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?
We value excellent customer support. When you contact us, you will always reach a human. We're always happy to help: support@mindnode.com
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Privacy Policy: https://mindnode.com/privacy
I appreciate that Quick Look for images is now available in Outline mode in MindNode Next — very helpful!However, I miss the ability to resize pasted images in Mind Map mode, which was possible in the Classic version. That's why I'm not using Next yet.I’d love to see that functionality brought back to Next.
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback! We're currently working on image resizing. I get that this is an important feature; therefore, you can continue using MindNode Classic regularly until it is implemented in MindNode Next. Maybe check MindNode Next every now and then for the new feature if you're interested in doing the switch:)
Disappointing!
chibiberu
I prefer Mindnode Classic a thousand times over Mindnode Next for two reasons that are absolutely prohibitive for me: 1. The ability to use Mindnode without being connected to the Internet and to save files locally on my machine, and 2. The "quick Entry" function in the menu bar.For the latter, which I use on a daily basis, it would be nice to have multiple "Quick Entries" to enter ideas or information on different topics. I'm working on several topics at the same time, and I'd really like to be able to enter my information quickly and separately for each topic.If Mindnode Next doesn't include these essential features in the future, I will stop using this application.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. MindNode Next is optimized for offline work. Even when you make changes at the same time on different devices that are offline, the app can bring those changes together without any conflicts. Also thank you for sharing your feedback on Quick Entry. We don’t plan to bring back the old feature, however we have ideas for an improved menu bar app that will make it easier to collect ideas and bring them into existing documents.
I'm sorry this happened. If you ever run into an issue like this again, please feel free to reach out to us directly via email as well. That usually helps us respond and investigate more quickly.In general, MindNode subscriptions come with a one-week free trial. If you cancel during the trial period, you won't be charged. If the trial period ends and the subscription has not been canceled, Apple will charge you according to the plan you selected (monthly or yearly). Also, we offer a free editor, where you can use all the basic features without a subscription.If you believe you subscribed unintentionally or were charged by mistake, you can request a refund directly from Apple. Apple handles all purchases, subscriptions, and refunds for MindNode, so unfortunately we're unable to issue refunds or make changes to subscriptions ourselves.You can submit a refund request here: https://reportaproblem.apple.com/I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
• Fixes attachments losing their position when copied to another node.
• Keeps node titles wrapping consistently when switching to a theme with a different font.
• Fixes a crash on Apple Watch that could occur when receiving large documents from iPhone.
• Fixes unwanted scrolling after adding a sticker to a node.
• Reduces initial sync delays after upgrading the operating system or reinstalling MindNode
• Responds correctly to arrow keys sent by keyboard remapping tools on macOS.
• Ensures LaTeX equations use the correct colors when switching between light and dark appearance.
• Improves responsiveness during initial sync.
• Fixes dragging stickers, images, and tags onto nodes on iPhone and iPad.
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