If you’re looking for a quick choice, I don’t think you’ll go far wrong with any of these in Personal Faves. A couple, iThoughts and SimpleMind, went the other way: Mobile version first and desktop later. Here, you’ll find mostly the well-established mappers that already have desktop or online versions and have added a mobile app to their stable. The most popular formats for inter-operation between different mapping tools are FreeMind, MindManager and Xmind. Or – if the publisher of your desktop software has not produced a mobile version – you’d best look for an app that can import and export files in a format that your existing software can read. Personal Faves is the best place to start in that case.
If you already use a desktop mapper, you’ll probably want to find a mobile version of the same software. There are two sections here – Personal Faves and the Mobile Master List. Most have some personal observations – some drawn from experience, others by looking at available on-line information. The entries quote each publisher with an extract from the apps iTunes or Google Play page for the app. You may be as surprised as I was at just how many there are in Google Play and the Apple iTunes App Store. Here then is an almost complete view* across the apps that can make mind maps and concept maps on iPhones, iPads and Android devices. The field now deserves a comprehensive look as more and more of us do at least some of our mapping ‘on the run’ so this is a total re-write.
This piece first went online in early 2010 and plenty has changed since then. If you would like to see how your maps will look after being pushed through an iThoughts import/export then drop me a line and I will test it here for you.Mobile mappers A new review Multi page mind maps should not be used with iThoughts.
XMind and Novamind) iThoughts will only import the FIRST page/sheet. One important exception to this is multi page/sheet mind maps (e.g. Generally speaking, however, the 'important' information within the map is maintained between import/export (text, notes, layout, links etc.) It is usually the more 'aesthetic' attributes that are an issue (text styling etc.) This can be an issue when re-exporting as the unrecognised/unsupported attributes really are discarded at import time and will therefore not be present in the subsequent export. iThoughts doesn't distinguish between line and fill colour, so when importing it picks one and discards the other. Most desktop apps have a different colour attribute for line, fill and text. A good example of this is when dealing with colours. If an attribute is unsupported by iThoughts then it may be 'interpreted'. If an attribute or setting is not recognised by iThoughts then it is simply ignored.
When iThoughts imports a 3rd party format it converts it into the ITMZ format (native to iThoughts.) This conversion process is 'lossy'.
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