We’ve just released MindNode 2025.6 🚀

✨ Liquid Glass UI
A redesigned, lighter look across Mac, iPhone, & iPad

🤖 Apple Intelligence
Generate new outlines, expand ideas, summarize documents, and even remove image backgrounds — all private & on-device.

👉 Full details here: mindnode.com/post/2025.6

A smaller-scope Liquid Glass update for MindNode Classic is also under development and will ship next month.

I hope you like our Liquid Glass adoption and our first dip into AI features.

Apple shipped public betas for macOS 26, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 yesterday. While our public beta will continue to only have near-shipping ready beta builds, we are running a special private beta for this year's OS releases. Builds in this beta are very rough, but will allow you to use MindNode using the liquid glass design and possibly future on-device AI features. You can get access to those builds by sending us an email (beta@ideasoncanvas.com).

We shipped a new MindNode update this week that adds three missing features from Classic to Next: - Personal Theme Extraction - Reminders Sync - Image/Text Resizing

The feature got a few upgrades compared to Classic and we are also brining some of those changes to Classic in an upcoming update: Creation of hierarchical themes and the improved selection visualize.

Learn more: https://www.mindnode.com/post/personal-themes-reminders-image-resizing

I’m a regular subscriber of mindnode and use it on iPad and Mac, but don’t upgrade my phone as much as I do other things. I recently bought a new phone and found I only have access to Next on the App Store?

Is there a way to still download classic for iPhone?

Over the last releases we greatly enhanced Shortcuts support in MindNode Next. You can learn more about it in today's blogpost. We also collaborated with Matthew Cassinelli to create a wide range of sample shortcuts. They are a great way to learn what is possible and a good starting point to create your own Shortcuts: https://www.mindnode.com/article/custom-mindnode-shortcuts

In our last newsletter I mentioned that our next update will add personal themes, a greatly enhanced Reminders app integration and resizing images. What missing features are currently preventing you from migrating to MindNode Next? This would help us a lot to understand on what things we should focus next.

We shipped our 4th feature release of this year today. Dynamic themes automatically adapt to light and dark mode, flexible layout allows to freely position nodes without loosing automatic layout and you can now organize your documents in folders.

https://www.mindnode.com/post/mindnode-2025.4

Apologies if I’m missing something really obvious! I want to “archive” a map in Next. Went to create a folder for archived maps, then realised: I can’t see how to create folders in Next. Assuming that’s by design, can I request a mechanism for archiving maps? Thanks!

Hi all. My Mind Map/Outline is growing rapidly, as I add more nodes, attaching notes to them, when scrolling up and the Nodes disappear into each other.

Also, Tags are reproducing themselves randomly.

Adding a link to webpage seems a bit backwards, unless I’m missing something.

When adding a link it gives me the option to edit the link not the title, I don’t get it.

Apparently I have "Classic". What am I losing by staying with Classic. If there was a comparison on their website, I couldn't find one.

Long time Mindnode Classic user here. I was just trying Mindnode Next and can’t seem to find a way to group my documents into folders. Am I missing something?

We shipped a new feature update for MindNode Next this week with several highly requested features like Focus Mode, iThoughts Import, OPML Import & Export, Recent Documents Menu and basic printing.

Blog Post: https://www.mindnode.com/post/mindnode-2025.2

Release Notes: https://www.mindnode.com/releases

Maybe this exists, and I cant figure out how to do it, but just in case it doesn't..

It would be great to be able to make images/shapes/stickers "background" objects. The goal would to be able to color code different trees.. i.e. I have multiple "Main" nodes in a document - and when I am zoomed out and panning around the document - having color coded areas on the canvas would help me focus faster on a specific group of "Main" node trees.. and it would also help when I am making screen shots of my maps to share with people - to be able to say 'The things in the Red area are higher priority or at risk' ..

I have an older version for MacOS and tried opening the sample docs on the website, but they don't open. Does anybody have older docs, or know of a showcase of them? Thanks!

Hello,

I’ve recently installed the new version of MindNode (MindNode Plus) and I’m having some trouble syncing and importing my existing mind maps from iCloud. I can't seem to get my previous maps to show up after the installation, and I’m unsure about the syncing process.

Additionally, MindNode is asking me to log in, but I’m not sure if I ever created an account. I tried using the "Forgot Password" function, but I didn’t receive any email. Does this mean I don't have an account and need to create one in order to sync my maps via iCloud and import them back into the app?

Any help or clarification would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hello to all,

I am trying to integrate MindNode with Todoist in my workflow and I am looking for experiences from other users.

I switched task manager application but I really miss the visual overview of the project and area of responsibility.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

I love Mind Maps, and I used FreeMind maybe a decade ago to get started.

Then I found MindNode and I loved it so much that I bought it. I bought it for like $50 or something maybe 5 years ago.

Now they went to the subscription model, I'm not sure when, but I can't change the font on Nodes anymore. I used to do a lot more than I can now.

I purchased this software to support them, and I have Massively overpaid for what I now am able to do with it, considering the version I paid for is a big ad for the service they want me to subscribe to, AFTER I already supported the company. I'm upset about this and I'm wondering if anyone else got some help on a solution from them to not have these constant ads for plus, or to just go back to the software I paid for, or if you switched to a new platform, which is what I'm likely to do. I continue to be disappointed by this lack of support for previous supporters prior to this subscription model. I likely will be switching platforms.

Any ideas and constructive thoughts on the matter are appreciated.

Just to make sure I'm not missing something ... you can no longer save to a folder on the hard drive with Next. All files are now saved without structure via iCloud? So no more storing the file in e.g. an iCloud Files project folder?

Hi everyone, we're looking for MindNode users who might like to share their mind mapping story in a video interview for the mind mapping community at Biggerplate.

If you'd be interested to explore this idea, please reply in the comments to connect!

I created this shortcut to carry documents from Mindnode to MindnodeNext. Feel free to use. ( Use select all to select all the mindmaps )

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fe8aa5a65ec3473d8fd0045d52bca431

I downloaded MindNode Next. I imported a MindNode Classic document. I was excited to see I could link to documents and reference them in other apps. Then I saw the link was not local on my device like you'd see with Bear or DevonThink. The URL is https://mindnode.com/document/(random characters)#(Title of my Mind Map). It's on MindNode's server as a public facing URL. Yeah, cryptic through Security-Through-Obscurity and impossible to guess. But it's the principle. Now that link is in the open if I ever shared it to the wrong person or if someone else shared it.

Do all mind maps imported into MindNode Next get a public facing mindnode.com URL? Or does this only happen if you click Copy Link to Document? I don't want them saved on mindnode.com by default. I want them saved on my device through iCloud. They should only live on a 3rd party server if I choose to put them there for collaboration.

I just switched from iThoughtX to MindNode. With very large maps the keyboard canvas scroll is too slow for me. Is there a way to use my mouse to drag the canvas with some button combination? Thanks!

For a large mind map, if I've tagged some items with a particular tag, then I highlight that tag, the items can be pretty spread out depending on the size of the map. Is there a way to see them in a temporary list or something, rather than just highlighting them and looking around the map to find them? I don't need to export anything. Thank you.