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MindManager

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What is MindManager?

MindManager is a mind mapping and project management tool that aims to boost users’ productivity. It is designed to facilitate a wide range of project types, and includes cross-platform functionality and 3rd party integrations.

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MindManager for Microsoft Teams

$105

Cloud
per year

Annual Subscription

$179

Cloud
per year

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is MindManager?

MindManager aims to bring clarity and structure to plans, projects, and processes.

It helps users to transform scattered ideas and information into dynamic visual mind maps, flowcharts, concept maps, matrices and other diagrams. Users can also take control of their work, synthesize vast amounts of data, collaborate and communicate more effectively.

MindManager is a suite of visualization products that helps individuals and teams think more clearly, make better decisions, and get on the path to personal and organizational success.

MindManager Features

MindManager Screenshots

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MindManager Videos

MindManager – Visualization Tools and Mind Mapping Software
In this video, TrustRadius goes over some of the best project management software out there - including MindManager.
This 10-minute video provides a crash course in the various functionalities and use cases of MindManager, and a walkthrough of how it helps teams work more effectively and efficiently.
MindManager as solution for everything. Case Study brewery Murau, Austria. The Murau brewery relies on MindManager and uses the software for everything from meeting management and budget planning to spare parts management for their machinery.

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MindManager Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese

Frequently Asked Questions

MindManager is a mind mapping and project management tool that aims to boost users’ productivity. It is designed to facilitate a wide range of project types, and includes cross-platform functionality and 3rd party integrations.

Xmind, Ayoa, and iThoughts are common alternatives for MindManager.

Reviewers rate Vendor pre-sale and Vendor post-sale highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of MindManager are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Peter Ives | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have found it a great tool for presenting information visually, which I find an extremely useful format to stay organised. I have also found Mindmanager over the years to be extremely versatile with the templates available to use it for many varied disciplines from international sales to project management, to teaching and consulting. I have also been able to develop some of my own templates including one used to overlay the Solution Selling process onto a Mindmap and then incorporate all the traditional Opportunity Management documents that need to be updated to keep track of the sales progress.
It has been a bit of a challenge when you want to use Mindmanager across multiple operating systems as the versions that ran on the MAC O/S didn't have the same functionality as did the Windows version.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
+ It’s good if You want to visualize data from different views. Like categorized or filtered information. + It’s good for making smaller project plans direct from brainstormed ideas. + It’s very good for structuring a big document with different chapters. - It’s lacking when you want to visualize multi-relations between different objects.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited:
  • Supporting my thinking and creating processes
  • Automatically creating maps with a thousand items
  • Publishing a map in two mouse clicks
Less suited:
  • Apart from the hierarchical mindmap, MM now supports a range of other (related) map types; that is candidate for improvements.
  • Instead of powerpoint slides, MindManager now supports creating its own slides; that also is candidate for improvements; it is a handicap that these slides only can be played from MindManager itself
  • IMHO the published HTML5 map could compete with some so-called Dashboards; so pity that the filter option only works fine for mutually exclusive marker types.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Working alone on a project Less appropriate for share. Or at least I could not find out yet how to share and collaborate easy with other that don't have the software. Because of this my colleagues are not convinced yet of its potential. It's to cumbersome to share and collaborate in a google environment
Wanda Craig, aka Raegan Teller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love to outline in MM and its ability to link related maps. Great help to me as a writer! I don't love the export of the outlines. Needs to be a cleaner, simpler look. I work around it, though. I rated the above question 6 only because it's too expensive. I've had it for years and, until recently, got almost every upgrade. I can't afford it now and may have to look for an alternative to keep updated software. Bummer!
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Good at soft systems analysis scenarios. That is putting word documents together for interview questions. User Manuals for software applications and the like. I mainly make use of it for personal use for my day job.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For Information Management MM has proved invaluable in organizing information sources to support consulting engagements in the field of healthcare information technology and architecture.
For Project Management it is currently proving to be very useful in supporting the development of content for cybersecurity eBooks. Chapters and topics can easily be chunked and status-tracked, and linkages to artifacts, resources and primary sources can easily be managed.
Mark Williamson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've used it for 20 years for everything (personal finance, projects, and work). When I first started, the topics couldn't even collapse so the maps got very big very quickly. The newer versions have, obviously, eliminated that issue and I've used it very effectively for years managing HR in a 250-person utility. Because I was so familiar with it, it was very easy for me to use. The learning curve was pretty steep, though, so I had trouble getting other people to use it though they were always impressed by the maps I used.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For me, it's pretty well-suited to what I need it to do. I come up with a broad main topic and then break it down into finer and finer detail using the topics and subtopics. I sometimes need to mess with the theme or template in order to make it obvious when a subtopic should be considered a topic all on its own. I often use Radial Maps because they allow me to use an extra level of topics (the main topic) and put it in the middle of all the other topics. I would prefer to use Free From if it included a Main Topic level and the ability to branch main topics off in any direction. Also, for Free Form, let us choose which direction subtopics go from the topics (left or right or under or over).
Jeff Sandy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Excellent for developing task lists and capturing and organizing design ideas. While can use to organize a presentation, the results needs to be recreated in PowerPoint since there is no linkage. Good substitute for project management for small-medium projects.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MindManager (MM) is best suited for unstructured accumulation of information, i.e., pulling articles off the net, pictures, charts, spreadsheets, and docs. Head to head with PowerPoint is tough except for experienced users. (I use it - Walk Through)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well Suited: Idea generation and organising thoughts / notes during requirements gathering sessions or meetings. Presentations to effectively communicate ideas or visualising project charters Facilitating strategic planning and decision making through visual mapping. Creation of timelines, centralising information with linked resources - which is useful for escalations Less Appropriate: Real-time collaboration requiring simultaneous editing of a single mind map - always found authentication was a bit to cumbersome to setup when stored in SharePoint. I haven't tried it any other way. Project management, imo it's better to open up Project or more specialised tools for visualising things like dependencies and allocations. Technical diagrams and modeling best left to specialised tools, but the 23 update somewhat address' this with more functionality in this space.
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