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
Terms of Service: https://mindnode.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://mindnode.com/privacy
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iPhone Duo
MindNode is ready for iPhone Duo! Capture ideas on the compact screen, then unfold your device to give your thoughts more room to grow.
Side by Side
Explore your mind map and outline simultaneously on iPhone Duo, without switching between views.
Consistent Experience
Improves toolbars, inspectors, and editing controls for a more consistent experience across mind maps, outlines, and devices.
NEW
• Adds an option to restore a theme's default canvas background color.
• Hold Option while dragging an attachment onto a node to add it to a new child node on iOS and visionOS.
UPDATED
• Improves OPML import and export to better preserve outline structure, notes, and tasks.
• Improves positioning of content to keep it within easy reach on iPhone and iPad.
• Improves image sizing when replacing stickers or emojis with image attachments.
• Improves how MindNode saves your latest edits, scroll position, and zoom level when closing or switching away from the app.
• Preserves the canvas position when importing documents.
• Improves feedback while images are loading.
FIXES
• Fixes an issue where newly created nodes could appear outside the visible canvas during brainstorming.
• Fixes unexpected canvas jumps when zooming with a trackpad on macOS.
• Fixes documents occasionally failing to reopen after closing their window.
• Fixes the document browser header disappearing on iPhone and iPad.
• Fixes Quick Look previews not adapting to device rotation on iPhone and iPad.
• Fixes an issue where Force Touch could interrupt rubber-band selection on macOS.
• Fixes node resizing animations when adding attachments.
• Fixes visual issues when detaching nodes while dragging on iPhone and iPad.
• Fixes Return key behavior when editing nodes with a hardware keyboard on visionOS.
• Fixes ESC not ending node title editing on iPad and visionOS, and improves keyboard focus on visionOS.
• Fixes a small gap between nodes and their node well.
Version 2026.7
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