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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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9 out of 10
March 20, 2024
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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

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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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March 20, 2024

MM review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Linking ideas to together without logically grouping them together
  • creating general concepts or exploring approaches to a complex task
  • developing hierarchies from concepts, such as plans - goals to WBS
  • I don't care for the forced formality of the new templates - I cannot always use a "Snap-to" style arrangement feature - there is very little flexibility for allowing different spacing between things within a template.
  • The feature set has grown so now training is absolutely necessary to get beyond surface capabilities. I need flexibility to find out how to do something now, not when a seminar comes along.
  • IRT the above, where are the example files used in training seminars located? Why do I have to ask about that?
  • there may be solutions to my issues, but where do I find them now, not later.
Luis Wintergerst | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ideas Clarification
  • Show the project in one slide
  • Brainstorming
  • Convert maps into 3D trees
  • Maps should move, interact, and show the branches alternatively... Play mode
  • The software should be more proactive. Ask (prompt) the ideas automatically.
  • Once the idea is written, it should automatically open to write the children concepts.
  • Ask the user if the map should start presenting itself in 3D mode or 2D mode showing all the concepts interactively.
  • USE AI to create an interactive map.
Stanislav Kalenyuk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Convenient interface
  • No mistakes
  • It's constantly evolving
  • When I open two fairly large cards at once, sometimes it collapses
  • Perhaps some AI features could be useful, such as predicting sentences when they have already been used in this file
Peter Ives | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It allows for brainstorming and the easy capture of ideas.
  • It allows for great visual presentation of material allowing you to dig down to whatever level of detail is required for that particular audience.
  • It provides an easy graphical tool for re-arranging ideas to make a logical sequence.
  • Mindmanager has many existing templates that help you document information in the most appropriate manner for the use case.
  • Mindmanager allows you to link to images, documents, and even hypertext links to make sure your mind map stays up to date.
  • I have previously had to purchase multiple licences to just be able to use Mindmanager across different platforms such as Mac OS and Windows with the different versions not always supporting the same level of functionality.
  • If you used Mindmanager on different platforms the links to document attachments were broken.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • offering a lot of functions to visualize data
  • offering a macro language to automate map creation
  • offering a one-step function to publish an interactive mindmap in the Mindmanager cloud
  • splitting up maps when required
  • generating a complete word-document
  • generating a complete website when required
  • MM should be able to handle RTL text just like LTR text
  • MM should never stop solving little inconsistencies
  • MM should give more information on macro creation
  • MM should come with at least one new theme and marker list a year
  • MM should move from being an advanced hand-tool alone, to being a digital plotting machine as well
  • MM should come with a light weight entry edition for developing countries for free
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It helps to give an in-depth view of a problem
  • It helps to structure a plan of action
  • It gives a great helicopter view of a project
  • Its a great tool for research
  • Co-editing with colleagues that don't have a mindmanager account
  • Co-editing in a google environment (not microsoft teams)
Wanda Craig, aka Raegan Teller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Outlining
  • Connecting/organizing similar items/ideas, etc.
  • Helping me stay focused on the big picture of my novel instead of getting lost in the minutia.
  • Helping me move from the big picture to the details when I need to.
  • Organizing my daily/weekly/monthly/annual work projects.
  • Lower the price!!
José M. Guerrero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Organizing information
  • Analyzing information
  • Preparing academic information to publish
  • Brainstorming
  • Work with academic information related to mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry.
  • Include symbolic manipulation of equations using LaTeX or otherwise
  • Embed SQLite databases as attachments or otherwise, This could allow to store different versions of maps and many othe possibilities.
  • Finish onece for all the documentation of the MindManager API
  • Allow the possibility of working with the documented version of the API using Python
  • Add AI capabilities to MindManager
  • Automate the generation of mind maps from PDF files.
  • Acces to Large Language Models from MindManager
  • Include in MindManager the possibility of analysing YouTube videos using AI
  • And many others..-
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Colours.
  • The ability to re-organise thoughts
  • The ability to add notes and pictures
  • The ability to work on alternative operating systems
  • I cant use Mind Manager 2021 on this machine
  • It Does not support my odd ball Video Adapter
Aniruddha Dāsa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • six thinking hats problem and solution analysis
  • document creation from outline to detailed section and paragraph completion
  • project management
  • connection of tasks to Microsoft Planner like what is provided for Outlook
  • export slides to .pptx files (it used to do this, didn't it?)
  • the brainstorming feature can't be blown up unlike the previous iteration (not practical for group work)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Personal organiser of ideas and projects
  • Defining Projects
  • Problem-solving
  • Creating WBS
  • Meeting Preparation
  • Brain Storming - Whiteboarding
  • Licensing - I want to buy for a decent price without a yearly cost, but with reasonable upgrade costs as needed.
  • I would like better tools to convert mind map into a good presentation in PowerPoint, currently too complex with poor results
  • Simplify all export tools
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • MindManager can be used to create hierarchical information management resources that can be used locally and shared on shared network drives, SharePoint repositories, Intranets, and on the Internet.
  • MindManager includes excellent search capability, supporting search across all open maps.
  • MindManager provides good export capability, supporting the generation of PDFs and interactive web pages.
  • Support attribute-based filtering in HTML exports
  • Allow customization of page widgets in HTML exports
  • Stop requiring occasional logins to work on local maps
Bruce Greene | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • brainstorming
  • incredibly flexible and easy formatting, graphics, structure, DRAG and DROP anything!
  • The new math / formula functionality
  • The only thing that bothers me is it crashing. I know I push it to the limit so I don't really care because I don't lose anything now, it recovers it. I lost some things back in the day.
Mark Williamson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Organization charts (with the ability to quickly expand and condense detail, and make change)
  • Notes field is intensely useful for tracking items over time
  • Due dates and progress indicators (in the ResultsManager add-in) are a life saver
  • Planning story structure and timelines
  • Giving a (virtual) 3D perspective - "Yeah, that's over in the top right corner"
  • The toolbar on the latest version is blue & white, tiny, and a little hard to see in my opinion.
  • It's getting complicated, and I only use the features I need, so I may miss some things.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Creating wonderful hierarchies moving from topic to subtopic to more detailed subtopics
  • When using radial maps, it does a good job of distributing the topics around the main topic
  • A more intuitive way to modify/create themes and templates...and then make the new theme the default.
  • Add Main Topics to Free Form. Also, allow Topics and Subtopics to go in any direction.
  • Allow manual positioning of topics/subtopics. For example, I may want a topic to branch off a main topic straight up. I may want the next topic to the upper right. Right now--concept maps aside (which don't do sub and sub subtopics)--I can't really do this.
  • I'd also like more control over the paths connectors take to get to their topics and subtopics.
Jeff Sandy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Organize presentations
  • Provide clear work flows
  • Help with concept development
  • Creating PowerPoint presentations. Did that until MM 2019. Removed. Their presentation manager is difficult and looks horrible. Not a substitute for PowerPoint.
  • Zapier. Doesn't work at all since you can't create a MM online account to link it.
  • Macros. No documentation or recorder.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Building sales processes
  • Collaborative planning
  • Organizing detailed projects with work breakdown, costs, dependencies and assignments
  • Add integration for MS Office and Apple ical (and other project management apps) for managing project milestones.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Discipline in organization
  • visualization of the enormity of the task
  • unbounded white board
  • capability to parse sub-topics into standalone maps
  • precise sequencing and timing of events for resource allocation
  • ability to take email from gmail and post to MindManager in like manner as outlook.
  • ability to take google contacts, calendar info and post to MM in a like manner as Microsoft products
  • ability to add task progress groups to specific topics (having more than one task progress group per mm0
Davide De Bella | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Three representation
  • Outlook integration
  • Kanban view
  • App on Adroid is unusable to manage/update tasks and projects
  • Missed integration with Todoist, ClickUp, Asana, Trello. Yes there's Zapier but it's an adding cost
  • Remind alarm cannot be configured like a daily email to reminding you the today deadlines
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • presentations
  • timelines
  • requirements gathering and notes (I love the export to HTML page for exporting my notes to customers)
  • look and feel, 23 refresh was ok, but still feels like it needs a refresher.
  • dragging nodes to another area on the mind map can be a bit clunky
  • power filters are nice, but I seem to constantly have to set Options so the entire tree isn't hidden when filtering against an paricular icon.
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