ArcGIS Companion vs Touch GIS 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.
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- Free
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Touch GIS is the most intuitive professional field data collection and mapping tool available. It's a super-powered field notebook enabling you to collect any kind of data, in any environment, online or offline, and transfer it easily to your preferred desktop GIS. We believe your data collection tools should amplify your capabilities, not limit them, which is why we focus on keeping your forms and attributes totally customizable in the field.
Join thousands of professionals utilizing Touch GIS as their mobile GIS app to enhance their field work in geologic mapping, ecological mapping, civil engineering, mineral exploration and mining, natural resource management, landscape architecture, and more.
FEATURES
- Easily create new Points, Lines, Polygons, and Circles in the field.
- Quick and simple line and polygon drawing with free draw mode and vertex snapping.
- Quickly adjust feature class collection and attribute forms in the field at any time
- Get multiple perspectives by switching between base maps in the field
- Save map tiles for offline use
- Export to a variety of industry standard formats
- Snap, mark up, and attach photos to locations
- Measure planar and linear feature orientation using our clinometer tool with strike/dip, dip/dip direction, or trend/plunge formats.
- Add custom base maps with WMS/WMTS
- Add Rasters and other overlays to your map
- Add team members so your whole team has access
FILE TYPES SUPPORTED
- Shapefile
- KML and KMZ
- GeoJSON
- GPX
- CSV
- World File
- Geotiff
- JPG
- PNG
- GeoPackage (GPKG)
Customizable attribute types:
- Description
- Date & Time
- Photos
- List Of Values
- Checkbox
- Address
- Number
- Website
- Phone Number
- Attitude / Orientation
- Make your own
PRELOADED FEATURE CLASSES
- Forestry
- Geology
- Real Estate
- Stream Surveys
- Water Infrastructure
- Wetlands
- Create Your Own!
Terms of Service: https://www.touchgis.app/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://www.touchgis.app/privacy
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- Free
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ArcGIS Companion VS. 
Touch GISJanuary 18, 2026