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Xmind Overview

What is Xmind?

Xmind is a full-featured mind mapping and brainstorming tool that helps to unleash creativity, capture inspiration, brainstorm ideas, boost productivity, and more. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, Xmind is the best choice for teams working on any project. Since the founding of Xmind in 2006, Xmind has been downloaded 100+ million times, and Xmind is a featured app with 4.8 stars/300,000+ reviews. Xmind works on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS/iPadOS, Android, and Web. To learn more, please visit www.xmind.app.

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XMind develops robust mind mapping, brainstorming and collaboration software and services.


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"Great tool for creating mind maps"
It is a great tool if you want to quickly do brainstorming with a group or alone and create mind maps for planning.
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What do you like best about Xmind?

I love how easy it is for Xmind to add sectional and/or related segments of ideas. For example, I can add main topics and then for each main topic, I can add subtopics. I also really like that I can add emojis to accent/highlight specific topics to follow back on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

I haven't found anything about Xmind that I really dislike. Feature-wise, having the ability to integrate with commonplace tools like Jira Cloud easily might be neat to have. Or an integration that would allow embedding an Xmind map to a Confluence page would also be very useful as I often want to output an Xmind document that's both shareable and editable to fellow colleagues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

Xmind is great for being able to visualize a large problem and break it down into smaller problems. In this way, I've been able to break down problems and assign individuals to tackle a problem once the chunk of work has been broken down far enough to be manageable.

Personally, I have also used Xmind in the assistence of constructing a house and planning and coordination of activities related to that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Xmind?

What I like best about XMind is that it allows me to create these awesome sequence mind maps that help me in my day-to-day activities. It is also good for students who are doing cycles as this helps a lot. The application is super cool and it's you can use the templates that they offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

What I dislike about this application is that it is somewhat difficult to use the first time, however, I found the application to be pretty easy once I got used to it. It can look plain so one will have to know the application to make stuff look good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Xmind:

I would recommend this application simply because it helps to make life easier, and it helps a lot when there are a lot of sequencing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem that this application is solving is that of being able to create flowcharts that will help one to remember what will come in sequence, similar to an algorithim. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Xmind?

XMind is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Personally, I've used XMind for years on Windows and iOS/iPadOS and now on macOS. At work, I use XMind via the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

Very few icons are available and no easy way to add more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Xmind:

I recommend the All Platforms pricing plan, which is reasonably priced compared to other similar mind mapping apps with this range of capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm a visual thinker; I primarily use XMind for brainstorming new ideas and project planning. I've visualized project workflows using swimlane diagrams. I've visualized a complex timeline of events using classic journalistic/critical thinking questions of Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How (5WH) and assigned ratings for source reliability (A to F) and information credibility (1 to 6) . This rating system is known as the Admiralty Rating System, developed during WW2 by the British Admiralty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Takeshi I.
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What do you like best about Xmind?

It can be easily used by pressing the enter button. That is different from other prototyping apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

It's a little challenging to write down the text in the correct place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

Brainstorming and ideation process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Priya A.
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What do you like best about Xmind?

Best use case diagram tool Available in x mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

As such, nothing I dislike but automatic save functionality is not available in the xmind Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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GO for it for great Tc writting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

-automatic save functionality is not available in the xmind

benefits - You can write your scenario with a deceptive way You can set your priority and many flags are available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Xmind?

This application is very convenient to create functional safety-related flow diagrams to link different inputs and conditions that play a role towards a goal. In addition, the outliner linked to the mind map helps understand the flow of the map. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

Most features in this application are pretty helpful, and there is nothing really to dislike. It might be beneficial if this has a user guide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating functional safety-related engineering diagrams helps understand the input factors that play a crucial role in achieving the safety goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Iaroslav C.
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Product Marketing Manager
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What do you like best about Xmind?

User-friendly interface and UX, in general, make excellent sense, both desktop and browser versions. XMind comes as "just register and ready to use", if only you know how to create mind maps, of course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

XMind concentrates on the only function (mind mapping), so it being defeated if compared to Miro. I continue to watch over new updates, but atm there's no reason for me to use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mind mapping and visualization of ideas is easy with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Xmind?

The ability to quickly drop tasks, ideas, topics on a page and manipulate them as needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

The subscription can be costly (at times), but that is the "price of doing business" as they say. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

During a meeting, when we have a spitballing session, this allows me to quickly take down notes on topics as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bünyamin B.
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What do you like best about Xmind?

I think first advantage of this tool is to give the opportunity to easily make mind mapping to the users who already don't know how to make mind mapping. And the other important part is that you can export your file different versions especially JPG, PDF format which ı always used. Also, there are different styles that you can choose and edit. In addition, you can change existing project styles. Finally, there is a phone application so you can use a cell phone when cannot reach the computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

There is a problem with speed when the needs a lot of multistep, big projects Mind Mappings. The free version is extremely useless when compared with the premium ones. And ı think the premium versions must be cheaper and the application must give to the user certain time premium usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Xmind:

You must use XMind to make mind mapping ı already searched another apps and ı love this app. You don't knowledge to make mind mapping just download it and use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

When ı was a student ı use Xmind to make the summary of course notes. It gives me the opportunity to learn and remember so fast. In the work environment when making Mind mapping for the projects, it enables me to know which step ı am, what is the next steps and see the big picture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Xmind?

You can use it as a standalone app (without installing) and it retains all of its features

You can use an older version if you want and don't need all the newest features

You can export the files either as map files or images

You can export the files as lists that you can use in other apps

The integration with Evernote is excellent, but I use Google Keep so I need to export it as text and then put that information there

They have simplified the process of moving around the map with the keyboard, which helps with making it easier to modify the map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xmind?

They started requesting that you create an account with them for the newest versions, which I did but there is really no need

The desktop version is great but the mobile version needs a bit of polish to make it as good as the desktop version

The mobile app consumes a lot of memory, and the newest version of the desktop app does also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Xmind:

It is simply the best if you don't mind creating an account

Integration with Evernote is great

Use it for mapping or for task listing, either way it gives you am overview of your process and what areas need work or changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xmind solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mapping all my organization's processes and procedures

Creating maps of all my personal activities and what needs to be done for each

I stopped using Tasks software, instead using Maps and just flagging each activity that's done

Getting the lists an importing them in Excel works great for my workflow

Sending the process information to our consultors

We are currently changing most of our processes to include outside input, and mapping it in Xmind gives us a really good overview of what we need and what is missing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.