Please note: this article was last updated in 2009. For up to date information on the MindMeister app for iOS and Android, please visit: mindmeister.com/mind-maps/apps-download
It is done – the new MindMeister application for iPhone and iPod touch has finally arrived in the App Store! Those who’ve followed its progress know that it has been a rather slow birth, but nonetheless, we’ve made it there in the end.
The new MindMeister iPhone application allows you to take your online mind maps with you wherever you go. Just sign in to your MindMeister account when you first start the app, browse and download your mind maps for local editing and let the application take care of synchronizing them with the cloud.
Feature overview:
- Create, view, and edit maps online and offline
- Seamlessly sync maps with your online MindMeister account
- Share maps directly from iPhone
- Full drag & drop support
- Zoom in and out
- Add children and sibling nodes
- Support for icons, colors, styles *
- Favorites and pending maps
- Geistesblitz (quickly insert ideas)
- Use with or without MindMeister account
* view only – edit support coming soon!
Upgrading from MindMaker?
You might remember that the MindMeister iPhone app was developed from MindMaker, which we acquired from Ultravague a while ago (that’s also why the publisher in the App Store is not MindMeister but Ultravague). So if you’ve already been using MindMaker this upgrade is completely free for you!
When you start the new app the first time your existing mind maps will automatically be converted to the new format. Then, once you sign up for a MindMeister account (the Basic one will do – but feel free to go Premium straight away), all your local maps will be synched to the MindMeister server. This means online access and backup, import and export in many formats, easy sharing and collaboration, and much much more.
Congratulations on this release. This iPhone app will be a help to many who need this level of flexibility. Looking forward to more good stuff from you guys. Alles Gute!
This is wild shit. can\’t wait to take it for a test drive. can i edit annotations in each node?
Working on an App for the Palm Pre too?
This app sounds great.
But why are you charging Premium members? Been a long time (paying) fan of MindMeister, and have been waiting for this. A little disappointed that I have to pay for the app too.
When comes the Android client?
Android rules on my Samsung Galaxy.
The App is great! But is has a MAJOR flaw, you can\’t minimize branches witch makes it almost impossible to work with bigger Maps (Most of my nodes will overlap).
I bought it anyway so that you have an incentive to work on the app :).
Best regards,
Florian
@Schlave
No, in fact you won\’t see your annotations to nodes at all. The application hasn\’t the whole power of the online Application yet.
Hi everybody, thanks for the comment, glad you (mostly) like the first version of the app. We\’re aware that some important features are still missing and working on them right now. First of all ability to collapse nodes and editing for icons, colors and styles.
Versions for Palm Pre / Android aren\’t scheduled at the moment, we want to get the iPhone version right before we start any other mobile projects.
We hope the charge isn\’t too high even for Premium members, we just wanted to give also Basic users some mobile mapping ability without having two editions. But we\’re thinking of a way on how to pay you back for your continuing support, stay tuned!
Wonderful app with great features and even greater potential. It may have taken a while, but the solid foundations are there now to support amazing things in the future! This app is already blowing away the competition.
Thanks for the update Michael; It\’s great to hear what you\’re currently working on as it\’s exactly what we need next 🙂
Thanks to the team.
Great to have mindmeister on the iPhone finally – congrats guys 😀
Congrats, great product!
I was looking at whether to get back into MindMeister and perhaps use the iPhone app to edit them on the move. But the App Store is telling me that the app isn\’t available in the UK. Is there a reason for that?
Looks like this is no longer available on the AppStore. Why has this been withdrawn?
I bought the app and this morning saw there was an update so tried to download it then got the \”This item is no longer available\” message. Now I find if I search for it on the appstore it\’s been removed completely.
Can we have an update please?! I\’m waiting on an update to the app because it doesn\’t work at all on my iPhone (always crashes when opening a mindmap – yes I\’ve restarted. Also tested on 3.1 and it\’s still broken there).
Jamie.
We had to temporarily pull the latest update from the App Store because of a nasty bug that somehow made it through our QA. We\’ve already submitted a fixed version and are now waiting for Apple to release it. Any ideas on how to expedite this process are very welcome!
Android App please!
Ditto – Android app PLEASE !
Waiting for Android app.
Android app would be great!
I must agree – an Android app is an absolute must given the rapid increase in popularity that OS has shown in the last few months. Pleeease develop something for us too! :)))
I\’m a new premium subscriber to mindmeister, and I like everything I\’ve discovered thus far except for the absence of a standard android app. Without that app, I\’m reluctant to commit to what is otherwise a great tool.
An Androind app would be greatly appreciated
The iPhone app is great. But I think next in line should be Android! 🙂
Still looking for an android app … it\’s been over a year.