What is Scapple?
Scapple is an easy-to-use tool for getting ideas down as quickly as possible and making connections between them. It isn’t exactly mind-mapping software—it’s more like a freeform text editor that allows you to make notes anywhere on the page and to connect them using straight lines or arrows. If you’ve ever scribbled down ideas all over a piece of paper and drawn lines between related thoughts, then you already know what Scapple does.
Scapple doesn’t force you to make connections, and it doesn’t expect you to start out with one central idea off of which everything else is branched. There’s no built-in hierarchy at all, in fact—in Scapple, every note is equal, so you can connect them however you like. The idea behind Scapple is simple: when you are roughing out ideas, you need complete freedom to experiment with how those ideas best fit together.
Creating notes is as easy as double-clicking anywhere on the canvas and then typing; making connections between ideas is as painless as dragging and dropping one note onto another. And unlike paper, you can move notes around and never run out of space.
FEATURES
• Simple—and fun—to use
• Completely freeform
• Write notes anywhere on the virtual paper
• Connect notes using drag and drop
• Move and arrange notes easily
• Create background shapes to group notes
• Customise the appearance of notes including font style, colours and a choice of border styles
• Stack notes in columns of related ideas
• MathType support
• Full screen mode (Lion and above)
• iCloud support (10.8 and above)
• Export to popular formats or print your ideas
• Easily drag notes into
Scrivener for further development
Scapple doesn’t force you to make connections, and it doesn’t expect you to start out with one central idea off of which everything else is branched. There’s no built-in hierarchy at all, in fact—in Scapple, every note is equal, so you can connect them however you like. The idea behind Scapple is simple: when you are roughing out ideas, you need complete freedom to experiment with how those ideas best fit together.
Creating notes is as easy as double-clicking anywhere on the canvas and then typing; making connections between ideas is as painless as dragging and dropping one note onto another. And unlike paper, you can move notes around and never run out of space.
FEATURES
• Simple—and fun—to use
• Completely freeform
• Write notes anywhere on the virtual paper
• Connect notes using drag and drop
• Move and arrange notes easily
• Create background shapes to group notes
• Customise the appearance of notes including font style, colours and a choice of border styles
• Stack notes in columns of related ideas
• MathType support
• Full screen mode (Lion and above)
• iCloud support (10.8 and above)
• Export to popular formats or print your ideas
• Easily drag notes into
Scrivener for further development
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Summary
Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Scapple, and it has gotten 29 likes
- Developed by Literature & Latte Ltd
- Proprietary and Commercial product.
- One time purchase (perpetual license) that cost about $15.
- Average rating of 2.5
- 23 alternatives listed
Scapple is an extremely simple/basic application which despite being a bit clunky has a very loyal following from a number of its users.
However new users might like to know that development of Scapple seems to have stopped and that the Windows has got stuck at version 1.0.0.0, and there have been no new releases since October 2013. The developers claim that they do not believe in minor releases and that at some point they will do some more development.
Useful indeed if you don't like to place nodes and if you don't care about the issue date.
I want just to add that it's a Mac oriented. The Windows 1.0 version is five years old and the Mac 1.2 version is four years old. It is a 30days-trial then buy, I understand that author need to earn a living, but as it's more than 4 years that there aren't any improvemen, I'm not going to invest on this and prefer to donate on FreePlane project
Usefull to store and wide view of ideas and thoughts, when developing concept