QField 4.0 "Aare": Unlocking a great spatial experience for a larger audience
QField 3.6 “Gondwana”: Locking on greatness
Building on top of the last release which introduced background tracking, this development cycle focused on polishing functionalities and building on top of preexisting features. The variety of improvements is sure to make our diverse user base and community excited to upgrade to QField 3.6.
Main highlights
1 Million Downloads: QField's Big Milestone
🚀 QField has officially hit 1 million downloads – thanks to you! 🎉
Let’s not beat around the bush: QField has hit 1+ million downloads. What started as an ambitious open-source project has transformed into a global tool that’s changing how professionals collect spatial data in the field. This big milestone is the result of years of dedication, with over 50,000 hours invested by our …
QField 3.5 “Fangorn”: Background tracking a reality!
Let’s not bury the lead here: the long-awaited capability to track position while QField is in the background or the device is locked has arrived in this brand-new version of QField. This feels like a magical moment, so we settled for a fantastical forest for our release name.
Main highlights
QField 3.4 “Ebo”: Geofencing and processing out of the box
QField 3.4 is out, and it won’t disappoint. It has tons of new features that continue to push the limits of what users can do in the field.
Main highlights
Supercharge your fieldwork with QField's project and app-wide plugins
This blog post will introduce QField’s brand new plugin framework and walk through the creation of a plugin to support bird watchers in need of a quick way to digitize photos of spotted birds onto a point vector layer.
A plugin framework is born!
As announced recently, QField now empowers users through a brand new plugin framework allowing for simple customization on the way the application …
QField 3.3 “Darién”: It is just the beginning
QField 3.3 has been released, and with it, we are proud to introduce a brand new plugin framework that empowers users to customize and add completely new functionalities to their favourite field application. That’s on top of a bunch of new features and improvements added during this development cycle. What preceded this moment was just the beginning!
Main highlights
Capturing more while in the field with the new QField 2.7
A brand new version of QField has been released, packed with features that will make you fall in love with this essential open source tool all over again with a focus on capturing more while you are in the field. QField 2.7 nicknamed “Heroic Hedgehog” also includes a number of worthy fixes making it a crucial update to get.
New recording capabilities
QField 2.6: perfecting high-accuracy positioning
It’s only been a few weeks into the new year, but we’ve got great news for you: a brand new QField 2.6 “Geeky Gecko ?” has been released with a focus on positioning improvements, including Bluetooth support for Windows. And with that, we are delighted to remove the ‘beta’ status from QField for Windows.
New positioning features
Best of Swiss Enterprise App Award for QField
What a night it was. The “Best of Swiss Apps Awards” took place in Zurich yesterday, November 2, 2022. We were also nominated with QField. And in the enterprise category, the app was so convincing, that it was awarded the highest possible price. So it brought the award “Best of Swiss Enterprise App” home to Graubünden. And as cherry on the cake: QField was also nominated as …
QField 2.4 is here, and it is ?icious
Yes, QField for QGIS, the leading fieldwork app, was released on the iOS App Store!
Get It now for Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows and Linux
Good things take time (and sponsors), and we wanted our Apple users to enjoy the same solid and seamless experience as our Android users. So we took the time needed and ran beta testing of QField for multiple months. Thanks to all the community feedback and …
A New Trick up QField’s Sleeve: Animated Maps
Starting with QField 2.2, users can fully rely on animation capabilities that have made their way into QGIS during its last development cycle. This can be a powerful mean to highlight key elements on a map that require special user attention.
The example below demonstrates a scenario where animated raster markers are used to highlight active fires within the visible map extent. Notice how the …
QField collected data crucial in disaster relief after Tonga’s volcanic eruption
For once, it’s not an app from the Silicon Valley, but from Laax in the Swiss Alps that made the news. By publishing QField as an open-source app, OPENGIS.ch allows companies, organisations and even countries without the necessary financial means to have the opportunity to benefit from this important data collection app. And it is being used: Over half a million downloads have already been …
QFieldCloud now opensource - Happy 10 Years of field mapping with QGIS
Today, on QField’s 10th anniversary, we’re extremely proud to publish the results of over 18 months of development and give you the source code of QFieldCloud to go and make your awesome adaptations, solutions, and hopefully contributions :)
If you want to quickly try it out, head to https://qfield.cloud where our hosted solution is running and secure yourself a spot in the beta …
Powerful and gentle QField 1.8 Selma sneaked in
Get fieldwork smoothly and nimbly done despite the ice and snow outside. Collect accurate data with freehand digitizing and improved form widgets, use the data from your external GNSS receivers without any third-party apps and enjoy the pleasant usability of QField 1.8 Selma.
This year started off hi-speed for us. There’s been already a lot of coding, designing and teaching, and we’ve …
QField 1.7 Rockies hits the stage
Be ready for the cold weather with a smooth coordinate search, filters in the value relation widget, fancy new QML and HTML widgets, enhanced geometry editing functionalities and an expandable legend. Right when Autumn starts, QField 1.7 Rockies hits the stage.
As usual get it now on the play store or on github!
The days are getting shorter and the wind blows colder. It’s always good to be …
QField 1.6 is out!
Editing multiple features at the same time, support for stylus pens, dynamic configuration of image names and much more.
QField 1.6 Qinling 秦岭 comes packed with awesome new features and an improved user experience.
We have been very busy over the last few months working on a new and shiny QField release. We have added many new features that increase efficiency on the field or allow for new …
QField 1.4 released - Happy new year
What a year’s start! After a very packed December publishing all the QGIS on the road videos and quietly releasing QField 1.3 - Ben Nevis we could have gone and relaxed over the holidays. But since we love QField so much we immediately started working on the next iteration. Now, after an intensive testing period, we are proud to announce the release of QField 1.4 - Olavtoppen.
Olavtoppen!? …
QField 1.2 released
After an intensive testing period, we are proud to announce the release of QField 1.2
As usual, get it on play store or download it from GitHub.
QField Crowdfunding Campaign
Before digging into all the new goodness that you will find in QField 1.2, let’s get some big “Thanks” out. What QField currently is was mostly possible thanks to customer projects of which the outcome could …
QField 1.0 is here
Let’s get straight to the point
It’s official, QField for QGIS 1.0 is out!
Get it while it’s hot on the Playstore ( qfield.org/get) or on GitHub
We are incredibly pleased and proud of just having released such a jewel and are convinced that, thanks to all its features and conscious design choices, QField will make your field digitizing work much more efficient and pleasant.
Packed …