supports vector and raster formats, multiple layers and basemaps, and drawing points, lines and polygons. Listed data sources include WMS, WFS, WMTS, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Excel, CSV, Bing, OpenStreetMap and Mapbox. Mobile Data Collection uses custom forms to gather points, lines and polygons online or offline on Android and iOS; offline records stay on the device and sync when connectivity returns. QGIS and ArcMap publisher plugins, REST and JavaScript APIs provide additional connections. AI Form Fill can suggest form values from photos or voice, which users can review, edit or revert before saving. GIS Cloud says data is hosted on AWS in the US by default, with EU and Australia regions and on-premises deployment available. Plans include Track at $5 a month per asset, Map Viewer at $12 a month billed annually, Mobile Data Collection at $25 a month billed annually, Map Editor at $75 a month billed annually and Map Portal at $79 a month billed annually. The Geocoder is in beta for beta customers only.