Information piles up. AI gives you answers. Yet the more you collect, the more scattered it all becomes — and it's hard to see what really matters and what to do next.
ThinkSpace is a thinking tool that lets you place scattered notes, AI answers, web pages, images, and handwriting on one infinite canvas — and turn vague, complex topics into a map you can understand, explain, and act on.
Put down half-formed thoughts before they become sentences. Move cards with your fingers, write with Apple Pencil, group and connect — and find the structure of the problem, key relationships, cause hypotheses, and the next questions to think about, with your own hands.
In ThinkSpace, a map you grow for understanding, judgment, and action is called a design map. It is not a static diagram you draw once. It keeps evolving as you add new information, AI conversations, and results from what you tried — a living model of your own understanding.
■ Great for topics like
- Integrating papers and books into an understanding you can explain in your own words
- Visualizing nursing pathophysiology diagrams and how what you learn connects
- Bringing a story's world, characters, timeline, and ideas into one structure
- Writing out tangled feelings and worries to sort out your inner thoughts
- Designing your career in the AI era, social media strategy, or product concepts
- Connecting visions and goals to concrete actions and reviews
- Working through complex problems at work: causes, solutions, validation, results
■ Start from a purpose-built map
No need to stare at a blank canvas wondering where to begin.
- Concept map
- Problem-solving map
- Pathophysiology map
- Career map for the AI era
- Worldbuilding map
- Social media strategy map
- Habit-building map
- Product design map
- Vision map
and more — start from a foundation that fits your topic.
■ Turn AI chats into a growing map
Ask AI from a card and add the answers to your map. Instead of just reading responses, break them down, relate them, and rebuild them as your own understanding. Looking over the map sparks new questions — dig into them with AI again. Your AI inputs are never used for training.
■ Key features
- Infinite canvas: place cards anywhere and work with unorganized thoughts as they are.
- Handwriting and text: Apple Pencil supported. Write like sticky notes and move them as you think.
- Mind maps, flows, groups, relation lines: express radial thinking, procedures, cause and effect.
- Ask AI and break answers into cards: turn answers into understanding you can explain.
- Extract key-point cards from text: turn long notes and web pages into material for thinking.
- AI brainstorming: generate a skeleton that widens your view. You fill in evidence and conclusions.
- Capture web pages, images, screenshots: place research inside your own topic.
- Search and reuse cards: find past fragments and recombine them in other maps.
- Link canvases: connect big themes and subtopics into layers of thought.
- Export to image, PDF, and text: output maps for reports, submissions, and sharing.
- Local-first: data is saved on your device first. Edit offline, export anytime.
- Sync across devices (Pro): grow the same maps on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Turn AI answers into understanding you can explain. Turn scattered information into a map that leads to your next decision and action.
Grow your own way of thinking with ThinkSpace.
■ Pro access
- Unlimited canvases
- Unlimited cards and groups
- Expanded AI usage limit
- Full feature access
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Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The renewal fee is charged to your iTunes account within 24 hours before the period ends. You can turn off auto-renewal anytime in your App Store account settings.
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Privacy Policy: https://thinkspace-public.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/privacy-policy-en-v2.html
This is my very first review. I just spent 2 hours searching for an alternative app to draw mind maps because the one that I used is now charging a super high subscription fee. I guess the developer sacrifice efficiency for flexibility. You can organize the map in any way you want. Therefore, the cards are not automatically aligned, and you cannot create a sibling card by just press return which is a feature of other mind mapping apps. I think I can live with this small shortcoming for now.I do hope that a desktop version can be developed. I am not used to do extensive work on iPad.
Developer Response
Hello, Thank you for your valuable feedback. We are pleased to announce the release of the Mac version of ThinkSpace. Please try it from the Mac App Store. We will continue to improve ThinkSpace. Thank you for your support.
Missing Pro Features
JA Listens
The app itself is great but the pro features are not all functional. I need to invite certain individuals to use and collaborate on canvases but the feature doesn’t work. I also can’t sync the canvases across my devices. I have multiple iPads and iPhones that I use for different reasons and the software does not share data between them. If those features actually worked I would be able to give the full 5 stars. But I am paying for features that don’t work. which is a problem.
Developer Response
Thank you for using ThinkSpace.The sharing function has been renewed in version 3.0.0.You can now share the canvas with invitation code.I hope you can try it. Thank you for your continued support.
Desktop laggnig behind iOS version
<gma>
I have been using the iOS version of Thinkspace on my iPad for a while and love it. It fills the mind-mapping app niche in a way that no other app does, so I was pleasantly suprised to see the macOS version in the App Store.The macOS 1.0.0 version seems to be a direct port of the iOS app, and the differences in the desktop versus mobile UIs are apparent. For example, zooming in and out on iOS is a simple pinch gesture that relies on the iOS touch interface. I have not found a way to zoom on the macOS version, since I do not have a multi-touch HID device such as a trackpad on my iMac. I hope to see a mouse/keyboard/menu-based way to zoom in the next update.
Developer Response
Thank you for using ThinkSpace.I am very happy that you liked the app.In version 1.1.0, we added zoom commands. Zoom in: ⌘+Zoom out: ⌘-If you have any questions or requests, please feel free to contact us.Thank you for your continuous support.
Rather Unintuitive
XYZ67411wedrteryuiu
I'm a busy person who expects that applications be intuitive, ready to use out of the box, with occasional recourse to documentation when exploring esoteric features. This application may be intuitive on the iPad, but it really isn't at all on the Mac. A long collection of icons, but no hints on mouse over to suggest what they are for. Couldn't figure out how to enter text, and the documentation is poor, as in there is no obvious place to look for the meaning of the icons.For thise who invested their time in figuring out the mysteries of this application, it may be great. For those who want to be productive quickly, look elsewhere and don't look back.
■ New
- New onboarding with purpose-built maps: pathophysiology, problem-solving, concept, habit-building, career maps and more — pick a theme and start with a ready-made foundation
- AI menu in one place: ask AI, generate questions, generate branches, and brainstorm right from a selected card
- Better AI answer view: select answer text to copy, dig deeper with AI, add as a card, or split lines into multiple cards
- AI answers are saved to your canvas automatically as a summary card with a Q&A memo
- Summarize long text into a card: handy for pasting and organizing chat-AI answers
- Stack a card onto another to spin off a canvas: the whole branch moves to a new canvas, cross-linked with the original
■ Improved
- Arrange menu consolidated into one button with direction choices
- Color / Copy / Delete restored in the card edit popup
- Rounded corners for group frames
- Move a whole chain of branches at once
- Default connector style is now Straight
- Cleaner auto-arrange behavior when adding branches from a selected card
- Mac: tidier toolbar with a single sidebar toggle
- iPad: fixed AI views hidden by the keyboard, and unnecessary scrolling with Apple Pencil
- Templates and AI features localized into 21 languages
■ Fixed
- Undo could erase handwriting on cards
- Deleting a card could rearrange the whole tree
- Many other stability improvements
■ Notice: We updated our Terms of Service (the AI feature terms are now part of the main terms). See the terms page in the app for details.
Version 7.1.0
The developer, Naoya Enokida, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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