Helping businesses choose
better software since 1999
better software since 1999
Guides & Research
Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology.
Capterra carefully verified over 2 million reviews to bring you authentic software and services experiences from real users. Our human moderators verify that reviewers are real people and that reviews are authentic. They use leading tech to analyze text quality and to detect plagiarism and generative AI. Learn more.
Capterra lists all providers across its website—not just those that pay us—so that users can make informed purchase decisions. Capterra is free for users. Software and service providers pay us for sponsored profiles to receive web traffic and sales opportunities. Sponsored profiles include a link-out icon that takes users to the provider’s website. Learn more.
Surfer primarily serves professionals involved in environmental services, engineering consulting, resource exploration and extraction, and education.
Geospatial professionals, scientists and researchers, GIS students and educators, open source software users and developers.
I truly recommend surfer to anyone who would like a much more streamlined GIS software that produces beautiful maps and it's cheaper than other top notch GIS programs.
Fairly large learning curve, earlier versions missed some key functions.
Customer support is fantastic. Basic features are relatively easy to use and advanced features have interesting applications that I look forward to learning and utilizing.
It can be difficult for a beginner to navigate surfer.
I am satisfied with its quality performance. I hope it will continue its excellent performance.
As many of the GIS softwares it can be difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it you shouldn't have any issues, just beware that there are not that many tutorials online.
That fantastic feeling when a cold, flat map is turned into a 3D display where you can do whatever you want. Very precise coordinates and altitude.
It is a bit hard to master it for novice users due to its deep learning cure.
Having the ability to integrate many different file types is a great feature that makes this software awesome.
The opensource nature of the product led to a lack of overall support and compatibility. I experienced constant problems, slow-downs, freezes, and crashes with the program.
Easy to use, for free, the people that runs the software are awesome, you can choose to pay to help the development, the best.
As I'm very new to QGIS, it's sometimes difficult to find all the functions that I need, there are a lot of options which can make it difficult in use.
My over all experience with QGIS is great. It's an amazing value with it's community created tool box.
It has very few points against it, maybe it takes a little while to process heavy images and it has many updates that sometimes confuse me.
Powerful, reliable, easy to use, extendable... and free (as in free beer and free speech).
Something I don't like is that sometimes the application closes and does not have recovered files, so you have to start again.
Prioritize real-user-identified key features according to your needs to find your best fit.
Surfer
QGIS
Top FeaturesSurfer
--
QGIS
--
Talk with a software expert for free. Get a list of software that’s great for you in less than 15 minutes.
Products similar to those you're currently comparing: