MindNode vs Actions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MindNode
Capture, organize, and visualize your thoughts and ideas. This app allows you to brainstorm, structure complex projects, and share your vision in various formats. Stay productive across all your devices with seamless iCloud integration.
- Capture thoughts as text, images, links, or tasks
- Organize ideas with hierarchical outlines and mind maps
- Style mind maps with themes and stickers
- Export ideas to various formats
- Cross-platform productivity with iCloud sync
- Focus Mode and foldable branches for organization
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Every great idea starts with a single thought. And another. And then a million more. MindNode is the most delightful brainstorming app for Mac and iOS. It helps you capture your thoughts and create a clear picture of your idea. Featured as Apple’s “App of the Day” & “Editors’ Choice” WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? • Capture Your Thoughts Whether as words, images, links, tasks, or notes, capture your thoughts in any form. Create an outline for an organized, hierarchical view, and observe how it grows as a mind map. Use the mind map to visually rearrange nodes and add new thoughts. MindNode is the right tool to get your ideas out of your head the way you want to. • Organize Your Idea Your document reflects your ever-changing understanding of an idea as you add and adjust thoughts. Move, tag, connect, detach, and reconnect as often as you like. Mind map and outline side-by-side. Concentrate on one thought at a time with Focus Mode, Visual Tags, and foldable branches. • Style Your Mind Map Personalize your document with beautiful out-of-the-box themes and custom stickers. Make your mind map look just right by styling every detail. With Smart Layout your idea will always look fantastic. • Share Your Vision Easily share your documents with others or move them one step further in your creative process. Send tasks to Apple Reminders, Things, or OmniFocus. Export your idea as text, image, and to many other file formats. STAY PRODUCTIVE WHEREVER YOU GO Whether it’s on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, with MindNode, you stay productive wherever you are. Store your files on iCloud Drive and access them on all your devices. FREE EDITOR Use MindNode for free to capture your ideas with actions like editing, rearranging, and folding nodes, as well as importing and exporting files. • Capture: grow your thoughts into fully-fledged ideas • Fold branches: keep your documents organized • Import: FreeMind, MindManager, iThoughts, plain text, RTF, CSV, OPML, Markdown, TextBundle • Export: plain text, RTF, CSV, OPML, PDF, PNG image, Markdown, TextBundle, TaskPaper, FreeMind MINDNODE PLUS MindNode Plus is a cross-platform subscription for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It unlocks all of MindNode’s features like Outlining, Visual Tags, Focus Mode, Notes, Themes, Stickers, Connections, and much more. MindNode Plus is available as a monthly and a yearly subscription. Try out all of MindNode’s features with a free 14-day trial. • Collect everything: add text, images, and links to nodes • Outlining: create your document using a hierarchical, organized approach • Visual Tags: tag your thoughts for more context, highlight tags to see new relationships • Notes: keep your mind map easy to read without losing a single detail • Connections: connect nodes on different branches • Tasks: turn your thoughts into actions • Quick Entry: just start typing to collect thoughts • Themes: beautiful out-of-the-box themes and unlimited personal themes • Images: insert your own images and annotate them • Stickers: 260+ hand-crafted stickers with adjustable colors • Styling: rich styling options for every single part of your mind map • Layouts: top-down and horizontal • Focus Mode: put a spotlight on a single branch • Dark Mode: for when your thoughts come at night • Share Tasks: to Apple Reminders, Things, and OmniFocus WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT MINDNODE “The app keeps out of your way, so it doesn’t interrupt your thought processes.” – New York Times “An app on the cutting edge of iOS design and technologies.” – MacStories “Slowly grow and track your ideas, connecting nodes to help you better conceptualize your idea or thoughts.” – BusinessInsider QUESTIONS? Reach out to us at support@mindnode.com and on Twitter (@mindnode). Let us know if you have any questions or issues. We’re always glad to help. Terms of Service: https://mindnode.com/terms
Actions
Organize your thoughts and tasks with a digital card-based system. Easily create, schedule, and manage to-dos using natural language input and receive timely reminders. Syncs across devices for seamless productivity.
- Create Action Cards for reminders
- Natural language scheduling
- Drag and drop organization
- Color-coded lists
- Schedule view
- Swipe to complete/delete
- Cloud sync
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Keep on top of everything in your head, whether it’s movies to watch or the details of your next big project. Designed for busy people who live by making lists to stay on track at work and home, the digital card based design is a clutter-free way to visualise everything that needs doing. Collect your thoughts in a calm interface with simple natural language like “Water the plants every Saturday” then let Actions take care of reminding you automatically. –––FEATURES––– • Create Action Cards to note things you do not want to forget. • Type naturally like “Post status report every second Friday” and Actions takes care of the scheduling, reminders and notifications. • Drag and drop your Action Cards into custom Lists to organise them intuitively • Colour code each list to further personalise your productivity system • Use the Schedule to see all of the Actions coming up • Swipe on Action Cards to complete them, delete them and set reminders. • Add free-form notes to Action Cards for extra details like phone numbers • Get push notifications, you can quickly choose reminders for the Morning, Afternoon, Evening or custom times • Create repeating actions with advanced rules like “Call Sam every second Tuesday in June” • Automatically and securely sync all of your Actions to the cloud instantly • To keep your lists manageable, Actions will automatically suggest Action Cards that should be rescheduled or deleted • Use the iOS Share extension to bring lists from other apps into Actions easily • Use Siri to manage your actions for hands-free productivity! Actions is a sophisticated app for getting things done, but it’s even more powerful if you have Timepage. With Timepage installed, your calendar events will automatically appear in the Schedule screen in Actions so you can see everything in context. In Timepage, you can see scheduled actions alongside your events. Master your calendar events and your to-dos with the ultimate productivity app duo! –––MEMBERSHIP––– Actions is a membership service with a free trial. Download the app free to try it out without restriction or registration. After the trial period you can choose to purchase a membership which allows unlimited use across all of your devices. Without an active membership, you can still use the app in read-only mode. • Unlimited access on all your devices. • Both monthly and annual options available. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and automatic renewal status in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://bonobolabs.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://bonobolabs.com/terms –––QUESTIONS?––– If you’ve got a question or something isn’t working quite right, you can contact us directly from the Menu > Help > Contact Support. Got a feature idea? Let us know at https://bonobo.canny.io/actions –––THANK YOU––– We have put thousands of hours into creating Actions. We read every single one of your reviews. If you enjoy using Actions please take a minute to leave us a nice review, thank you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: MindNode at free with in-app purchases against Actions's subscription. Actions's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. MindNode sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Actions sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for MindNode against 4.6 for Actions. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Actions has 9.7K ratings behind it against 1.9K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of MindNode's written reviews are positive against 51% of Actions's.
MindNode ships an update every 6 weeks, Actions fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MindNode | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.9K ratings) | 4.6 (9.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews — better | 51.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K | 9.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 390 MB | 258 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IdeasOnCanvas GmbH | Bonobo |
Customer experience
MindNode
Actions
User reviews
MindNode
From 1.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth and intuitive interface
- 🧠 Excellent for organizing thoughts and ideas
- 🌐 Seamless sync across devices
- 💻 Great for both personal and professional use
- 🎨 Beautiful and customizable themes
Room to improve
- 💰 Subscription model frustrates some users
- 🔒 Locked features behind paywall
- 🐛 Occasional sync and stability issues
- 🔀 Limited layout and connection options
Actions
From 9.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Intuitive and easy to use
- 👍 Beautiful and visually appealing design
- 🔍 Great organizational features
- ⏱️ Helpful reminders and scheduling
- 🤝 Good integration with Timepage app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Syncing issues and bugs
- 🔄 Inconsistent task ordering and rearranging
- 🕰️ Slow performance and app crashes
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with data collection
- 💰 Subscription model and high pricing
Bugs and requests
MindNode
Reported bugs
3 issues- Files disappearing or becoming corrupted
- App crashing after recent updates
- Inability to restore previous purchases
Requested features
4 requests- Add audio recording capability
- Improve handwriting and Apple Pencil support
- Allow more flexible node connections and layouts
- Provide a one-time purchase option
Actions
Reported bugs
5 issues- Recurring tasks disappearing or not updating
- Completed tasks not properly tracked in Logbook
- Inability to move tasks between lists
- Sync issues between mobile and desktop
- Crashes when scheduling complex tasks
Requested features
5 requests- Add location-based reminders
- Implement priority settings for tasks
- Allow more color customization options
- Provide desktop/web app version
- Add checklist functionality within tasks
In-app purchases
MindNode
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription6 Months trial$24.991 Year
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- Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$24.991 Year
Actions
- Monthly Membership7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Annual Membership7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Bonobo Bundle (Annual)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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- Bonobo Bundle (Annual Family)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Bonobo Bundle (Lifetime)$129.99









