Too much on your mind, and no idea where to start?
AI chats, posts you saw, books you read, things people told you. There is more to think about every day.
ThinkSpace is a thinking notebook: put your thoughts on cards, then arrange and connect them as you think. As you move cards around and put ideas into your own words, your understanding deepens.
■ How it works
Start with a single card: whatever is on your mind.
1. Collect: AI chats, web pages, photos, passing thoughts, via the Inbox or by pasting.
2. Write it down: turn them, and what is in your head, into handwritten or text cards.
3. Arrange and see the big picture: move, group, and connect cards. Step back, and unexpected connections, next questions, and next actions appear.
4. Explain: say what your cards or map mean, out loud, in your own words. Read the transcript back to check what you really understand.
■ Great for
- Clearing your head when AI chats pile up
- Making sense of books and videos, and turning them into questions and actions
- Connecting ideas from research papers and textbooks so you can explain them in your own words
- Creating nursing concept maps and connecting conditions, symptoms, and care
- Bringing a story's world, characters, timeline, and ideas into one structure
- Journaling: writing out tangled feelings and worries
- Designing your career in the AI era, a social media strategy, or a product
- Connecting visions and goals to concrete actions and reviews
- Working through 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 about a card and add the answers to your map. Break answers into ideas, connect them, and make sense of them in your own words; looking over the map sparks new questions to dig into. Your AI inputs are never used for training.
■ Key features
- Infinite canvas: place cards anywhere, half-formed thoughts included.
- Handwriting and text: Apple Pencil supported. Jot down ideas on cards and move them around with your finger.
- Mind maps, flowcharts, groups, and connections: radial thinking, steps, cause and effect.
- Send from AI chats: send a conversation from Claude or the share sheet to the ThinkSpace Inbox, then drag it in as a card.
- Explain out loud: describe a card or map in your own words; it is transcribed and saved. You notice where your understanding is thin, and can read it back later.
- Ask AI: ask about a card and add the answer as a new card.
- Extract key-point cards from long notes and web pages.
- AI brainstorming: branch a topic card into angles and questions.
- Paste into cards: copied text, photos, or URLs become cards.
- Add web pages, images, and screenshots to your canvas.
- Search and reuse cards across maps.
- Link canvases: big themes and subtopics in layers.
- Export to image, PDF, and text.
- Local-first: saved on your device, works offline.
- Sync across devices (Pro): iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Turn scattered information and AI answers into understanding you can explain and act on.
■ Pro access
- Unlimited canvases
- Unlimited cards and groups
- Expanded AI usage limit
- Full feature access
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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.
Send from AI (MCP support)
• Send what you discuss with Claude, ChatGPT, or other AI straight to your ThinkSpace inbox
• Turn an incoming note into a card as it is, or pick just the part you need
"Explain" tool
• Talk through your map out loud and it's transcribed and saved on the spot
• Explaining is how you check your understanding and make it stick
• Export what you explained and use it in other tools
Floating panels
• Memos and the card box can now be resized, moved, and pinned freely
Paste button
• Copied something in another app or on another device (Mac, iPad, iPhone)? One tap turns it into a card
Also in this release
• Camera tool: snap your notebook or whiteboard and turn it into cards
• Better recognition of hand-drawn rectangles and circles
• New text font that sits well with handwriting (Klee One)
• Redesigned first-launch guide
• A more satisfying completion animation
• Fixes for crashes and stability under heavy load
• Easier to adjust the drawing area in the card editor
• Save text and URLs to your inbox from the share sheet
Version 8.0.0
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 .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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