MapChart review
An affordable map-image tool with broad templates, styling controls, and mobile apps.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
MapChart is a web-based map-making tool for students, educators, researchers, presenters, bloggers, and social-media users who need customized visual maps without a full GIS application. Its templates cover the world, continents, countries, subdivisions, and fantasy regions. Users can color countries, states, and other regions, add legends, hide areas, zoom into locations, adjust borders and presentation settings, and download high-resolution map images. Web, iOS, and Android access make it suitable for creating maps across common platforms.
Pricing is unusually accessible for this category. The Free plan includes all maps, tools, and extras, with up to 25 saved configurations and 25 My Palette colors. Premium costs €4.99 one time and removes those limits. Premium Max costs €8.99 one time and adds no ads. MapChart Plus is listed at $49.99 per year and adds account-based map saving, online color and pattern storage, no ads, mobile app access, and public links for sharing saved map settings. The paid options fit users who want more saved work or fewer limits without committing to a large subscription.
MapChart’s strongest fit is thematic map creation rather than interactive map publishing. It offers more than 100 editable templates and detailed controls for colors, patterns, borders, legends, hidden regions, and focused map areas, while MapChart Plus supports sharing saved settings through a public link. Its listed integrations include Airtable, Google Sheets, and Microsoft Excel. However, the product is not positioned as an embedded map or API platform, and its access control is public. Choose MapChart for downloadable map visuals and saved configurations; choose another tool if your priority is embedded interactive maps, API access, or more controlled sharing.
MapChart pros and cons
- Where it wins
- 100+ editable templates cover world, regional, and fantasy maps
- Free plan includes all maps, tools, and extras
- High-resolution image downloads with legends and styling controls
- Where it doesn't
- Primarily creates map images rather than interactive published maps
- Free plan limits saved configurations and palette colors to 25
- Map data refresh is manual and access control is public
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