MapChart alternatives

Seven tools that color the regions of a map, and what each one is the right answer for. They are all free to use for the thing described here.

Six map coloring tools, what each is the right answer for, and what it hands you
Tool	Right answer for	You end up with	Where
PaintMyMap	Patterns and textures, not just flat fills	Image	paintmymap.com
Ultimaps	You already have the numbers in a spreadsheet	Interactive embed	ultimaps.com
Datawrapper	The map is going in an article	Responsive embed	www.datawrapper.de
PaintMaps	One value per region, pasted in	Image	paintmaps.com
SimpleMapLab	A printable PDF at the end	PDF, link	www.simplemaplab.com/tools/color-a-map
MapChart	The basemap you need is one of its unusual ones	PNG	www.mapchart.net
Where I'd Live	Everyone answers the same map, then you compare	Link, PNG, SVG	Compared with MapChart

In more detail

PaintMyMap
Patterns and textures, not just flat fills
Fills regions with patterns and textures as well as color, places shapes and SVGs on top, and loads your own GeoJSON. The closest thing to MapChart's own feature set.
Ultimaps
You already have the numbers in a spreadsheet
Imports data from a spreadsheet and publishes an interactive map with tooltips, over 200 basemaps including every US state by county.
Datawrapper
The map is going in an article
Built for newsrooms: a choropleth from a data column, a legend it writes for you, and an embed that stays responsive. Not a tool for coloring regions by hand.
PaintMaps
One value per region, pasted in
Paste a list of regions and values and it colors the map from them. Plainer than the rest, and quick when the data is already a two-column list.
SimpleMapLab
A printable PDF at the end
Categorical coloring with a shareable URL, and a PDF export for the version that gets printed.
MapChart
The basemap you need is one of its unusual ones
Around seventy basemaps, including US congressional districts, European NUTS regions, Europa Universalis, and Westeros. A decade of people already knowing where its buttons are.
Where I'd Live
Everyone answers the same map, then you compare
Rating every place on a scale and sending it to somebody who then does their own. The map lives in the link, so whoever opens it starts a blank copy of the question and sees yours beside theirs at the end. No ads and no account to start, and once enough people answer one question, the average of their maps is published free.

The 109 maps here

Every region listed by name on its map's page, and a blank SVG on each one that downloads and prints.