―For All People and Organizations Requiring Creativity―
ThinkSpace is a powerful thinking tool designed to match the workflow of your creative thoughts. Its simple and intuitive interface integrates seamlessly with a wide variety of thinking methods.Its main features which include smooth handwritten sticky notes, editable unlimited size canvases, a variety of frameworks for generating ideas, and real-time sharing with cloud services, will all provide a powerful support for your creative processes.
Use ThinkSpace in a variety of ways, for free-range brainstorming using handwritten sticky notes, arranging and managing ideas, mind mapping, diagram, generating ideas with different thinking methods and frameworks, online brainstorming, real-time shared whiteboards, and more.
Ideal for anyone who needs to generate new ideas, from professionals such as entrepreneurs, project managers, consultants, marketers, advertisers, researchers, teachers, and writers, to students wishing to learn about creative thought processes.
Features:
・Optimal for free form brainstorming: Develop and structure your ideas with smooth, hand drawn memos. Compatible with ApplePencil.
・Create mind maps: Branches can be freely moved, allowing you to create more flexible mind maps.
・Limitless canvas sizes: Canvases can be stretched into limitless sizes, so you can naturally expand upon your ideas.
・Brainstorming with AI (select regions only): Generate ideas using AI.
・Diagram creation: Both hand writing and text are supported.
・Use clippings from online browsing: Cut and paste from web pages onto canvases. Use links to let you freely move to web pages.
・Add pictures: Paste pictures that get your creative juices flowing onto your canvas.
・Reuse: Ideas are combinations of existing elements. Try taking out a card you've already made from the card box and applying it to a project you're working on now.
・Structure freely: Links from cards to canvases can be created, so you can freely create structures between canvases.
・Idea creation methods: Includes many different thinking techniques, such as SCAMPER and the Matrix Method.
・Frameworks: Includes carefully selected high end templates for business professionals, covering everything from standard models like 3C analysis and SWOT analysis, to innovation theories like Blue Ocean Strategy and Business Model Canvas.
・Supports text input by Apple Pencil: Currently supports English and Chinese
・Widget support: You can check the created card by placing it on the home screen. Also, you can instantly turn your ideas into cards from the home screen.
・Create frameworks: You can create and register your own unique frameworks.
・Synchronize data (Pro version): Synchronize data with your iOS device, and you can record your ideas wherever you go.
・Online brainstorming: If you invite team members to join, you can share and edit ideas together.
・Use a shared whiteboard for remote work: If you invite other users, you can make it easier to communicate and share ideas.
Pro Access:
・ Unlimited canvases upload
・ Data Synchronization with your iOS devices.
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Price may vary by location. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
Subscriptions are offered for either 1-month, and will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase.
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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
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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.
- Made minor improvements.
Version 6.4.8
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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