Placeio Maps Free gives you a capable browser-based toolkit for importing and viewing spatial data, styling beautiful maps and saving your work. Pro builds on that with deeper customisation, advanced workflows and high-resolution export.
A capable toolkit for importing, styling and saving your maps.
US$0No account or payment needed
Start mappingMore control, advanced workflows and high-resolution output.
The table below provides a breakdown of the functionality available in the Free and Pro options.
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| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Mapping & data | ||
| Interactive Viewer & Editor | Included | Included |
| GeoJSON, Shapefile, GeoPackage and KML/KMZ import | Included | Included |
| CSV/XLSX tables and coordinate-based points | Included | Included |
| Coordinate-system detection and reprojection | Included | Included |
| Spreadsheet joins and attribute inspection | Included | Included |
| Light, street, dark and plain-background maps | Included | Included |
| Basemap appearance customisation | Not included | Included |
| Tilted map views and 3D buildings | Not included | Included |
| Styling & labels | ||
| Point, line and polygon styling | Included | Included |
| Categorised and graduated maps | Included | Included |
| Palettes, class colours, breaks and symbol overrides | Included | Included |
| Labels, label filters and configurable popups | Included | Included |
| Selection & data workflows | ||
| Click, rectangle and lasso selection | Included | Included |
| Select features by attribute | Not included | Included |
| Display filters | Not included | Included |
| Filter Shapefile imports by attribute | Not included | Included |
| Replace layer data while retaining compatible settings | Not included | Included |
| Annotations | ||
| View existing annotations | Included | Included |
| Create and edit annotations | Not included | Included |
| Focus areas | Not included | Included |
| Vertical annotations | Not included | Included |
| Create areas from selected features | Not included | Included |
| Composer | ||
| Professional page layouts | Not included | Included |
| Titles, legends, scale bars, north arrows and logos | Not included | Included |
| Preset and custom page sizes | Not included | Included |
| Overview inset map | Not included | Included |
| Export | ||
| Whole-layer CSV and GeoJSON | Included | Included |
| Selected-feature CSV and GeoJSON | Not included | Included |
| High-resolution PNG & PDF export — up to 600 DPI | Not included | Included |
| Projects | ||
| Save and reopen portable map projects | Included | Included |
| Preserve supported Pro-authored project content | Included | Included |
Yes. You can use Placeio Maps Free without an account or payment.
No. An account is optional for Free users.
Yes. The features are identical. Annual Pro is billed once per year and costs the equivalent of ten monthly payments, giving you two months free.
Your project stays intact. You can still open it and use Free features; Pro-only settings are preserved and become available again if you return to Pro.