Heartbound Maps vs Posterhaste: which custom map print is right for you?

Posterhaste's maps line lets you pick a location, choose one of six preset map styles, and adjust the zoom. There are nice variants (a heart-shaped map, a “Wordy Map” with up to fifteen lines of text, and a Dual Heart that places two locations side by side), but none of them measure direction or distance between places.

Heartbound Maps is built around exactly that measurement: home at the center, an arrow to each place in its true compass bearing, and the great-circle distance beside it: many places on one print.

Heartbound Maps's edge: measured bearings and distances to many places, not side-by-side single maps.

Posterhaste prints its maps on 200gsm matte art paper (giclée), with a heavier 400gsm canvas option; framed versions add conservation-grade acid-free mounts. It markets the prints as “museum-quality.”

Heartbound Maps's loose prints are on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm (a heavily textured fine-art paper) with archival pigment inks. Framed prints use 300gsm 100% cotton-rag paper (smooth behind glass) in a premium natural-oak ready-to-hang frame. Heartbound Maps's loose stock is the heavier, genuinely fine-art paper on either option.

Heartbound Maps's edge: Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm vs. 200gsm art paper.

Posterhaste gives you six preset map styles and control over location, zoom and orientation, but its FAQ is explicit that it does not offer bespoke color schemes or layouts: you choose from the presets.

Heartbound Maps offers multiple styles and lets you re-style the same set of places instantly, and its layout engine keeps every label readable however many places you add. For a map with one or two pins that distinction barely matters; for a life's worth of places, it's the whole game.

Heartbound Maps's edge: re-styling and a layout engine for many places.

Posterhaste's entry unframed print is inexpensive (from $42.50 on its US store), but framing roughly doubles it (framed prints from about $97), and there's no digital download.

Heartbound Maps's prints run $65.00 to $175.00, a ready-to-hang frame adds $59.00 to $114.00, and every print includes the digital files (standalone $19.00). Shipping is free with no minimum.

On a single unframed poster, Posterhaste's headline price is lower, but watch the conditions: free shipping requires buying two or more items, and framed orders cost and ship differently.

Honest call: Posterhaste's sticker is lower; Heartbound Maps includes digital and free, no-minimum shipping.

Posterhaste ships unframed prints worldwide, but framed items go only to a limited European list, and free shipping applies only when you order two or more unframed prints together: single items are always charged.

Heartbound Maps ships within the United States with free standard shipping on every order and no minimum. For US buyers that's simpler; for buyers wanting framed art shipped across Europe, Posterhaste has the wider framed reach.

Honest call: Posterhaste ships unframed worldwide; Heartbound Maps gives free US shipping with no minimum.

Both show a live preview before you order. Posterhaste leans on that as its headline feature.

Heartbound Maps is free to design with no account needed, includes the digital files, and automates the label layout, so even a crowded map stays quick and clean.