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




ArcGIS is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac Map Service alternative is QGIS, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ArcGIS and five of them are Map Services available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Map Service alternatives to ArcGIS are GRASS GIS, Mapserver, Spotzi and PostGIS.
A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.




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.


MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. Originally developed in the mid-1990’s at the University of Minnesota, MapServer is released under an MIT-style license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows...
Spotzi is an easy-to-use online geomarketing platform you can try for FREE. Spotzi has a short learning curve, so you don't have to be a data scientist to work with Spotzi. Our main goal is to find your best-fit customers in just a few clicks.




PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRIs SDE...

QGIS can read geodatabases. The software is frequently updated and print composer is very good alternative to ArcGIS for map layouts.