Flourish vs Unmapped

Flourish is a no-code tool for creating interactive data visualizations and stories, including charts and maps. Its library has more than 50 chart types and templates, such as line and bar charts, interactive maps, hierarchy graphs, survey results, and Sankey diagrams. Templates can include tooltips, filters, and animations; Publisher and Enterprise plans add scrollytelling. Published projects can be embedded in websites with responsive code or shared using a unique URL. Flourish can refresh visualizations from publicly accessible CSV files at intervals, while Publisher includes live updates from Google Sheets or CSV. Presenter, available with Canva Business or Enterprise, supports interactive charts in Canva designs and PowerPoint. Enterprise offers an API for creating and editing visualizations and connecting them to databases, live data feeds, webpages, and tools including R, Tableau, Jupyter, and Observable. Presenter, Publisher, and Enterprise offer PNG, JPEG, and usually SVG export; Publisher also includes HTML export for self-hosting. The Free plan costs nothing, allows unlimited projects, and adds Flourish attribution to published visualizations.

Unmapped is a browser-based map studio for making and publishing maps as videos, interactive stories, or maps. It runs in a modern desktop browser without installation. Its timeline treats places, labels, routes, and effects as clips, arranged into scenes with transitions, looping, and frame-accurate scrubbing. Bring in CSV, GeoJSON, zipped Shapefiles, or GeoTIFF files, or use live earthquake, wildfire, and weather-alert feeds. Visualizations can take the form of points, heatmaps, hexbins, or 3D columns, with styling, timing, and animation. You can add 3D models such as landmarks, people, or storm systems to routes, or ask the AI assistant to build scenes from a description. Exports include MP4 films up to 4K in landscape or vertical formats, interactive stories, and still images from any frame. Stories can be public, unlisted, or private; public ones may appear in discovery surfaces. The free plan includes manual 2D editing and previews. Pro and Studio add terrain and 3D buildings, credits, MCP support, and ChatGPT app integrations.