Weighing a Pointr alternative? Pointr is known for indoor positioning and navigation — the blue dot on a phone inside a building. Spatial Map does something different: it maps the building from your floor plans and shows live data from the systems you already run, including positions your RTLS engine reports. Which one you need depends on who is holding the phone.
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No credit card. Runs in the browser. Pro is $60/month for up to 4 facilities. Book a demo
Pointr, headquartered in London, is known for indoor positioning — locating a phone inside a building, typically with Bluetooth beacons — together with indoor maps, navigation and space or workplace analytics, delivered through apps and mobile SDKs. Its public materials focus on large enterprises, workplaces and venues.
Spatial Map is browser-based indoor mapping software for operations teams. You import a PDF or DWG floor plan, trace rooms, walls, doors, racks, stairs and lifts into a multi-floor 3D map, then bind every shape to live data — RFID reads, BLE tag positions, sensor readings, stock from a WMS — through tables, REST sources and a per-table write API. Reports, read-only share links and single-floor turn-by-turn wayfinding come from the same map. Pro is $60 a month or $600 a year for up to 4 facilities after a 7-day free trial, and an open-source edition (MIT) runs on your own servers.
If you need people to see their own position and navigate on their phones — employees finding desks and rooms, visitors finding gates — you need an indoor positioning platform such as Pointr. Spatial Map has no phone positioning, no native mobile SDK, and its routes stay on one floor today.
If the question is “where are our things, and what state are they in?” rather than “where am I?”. Warehouses, plants, stores and venues use Spatial Map to see tagged assets, pallets, sensors and stock on a live 3D map, whatever RFID, BLE or IoT hardware produced the data. See BLE asset tracking and RFID asset tracking software.
| Spatial Map | Worth confirming with Pointr | |
|---|---|---|
| Main focus | Live operations maps for staff: assets, stock, sensors | Its focus for your use case (positioning, navigation, analytics) |
| Positioning | Shows positions from your RTLS engine; calculates none | Hardware it needs and positioning accuracy |
| Floor-plan import | PDF, DWG (R2004–R2018), PNG/JPG; you trace in the browser | Who creates the indoor map |
| Live data | Tables, REST sources, write API; data links to shapes | Which external data sources it can show |
| Delivery | Web app and share links; no native SDK | App and SDK options |
| Pricing | Pro $60/month or $600/year, up to 4 facilities | Pricing for your buildings |
| Self-hosting | Open-source edition, MIT | Hosting options |
Pointr and the other product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify their products. Spatial Map is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. The description of Pointr is based on its publicly available product information as of October 2026 and is deliberately general — features and terms change, so check the vendor’s own site before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it.
Wayfinding for visitors, live operations for staff, or both? The answer decides which tool fits.
Start a 7-day trial (no card) and import the PDF or DWG of one floor you know well.
Push a few rows from your RFID, BLE, sensor or WMS system to a table and link them to shapes.
Send a read-only link to the people who would use it daily and score both tools on the same building.
Each use case is running on a demo facility you can open in the browser.
Rack locations coloured by stock status from the WMS, with staging lanes and docks.
RFID and BLE-tagged equipment located room by room across floors.
Gates, counts, staff and environment sensors on a multi-floor venue map.
Fictional names, real floor plans, live sensors, RFID, BLE tags and gateways — open any of them in the browser.
