Comparison

Brainstorming vs mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Brainstorming

This app helps you explore and develop ideas through interactive word clouds and suggestions. You can add various media like images, links, and voice memos to enrich your concepts. It's designed to streamline creative processes for projects, naming, and investigations.

Highlights
  • Interactive idea exploration
  • Thematic word cloud generation
  • AI-powered suggestions
  • Multimedia content integration
  • Project sharing
  • Export as image, video, or PDF
Features
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Unleash your creativity with Brainstorming, an intuitive platform where ideas come alive through interactive exploration. Automatically generate thematic clouds from your initial subjects and receive relevant suggestions tailored to your projects, just like magic. Dive deep into word relationships and concepts, adding images, sketches, voice memos, and web links. Explore cultural references from movies to Wikipedia articles. With a free account, create and share your Brainstormings with your friends and colleagues, and explore our community's public Brainstormings for fresh ideas. Streamline your creative process. Catchphrases, names, themes, or conducting investigations, Brainstorming simplifies it all. Subscribe to Brainstorming Premium for 1,99$/month to enjoy : • Unlimited Brainstorming projects • Unlimited number of levels in your Brainstorming projects • Adding artificial intelligence powered suggestions at all times, images and art references • Export and share your Brainstorming projects as images, videos or PDF. These prices apply to United States residents. Prices may vary in other countries respecting your local currency exchange rate. Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account. At the end of the term, unless auto-renewables subscriptions are disabled, your subscription will automatically renew in your iTunes account. You will be charged for the regular price of your subscription within 24 hours prior to the end of the current term. You can turn off automatic renewal in your iTunes account settings at any time, but you must do so at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. Refunds will not be provided for the unused portion of any term. Find more informations about the confidentiality policy of Brainstorming on https://brainstormi.ng/policy To read our Terms of Use, visit https://brainstormi.ng/terms

About

mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)

Organize and expand your knowledge with an AI-powered mind mapping tool. Create interconnected information networks, engage in AI conversations for insights, and automatically generate mind maps from discussions. Supports web access and data import/export.

Highlights
  • AI-powered mind mapping
  • Personalized AI chat
  • Automatic mind map generation
  • Weblink sharing and Open Graph integration
  • Google Knowledge Graph integration
  • Offline access and synchronization
  • OPML import/export
Features
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Organize your knowledge through mind mapping and create your personal mind library. Instead of carving knowledge into your brain’s neurons by repeating it over and over, why not persist it as a mind map in an information network? Only once and without the risk of losing it. Starting from a central node, mindlib enables you to save, relate, and compare information. Knowledge is displayed in a mind map-like style, where everything is interconnectable—just like your mind. Engage in dynamic conversations with your personal AI to explore, refine, and expand your knowledge. The AI-Chat in mindlib is uniquely tailored to your knowledge base, intelligently searching through your stored insights to provide context-aware answers that are grounded in your own curated information. AI-generated insights can be automatically transformed into structured mind maps, eliminating the need for manual organization and research. Instead of arranging content yourself, simply engage in a natural conversation, and let mindlib handle the structuring. This allows you to effortlessly expand your knowledge while keeping it well-organized and interconnected. To support knowledge organization, mindlib can be a share goal for your weblinks, uses Open Graph to pull information from URLs, and integrates the Google Knowledge Graph to discover relevant entities. A search function, list view, and graphical mind map navigation enable you to quickly access your knowledge and explore new connections. mindlib stores your mind maps locally and synchronizes with a server, ensuring your knowledge is always available—even when offline. The app supports the OPML format for importing and exporting information, allowing easy exchange with other mind mapping applications and creating backups. Use the web application version to access mindlib from your desktop at app.mindlib.de. The free version allows up to 100 pieces of information. Upgrade to a monthly or yearly subscription for unlimited knowledge storage. Once your subscription ends, your existing data remains available and synchronized across all devices. Terms of Use: https://app.mindlib.de/eula/en

Screenshots

Brainstorming4 screens
mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Brainstorming at 4.1 against mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)'s 3.5. Brainstorming also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (71 vs 4). mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)'s advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 26%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Brainstorming sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Brainstorming holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brainstorming has 71 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of Brainstorming's written reviews are positive against 67% of mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brainstorming ships an update every 9 days, mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Brainstorming versus mindlib (Mind Map, Notes): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainstormingmindlib (Mind Map, Notes)
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (71 ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews26.1% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings71 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuillaume CendreCarsten Klaffke

Customer experience

Brainstorming

All ratings71 ratings
Positive74.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative23.9%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive26.1%
Neutral13.0%
Negative60.9%

mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Brainstorming

Subscriptions2
  • Brainstorming Premium$1.991 Month
  • Brainstorming Platinum$3.991 Month
3 purchases

mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)

Subscriptions2
  • Full Version Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Full Version Yearly$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Full version$2.99

Questions

Is Brainstorming free?
Brainstorming is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) free?
mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brainstorming or mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)?
Brainstorming is rated higher. Brainstorming averages 4.1 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Brainstorming or mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) have ads?
Neither Brainstorming nor mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brainstorming or mindlib (Mind Map, Notes)?
Brainstorming ships an update every 9 days, and mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) every 6 weeks. Most recently, Brainstorming was updated on September 19, 2026 and mindlib (Mind Map, Notes) on September 11, 2026.

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