# Mena: Mind Map & Visual Notes — Flowchart, Diagram, Flashcards

> Flowchart, Diagram, Flashcards (iPhone/iPad app by Cihat Salik.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mena-mind-map-and-visual-notes/id6801832470 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cihat Salik](https://appshunter.io/developer/1819820065)
- Category: Productivity, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.6 · 51 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Hebrew and 19 more
- Released: 2026-09-08
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Mena?

Private visual notes for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Build mind maps on an infinite canvas, study with FSRS flashcards, and sync through your private iCloud storage — no account required.

Mena is an infinite canvas and visual second brain for iPad. Sketch ideas, build mind maps, embed media, and turn any board into spaced-repetition flashcards you actually review — no account required.

Infinite canvas
Pan, zoom, and draw with no page limits. Pastel sticky notes, shapes and connectors for mind maps and flowcharts, frames, tables, and 19 polygon shapes. Apple Pencil support with Draw to Shape — sketch a rough shape and Mena snaps it perfect.

Every kind of content
Drop anything onto your board: sticky notes, rich text and Markdown, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, PDFs with full page navigation, video, audio files, and live maps. Record voice memos directly on the canvas — ink drawn during recording is seekable by playback time. Web embeds and URL preview cards keep sources right where you need them.

Paper templates
Note pages come in blank, lined, dotted, and grid. Change one page or every blank page at once, and choose auto, light, or dark paper independently of your system theme. The same page renders identically in the reader, sidebar, overview grid, library thumbnail, and exported PDF.

Study with FSRS
Turn any deck board into spaced-repetition flashcards. Mena uses FSRS — the most accurate scheduling algorithm available — to surface cards exactly when you need them. Again / Hard / Good / Easy grading with interval preview. Cloze deletion with one tap. Auto-generate flashcards from your notes on-device, no network needed.

Study dashboard
Track your streak, retention rate, and 14-day due forecast. See today's review count at a glance.

Import and export decks
Import any .apkg file directly. Mena imports your cards, scheduling data, embedded images, and cloze deletions. Export any deck back as .apkg.

Slides & presentation
Draw a frame around anything and it becomes a slide. Open the filmstrip panel, jump to any slide, present full-screen, or export the whole deck as a crisp PDF.

6 board types
Board — infinite whiteboard. Note — vertical scroll page. Journal — one auto-created page per day. Atlas — a spatial map of all your boards. Document — PDFs, scans and images read page by page and marked up with Apple Pencil. Deck — FSRS study deck with review session.

Home screen widgets
4 widget types for home screen and lock screen: Quick Capture (today's note in one tap), Board Preview (live thumbnail of any board), Today's Study (due count, streak, retention), and Deck (per-deck stats). All fully configurable.

Share from anywhere
A share extension catches text, links, images, PDFs, and videos from any other app — tap Share → Mena, pick a board, done.

Private iCloud sync
Every board, element, and attachment syncs across your Apple devices through your private iCloud CloudKit database. No Mena account. No third-party cloud server stores your Mena content. Flashcard generation runs on-device. Optional web embeds and Unsplash search connect only when you choose to use them.

Mena fits how your brain actually works — capture, connect, and remember.

Free & Pro
Free covers 3 boards, 3 notes, 3 documents and 5 decks; journals and system boards are never limited. Mena Pro lifts every limit — Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly renew automatically, Pro Lifetime is a one-time purchase. iCloud sync is free on every plan. Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly start with a 1-week free trial for eligible new subscribers; the subscription is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Prices appear in the app before you buy, and you can restore purchases at any time.

Privacy Policy: https://apps.cihat.dev/mena/privacy-policy/
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Monthly: Flowchart Notes | $2.99 | per month |
| Pro Yearly: Diagram & Quiz | $19.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Forever: Concept Mapping | $49.99 | one-time |


## Is Mena safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Mena.

## Is Mena legit?

Mena: Mind Map & Visual Notes appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Mena is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.9.0 — 2026-11-03

What's new in 1.8.5

• A clearer Mena Pro screen: the yearly plan comes first, the other plans are one tap away, and each plan spells out how it renews.
• Mena no longer sends any information about your device when you first open it.
• iCloud sync no longer reports everything as synced while iCloud is refusing works, and the refused count clears itself once those works are accepted.
• Works iCloud had refused now upload. Images, PDFs and documents that stayed on one device reach your others.
• An attachment is never removed from a device before iCloud confirms it holds every byte — including after you switch iCloud account or turn iCloud off and on again.
• The idea map stays readable: labels no longer pile up in the overview, zooming in reveals more of them, and the Spaces hub shows a still portrait of the same map.

### 1.8.3 — 2026-10-22

• The yearly option on the upgrade screen now states its yearly amount, so it no longer reads like a monthly charge
• Minor fixes

### 1.8.2 — 2026-10-21

What's new in 1.8.2

• Search reads inside your works, not only their titles. Smart Search suggests searches from your own library, and View on Board lays the results out on a board.
• Spaces and Topics now share one hub, led by the idea map. Smart Spaces group your works on their own and get cover photos.
• Select several Spaces, or several works inside a Space, and act on them together.
• Every screen that shows a work has the same long-press menu.
• Link cards show the whole preview image with the address in the corner. Tap one for its details.
• iCloud sync keeps edits made before it starts, recovers a deleted or reset iCloud library, and an older app version no longer overwrites a document saved by a newer one.
• Faster launch and smoother editing in large libraries.

### 1.8.1 — 2026-10-19

What's new in 1.8.1

• The zoom level on a board now shows the percent sign the way your language writes it, for example "160%" instead of "%160".

### 1.8.0 — 2026-10-17

• New libraries start with a sample note, board and flashcard deck. Delete them whenever you like.
• If Mena ever can't open your library, it now tells you clearly instead of quietly keeping your work in memory.
• The welcome screen, Pro screen, library and widgets are now translated into Turkish, German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Chinese and Korean.
• Sharing a link from another app uses far less memory.
• The Pro screen is clearer: iCloud sync is free for everyone.

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