Mindscope - Thought Organizer 4+
The Mind-Mapping Outliner
John Goering
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Mindscope is a new and powerfully simple way to store your thoughts without getting lost in the details.
• Quickly create text entries with a double-tap and drag them around, aligning them to each other. Perfect for brainstorming, capturing, and sorting thoughts or taking notes.
• Tapping an entry enters its own page where you can create more entries (and as many sub-boards as you like).
• Drag entries into other entries to quickly sort your thoughts into categories and projects.
• Keep track of lists, todos, notes, and anything else you feel like keeping track of, for example a list of ways to be funny when writing an app description. Or something.
• Copy and paste entries including their sub-entries
• Export all entries and sub-entries of a board via e-mail as a bullet list.
• Import any saved .mindscope file.
• Set a default font size for any board (long-press on a font size and select "Set As Default"
All of the above, as a universal app, with iCloud sync...completely for free! Yeah, I know, I can't believe it either. You can "pay" me with an App Store review, how does that sound?
However, if you are up for spending money, with the "Unlock Everything" in-app purchase, you can also save your own .mindscope files, search through all your entries instantly, create cross-links between boards, create arrows and lines between entries, set up a grid background for a page, set your own colors per page, and export boards to an OPML file (suitable for opening in most major mind-mapping programs). Any upcoming features in future updates will be included for the unlocked version at no extra cost.
See a video of Mindscope in action at http://www.mindscopeapp.com
Quotes from happy customers:
"It’s hitting a sweet spot for me. I have pretty much every single Mind-Mapping or Outlining app for iOS, and this is among the best.”
“This is EXACTLY what I've been hoping for. I so need to send flowers to your mother for having you.”
"Mindscope is a terrific app, elegant, easy to use, and incredibly useful.”
"Scapple for Mac comes closest to Mindscope in its combination of function, ease of use and minimalism but Mindscope is better."
"A very cool app. Think of it as Workflowy unbound from the outline."
What’s New
Version 1.60
Mainly a bug fix release for you guys! Thanks to everyone for their massive patience and kind words - so honored that so many of you find this concept useful and helpful!
* FIXED: now once again able to save / load boards
* FIXED: potential crash when picking colors
* FIXED: some iCloud sync issues
* FIXED: some issues when typing with connected Bluetooth keyboards
Ratings and Reviews
Awesome App
Great idea for an app! It's simple and excellent, great app!
Great for organising and todo things. Highly recommended!
-Aussie Wombat
Developer Response ,
Thanks, AussieWombat! 🙂 The latest version, 1.53, added iOS 11 drag & drop compatibility and an OPML bug fix - if you could update your rating for this version, that would be most appreciated! :-)
Functional and effective
The more that I use this the more useful it becomes. Exactly what it says - an outline tool with an intuitive interface. Just don’t plan to write a thesis with it but great to plan one out. A couple of minor interface improvements will make this more awesome
Unique iOS app, ideal for free-form outlining
I started on this because a review compared it to the Mac app, Scapple, which I'm also a big fan of. I found it does function similarly more like Scapple than any iOS app I've used (not that I'm an expert on such apps) although one cannot control the look of individual elements as much and instead of using an infinite canvas it allow you to hyperlink between what it calls boards. I think this is actually better than an infinite canvas, but nevertheless an infinite canvas would not go astray. I like having the option of pure free-form arrangements, a big plus. Some improvements that could be made: (1) boards are not described in the guide, and this is needed because it takes a while to realize that you can only create a new board by editing the guide itself, which is very counterintuitive. (2) if you copy and paste a group of entries, it drops them exactly on top of the copied entries, such that you do not even realize they are there. And you cannot then move them as a bloc, because group-selecting copies both originals and copies. (3) I would like a side-menu option for undo/redo. I found the two-finger swiping unpredictable, and this seemed to be made worse by the fact that undo-ing did not always seem to undo the steps in the same sequence that they were done. I got to be rather anxious about each time I wanted to undo. All in all, however, I really like this app, and see myself using it a lot.
App Privacy
The developer, John Goering, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- John Goering
- Size
- 28.3 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 John Goering
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Unlock Everything $5.99