ArcGIS Companion vs QField for QGIS Usage & Stats
The ArcGIS Companion app is a native mobile companion to your ArcGIS Online organization. Its simple, intuitive and ready to help you do the following tasks and more:
- Browse and view content, people, and groups in your organization
- Manage your profile, groups, and settings
- View notifications and take care of them on-the-go
- Learn more about your org and its members
- Easily discover and share content others
- Keep up with the ArcGIS community through blogs, tweets, and news
- Administrators can now invite new users, even add them to groups, manage credits and most importantly assign licenses. This is huge and a big time saver
- Find and open your favorite maps and apps directly in the app. We even have options to launch other Esri native apps installed on your device
At Esri, we always looking for ways to give our customers more. ArcGIS online already offers a powerful cloud based end-to-end GIS and
mapping platform. Our new mobile app brings some of these elements together in a user-friendly way on your own mobile devices at your convenience. As a result, managing your ArcGIS content or keeping up with what’s happening in your organization has never been simpler.
We encourage you to try out the new app and to share your feedback and experiences with us. We’d like to hear from all sides on what would make the app even more useful for you and your organization.
- Apple App Store
- Free
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QField focuses on efficiently getting GIS fieldwork done and exchanging data between the field and the office in a comfortable and user-friendly way.
QField has won the prestigious Best of Swiss Apps Award 2022 in the enterprise category and thanks to its native integration with QFieldCloud, your fieldwork will be as efficient as possible.
Built on top of the popular QGIS open-source project, QField lets users consume fully configured projects in the field, allowing for customized feature forms, map themes, print layouts, and more, bringing the power of QGIS to your fingertips.
Leveraging open source libraries such as gdal, SQLite and PostGIS, QField reads, displays and allows editing of a wide variety of spatial vector and raster datasets. Users can view and modify datasets wherever they are, whether they have been downloaded onto your device, shared in emails or transferred via USB cable.
The supported formats include:
- QGIS project files (.qgs, .qgz, as well as geopackage-embedded projects);
- SQLite-based geopackage and spatialite databases;
- GeoJSON, KML, GPX, and shapefile vector datasets;
- GeoTIFF, GeoPDF, WEBP, and JPEG2000 raster datasets.
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QField can use location permission to draw a marker overlaying device location on top of spatial projects and datasets. QField can also display and use location details such as latitude, longitude, elevation, and accuracy while entering data.
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For bug reports, please file an issue at https://qfield.org/issues
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- Free
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ArcGIS Companion VS. 
QField for QGISDecember 23, 2024