Comparison

Mind Mapping vs Forward

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

Head to head
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
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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.

About

Forward

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Forward is a goal setting app encouraging users to dream big. Set your mind on the impossible, make daily progress towards your goals, and discover what you are capable of. Includes optional companion watchOS app for goal tracking and reminders on the go! 1. Add Goals Create your goals with milestones for tracking and a number of customization options within the app. Goals should feel improbable if not impossible when setting them and should be achievable within a year. They should also be goals that will have a significant impact on your personal growth. 2. Daily Progress Make daily progress towards your goals and track them in the app. Receive reminders from Forward to add your progress and keep your streak going! 3. Track Progress View a number of metrics that show you how much progress you've made, including the percentage complete for each goal, your total percentage complete, and a personal growth metric based on your daily progress and compounding growth. Graphics use: https://icons8.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mind Mapping4 screens
Forward4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Forward at none against Mind Mapping's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Mind Mapping sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Forward sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mind Mapping versus Forward: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMind MappingForward
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (385 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings385 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYalex FZC LLCDylan Patrick Lloyd

In-app purchases

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
1 purchases

Forward

Subscriptions1
  • Fast Forward$4.991 Year

Questions

Is Mind Mapping free?
Mind Mapping is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forward free?
Forward is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mind Mapping or Forward have ads?
Mind Mapping shows ads; Forward does not.
Which is updated more often, Mind Mapping or Forward?
Mind Mapping ships an update every 3 weeks, and Forward every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mind Mapping was updated on November 3, 2026 and Forward on October 27, 2026.

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