Futura FieldPro vs Tile Server
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Futura FieldPro
This application allows utilities to display, analyze, and edit their GIS data on an iPad, both online and offline. It offers features for red-lining, field inspections, data collection, and outage management, providing freedom to use and edit GIS data anywhere.
- Offline GIS data editing
- Field inspections and data collection
- GPS voice turn-by-turn navigation
- Network tracing
- Sub-meter GPS data collection
- Customizable basemap imagery
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Futura FieldPro is part of an integrated enterprise GIS solution provided to Utilities by Futura Systems, Inc. It allows Futura customers to conveniently display, analyze, and edit their ESRI geodatabase data from an iPad whether on or offline; giving utilities the freedom to use and edit their GIS data anywhere. Futura FieldPro includes functionality for Red Lining, Field Inspections, Data Collections, Outage Management, and more. FieldPro features include: ·Comprehensive Search and Query tools ·GPS Voice Turn By Turn Navigation ( On/Offline navigation with Google Maps and online only navigation with Apple Maps) ·Network Tracing ·Sub-meter GPS data collection ·Ability to choose to display your own basemap aerial imagery or ESRI’s basemaps.
Tile Server
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Portable Tile Server - allows you to serve Map Tiles (XYZ or WMTS) URL's to mapping clients/apps/software or to advanced map viewer. Load MBTILES or GPKG (GeoPackage) SQLite Databases/files that contain raster tiles, vector tiles, elevation/terrain tiles, other tile data in the tile_data blob. Serve Static Geospatial Data (GIS) files like KML/KMZ, GeoJSON, CSV, GPX, CZML, SHP, 3DTiles, 3DModels (gltf/glb) and others. This is basically a file server that any file type including zip file has an endpoint and accessible for streaming or downloading across the network. NO DATA is Provided with the app. The User Side-Loads their own data via itunes FileSharing or iCloud Discover-able Endpoints and webpages WiFi turned on is required to run this app and have it get an IP Address from the network. This is a local IP Address NOT internet accessible. So only users on your local network can access this data. ipaddress:8080/discover - web page listing of all the tile layers and static files ipaddress:8080/services - JSON response and access to tile.json for each layer ipaddress:8080/map - advanced map viewer with quick access to tile layers and adding local Shapefiles, GPKG, GeoJSON, KML, GPX, CSV ipaddress:8080/wmts - XML getcapabilities response The app also features a tile details view of each tile service. That includes data from the metadata table and the URL's and TileJSON The app can serve data to other apps or desktop/laptop GIS mapping software on the network. ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro can access it via OGC WMTS. Other mapping clients can use the Standard XYZ Tile Server URL (like : http://ipaddress:8080/getGPKGRasterTile/name/{z}/{x}/{y}.png or http://ipaddress:8080/getMBTilesRasterTile/name/{z}/{x}/{y}.png) The Map is accessible on the same device (phone/tablet) or from any device/computer on the network. The Map supports digitizing/drawing, has OSM vector tile basemaps with a style picker, raster basemap selector, supports adding mapping service URL's like Raster Tiles, Vector Tiles, WMS and others.The map offers in-app dynamic vector tiling of loaded vector data for optimized handling of large data. Digitize and Draw/Create data and perform Analysis. Tools like Measure distance and area, show coordinates in multiple formats. The app is perfect for sharing data among devices so one device loads all the map tiles and nearby devices can stream it. This could be in response to a natural disaster or other event and a mobile command center is setup and this becomes the map server for sharing data. Notes: GeoPackage Raster Tiles should only be 3857 Spherical Web Mercator /Auxillary Web Sphere Spatial Reference System/Projection. Test at your own risk support for others. MBTILES must have the required tiles table or view and metadata table and should follow 1.2 or 1.3 specification. Encrypted SQLite Databases (SQLCipher or other approaches ) are NOT supported. more information can be found at: http://techmaven.net/portabletileserver For Support Please visit http://support.techmaven.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Futura FieldPro at Free against Tile Server's $4.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Futura FieldPro is free to download; Tile Server costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Futura FieldPro | Tile Server |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Futura Systems, Inc | Tech Maven GeoSpatial LLC |
In-app purchases
Futura FieldPro
No in-app purchases
Tile Server
No in-app purchases
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