Mindly (mind mapping‪)‬ 17+

I use this app to draw quick concept maps that help me study. I chose this app over other ones because of the minimalist interface and it is simple to use.

However, I wish I could link more bubbles together to connect concepts; that the child bubble was the same color by default and the final map of bubbles was more compact (sometimes I have a lot of concepts and branches).

Hopefully developers are willing to consider these minor issues. Still, it’s good app.

The navigation and animations are smooth. However, I would appreciate a wider range of colors, the ability to shape the chart as a tree instead of a ring, and the ability to re-color all the nodes in a parent at once.

This is one of the better mind mapping tools for iOS that I have tried. It allows for quick data entry through intuitive buttons. Getting the data out is also easy, but integrating the resulting mind map with anything else, like a website or a Word document, is more difficult because of a lack of controls.

One issue is that there is no way to scale each node, meaning text that exceeds what the developer presupposes should be "enough" is simply cut off and lost. Another issue is that there is only one layout available, one way to represent the data entered, and that one way doesn't scale or have any controls for scaling. If you go beyond beyond one branch level, the labels become too tiny to read, especially on exporting, and are so spread out as to be useless visually.

If there were different layouts, font size controls, or a way to scale the final circular representation, it would be great. Controls to change the length of the branch line so that all data isn't represented in a single, massive circle once you reach two branches would be welcome. Sadly, there are no useful controls to change or adjust data representation at all. Lastly, if you need something that shows data accessibly, this isn't it, either, since all text is white, period. This means that choosing lighter colours for each node makes the node labels unreadable.

The goal of this app seems to be speed and intuitive node creation, but besides changing node colours it lacks any tools for adjustment of data to ensure clear representation outside the app itself. If you're looking for a tool to get ideas out of your head for personal reference and/or to use in the app itself, this is an excellent tool. If you want something to help you do that quickly, this is the best I have come across. But if you want something where that can be shared with others in any way at all, look elsewhere.