Your brain doesn't think in straight lines. MindNode doesn't force it to. Capture scattered thoughts, connect them in a mind map, and turn them into a clear outline, plan, or project structure.
DESIGNED FOR EVERY KIND OF THINKER
• Personal Productivity: organize your week, track life goals, and plan your next vacation
• Students & Educators: create study guides, summarize lectures, and plan your essay structure
• Business Professionals: visualize project roadmaps, prepare meeting agendas, and plan strategy
• Creatives & Writers: outline your novel, plan your content calendar, and brainstorm campaigns
THINK: EXPLORE AND CAPTURE
• Mind Maps: branch, cluster, and grow ideas freely on an infinite canvas
• Outline View: switch to a structured, hierarchical list whenever a linear flow helps
• Live Collaboration: brainstorm with others in real time and always stay in sync
CLARIFY: STRUCTURE AND REFINE
• Visual Tags: categorize ideas and spotlight what matters
• Connections: draw links between nodes that go beyond hierarchy
• Notes: tuck extra detail into any node, hidden until you need it
• Focus Mode: dim everything except the work in front of you
• Folding: collapse whole branches for a cleaner view
ACT: FROM THOUGHT TO IMPACT
• Tasks: turn ideas into actions, synced with Apple Reminders
• Apple Shortcuts: automate your recurring workflows
• Document Linking: connect nodes across separate documents
• Import and Export: OPML, Markdown, PDF, SVG, PNG, and more
EXPRESS: MAKE IT YOUR OWN
• Themes: choose a curated look or build your own, with automatic light and dark mode
• Layouts and Shapes: arrange nodes your way and pick from a range of node shapes
• Images, Stickers, and Emoji: enrich your maps with over 250 custom stickers and more
AI, A THINKING PARTNER, NOT A REPLACEMENT
MindNode treats AI as a sparring partner for your thinking, never a substitute for it. You stay in control of every idea.
• Suggest a starting structure or expand a branch with a tap
• Turn a finished map into a written draft, or summarize a long document
• Powered by Apple Intelligence where available, with its privacy protections built in
ON ALL YOUR DEVICES
• Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro, native on each
• On Vision Pro, gather your thoughts as colorful pills floating in space and connect them by hand
• Automatic iCloud sync, with offline changes merged when you reconnect
• Localized in 13 languages, with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your ideas stay yours. Documents are stored encrypted in your own iCloud, not on our servers, and even live collaboration is end-to-end encrypted, so only you and the people you invite can read your work. MindNode is a small independent team in Europe, owned by its founder and answerable to its users, not investors.
FREE
• Capture ideas as mind maps, edit, rearrange, fold, and view them as an outline
• Sync across all your Apple devices, and export your ideas in open formats so you are never locked in
MINDNODE PLUS
• Adds outline editing, Notes, Visual Tags and Connections, Tasks, Focus Mode, Apple Shortcuts, Document Linking, SVG export, AI, and full theming, across every platform
• Available monthly or yearly
QUESTIONS?
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Privacy Policy: https://mindnode.com/privacy
I’ve been a long-time legacy user of the paid version of MindNode (now called “Classic”), and it’s an app I use for many things, especially structured note-taking, Ux and information architecture. So when the “Mindnode Next” app came around, I was eager to take a look and pay for it. Until I discovered it was a subscription model. When I look at all my monthly and annual expenses, a single payment with several years of updates is far more appealing than yet another thing bill I have to pay on the regular. Everything is moving to subscriptions, but what these app developers seem to forget is that regular people will have to make choices, and MindNode is something I can sacrifice in favor of less practical but free alternatives.
Developer Response
Thank you for sharing your feedback. If you don’t want to subscribe, I’d recommend you use our free editor. It has all basic mind mapping features and allows to export all documents. Also syncing with CloudKit works flawlessly in the free version.I understand your concerns regarding our subscription model and wish we could over an alternative. However as an app that has been developed by the same team for more than 16 years, we require some form of recurring revenue. Paid upgrade are sadly not possible on the App Store and unfortunately also many users don’t like them. With subscription we can assure our users the continued development of the application and give them the safety that we will stay around. For example one of our competitors sadly disappeared this year as they ran out of money.
Just what I needed
Blowfire
This application was just what I needed to mentally create some overview over various processes. Especially love the “share” function with my colleagues. Great tool honestly.
Developer Response
We are so happy to hear that you enjoy working with MindNode! Thank you for the nice review :)
Long time user
Grace AC (www.grace.ac)
The new version has removed certain customization abilities that were valuable - such as creating themes and defining the color of branches. I had a custom template I used to do information architecture and now this is a very hard, time consuming task to use this template given every new branch the styles reverts…
Developer Response
Yes, MindNode Next and MindNode Classic don't (yet) have feature parity. We are aware that MindNode Next might not be a full replacement for our users at the moment. That's why we are continuing to update MindNode Classic. By providing this feedback you are helping us, a lot, to understand better what we need to add to MindNode Next in the coming months and where we need to improve our communication.
Orden er forsvundet i den nye
fr-1977
Selv om jeg kan lave tags. Så er der ikke et sted jeg kan se hvad der ligger under de enkelte tags Samtidig foreslår den ikke tidligere tags når jeg laver tags i et dokument
Developer Response
Hello. Thank you for your feedback. I suspect you mean the tag highlight mode? This feature is also available in our new app, we just changed the icon. When you click on the tag a popover will open, click the “sun like” icon next to the tag to activate the mode. I hope this helps.
• Improved Preview in Marked feature on macOS
• Fixed rubber band selection in document picker on macOS
• Fixed search on iPhone
• Fixed crash on app launch
• Fixed unintended reordering of imported documents
• Fixed documents failing to open after closing window scene on iPad
• Fixed documents being opened in the wrong window on iPad
• Fixed import of MindNode documents on iPad
• Fixed VoiceOver on document picker
• Fixed tint color updates of stickers when updating appearance or rewiring node
Version 2026.3.2
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