Wondershare EdrawMax vs MindManager

Likelihood to Recommend

The software is simple, intuitive, accurate, and has sufficient capabilities for our purposes. It works much more efficiently than the major CAD programs which are not intended for top-level design schematics.

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Tony Whitmore

Professor and Director, Propulsion Research Lab

Utah State UniversityResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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I use the program to create several curriculums with the frame. It was great. However, I am the only one using the program. Spring Education Group is managing schools nationwide, and The Sagemont School is one of them. I do not know if Spring Education Group is going to use this program. I use it as a free version.

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Nancy Mejias

Teacher CS,AP CSP,AP CSA, Robotics

The Sagemont SchoolEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

P&ID
Electrical Schematics

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Tony Whitmore

Professor and Director, Propulsion Research Lab

Utah State UniversityResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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Excellent big picture overview with easy expansion and contraction of map
Detailed drill-down capability into separate line-items and notes
Publishing capability to share MindManager with other connected or interested parties
Convenient and easy to use hyperlink capability that can be launched within MindManager or in a separate window
Ability to link to and launch another MindManager from within current one
Excellent integration with Outlook

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Robert Gates

Cloud Architect

Nations IDGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Cons

The "perpetual" license expires after three years. That is a Nuisance.

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Tony Whitmore

Professor and Director, Propulsion Research Lab

Utah State UniversityResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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No support for team-based project files. Multiple people can only edit simultaneously during pre-scheduled meetings.
A project file can be opened by 2 users at the same time, but when they try to save, a conflict is generated and the project file is duplicated with unmergeable changes.
Published projects should have some kind of queue on save to ask the owner if they want to also update their changes on the published version.

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Andrew Pike

Senior Systems Analyst

Shorefast FoundationNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

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MindManager 9.1

Based on 20 answers

I feel the main issues of the old Mindjet seem to be gone with the
Corel purchase. With the huge advance of sharing via browser HTML even 1
user can affect many. And, actually, using MM kind of forced my rigid
brain to rethink how I categorize and classify information/projects.

The
idea of paying $69USD for an annual cost is more than fair and a great
model for Corel/Mindjet to keep rolling out improvements!

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Thomas Kleinschmidt, CIM(R)

Capital Markets, 11-50 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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MindManager 8.5

Based on 13 answers

MindManager is very intuitive. The user interface is not cluttered and the ribbon icons are easy to understand. Several excellent "how-to" videos are available on the MindManager site as well as on YouTube. MindManager starts quickly and the user interface is very responsive. Launching other programs from MindManager such as Excel is very fast and issue free. The browsing feature is lightning fast. The drag-and-drop capability is also very fast and reliable.

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Robert Gates

Cloud Architect

Nations IDGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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MindManager 9.1

Based on 6 answers

Never had any errors.

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Verified User

Analyst in Research & Development

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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MindManager 9.1

Based on 4 answers

No issues even with large maps and held in the cloud.

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Thomas Kleinschmidt, CIM(R)

Capital Markets, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Wondershare EdrawMax 8.2

Based on 2 answers

Ease of use and reduced cost

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Tony Whitmore

Professor and Director, Propulsion Research Lab

Utah State UniversityResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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MindManager 8.0

Based on 17 answers

I have called technical support a few times. During the COVID Crisis, I called a few times repeatedly due to a rush request. The technical support guy called me back in minutes. He somehow knew that I had called repeatedly and wanted to make sure my issue was resolved immediately

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Scott E. Miller

Owner / President

The Innovation MachineMechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 1-10 employees

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Online Training

No score

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MindManager 6.4

Based on 1 answer

The videos are not well categorized...I had to do a bit of digging to get what I wanted and many videos on older versions. If Mindjet was to improve the titles used that would help.

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Thomas Kleinschmidt, CIM(R)

Capital Markets, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

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MindManager 9.1

Based on 6 answers

Not applicable

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Robert DuPuy, MBA, PMP, RMP, CSM, CCBA

BUSINESS ANALYST

ACIM LLCInformation Services, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

More intuitive, less of a learning curve for novice users.

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Tony Whitmore

Professor and Director, Propulsion Research Lab

Utah State UniversityResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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MM thinks as I think. We share the same logic. I am also very deeply proficient on MM - which makes the thought of switching to another approach less than appealing.I thought Google might be the answer because I am "full Google" on just about everything else that I do for both work, writing, and pleasure... but they have yet to come even close to MM in overall functionality.

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John Griffith

VP Marketing, Principal

The Fox Island GroupWriting and Editing, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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MindManager 9.1

Based on 2 answers

Easy to use for multiple purposes.

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Verified User

Analyst in Research & Development

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Ease of use and reduced cost.

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Tony Whitmore

Professor and Director, Propulsion Research Lab

Utah State UniversityResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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I definitely see it as a timesaver, since you can create maps/items on the fly, without a whole lot of setup at the beginning of a project.
since there are a number of people that tend to be visual thinkers, MindManager really helps users to see the big picture, without getting too caught up in all the details.
MindManager seems to be a really easy platform to learn, whereas other Project Management platforms have a steep learning curve, and require users to really get in-depth training to take full advantage of the software.

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Verified User

Supervisor in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Wondershare EdrawMax Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Annual Plan	$99.00¹
2-year Plan	$169.00²
Lifetime Plan	$495.00³

per year
per 2 years
one-time fee

SaaS Edition

Monthly Plan	$14.95¹
Half-yearly Plan	$77.70²
Annual Plan	$138.00³
Enterprise	Custom Pricing

per month
per 6 months
per year

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

MindManager Editions & Modules

Edition

One-Time Cost	$349¹
Annual Subscription	$169²
Organizations	Contact sales team

per perpetual license
per year

Additional Pricing Details

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Wondershare EdrawMax vs MindManager