Comparison

MindNode vs Persodex

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

Head to head
About

MindNode

Visualize and organize your thoughts with an infinite canvas for mind mapping and a linear structure for outlining. Collaborate in real-time with others and access your projects across all your Apple devices. A free editor is available, with an optional subscription for advanced features.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas mind mapping
  • Linear outlining view
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Notes and visual tags
  • Import and export options
Features
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Your brain doesn't think in straight lines. MindNode doesn't force it to. Capture scattered thoughts, connect them in a mind map, and turn them into a clear outline, plan, or project structure. DESIGNED FOR EVERY KIND OF THINKER • Personal Productivity: organize your week, track life goals, and plan your next vacation • Students & Educators: create study guides, summarize lectures, and plan your essay structure • Business Professionals: visualize project roadmaps, prepare meeting agendas, and plan strategy • Creatives & Writers: outline your novel, plan your content calendar, and brainstorm campaigns THINK: EXPLORE AND CAPTURE • Mind Maps: branch, cluster, and grow ideas freely on an infinite canvas • Outline View: switch to a structured, hierarchical list whenever a linear flow helps • Live Collaboration: brainstorm with others in real time and always stay in sync CLARIFY: STRUCTURE AND REFINE • Visual Tags: categorize ideas and spotlight what matters • Connections: draw links between nodes that go beyond hierarchy • Notes: tuck extra detail into any node, hidden until you need it • Focus Mode: dim everything except the work in front of you • Folding: collapse whole branches for a cleaner view ACT: FROM THOUGHT TO IMPACT • Tasks: turn ideas into actions, synced with Apple Reminders • Apple Shortcuts: automate your recurring workflows • Document Linking: connect nodes across separate documents • Import and Export: OPML, Markdown, PDF, SVG, PNG, and more EXPRESS: MAKE IT YOUR OWN • Themes: choose a curated look or build your own, with automatic light and dark mode • Layouts and Shapes: arrange nodes your way and pick from a range of node shapes • Images, Stickers, and Emoji: enrich your maps with over 250 custom stickers and more AI, A THINKING PARTNER, NOT A REPLACEMENT MindNode treats AI as a sparring partner for your thinking, never a substitute for it. You stay in control of every idea. • Suggest a starting structure or expand a branch with a tap • Turn a finished map into a written draft, or summarize a long document • Powered by Apple Intelligence where available, with its privacy protections built in ON ALL YOUR DEVICES • Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro, native on each • On Vision Pro, gather your thoughts as colorful pills floating in space and connect them by hand • Automatic iCloud sync, with offline changes merged when you reconnect • Localized in 13 languages, with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your ideas stay yours. Documents are stored encrypted in your own iCloud, not on our servers, and even live collaboration is end-to-end encrypted, so only you and the people you invite can read your work. MindNode is a small independent team in Europe, owned by its founder and answerable to its users, not investors. FREE • Capture ideas as mind maps, edit, rearrange, fold, and view them as an outline • Sync across all your Apple devices, and export your ideas in open formats so you are never locked in MINDNODE PLUS • Adds outline editing, Notes, Visual Tags and Connections, Tasks, Focus Mode, Apple Shortcuts, Document Linking, SVG export, AI, and full theming, across every platform • Available monthly or yearly QUESTIONS? We value excellent customer support. When you contact us, you will always reach a human. We're always happy to help: support@mindnode.com Terms of Service: https://mindnode.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://mindnode.com/privacy

About

Persodex

This app enhances your native contacts by adding journaling, tagging, and smart reminders to help you manage relationships. It offers features like a birthday calendar, to-do lists for contacts, and business card scanning. All data is stored on your device for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Contact journaling with AI summaries
  • Customizable tags and groups
  • Birthday calendar and reminders
  • Contact-specific to-do lists
  • Business card scanner
  • Profile enrichment options
  • Home Screen widgets
Features
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Your personal CRM that lives on top of your iOS contacts. Your contacts app knows their phone numbers. Persodex helps you remember who they actually are with the contacts journal feature. Persodex turns your iPhone's native Contacts into a lightweight personal CRM. No duplicate address book, no separate app to maintain. It syncs tags, notes, and details directly with the system Contacts app you already use every day. Never lose the story behind a relationship. Keep an interaction journal for each contact - what you talked about, where you met, what matters to them - with on-device AI summaries powered by Apple Intelligence. Nothing ever leaves your phone. Organize the people in your life. Add custom-colored tags and groups for friends, family, coworkers, and networking contacts, so you can filter and find the right person in seconds. Show up for the moments that matter. A built-in birthday calendar with countdown cards and Home Screen widgets makes sure you never miss another one. Set per-contact catch-up frequencies - weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly - and get gentle local reminders to reach out before people drift away. To-Dos Every contact now has a To-Dos tab for the things you want to get done - send the deck, make the intro, follow up after the trip. Duplicate contacts cleaner Empty contacts, No birthday, No photo, First name only, Odd name formatting. Business Card Scanner Scan any business card and save the details directly to your contacts in seconds. Profile Enrichment: Bring a contact up to date without retyping anything. Connect a service of your choice: FullEnrich, Apollo, Enrich, People Data Labs, or Reverse Contact. Bring your own API key, then tap Update Profile on a contact to look for their current job title, company, work email, phone number, website, and LinkedIn profile. You approve every change, field by field. It stays off until you set it up, and only the contact's name, company, and any work email or profile link are sent - straight to the service you picked. Remember people who passed away Some people stay part of your life even after they're gone. A contact's Details tab now has a quiet »Keep in memory« button. Their portrait appears muted everywhere in the app, their page shows their life dates, and their birthday stays on the calendar as a calm remembrance instead of a countdown. Home Screen widgets keep the essentials visible at a glance: your Business Card QR, upcoming Birthdays, pending Catch-Ups, Favorites, a daily Greeting, and your Latest Notes. Share yourself just as easily. »My Card« gives you a personal QR business card for instant sharing, with its own Home Screen widget so it's always one tap away. Explore your network on a map view, switch between English, German, and Spanish, and pick from multiple app icon themes to make it yours. Persodex is built privacy-first: everything lives on your device, no cloud account, no sign-up, no data collection. Your relationships are your business. Download Persodex and start remembering the people behind your contacts. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MindNode4 screens
Persodex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Persodex at 100% against MindNode's 48%. Persodex also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). MindNode's advantage is ratings volume (331 vs 1) and device support (5 vs 2). 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. MindNode sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Persodex sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Persodex holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MindNode has 331 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of MindNode's written reviews are positive against 100% of Persodex's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MindNode ships an update every 2 weeks, Persodex every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
MindNode versus Persodex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindNodePersodex
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (331 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings331 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIdeasOnCanvas GmbHAsterios Digital GmbH

Customer experience

MindNode

All ratings327 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral3.4%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews259 reviews
Positive47.9%
Neutral18.1%
Negative34.0%

Persodex

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

MindNode

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes on startup
  • Text rendering issues
  • Syncing problems across devices
  • Incompatibility with older hardware

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add folder structure for organizing mind maps
  • Restore manual layout and positioning options
  • Bring back Apple Watch support
  • Improve export and integration with other apps
  • Provide more customization options for themes and formatting

Persodex

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MindNode

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$24.991 Year
3 purchases

Persodex

Subscriptions2
  • Pro$3.991 Month
  • Pro$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is MindNode free?
MindNode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Persodex free?
Persodex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MindNode or Persodex?
Persodex is rated higher. MindNode averages 4.6 out of 5 from 331 ratings, while Persodex averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do MindNode or Persodex have ads?
Neither MindNode nor Persodex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MindNode or Persodex?
MindNode ships an update every 2 weeks, and Persodex every 4 days. Most recently, MindNode was updated on November 3, 2026 and Persodex on November 5, 2026.

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