Best Overall Feature-Qualty-Value

Switched from Mindjet, which I liked but was cost prohibitive. Tried just about every other Mac based mindmapper out there and landed with iThoughts. For the price, this package is feature packed - many of which I use. Some of the more expensive packages had minor improvemenets in some areas, but not enough to justify the price disparity.

The winning combo is integration with the iThoughtsHD iPad app. Others have an iPad app as well, but I wasn’t impressed with any of them.

I’m using iThoughts integration with Marked 2 which is cool for drafting reports. Testing Curio, which includes mindmapping functionality as well; albeit in my opion not as robust as iThought and did experience performance issues are large maps. In my testing, I am considering it complimentary, as it has other other features like whiteboarding and PDF markup which I leverage in my workflows. It’s easy to copy/paste between the two.

The only functionality I really miss is combining multiple map styles in a single map (i.e. horizontal with top-down). The author is responsive and advises it’s on a future feature list (hope a sooner one than later).

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