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QGIS covers a wide range of desktop GIS work: it can create, edit, analyze, and publish geospatial information, produce print maps and reports, and combine hundreds of analysis tools into reproducible workflows. It works with many data formats and web services, can publish OGC services through QGIS Server, and has more than 2,000 community plugins. It is free and open source, with builds for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows as well as self-hosted deployment.

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   Felt

   Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+5

   Cloud mapping with collaboration and mobile field collection — Felt adds cloud collaboration, plain-language analysis, and a field app for offline surveys and GPS capture.

   Free plan · 7-day trial Visit site
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   QGIS Cloud

   Free plan AndroidExtensioniPhone+4

   Publishing QGIS projects as hosted web maps — QGIS Cloud adds hosted publishing, PostgreSQL with PostGIS, a WebGIS client, and map printing up to 1200 dpi.

   Free plan Visit site
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   StatSilk

   by StatSilk

   Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+4

   Interactive dashboards from structured data — StatSilk focuses on interactive, embeddable dashboards using sources such as spreadsheets, databases, Excel, XML, and SDMX.

   Free plan · paid from $495/yr Visit site
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   GIS Cloud

   Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2

   Team mapping and mobile data collection — GIS Cloud combines web mapping with custom-form field collection on Android and iOS, including offline capture and automatic sync.

   Free plan · paid from $5/mo · 14-day trial Visit site
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   GPXSee

   Free plan AndroidLinuxMac+1

   Viewing and analyzing GPS logs — GPXSee is a GPS log viewer with track graphs and map support, not a full-featured GIS like QGIS.

   Free plan Visit site
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   GRASS GIS

   Free plan APILinuxMac+3

   Advanced raster, terrain, and geospatial processing — GRASS GIS offers over 500 processing modules and interfaces including command line, Python, Jupyter Notebook, and WPS.

   7.3 Free plan Visit site
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   NASA WorldWind

   Free plan Open source AndroidAPILinux+4

   Developers building 3D globe applications — WorldWind is an open-source 3D globe engine and SDK, with Java and web options rather than QGIS’s general GIS workspace.

   Free plan Visit site
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   Mapbox Studio

   Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1
   7.1 Free plan Visit site
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   SAGA GIS

   Free plan LinuxMacWindows
   6.8 Free plan Visit site
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    CARTO

    Free trial APISelf-hostedWeb
    6.3 Pricing on request · 14-day trial Visit site
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    GeoDa

    Free plan LinuxMacWindows
    6.3 Free plan Visit site
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    Global Mapper

    Free trial AndroidiPhoneWindows
    6.1 From $599/user/yr · 14-day trial Visit site
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    ArcGIS Hub

    by ArcGIS Hub

    Paid APISelf-hostedWeb
    6.0 Pricing on request Visit site
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    ILWIS

    by 52°North

    Free plan
    5.8 Visit site
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    Manifold GIS (Release 9)

    Free trial Self-hostedWindows
    5.7 Visit site
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    ArcGIS Pro

    by Esri

    Paid
    4.3 Visit site
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    GeoMedia

    by Hexagon

    Paid Windows
    4.3 Visit site
18. 18 M

    MapInfo Pro

    Paid Windows
    4.1 Pricing on request · 30-day trial Visit site
19. 19 H

    Hexagon M.App Enterprise

    by Hexagon

    Paid
    4.0 Visit site

The better fit depends on what you need beyond that broad toolkit. QGIS has no mobile apps of its own, relies on third-party options for field work, and its plugin submissions do not receive advanced code QA. Some alternatives focus on cloud collaboration, hosted publishing, dashboards, GPS logs, computational processing, or 3D globes rather than a general GIS workspace. Compare those priorities with QGIS’s analysis and publishing range, the required platforms, and whether a specialized tool complements or replaces your existing workflow.

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