Free Google Earth Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Google Earth for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is Marble, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Google Earth and 14 are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Google Earth are NASA World Wind, KStars, Google Earth VR and SAS.Planet.

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  1. Marble icon

    Marble

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    Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.

    40 Marble alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flatpak
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    Douze
    Positive
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    it also features an offline world map in the form of a globe, with many different layers available, with old age maps and such.

    Guest
    Positive
    1

    It shows maps of Earth and the sky, also with 3D rendition of our planet.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Marble is a great Google Earth alternative.

    • Marble is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Google Earth.

    • Marble is Free and Open SourceGoogle Earth is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • Marble is Privacy focusedGoogle Earth is not according to our users
  2. NASA World Wind icon

    NASA World Wind

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    World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

    15 NASA World Wind alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Blue Marble: View of the eastern hemisphere
     
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    Guest
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    This is a developer tool rather than an application that can be used "out of the box", like Google Earth.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think NASA World Wind is a great Google Earth alternative.

    • NASA World Wind is Free and Open SourceGoogle Earth is Free Personal and Proprietary
  4. KStars icon

    KStars

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    Open-source astronomy software offering accurate night sky simulation with 100 million stars, Ekos astrophotography suite, stellar observation planner, "What's up Tonight" tool, FOV editor, and a variety of celestial catalogs for comprehensive astronomical exploration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    whitephoenixus
    Negative
    3

    It’s a planetarium program, not a maps or atlas program.

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    • KStars is Free and Open SourceGoogle Earth is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • KStars is Privacy focusedGoogle Earth is not according to our users
  5. Google Earth VR icon

    Google Earth VR

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    The world has so many beautiful and amazing places to visit. If we're lucky, we're able to travel and see a few of them. But even the most active travelers can only see a fraction. What if we could see them all?

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • HTC Vive
    • SteamVR
    • Meta Quest
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  6. SAS.Planet icon

    SAS.Planet

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    This program allows work with any maps service if you can describe getting picture by longitude/latitude(if you want you can write config file or simplepascal script to describe how obtain needle photos).

    30 SAS.Planet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

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    • Windows
    Yahoo photos as map + Panoramio/Wikimapia as layers
     
  7. Bing Maps 3D icon

    Bing Maps 3D

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    To view maps in 3D, and tour and save collections to video, install 3D.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. TerraExplorer icon

    TerraExplorer

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    TerraExplorer is a powerful, easy to use tool to build, analyze, and navigate high resolution 3D world environments created by fusing aerial and satellite photography, terrain elevation data and other 2D and 3D information layers.onto a 3D map,.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  11. Mapline icon

    Mapline

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    Maximize the use of your Excel spreadsheet data. Make mapping the easiest. Transform Excel data into visual analysis. We lead in data simplification and presentation. We are committed to deliver the tools needed to outpace competition.

    117 Mapline alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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  12. MapSphere icon

    MapSphere

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    MapSphere is a manageable way to view and organize geographical data of different kind. This might be raster maps and satellite imagery from various sources, your own information received from GPS, tracks of your friends, whatever you want.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. GMap.NET icon

    GMap.NET

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    GMap.NET is great and Powerful, Free, cross platform, open source .NET control. Enable use routing, geocoding, directions and maps from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, OpenStreetMap, ArcGIS, Pergo, SigPac, Yandex, Mapy.cz, Maps.lt, iKarte.

    41 GMap.NET alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Mobile
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  14. Modest Maps icon

    Modest Maps

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    Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. It provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Roby718
    Negative
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    this is a library, not an application

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    • Some users think Modest Maps is a great Google Earth alternative, some don't.

    • Modest Maps is Free and Open SourceGoogle Earth is Free Personal and Proprietary
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