Freeplane Reviews

A really great mind mapping program, I use it daily. Thanks a lot to the developpers, I hope this project will stay alive and updated as it is the best mind mapping program i have found so far. However I use it both on Windows and Linux (Mint) platforms and it is quite slow on Linux to move around the map, not too sure why...

[FR] J'utilise Freeplace pour prendre des notes et organiser mes idées. C'est le meilleur programme que j'ai trouvé pour cela compte tenu de mes priorités : - Utilisation facile et rapide au quotidien; - Quand il me manque une fonctionnalité je peux l'ajouter moi-même grâce aux excellentes possibilités offertes par les scripts et les addons; - Logiciel libre. Un grand bravo et merci aux développeurs de cet outils dont j'aurais du mal à me passer maintenant. [EN] I use Freeplane for note taking and ideas management. This is the best software I have found for these purposes, according to my tastes: - Fast and easy to use every day; - When I miss some functionnality I can add it myself, thanks to the excellent customization possibilities (scripts and addons); - Free software. Congratulation and many thanks to the developpers, this tool has became essential to me.

It acually works. Have some advanced functions compared to FreeMind and it is still active. It has many functions and it is growing. The Add-On function works flawless. The interfase is nice with many useful icons. I find a bit confusing the Menus since some functions are in a menu you wouldn't expect. The Style Configuration for nodes is superb. The best I have tried. Adding images to the nodes works out of the box with a simple drag-and drop. The HTML editor is minimalist and handy. The connector tool is powerful (after one learn how to use it). The Icons for nodes are a nice plus. LaTex integration is acceptable and it does its job of allowing some simple equations. I still cannot use amsmath package functions. Keyboard shortcut customisation is fantastic. It is a shame that not every sotware allows keyboard shortcut customisation as Freeplane does. Though I haven't tried the Filter and Scripts features, they look promising. It can become sluggish when there are many images. It tries to impose the automatic layout of nodes limiting freedome of nodes positioning. For instance, I haven't been able to position 4 nodes one to each other as it were the row of a table without resorting to Free Node Mode (in which one loss tha ability of automatic redrawing nodes position). For some unknown reason, it cannot accept images inside tables (even after modifying the HTML code). I strongly recommend Freeplane for people in academia and research positions, professors, PhD students and alike. Being for a literature review, a conceptual map or ideas Freeplane does it job.

Dinky, but a great replacement for FreeMind !

I've been using FreeMind since 2004, and FreePlane after it came out. I've found FreePlane to be consistently easy to use, relatively bug-free, and very high-quality. It has helped me through things at school, at home, and at work, and I recommend it to anyone I know who has a thought-project that lends itself to mind-mapping.

But in French the add-in’s do not work well

wonderful program!

O Freeplane é fácil de usar

I'm very satisfied with this wonderful piece of FOSS. Its developers continuously keep improving the software and even give support; they are amazing guys… Thank you so much :)

some projects can't be done properly without Freeplane. Support is exceptionally good. Application is attractive and easy to use.

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I am really enjoying using this. MindManager was my mind map software, but I switched to a Mac and that version is so behind, so I needed to find a good, solid alternative, and Freeplane is. I've uploaded the GTD+ add-on and other bits, like icons...all has worked out well. So, thanks for creating this... Currently, two things are not displayed/working as per your guidelines/instruction manual/map, and that's the global Preferences tab on Mac High Sierra, which does not open at all...so there is no way to access these, and the other thing is the 'sort icons by category'...this only works in the dropdown menu but not in the icon toolbar on the left of the page. The icons Preferences tab for this is missing also. But apart from those two things, Freeplane is working great - thanks again.

very good :)).

It's an amazing piece of software. Tons of features which make it possible to make almost any type of map you want. It last some time to learn the main stuff, but after it becomes easy. It's very powerful. There is an undeniable extension to adding rescaleble images that should be in the default installation. It can be exported to a myriad of formats, there is a powerful search, internal and external links, extensive text control, ease of remodeling, good variety of formats. The developer is absolutely to be congratulated. I, here and there, would have made another usability design option, but that's details.

Used to love this app, but with Ubuntu Mate 17, the application never even launches... :-/

I've been working with MindManager for some months. The latest version is horribly slow. Freeplane is just perfect. Well, the GUI is a bit old-fasioned, but nevertheless the functionnality and the possibilities to customize (for exampel: MindManager in ver. 2018 is not able to enlarge icons, Freeplane is!) is wonderful. And last but not least: support is incredible fast. Today, suggested an additional function (strikethrough), and just implemented. Wow this is great! Thanks a lot for this wonderful piece of software!!! Daniel

does not work on macOS Sierra and High Sierra (needs Gatekeeper to be disabled because the package is not signed)

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Very good project!

Using version 1.6.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 Discovered this tool recently and I'm using it very frequently after watching some tutorials and presentations. Must say that some functions and behaviour are not straight forward and that caused some grief at the start. After watching some tutorials things start to clear out and then the tool is a great help with daily tasks and needs. I just installed some add-on tools and again grief pops up because they don't seem to function correctly or function at all. One in particular is: RoAn presentations. It errors out with all kind of strange messages about not installed files, ... Conclusion: - Great tool after following some tutorials to grasp the philosophy of the tool. - Add on tools are kind of problematic and not up to date for the version used.

I tried some mind mapping software and Freeplane is without doubts the best one for me. It's so complex, and completely free. Thanks!!!

Latest version is even better then previous ones, also has support to use the tool on High Definition screens of modern computers/displays.

Excellent mind mapping and knowledge management tool. The user interface looks a bit Byzantine and shows that the application has quite some history. However, in general it is usable. There are a few very powerful concepts in Freeplane which are difficult to find in similar tools: * Extensibility through custom scripts and addons * Calculated attributes (very powerful for rollup calculations based on child nodes) * Calculated styles * Node clones. An alternative approach to nodes with multiple parents. Works like herdlinks on the file system

Brilliant piece of software, the envy of all my colleagues. I have mapped every subject in med-school with inititally freemind, and continue to update with freeplane as a professional. These subjects consist of several thousand nodes. It is an essential part of my work-tools, where i use 3rd party software to present the maps on an ipad mini. I use it for preparing research, teaching, and day to day look-ups. I can only recommend using freeplane, and quickly getting to know the keyboard short-cuts.

Full of useful features, very customizable.