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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This app at this price point is really good. I am transitioning my To Do (Appigo TaskFire) tasks, categories, etc. to MindNode. It is almost a replacement for my to do list and I love the representation of the nodes as it more closely aligns with the way I think. To make MindNode more useful, it would be nice to add custom fields to nodes, similar to tags, that could be assigned a value, either a number, letter or date, along with a feature to sort the nodes around the main node by those custom fields. For instance, nodes around a main node could be sorted by date or value and arranged like a clock, or vertical or horizontal, tree, or any other way, to give another view of the data and make it very useful information in some cases. The task node is useful, but would be even more useful if the node with the custom date field (on request) could be a repetitive task, like monthly, weekly, etc. and checking off the node would automatically increment the date field and create a new node at that date value. All in all, this is a well designed app that appears to be supported as of Sep 2025. Good job!
Developer Response
We are happy to hear you enjoy MindNode:) I've added your wish to our list of suggested features and will bring it up with the team. I can't, however, promise that it will make it into the app soon. Still, we review everything users send to us carefully.
A Great App….but
Neil2949
Mind Node is fantastic app. The interface is clean. The controls are intuitive. It is a great tool for getting your thoughts quickly down on “paper” and then dragging and dropping them into a better order. After iThoughts went away, it’s probably the best mind mapping tool out there, and I have tried them all. With that said, it could be even better with a few tweaks. In particular, I would love to see the developers add a bracketing function to link several siblings together, labeling them with a common thought or them. Xmind has this function (Called: Summary), and although I much prefer the look and feel of MindNode, this one improvement would be a game changer. Although I much prefer working with MindNode, Xmind also has the ability to put a labeled container around several nodes, which is also a very useful function for grouping ideas. Put those two features in an it would be a 5 star app. Another good feature, which iThoughts had is the ability to tout the cursor ein the middle of a long node, with the return or TAB button make a new sibling or child with the text to the right of the cursor. You can accomplish the same thing with cut/paste, but the extra steps this involves is a little frustrating.
Developer Response
Hi Neil, thank you so much for the detailed feedback! We're happy to hear you enjoy MindNode:) I'll share your ideas with the team and we'll discuss them in the next team meeting. I can't promisse you they'll make it into MindNode, however, we'll review your requests carefully.
Collab ability, at last!
pacnw419
As a long term Windows user, I was completely sold on MindNode as soon I was introduced to the Apple ecosystem and specifically, Mindnode. The ability to mind map fits so well with my thought processes and perhaps slight ADHD tendency? The ability to get thoughts quickly captured then shuffled, along with the real time sync across devices is huge for me. The glaring missing feature to date has been the ability to collaborate with my thought partners. Problem solved with MindNode Next! I have been using it since it came out yesterday with no issues. As I have multiple MindNode files for difference focus areas,I have been looking the Files > Open Recent drop down option. It may be tucked somewhere I am not looking, but if it is not the product yet, it would be a helpful addition.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for taking the time to write your review. It’s great to hear that you like our new collaboration features. Good point that Open Recents is currently missing. It’s on our roadmap to add it, together with opening recents from the dock menu, in an upcoming update.
The Perfect Creative Tool
Vedoxox
I have used Miro, Obsidian Canvas, MindX, and many other apps that try to compete with MindNode and this app is far and above the absolute best tool for catching creative thoughts and has become an essential tool for almost every project I have (sketching out music pieces, brainstorming for my video game, directing a video, as a general learning tool, storywriting, etc.) pretty much anything where you want to hone in on key elements and strategies Mindnode excels at. the ability to switch from Outline to Mind Map is genius and with MindNode Next I can easily pick back up on my iPad or my mac or even both at the same time with seamless transition. Really could not recommend this tool enough for any creative professional.
Developer Response
So glad to hear this:) Thank you very much!
• Added support for pasting copied images and attachments while editing a node title.
• Fixed an issue where the drag preview position in the Node Well didn't match the actual insertion position in radial layouts.
• Fixed an issue where errors during Apple Intelligence brainstorming were not displayed on iOS, macOS, and visionOS.
• Fixed a rare crash related to context menus on iOS.
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