Comparison

MindSpace vs Mind Mapping

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

Head to head
About

MindSpace

Create and organize ideas quickly with a visual mind mapping tool. Edit, export, and share your maps across devices. Offers a minimalist design and secure data storage.

Highlights
  • Create concise mind maps
  • Organize ideas with colors and stickers
  • Capture fleeting inspiration
  • Exquisite and minimalist themes
  • Secure document editor for data
  • Free sharing of mind maps
Features
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Quickly create clean and simple mind maps. Edit them on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Export anytime to PDF, Images, Markdown, and other formats to share in your work and studies. Quickly Create Personalized Mind Maps • Efficiency: We split "Themes" into "Layouts" and "Color Schemes", carefully designing over 50 layouts and 60 color schemes. They support one-tap switching and can be freely combined into multiple styles. • Personalization: You can create your own layouts and color schemes, presetting almost all formatting options such as growth direction, width, spacing, structure, shapes, and the color of each individual branch. • Freedom: You can set different layouts for two separate mind maps, or even different layouts for different branches to form a hybrid structure mind map to present your content. You can also set it to "Manual Layout" to flexibly place every single node. Enrich Your Mind Maps in Multiple Ways • Notes: Add a place for supplementary information with support for quick viewing. • Links: Add a web link or local link. Local links can specify and jump to concrete nodes within the file. • Tasks: Add task buttons that can display progress checkboxes. • Relationships: Add relationship lines between two nodes or internal positions within a node. • Summaries: Add curly braces or polygon shapes for multiple nodes. • Images: Insert local images and set their alignment with text. • Drawings: Drawings made with Apple Pencil can also be inserted inside nodes. • Equations: Support adding LaTeX equations and modifying them at any time. • Stickers: Built-in with more than 1,000 beautiful stickers. AI Assistant Doubles Your Efficiency (Optional) • Expand: Enter an idea to quickly branch out content from different angles. • Convert: Transform a long article into a clearly structured mind map. • Image to Mind Map: Convert images containing text into a mind map with the matching structure. • Rewrite: Re-output much better text for a specified node. Mainstream Import & Export Formats • Import: Supports Markdown, OPML, TXT, FreeMind, iThoughts, etc. • Export: Supports PDF, JPG, PNG, TXT, Markdown, OPML, etc. More Convenient Features • Outline: One-tap toggle to outline mode, or start editing and arranging structures directly from the outline view. • Shortcuts: Provides a rich keyboard shortcut system that is fully customizable. • Focus Mode: Light up only your selected node and its related nodes for seamless presentation work. • Other Features: Canvas guides, widgets, auto-follow, and more. Data Security We build the App using the most safe and reliable architecture—a document-based editor. Your data belongs solely to you. The AI assistant only processes data you provide to it, and you can turn off AI globally. Subscription Information • You can subscribe to the "Pro" version monthly or annually. • Payments will be charged to your iTunes Account. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. • Manage or cancel subscriptions anytime in your App Store Account Settings after purchase. Email: todo-color@outlook.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rednowapp.github.io/privacy-policy/

About

Mind Mapping

Organize your thoughts and ideas into structured visual formats like mind maps, flowcharts, and outlines. This app offers extensive customization, sharing, and export options for seamless idea management.

Highlights
  • Diagrams and mind maps
  • Flowcharts and outlines
  • Multiple color themes and styles
  • Customization tools
  • External sharing
  • Export as PDF and image
  • Offline mode
Features
Read full description

Mind Mapping is an app designed to help users shape their abstract ideas into a structured format, using diagrams, mind maps, flowcharts, outlines, tree charts, and other efficient visualization tools. We created this app for people like us who need to constantly organize their thoughts, concepts, and ideas but lack a robust solution to achieve their goals. The developed app encompasses all the necessary features to make your mind mapping journey convenient and seamless, including: • Multiple color themes and styles • Wide range of layouts and templates • Customization tools • External sharing (share your mind maps across any convenient external channel) • Export of a created mind map as PDF and image • iCloud document support • Offline mode • Ability to save drafts • Ability to draw connections between nodes We hope that our Mind Mapping app will help you during presentations, brainstorming, note-taking, meetings, idea generation, thoughts organization, and many other activities. Minimalistic and modern design, easy-to-use functionality, a wide range of tools to customize your mind maps, all these, and much more, is available to you so that all your ideas can be captured properly! Don’t forget to check our privacy policy and terms of service: https://mindster-map.com/privacy-policy.html https://mindster-map.com/terms-of-service.html SUBSCRIPTION INFO: • Subscription for Mind Mapping for full access to all features. • Subscription length: one week, one month, and lifetime. • Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. • Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription.

Screenshots

MindSpace4 screens
Mind Mapping4 screens

Verdict

The call

MindSpace and Mind Mapping both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of MindSpace's written reviews are positive against 42% of Mind Mapping's. MindSpace also leads on monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MindSpace sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Mind Mapping sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for MindSpace against 4.6 for Mind Mapping. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 287 and 379 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of MindSpace's written reviews are positive against 42% of Mind Mapping's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MindSpace ships an update every 5 days, Mind Mapping every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MindSpace versus Mind Mapping: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindSpaceMind Mapping
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (287 ratings)4.6 (379 ratings)
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews — better41.7% of reviews
Number of ratings287379 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB107 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer佳文 潘Yalex FZC LLC

Customer experience

MindSpace

All ratings287 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral2.4%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews140 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral6.4%
Negative5.0%

Mind Mapping

All ratings379 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

MindSpace

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Nodes and content randomly disappearing
  • Compatibility issues with older devices
  • Syncing problems between devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to scribble or handwrite notes
  • Improve keyboard shortcuts and text editing
  • Implement more advanced charting and data visualization
  • Allow custom node shapes and connection styles
  • Add support for importing/exporting other mind map formats

Mind Mapping

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

MindSpace

Subscriptions2
  • Subscription Monthly2 variants$0.991 Month
  • Subscription Yearly2 variants$7.991 Year
One-time4
  • 2000 AI Credits$1.49
  • Lifetime Pro2 variants$12.99
  • Lifetime Pro(Original)$12.99
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  • Lifetime Pro$29.99
6 purchases

Mind Mapping

Subscriptions5
  • Mind Mapping - 1 Week$2.997 Days
  • Mind Mapping - 1 Month3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Mind Mapping - 1 Month$9.991 Month
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  • Mind Mapping – 6 Months$24.996 Months
  • Mind Mapping - 1 Year3 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mind Mapping - Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is MindSpace free?
MindSpace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mind Mapping free?
Mind Mapping is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MindSpace or Mind Mapping?
MindSpace and Mind Mapping are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 287 and 379 ratings respectively.
Do MindSpace or Mind Mapping have ads?
Mind Mapping shows ads; MindSpace does not.
Which is updated more often, MindSpace or Mind Mapping?
MindSpace ships an update every 5 days, and Mind Mapping every 3 weeks. Most recently, MindSpace was updated on October 11, 2026 and Mind Mapping on October 5, 2026.

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