Comparison

MindSpace vs Genogram Creator

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

Genogram Creator

Create detailed family trees with emotional and medical histories. This tool maps complex family structures and relationships across generations, ideal for therapists and genealogists.

Highlights
  • Map family structure across generations
  • Record emotional relationship types
  • Track medical and mental health history
  • Visualize cultural heritage and religion
  • Professional-grade visual canvas
  • Import GEDCOM and JSON files
  • Export to PDF, PNG, and SVG
Features
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Genogram Creator is a professional genogram tool for iPhone, iPad and Mac — a visual canvas for mapping a family across generations, with all the structural detail clinicians need and an editorial design that's pleasant to look at. PLANS AND PRICING Genogram Creator is free to download, and you can try it before you pay. The app shows what's included for free (a free plan or a free trial, depending on the current offer) and the exact price before any purchase. Paid plans are auto-renewing annual subscriptions: • Standard — $49.99/year: up to 20 genograms, full editor, all symbols, PDF/PNG/SVG export without a watermark, GEDCOM/JSON export, Family Report • Unlimited — $99.99/year: everything in Standard plus unlimited genograms, JSON/GEDCOM import, and premium templates A free trial, when offered, includes the plan you pick, which starts automatically when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel on iPhone or iPad in Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions; on Mac in the App Store app > [your name] > Account Settings > Subscriptions; or in the app under Settings > Manage or Cancel Subscription. A genogram is a family tree with feelings. Beyond names and dates, it captures emotional patterns, medical history, cultural heritage, religion, social class, and the relationships that hold (or strain) a family together. It's the standard tool used by family therapists, social workers, genealogists, and researchers. WHAT YOU CAN MAP • Family structure across generations — marriages, divorces, partnerships, parent-child, adoption, surrogacy, donor conception • 41 emotional relationship types — close, distant, conflict, cutoff, fused, hostile, caretaker, and more • Twins (fraternal and identical), step-families, blended families, multi-partner relationships • Medical conditions, mental health history, cause of death • Cultural heritage with 80+ pattern fills and country flags • Religion, social class, education level, sexual orientation • Custom notes, secrets, family groups, and free-floating annotations DESIGNED FOR PROFESSIONALS • Visual canvas with 60fps rendering and smooth pinch-to-zoom • 80+ person properties per node • Auto-arrange layout engine — drop in nodes and the canvas tidies itself • Two-finger pan, one-finger drag-to-pan, lasso select • 20-level undo/redo • Family group support — visualize entire households at once • Layered view modes — toggle religion, heritage, social class, medical, location independently IMPORT, EXPORT, AND SHARE • Import GEDCOM and JSON files (Unlimited plan) • Print-ready PDF (paper sizes, tiling, black and white), PNG and SVG export • Files.app integration — your genograms live alongside your other documents • Works offline: no account, no analytics, your genograms are never uploaded 48 TEMPLATES (Unlimited plan) • Family structures — three-generation, blended, single parent, same-sex with adoption, adoptive, foster care, grandparents raising grandchildren, chosen family, co-parenting • Clinical patterns — anxiety, depression, substance use, PTSD, bipolar, ADHD, enmeshment, cutoff, parentification, triangulation, grief, military deployment, elder care, genetic counseling • Cultural and community systems across six traditions • Historical families — Freud, Darwin-Wedgwood, Queen Victoria, Kennedy, Curie, Tubman and more PRIVACY-FIRST Your genograms stay on your device (or in your own iCloud Drive if you enable it) and are never uploaded to us. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. Tutorial videos stream from genogramcreator.com, and problem reports are sent only if you choose to send one. Your family is yours. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Plans, prices, free options and how to cancel are listed under PLANS AND PRICING above. Terms: https://genogramcreator.com/terms. Privacy: https://genogramcreator.com/privacy.

Screenshots

MindSpace4 screens
Genogram Creator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MindSpace at 4.6 against Genogram Creator's 4.0. MindSpace also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 50%) and monetization model (freemium vs subscription). On price, update cadence, ads 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 Genogram Creator sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MindSpace holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MindSpace has 288 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of MindSpace's written reviews are positive against 50% of Genogram Creator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MindSpace ships an update every 5 days, Genogram Creator every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
MindSpace versus Genogram Creator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindSpaceGenogram Creator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (288 ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews88.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings288 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer佳文 潘C6 Labs LLC

Customer experience

MindSpace

All ratings287 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral2.4%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews141 reviews
Positive88.7%
Neutral6.4%
Negative5.0%

Genogram Creator

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
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

Genogram Creator

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
2 purchases

Genogram Creator

Subscriptions2
  • Standard Annual$49.991 Year
  • Unlimited Annual$99.991 Year

Questions

Is MindSpace free?
MindSpace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Genogram Creator free?
Genogram Creator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MindSpace or Genogram Creator?
MindSpace is rated higher. MindSpace averages 4.6 out of 5 from 288 ratings, while Genogram Creator averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do MindSpace or Genogram Creator have ads?
Neither MindSpace nor Genogram Creator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MindSpace or Genogram Creator?
MindSpace ships an update every 5 days, and Genogram Creator every 9 days. Most recently, MindSpace was updated on October 30, 2026 and Genogram Creator on October 28, 2026.

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