1- Ideament
‘Ideament lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Ideament for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more!’
2- Mind Vector
Mind Vector allows you to create, edit and share mind maps on your iOS devices. Besides collaborative mind mapping, Mind Vector also offers the following features:
- Cut, copy and paste ideas
- Drag and drop ideas to other
- Visualizers to view and analyze maps
- Add images as wallpapers to your maps
- Add icons, colors, line styles and map themes,
- Export maps in CSV, PDF, PNG
- Import/Export maps to iCloud, Dropbox and Mind Vector Cloud
- It offers in-app purchases
3- Grafio 3
‘Allow Grafio to become an extension of your fingertip. Draw a rectangle, circle or an ellipse and watch Grafio recognize and replace it with a perfectly looking shape for your diagram or schematic.’
4- MindNode
MindNode helps you visualize your ideas and thoughts in beautiful diagrams and mind maps. Some of the features it provides include:
- Nodes with titles, notes, images, tasks and links
- Drag and Drop content from other iOS apps
- Branches and connections to show different types of relationships
- Many styling options for all parts of the document
- Export to text, pdf, image and outline formats
- Offers a free 2-week trial of the full app
5- MindMeister
MindMeister is a collaborative mind mapping app. that offers the following features:
- ‘Real-time collaboration
- Seamlessly sync maps and folders with your free online account
- Share maps directly from the device
- Multi-touch support for drag & drop, zoom, pan
- Add icons, colors, styles and map themes
- View and edit notes, links, tasks and attachments on ideas
- Draw connections between nodes
- Play presentations’
- It offers in-app purchases
6- Padlet
‘Padlet is a digital canvas to create beautiful projects that are easy to share and collaborate on. It works like a piece of paper. We give you an empty page - a padlet - and you can put whatever you like on it. Drag in a video, record an interview, snap a selfie, write your own text posts or upload some documents, and voilĂ ! A padlet is born. Make it even more beautiful by choosing custom wallpapers and themes.’
7- Lucidchart
Lucidchart is great for creating flowcharts, process flows, diagrams, wireframes and many more. Some of the features it provides include:
- ‘Pre-built templates and hundreds of shapes
- Share and collaborate with team members
- Import your Visio and Omnigraffle diagrams to keep your old work and collaborate with colleagues
- Export diagrams as PDF, PNG, or Visio (Pro only) to use them use natively in other apps
- View recent diagrams offline
- Diagrams save and sync instantly with your Lucidchart account, so you'll never lose your work.’
- It offers in-app purchases
8- Mindly
Mindly is a good mind mapping app to use for structuring, brainstorming and collecting ideas. Some of the features provided include:
- ‘Infinite hierarchy of elements
- Attach notes, image or icon to any element
- Color schemes for elements
- Visual clipboard for reorganizing content
- Export as mindmap (PDF/OPML/Text/Image)
- iCloud support
- Passcode / Touch ID.’
- It offers in-app purchases
9- iThoughts
iThoughts is another good iPad app for creating and sharing mind maps. Some of its features include:
- Import and export to and from many of the most popular desktop application formats (e.g., Excel/ Numbers, Plain/rich text, iMindmap etc)
- Export in different formats including PDF, PNG,PPTX, DOCX, XML and more
- Multiple link styles (curved, tapered, right angled etc.)
- Over 100 builtin icons, 90 clipart images and 35 background canvas patterns.
- Doodle (finger drawing)
- Search (map names, topics, notes, links) across all maps.
- It costs $ 11.99.