Comparison

MindWoods vs Silmari

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

Head to head
About

MindWoods

Organize your thoughts and creative projects with a visual canvas. Connect ideas, add notes and images, and customize your workspace. Export your work in various formats.

Highlights
  • Visual mind mapping
  • Illustrated journaling
  • Project planning
  • Sketch collection
  • Customizable canvas
  • Multiple export formats
  • Idea organization
Features
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Give your ideas room to grow with MindWoods. Make a mind map, keep an illustrated journal, plan a project, or collect sketches and inspiration in a garden of connected ideas. WRITE, READ, AND CONNECT Start with a title, then add notes and images. Arrange idea cards on the canvas, connect them with named relationships, and return to the full text when you want to read or edit. Batch entry helps you capture several ideas at once. MAKE THE CANVAS YOURS Combine notes with photo and hand-drawn stickers. Reuse creations from your personal sticker library, pair stickers with ideas, group objects, and organize their stacking order. Choose a theme and customize the toolbar around the tools you use most. Style each idea with classic or handwritten fonts, bold, italic, card colors and three levels, then let Auto Layout tidy up or arrange the garden by level. KEEP ORGANIZING Search your ideas, start from a template, and use garden history and the recycle bin to revisit earlier versions or recover content. EXPORT YOUR WORK Share a canvas as PNG, export a PDF with a canvas overview and complete notes, or use Markdown and JSON exports to take your work with you. START FREE, ADD PRO WHEN YOU NEED IT Free creation includes two gardens with unlimited ideas in each, up to ten hand-drawn works kept at a time, and selected templates. All themes, export formats, basic iCloud features, stickers and photos are free. MindWoods Pro is a one-time in-app purchase, with no subscription. It adds unlimited gardens and drawings, all templates, Markdown import, and on-device model summaries on supported devices. No MindWoods account is required. iCloud features require signing in to iCloud and enabling iCloud Drive in system settings. Model summaries also depend on the system version, device, region, language, and Apple Intelligence availability.

About

Silmari

This app helps organize scattered thoughts into a clear visual structure using fast keyboard editing and flexible layouts. It supports multiple mind maps, rich expression options, and various export formats, with local storage for offline use. An AI helper can convert documents into mind maps.

Highlights
  • Fast keyboard editing
  • Flexible layout options
  • Rich expression tools
  • Multiple mind map management
  • Offline local storage
  • Export to Markdown, PNG, Excel, JSON
  • AI document to mind map conversion
Features
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Good mind map apps are hard to find — and the good ones are subscription-only. Now there's an app to solve that. Silmari will never switch to a subscription. Buy once, subscribed for life — we come to you with that unchanging promise. Silmari is a mind map editor that weaves scattered ideas into one clear picture. With fast keyboard editing and automatic layout, your thoughts become structure the moment they appear. ■ Fast editing · Tab for a child, Enter for a sibling — structure your ideas with the keyboard alone · Drag to reorder or re-parent; move an entire subtree at once · Multi-line text, per-node colors ■ Flexible layouts · Right / Left / Balanced / Org chart / Logic tree · Fit-to-screen and a live minimap for large maps ■ Rich expression · Free relationship lines with labels, node groups · Node notes, and link / image / file attachments ■ Multiple mind maps · Manage maps as tabs, view two side by side ■ Save & import/export · Local on-device storage — works offline · Export to Markdown · Image (PNG) · Excel · JSON · Import XMind (.xmind) — brings in structure, text, notes, and relationship lines; multiple sheets open as separate tabs Note: XMind's exact positions, styles, colors, images, and summaries are not imported. The map is auto-arranged in Silmari's style, so its layout may differ from the original. ■ AI helper · A workflow that helps turn documents into mind maps (using your own AI service) Automatic Korean / English. Start right away — no account required.

Screenshots

MindWoods4 screens
Silmari3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Silmari at 100% against MindWoods's 0%. Silmari also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). MindWoods's advantage is price (Free vs $12.99). On ads, 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

MindWoods is free to download; Silmari costs $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MindWoods ships an update every 8 days, Silmari every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
MindWoods versus Silmari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindWoodsSilmari
PriceFree — better$12.99
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerwu zhaodongTAEHAN KIM

Customer experience

MindWoods

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Silmari

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MindWoods

No in-app purchases

None

Silmari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MindWoods free?
MindWoods is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Silmari free?
Silmari costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do MindWoods or Silmari have ads?
Neither MindWoods nor Silmari shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MindWoods or Silmari?
MindWoods ships an update every 8 days, and Silmari every 2 days. Most recently, MindWoods was updated on November 5, 2026 and Silmari on October 31, 2026.

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