# Mena: Notes, Mind Map & Study — Flashcards, Whiteboard & AI

> Flashcards, Whiteboard & AI (iPhone/iPad app by Cihat Salik.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mena-notes-mind-map-and-study/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 · 48 MB
- Languages: Russian, Hindi, Vietnamese, American English, Arabic, Hungarian, Dutch, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and 19 more
- Released: 2026-09-08
- Data updated: 2026-09-28
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mena-notes-mind-map-and-study/id6801832470/reviews.md

## What is Mena?

Private visual notes for iPad. 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.

ANKI COMPATIBLE
Import any .apkg file directly. Mena imports your cards, scheduling data, embedded images, and cloze deletions. Export any deck back as .apkg and study it in Anki on any device.

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. Collection — a live saved query across all boards. Deck — FSRS study deck with review session.

HOME SCREEN WIDGETS
4 widget types for home screen and lock screen: New Board (one-tap creation), 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. 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mena Pro - Yearly | $29.99 | per year |
| Mena Pro - Monthly | $3.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mena Pro - Lifetime | $79.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.7.0 — 2026-09-22

iCloud sync is rebuilt from the ground up. Works now move between devices in seconds instead of minutes.

- Every work is tracked on its own, so nothing waits behind one stuck upload
- An edit made on one device reaches the other in about a second
- Honest progress: the bar no longer restarts at zero on every batch, and nothing is reported as moving while the device is idle
- Notes and documents that arrived from another device now show a real card in the library instead of an empty one
- Link, map and video previews fill themselves in, so a captured work is no longer stuck on "Loading preview…"
- Covers and thumbnails travel separately, so a work's name and details land first and the picture follows
- When iCloud is the problem — storage full, signed out, offline — the app now says which one
- On canvas, connector handles stay where you put them while you reshape a line

### 1.6.1 — 2026-09-19

Sync you can see — a new Sync Activity screen shows where every work really is.

- Per-work status: in iCloud, uploading, downloading or waiting, with the files still to transfer
- Restoring a library resumes after a relaunch instead of starting over
- The status pill no longer claims everything is synced while works are still arriving
- Topics rebuilt: Themes, Connected Ideas and Concepts in one place, with one search and one filter — and the map now shows why two works are linked
- Spaces: pin your favourites, switch between icons and list, filter and search, with smoother scrolling
- A faster library — renaming, deleting and recovering no longer wait behind a thumbnail upload
- Blank works you backed out of are cleared on launch, and page edits are saved when you leave the app mid-note

### 1.6.0 — 2026-09-18

Paper templates for note pages — Blank, Lined, Dotted and Grid.

- Set the paper on a single page, or apply one template to every blank page at once
- Paper appearance: Auto, Light or Dark, independent of your system theme
- One page, drawn the same everywhere — reader, sidebar, overview grid, library thumbnail and exported PDF
- Sharper zoom: pages re-render crisp detail as you zoom in
- Quieter sync: the status bar now appears only when something needs your attention, and live sync details moved into Library Details
- Faster page thumbnails, plus stability fixes

### 1.5.0 — 2026-09-15

Mena is now a complete, privacy-first visual second brain.

NEW IN THIS UPDATE:
- Anki import and export — bring in any .apkg deck, study in Mena, export back out
- FSRS spaced repetition — the most accurate scheduling algorithm, built in
- Auto-generate flashcards from notes on-device (no network required)
- Cloze deletion with one-tap toolbar button
- Study dashboard — streak, retention rate, and 14-day due forecast
- 4 home screen and lock screen widgets (New Board, Board Preview, Today's Study, Deck)
- Share extension — save text, links, images, PDFs, and videos from any app
- Voice memo recording with ink-seekable playback
- Draw to Shape — rough sketches snap to rectangle, ellipse, diamond, triangle, hexagon, and more
- 19 polygon shapes (triangle, star, speech bubble, chevron, lightning, and more)
- Slides panel — present frames as a slideshow, export as PDF
- Atlas board — spatial map of all your boards
- Collection boards — live saved queries across all boards
- Journal — auto-created daily page
- Privacy-first storage — your Mena content stays local-first and syncs through private Apple iCloud CloudKit

Plus: improved Metal rendering, faster board open times, and stability fixes.

### 1.4.1 — 2026-09-08

No release notes.

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