Freeplanefor Windows

Freeplane is a mind-mapping software that enables the quick creation of detailed plans and idea-layouts. The software provides customization and formats for you to begin working immediately.

Your ideas come to life

Freeplane allows you to quickly build up mind-maps and chart your ideas, stories, or plans and share it with the world.

Freeplane is an extremely efficient way to plot digital mind-maps due to its simplistic style and interface. This makes the software a great way to plot out and plan your ideas for novels, essays, school projects, business projects, goals, and much more.

The software has various templates that are ideal for starting a mind-map. After choosing one of these to begin with, filling in the details on each section is easy thanks to the intuitive interface.

Once you have the basis for the mind-map you want, you can customize it by adding in idea-related pictures or keys, such as a lightbulb. You can also change the background color, add hyperlinks, and a password to protect the file.

The completed file can be formatted into common file types such as JPEG, PNG, HTML, SVG, MM, MMAP, XHTML, PDF, and XSLT. The conversion to any of these formats is automatic, making it extremely simple to share a file as an image or PDF.

However, the primary concern while using this software is its high resource usage. On low-end computers, this will cause lag and freezing in the mapping software. This happens especially when using a browser to find images.

Where can you run this program?

Freeplane is available for Windows 7 to 10, as well as Mac OS X 10.6.8 and up.

Is there a better alternative?

Yes. Freeplane is a great application that does its job well. However, Freemind does it with an even easier-to-use layout.

Our take

Freeplane is a decent way to make mind-maps, but can’t replace the physical product’s customizability.

Should you download it?

Yes. If you’re looking for a way to make mind-maps digitally, then this is a great solution.