Comparison

SimpleMind Pro vs KnowledgeBase Builder

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

Head to head
About

SimpleMind Pro

Organize your thoughts, capture ideas, and generate new concepts with a beautiful and intuitive mind mapping tool. Seamlessly synchronize your maps across devices and platforms, and enhance them with media and documents.

Highlights
  • Free-form and auto layout options
  • Cross-platform synchronization
  • Add images, notes, and voice memos
  • Share maps as PDF or Image
  • Customizable styles and themes
  • Collapse/expand branches for overview
Features
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Mind mapping helps you organize your thoughts, remember information and generate new ideas. We've created a beautiful, intuitive app, so you can mind map wherever you are and whenever you want. SimpleMind Pro is designed to synchronize your Mind Maps across platforms. For example (as a separate purchase) for Mac - https://simplemind.eu/download/full-edition/ Highlights • Easy to use. • Continuously fine-tuned based on customer feedback. • Trustworthy and reliable: 15+ years of updates and improvements. • Used in a wide range of applications: business, education, legal and medical. • Unique free-form layout or various auto layouts. • Seamless synchronization using clouds. • Add media and documents. • Share Mind Maps. • Change and customize the style of the Mind Map. • Tools to help you maintain overview. Create ○ place topics anywhere you want in the free-form layout ○ or use auto layout - great for brainstorming ○ reorganize and restructure using drag, rotate, re-arrange or reconnect ○ use checkboxes, progress bars, auto-numbering ○ connect any two topics with a crosslink ○ label relations ○ virtually unlimited page size and number of elements ○ supports multiple Mind Maps on one page Add media and documents ○ images and photos ○ notes ○ icons (stock, emojis or custom) ○ link to a topic, mind map, contact, file or webpage ○ voice memos ○ videos Seamless synchronization using clouds ○ sync mind maps with your iPads and iPhones ○ sync mind maps across platforms. For example with Mac - as a separate purchase ○ sync using iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, 坚果云 - Nutstore and Nextcloud Share your Mind Map ○ for example as PDF or Image ○ outline, can be imported in word processors ○ create a slideshow to present your Mind Map (Tablet only) ○ print ○ export to Reminders or Calendar Style your mind map ○ change the appearance by selecting one of the 15+ style sheets ○ create your own style sheets ○ style every detail, exactly how you want it ○ change borders, lines, colors, background color, the checkbox color, and much more Maintain overview ○ collapse and expand branches ○ hide or show branches or topics ○ block out distractions with autofocus ○ highlight branches by displaying branch borders ○ visually group topics with group borders ○ organize your Mind Maps in folders ○ outline view ○ search

About

KnowledgeBase Builder

Organize and search text documents and web pages with links within a mind map structure. Automatically create mind maps from text, import Wikipedia articles, and export your knowledge base as HTML. Also functions as a flowcharting tool.

Highlights
  • Save text documents and web pages
  • Full-text search
  • Organize with mind maps
  • Automatic mind map creation
  • Wikipedia import
  • Export to HTML
  • Flowcharting tool
Features
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The InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder is an excellent tool for Knowledge Management. You can save text documents and web pages with all formattings and links in your knowledge base and perform a full text search in it. Since every document is attached as a text note to a mindmap item, you can organize them perfectly in a large mindmap. This mindmap is browsable, so you will never lose perspective even with thousands of documents. All items are stored in a reliable local SQLite database. The app includes many other outstanding features such as the automatic creation of mindmaps from text documents, the import of Wikipedia articles into your mindmap and much more. You can even export your knowledge base as a formatted html document. And that's not all. The InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder is also a famous flowcharting tool. You can either create your flowcharts manually or generate them automatically from pseudo code. And there are a thousand more things you can do with the app.

Screenshots

SimpleMind Pro4 screens
KnowledgeBase Builder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: KnowledgeBase Builder at fortnightly against SimpleMind Pro's every 2 months. KnowledgeBase Builder also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 81%) and price ($8.99 vs $10.99). SimpleMind Pro's advantage is ratings volume (451 vs 24). On rating, 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

SimpleMind Pro costs $10.99 and KnowledgeBase Builder $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for SimpleMind Pro against 4.7 for KnowledgeBase Builder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleMind Pro has 451 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of SimpleMind Pro's written reviews are positive against 91% of KnowledgeBase Builder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SimpleMind Pro ships an update every 2 months, KnowledgeBase Builder fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SimpleMind Pro versus KnowledgeBase Builder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimpleMind ProKnowledgeBase Builder
Price$10.99$8.99 — better
Rating4.7 (451 ratings)4.7 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews80.9% of reviews90.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings451 — better24
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerxpt Software & Consulting B.V.Ingo Straub

Customer experience

SimpleMind Pro

All ratings451 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral1.3%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews768 reviews
Positive80.9%
Neutral7.6%
Negative11.6%

KnowledgeBase Builder

All ratings24 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

In-app purchases

None

SimpleMind Pro

No in-app purchases

None

KnowledgeBase Builder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SimpleMind Pro free?
SimpleMind Pro costs $10.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is KnowledgeBase Builder free?
KnowledgeBase Builder costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SimpleMind Pro or KnowledgeBase Builder?
SimpleMind Pro and KnowledgeBase Builder are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 451 and 24 ratings respectively.
Do SimpleMind Pro or KnowledgeBase Builder have ads?
Neither SimpleMind Pro nor KnowledgeBase Builder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimpleMind Pro or KnowledgeBase Builder?
SimpleMind Pro ships an update every 2 months, and KnowledgeBase Builder fortnightly. Most recently, SimpleMind Pro was updated on September 24, 2026 and KnowledgeBase Builder on September 7, 2026.

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