Mind Mapping - MindMeister

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• Monthly Personal Subscription — $7.49/month
• Monthly Personal Subscription — $78.00/year ($6.50/mo)
• Monthly Personal Trial — $7.49/month
• Monthly Pro Subscription — $12.49/month
• Monthly Pro Subscription — $125.99/year ($10.49/mo)
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Last verified 6 Aug 2026

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4.4 1266 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Great user experience, very easy to use

   Just an all around great app and great user experience. Pros: easy to use, great design, the ease of use again - thoughts can just flow off the mind. Also the fact that you can export to xmind which is for desktop is a big plus over other similar apps because if I want to export everything in the future I can. Other online only apps with monthly subcriptions feel like too big a risk. If I ever leave the app, all my hard work is basically tossed out. Cons: I wish there was an option to increase or reduce the space between different threads. Everything bunches together which is not always how I want it, but overall not a big deal. Not even sure it’s not the best solution. Organizing all my maps: It would be nice to be able to add tags to my maps instead of having to use folders. It would be easier to organize all of my maps that way since many times one map could have a few key topics, and I want it to link to all of them.

   yishai james · 6 Aug 2026

2. 5/5struggleing with severe ADHD this is the app for you!

   if you have troubles, focusing telling stories breaking down your thought process, min is the go to app and site. You can use to be more productive, achieve your goals. Use on the daily download and use reminders make list and it completely worth the subscription. I’ve been struggling with ADHD, since the age of three misdiagnosed still haven’t been medicated, and this is the only way that I have gotten as far as I have, by using this app, I use this app to completely develop my two businesses by breaking down each business and mindmeister has tuturials on how to create and use each map and how to put links and as a software engineering student and digital marketinig student and social media manager helps me create, schedule and keep track and develop ways to organize my thoghts even by writing down a bunch of jerberish and this app will put you thoughts into priority of though instead! Thank guys and i love i use my phone my i pad and even windows and use this to achieve what i wouldnt have been able to with the severe adhd that makes it hard to process my own thoughts and focus on one step at a time. thank you!!!!!

   Ceo.LUXLD.Desiree · 6 Aug 2026

3. 2/5Promising but flawed implementation

   Platform: iPad. I really want to like MindMeister. I’ve used it on the PC desktop before with great success. The iOS app looks great, the functions are what I generally want, but the implementation is frequently buggy and intrudes on efficient use. For example, pressing “Enter” to start a new node or tapping outside an active node will frequently bounce you away to an entirely different part of the mindmap, often zooming you out so far that you can’t even see the mindmap anymore and have to exit and reopen the mindmap to see anything. Another issue is when using a dark background template, when creating new nodes the background will swap back to displaying as white until you close that mindmap and reopen it again. A third bug is that when using the “attachment” option to attach a PDF to a node, every time you open and close the mindmap it will add another copy of the PDF to the node (I have one mindmap that was showing four copies of the same PDF, for example). Needless to say, these bugs really interrupt your workflow, making the app tedious to use. Additionally, the iPad version does not do as good of a job as the desktop version in automatically orienting nodes and pathways to be easy to read. They get truly ponderous if you use it for note taking. That said, if they fixed these bugs I’d be a mostly happy camper.

   freshlike_85 · 6 Aug 2026

4. 1/5Nope, never signing up back again.

   I'm new to mind mapping and I really enjoy it, especially. It greatly boosts my productivity. However, after purchasing the $9.99 monthly subscription, everything went downhill and I immediately cancelled it. The integration with PowerPoint is extremely poor. It's almost better to create your own PowerPoint manually. Additionally, even though you've already paid, their logo still appears on the form. Let me give you an example. When I pay monthly subscription for $8.00 in Microsoft, I get 30 productivity apps, an email with my domain name, and all sorts of external apps that come with my purchase. On the other hand, Mindmeister wants to charge you monthly for their mind app, additional charges on their notes app, another charges on their yet another app calendar, and separate task reminders. It's quite laughable. I wouldn't mind paying if their app wasn't so full of glitches. I actually lost three hours of work because of their buggy system. And guess what? A pop up window showed up on my computer while I was in awe devastated of losing the map I worked on for 3 hours, the pop up window so generously offered to protect my future mapping for an additional monthly fee! It's a joke . I'm so glad I discovered how scammy this app is and cancelled right away. I may have lost $9, but it's better than wasting my precious time again. I quickly begin exploring various apps and web platforms. There are numerous options available, offering significantly improved features at more affordable prices. Even the free alternatives surpass the quality of this subpar product.

   Shane Getz · 6 Aug 2026

5. 2/5Used to be best of all mind mapping apps until the bungled “new editor” rollout

   UPDATED REVIEW APR 2022: I have lowered my rating from 4 stars to 2 due to the poor manner in which MindMeister has rolled out the new mind map editor. The new editor has been available on the web for months now but remains unavailable in the app. As a result, the app now has a kludgey “mode switching” experience, whereby you can only view (but not edit) mind maps edited on the web with the “new editor” and must switch to “old editor mode” in the app to actually edit a mind map, possibly losing edits made with the “new editor” in the process. The app has a vague promise that the “new editor experience is coming”. Well, OK, but until then, the user experience is a complete mess. MindMeister should have not released the new editor until it was ready for all platforms. Releasing it in a half-baked state where it works on one platform but not another has removed the advantage MindMeister had over the competition, which was a seamless and straight forward editing experience regardless of platform. ORIGINAL REVIEW APR 2021: Our startup tried several different mind mapping solutions and settled on Mind Meister. It had the most professional look and feel, the best usability, browser and app compatibility, integrated collaboration and co-authoring, and the best value, i.e. best feature set for the price. With that said, there are some things missing which other apps have that we’d like to see in Mind Meister: - Zoom presets, such as Zoom to All and Zoom to 100% - Coloring options for branches, such as coloring each branch from the second level down - Find and replace text function - A wider array of layouts

   Low Clearance · 6 Aug 2026

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