Mind Mapping - MindMeister 4+

Great App, well done!

The more I use this, the more comfortable I feel and the easier it becomes to arrange my ideas in a logical and comprehensive manner. Adding images is a real bonus, and the cut and paste and shared formatting really save time. Thank you.

Disappointed by greed of Developers

Everyone would like a paying App and this one is very good. However, when the Developers get greedy then the App loses a lot of it’s appeal.

I have been using this App for a long time as a free user. I have been able to create about 5 Mind Maps and have always been able save my maps in PDF and other formats. It has been such a useful tool for me.

I have not signed up as a paid user because even though I really enjoy it, I don't use it enough to warrant the monthly expense.

About 2 year’s ago I lost my IPad and after getting my new one I realised that some Maps were missing. I found them in the directory but I couldn’t get hold of them. I assumed it was because I was now on an IPad Pro.

I have been very busy this morning creating a marvellous huge and complex Mind Map and decided it was ready to be saved as a PDF. Now as a Free user I can’t do that anymore. I tried to add a fourth map to expand on one of the concepts and found that I now need to upgrade.

This product is now no longer useful for me and I will have to find something else to use. It is frustrating that I will not be able to just migrate today’s Mind Map and that the work is wasted since I cannot share it.

Very, very disappointed that greed has taken over and reduced the features that were available to free users in order to monetise them.

I will not be recommending this product to anyone anymore.

Quentin Leeds

Developer Response ,

Hi Quentin, thank you for your review, we appreciate the feedback. We hope that you understand developing as well as maintaining our web and mobile applications costs us a lot of money. We could no longer afford to provide all the features for free and after a careful thought put into it as well as checking the market and our competitors pricing, our management found it reasonable to limit the free version of MindMeister to 3 maps and only enable the PDF export for Personal users. We understand you find this disappointing, but we hope for your understanding that we had to adjust our pricing policy.

Mind mapping

Great app. It takes baby steps towards ordering my mind and making a record of my thinking. It has advantages over my old paper based exercise. While it helps capture ideas and order them 3 dimensionally, for it to be truly effective it will need to be more editable in terms of the graphic layout and moving ideas from I box to another more effectively.