Felt vs GIS Cloud
Felt
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| Figure | Felt | GIS Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $199/mo | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 7 |
| Spec score · GIS Software | 9.4 (#1) | 8.7 (#3) |
| Field collection | The iOS and Android Field App supports surveys, GPS-based capture, geotagged photos, offline work, and syncing when connectivity returns. | Mobile Data Collection supports custom forms and collection of points, lines, and polygons online or offline on Android and iOS. |
| Founded | 2021 | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Oakland, California, United States | Zagreb, Croatia |
| 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. | GIS Cloud says it has been ISO 27001 certified since November 2025 and encrypts data in transit with role-based permissions. |
| 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. | GIS Cloud says its solution consultants reply to demo, question, or project inquiries within one business day. |
Plans
Felt
- FreeFree
- PersonalFree
- Team$199 a month
- Business$599 a month
- Platform$1,000 a month
- Enterprise$1,250 a month
- ProfessionalPrice not published
GIS Cloud
- Publisher pluginsFree
- Track$5 a month
- Map Viewer$12 a month
- Mobile Data Collection$25 a month
- Map Editor$75 a month
- Map Portal$79 a month
- On-premises & CrowdsourcingPriced on request
In their own words
Felt
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.
GIS Cloud
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.