Great looking MindMaps with Xmind
September 28, 2019
Great looking MindMaps with Xmind

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Xmind
Xmind is used in the version XMind ZEN, which is the new architecture of the XMind product.
Xmind is used for a wide variety of uses:
Xmind is used for a wide variety of uses:
- Organizing meetings.
- Organizing research information.
- Creating infographics.
- Functional software requirements in their initial form (before migrating to JIRA or GitHub Issues).
- Software Quality Attributes.
- Organizing goals, metrics, performance indicators in general.
- Writing structure for technical documentation.
- Organizing presentations.
Pros
- Hierarchical breakdown of information.
- Visually pleasing diagrams.
- Fast and responsive UI.
- Generating Markdown (.md) files for the mindmaps.
Cons
- Sharing documents among the teams.
- Plugins for the tool that can enhance functionality.
- Better printed output for large mindmaps.
- Faster updates to new versions.
- Reduced time spent on planning.
- Reduced time in meetings.
- Faster onboarding.
MindManager:
- We used MindManager on Windows for many years and were happy with the product. However, at some point, MindJet dramatically raised the price which we grudgingly accepted. At some point, we switched to Macs and the MindManager on a Mac is a very different product. It's very limited functionality, frequent crashes, corrupted data prompted us to look for alternatives and this is where we selected XMind.
- XMind worked very well, but the diagrams were not very visually pleasing and we experienced performance problems for very large maps.
- XMind ZEN has a new architecture, and superb visual appearance and good performance.
- Currently, we are very happy with XMind ZEN.
Do you think Xmind delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Xmind's feature set?
Yes
Did Xmind live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Xmind go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Xmind again?
Yes
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