Felt vs MapChart
Felt
felt.comMapChart
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| Figure | Felt | MapChart |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $199/mo | $3.33/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 7 | 7 |
| Spec score · Interactive Map Software | 9.3 (#3) | 9.0 (#5) |
| Spec score · Map Creation Software | 9.3 (#3) | 9.0 (#4) |
| Founded | 2021 | 2014 |
| 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. | The maker describes use in classrooms, journals, scientific papers, market research, sales presentations, infographics, map games, and travel maps. |
| Rating on Apple App Store | 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings | 4.8 out of 5 from 4.8K ratings. |
| Rating on Google Play | No star rating was displayed on the opened listing; the page showed 1K+ downloads. | 4.3 out of 5 from 9.28K reviews. |
| 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. | For account issues or bugs, Plus users can email support and are told to expect a reply within 1–3 days. |
| What it does | Felt is a browser-based GIS platform for creating, analyzing, collaborating on and sharing interactive maps, dashboards and spatial applications. | MapChart lets users color geographic regions, add legends, customize map appearance, and download or share map images. |
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
MapChart
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Mobile Premium€4.99, paid once
- Premium€4.99, paid once
- Mobile Premium Max€8.99, paid once
- Premium Max€8.99, paid once
- MapChart Plus$39.99 a year
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.
MapChart
MapChart is a map-making service for coloring countries, states and other regions, then downloading the result as an image. Its library contains more than 100 world, continent, country, subdivision and fantasy maps. You can change colors, patterns, backgrounds, borders and legends, hide areas, zoom and save configurations for later editing. Selected maps accept Excel data imports. The website provides free high-resolution downloads, and maps made with the service use a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Official add-ons connect Google Sheets and Airtable data to map creation and display. iOS and Android apps support making, previewing, sharing and downloading PNG maps. Website configurations can move to or from the mobile app as text files. The free plan includes the main tools and maps. Mobile Premium costs €4.99, paid once, Mobile Premium Max €8.99, paid once, and MapChart Plus $39.99 a year.