Mergin Maps: QGIS in pocket

Name: Mergin Maps: QGIS in pocket
Rating: 3.7 (18 reviews)
Author: Lutra Consulting

By: Lutra Consulting

QGIS field data collection app

Features & Capabilities

Simplify your field survey by capturing GPS field data on your mobile or tablet. Create mobile forms with the fields you require and invite your survey teams to complete them on their phones or tablets. Captured data, along with their location can be surveyed offline, then synced back to the QGIS in seconds.

Enter your data once, with ease, in the field. Mergin Maps aims to remove the pain of transcribing paper field notes, manually georeferencing photos and transcribing GPS coordinates.

The data you capture in the field survey is shown on a map and can be exported to a wide variety of formats including CSV, Microsoft Excel, ESRI Shapefile, Mapinfo, GeoPackage, PostGIS, AutoCAD DXF, KML and many more.

Mergin Maps Input is an extension of the free and open source GIS software QGIS. It allows you to open, interrogate and edit your QGIS projects on your mobile. Map layers look the same as in QGIS desktop and you can sync your data back and forward with QGIS desktop using the Mergin Maps QGIS plugin.

Mergin Maps supports offline field data capture and can be configured to use either offline or web-based background maps and contextual layers.

Perks of the Mergin Maps sync system:

No need for cables to get your data on/off your device
Share projects with others for collaborative working
Safely work together on the same datasets, even offline
Updates from different surveyors are intelligently merged
Push data back from the field in real time
Version history and cloud-based backup
Fine-grained access control
Sync with your PostGIS datasets

Supported field types for forms are:

Text (single or multi-line)
Numeric (plain, with +/- buttons or with slider)
Date / time (with calendar picker)
Photo
Checkbox (yes/no values)
Drop-down with predefined values
Drop-down with values from another table

Forms can even be configured to perform data validation using custom rules.

Works with device internal GPS receiver and third-party Bluetooth GPS receivers.

Supported field types for forms are:

Text (single or multi-line)
Numeric (plain, with +/- buttons or with slider)
Date / time (with calendar picker)
Photo
Checkbox (yes/no values)
Drop-down with predefined values
Drop-down with values from another table

Forms can even be configured to perform data validation using custom rules.

Works with device internal GPS receiver and third-party Bluetooth GPS receivers.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Lutra Consulting

Rating:

3.70

(18)

Version:

2026.2.0 Last updated: 2026-04-24

Version code:

884859871

Creation date:

2019-11-16

Compatible devices:

Size:

133.56MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-10

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 323,606 ▼ 1,014

Other rankings

#9 in input keyword 37 ▲ 8

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Developed by:

Lutra Consulting

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mergin-maps-qgis-in-pocket/id1478603559

Website:

https://merginmaps.com/

User Reviews

Open maps is the only app worse than this one. Cannot use this without downloading maps to your phone to explore. I don’t trust that. I have worked with maps for many many years. Another person mentioned QField if they had a better menu I would not look for any other app. At this point HuntStand beats many so called map apps. This one seems useless unless you make another account just to try an apps potential. Other people say it needs work and I could not get far enough past bad ideas to try any functions. You have a menu so that’s the only reason this is not the worst.

by Wi*****, 2025-11-17

I have been using Mergin Maps for an academic research project and it has been a blessing. It’s made it so easy to collect field data from my phone and sync with my QGIS file at home. Customer support has also been very prompt and helpful when I had issues with my payment plan. Recommend!

by mm*****, 2024-09-27

Our volunteer organization has used Mergin Maps for two years. Our team of approximately 40 citizen scientists use the app to monitor about 200 nest boxes for a bird species whose numbers are in decline. We record a variety of variables regarding fledging success throughout the breeding season. This app has revolutionized our ability to monitor the birds in near-real time. Simply put, we could not keep up with the field data workload without this app! The wide variety of tools and options at our fingertips is more than we could’ve ever hoped for, and it’s integration with QGIS is seamless. I’ve used a number of field recording devices over the years, and Mergin Maps is equal to or better than any of them, and when the free price of QGIS is factored in, this app is a tremendous bargain.