The Best 29 ArcGIS Alternatives

  • QGIS

    A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD

  • Maptitude

    Business mapping software (geographic information system) that delivers affordable, easy-to-use, professional mapping tools for mapping in these sectors: franchising, health care, business, territories, site selection, sales, marketing...

    Commercial Windows

  • GRASS GIS

    GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is an open source, free software (FOSS) Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological, vector, image processing, and visualization functionality.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • PostGIS

    PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • SuperGIS

    Supergeo Technologies Inc. is global leading GIS software & total solution provider. With series GIS products covering from desktop, mobile, server to developer SDK, SuperGIS has been utilized more than 100 different countries.

    Commercial Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • gvSIG Desktop

    gvSIG is a Geographic Information System (GIS), that is, a desktop application designed for capturing, storing, handling, analyzing and deploying any kind of referenced geographic information in order to solve complex management and...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • uDig

    uDig is a GIS software program produced by a community led by Canadian-based consulting company Refractions Research. It is based on the Eclipse platform and features full layered open source GIS.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • MangoMap

    Transform your data into interactive web maps that empower clients, colleagues and communities.

    Freemium Web

  • MapInfo Professional

    MapInfo Professional is a powerful, functionally rich desktop mapping application from Pitney Bowes MapInfo, designed to enable organisations to solve business problems that have a geographical element.

    Commercial Windows

  • OpenLayers

    OpenLayers is a high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs. FEATURES Tiled Layers Pull tiles from OSM, Bing, MapBox, Stamen, MapQuest, and any other XYZ source you can find.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

  • Spatial Feature Server

    Spatial Feature Server by MapET is an ESRI Geoservices REST Implementation and works with all ESRI Rest API's.

    Commercial Windows

  • Mapserver

    MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Geoconcept

    The GEOCONCEPT solution was designed first and foremost to respond to expectations of users who wanted to leverage the power of geographical data to the fullest.

    Commercial Windows Web Self-Hosted

  • MapLarge

    Beautiful, User Friendly online mapping software that scales to big data.

    Freemium Windows Linux Web

  • what3words

    Geocoding system for the simple communication of locations with a resolution of 3 m.

    Free Android iPhone iPad Web

  • Manifold

    Manifold GIS is a combination of mapping, CAD, DBMS and image processing.

    Commercial Windows

  • GeoSheets

    GeoSheets is a free add-on for Google Spreadsheets that makes it simple to do lightweight GIS tasks like geocoding, address normalization, distance calculations and creating customized and embeddable maps.

    Freemium Web Google Drive