XMind
XMind, a full-featured mind mapping and brainstorming tool, designed to generate ideas, inspire creativity, brings efficiency both in work and life.
Recent user activities on XMind
- evergraph added XMind as alternative(s) to diagrams.net
- bigbigboy added XMind as alternative(s) to LibreOffice - Draw
- RowenRiverstone liked XMindRo
Been using this program for over 5 years and it is a good alternative for Microsoft Visio. Although it does not have all Visio's features, but I do not need them for the task that I perform.
I don't think this application is designed to replace visio. Visio is a diagrammer whereas this is a mind mapper.
Reply written about 5 years ago
Agree :) However it has diagram, project planning and other nice features, which are similar to Visio.
Reply written about 5 years ago
Pay close to 100 USD to be able to search the mind maps? There are better free and open source alternatives that offer search without paying a dime: Freeplane, Freemind, etc.
XMind has in my opinion gone from fast/lightweight, to clunky and slow over the years. I also feel they degraded the user interface, making used features more hidden, and allocating much screen space to buttons leading to 'premium'- and rarely used features. I now run version 3.1.1, which has the old clean UI and seems to be the last version prior to memory usage skyrocketing.
Over the years I have tried to find alternatives, but the visual map-aesthetics of competitors don't sit well with me, possibly because I used XMind for so many years.
but with current 1 file many map, it's a rubbish.
Very useful software, use it continuesly to summarise non-fiction books.
Has several themes to create mindmaps
Great Mindmapping software. What I most like about it is that I can create mindmaps very quickly by using only the keyboard, withouth having to switch to the mouse all the time. the auto-layout feature works well, as does the presentation mode. And the standard theme for mindmaps also looks very nice.
Stephen, the developer (I believe), is very responsive in the user forum, which is quite active.
I found free program Pinoteo . It has something similar to XMind. Pinoteo is developing application, but it's already quite useful.