# Page 2 | MindManager Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is MindManager the right Project Management solution for you? Explore 71 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/31776/MindManager/reviews --- MindManager 4.6 (71) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/31776/MindManager/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of MindManager ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 71 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use MS Mark S. Owner Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Long time user - I like it a lot. It's fairly robust. They force you to pay for upgrades. " February 7, 2018 5.0 It's helped me organize, brainstorm and present in my business for many years. It's solid and dependable. Pros It gets used a lot! It's very intuitive and seems to not have wasted features you wouldn't use. It's quick and not bogged down at all. The maps look really sharp and professional so can be used on screen shares and look like a champ. Cons Price and forced upgrade expenses if you want them. It's understandable to have paid upgrades every now and then. MindJet has always NOT had their client base truly in mind. Even back with their mobile app ... they were charging a monthly price for that when all we needed was to access our maps and be able to make minor adjustments. This company puts out a good product, but their view of your client base does not show that they have our best interest in mind, but rather siphon out all the cash they can get. Not a long term customer centric leadership in my experience. Review Source Peter M. Marketing director Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simply the best mind mapping tool" October 9, 2018 5.0 I've been using Ming Manager for more then 10 years. I even convinced my former employer (bank) to use Mind Manager throughout the corporation. Many people liked it and use it in their daily work. I even used it for my personal task management. It's great to see all your agenda on 1 page :) Pros I like user-friendliness of MindManager. I've tried many mind mapping tools, both online and offline and I find MM simply the best. It is visually perfect, very intuitive and offers all features you might need. There are many template and add ons for MM, e.g. we used it for project planning (task management, brainstorming, project planning, work breakdown structure, etc.). Cons Maybe only the price compared to many free tools, but considering you use it for work, I think it's worth to buy it. If your car deserves some added feature, why not your daily work? Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Profesional Universitario I Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "It's a tool that I use very much in my daily work" June 10, 2018 5.0 Pros Creator of mental maps. Mindmanager is an excellent project manager, with which you can have all your ideas perfectly organized through mental maps. This program allows inserting information, exercising a species of brainstorms, in which you can explore resources and alternatives, manage all the information and organize them in maps to review your objectives in a visual way. It has an infinity of templates that we can adapt to be used by Social Workers. It really is a tool that I use very much in my daily work. with the management until the daily tasks. I recommend it. Cons I have not found something negative to this tool, I love it, I use it daily for all my tasks, with it I have managed to organize all my work. Review Source TL Toni L. Sr. Project Manager Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I love this software!" February 4, 2020 5.0 I use MindManager daily for brainstorming sessions, meeting minutes, project planning, scheduling, etc. The ability to branch out from a single thought in as many directions as I want to go helps me to think about the topic rather than making an orderly list. Additionally, once everything is out there in the mindmap, it is easy to move things around to reorganize thoughts, add additional thoughts/ideas or sub-points, or put things in a specific order. I cannot imagine life without this application. Pros It is a non-linear way of representing thoughts, lists, brainstorms, etc. Because it is non-linear, the user can utilize more of the canvas to list out points, sub-points, sub-sub-points, etc. Cons That's a tough one! I have heard that some people have a hard time moving branches where they want them because of the snap-to feature, but it has never really been much of a problem for me. Review Source BR Bishrut R. Junior Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "MindManager Review" November 5, 2022 5.0 My overall experience with MindManager has been really good, it has helped me brainstorm ideas with my team and also helped me arrange presentations with its tools and diagrams. It reforms my dispersed thoughts and ideas into visual maps and diagrams. It has been of great use for achieving my personal and organizational success. Pros The things that I liked most about MindManager are as follows, - It is a quick and simple method for project management, planning, and collaboration - It facilitates improved conclusions and decision-making by presenting information that makes concepts understandable - It helps in making data visualization simple and understandable while presenting - It is really intuitive and simple to use Cons The things that I liked the least about MindManager are as follows, - It posts many advertisements which disturbs my pc screen - It is a bit old fashioned Review Source MB Miquiel B. Tech Writer Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Project Mgmt and Visual Organization Tool" July 18, 2017 4.0 Dashboard and organizing everything visually to make me 35% more efficient on my job. Pros \- Mind Mapping - Brainstorming - Dashboard Design - Attachments - Import/Export to MS Office - Often called the "unknown" part of MS Office - ability to map out sharepoint site as a mind map - ability to connect to sharepoint site - ease of use to organize ANYTHING Cons \- new features are only on windows - company is windows-centric and not concerned with mac or linux - mac support is 2 or 3 versions behind - linux support is non-existent - online integration with task app is powerful, but not explained or shown enough Review Source MP Mike P. Principal Business Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Power User" February 25, 2017 5.0 I have used just about every version of MindManager since 2002. I have been a beta tester and a MindManager trainer. The latest version of the software is excellent with a large number of advanced features including HTML 5 export which allows maps to be opened in all web browsers without having the Mindjet application. Maps are navigable and in the same resolution as original. Other new features include a timeline map type and integration with many other apps through Zappier. Mindmanager is just one of many mind mapping applications and positions itself firmly in the business market with tight integration with MS Office and other business tools such as Sharepoint. It's market positioning makes it one of the more expensive Mind Mapping tools on the market but its rich feature set and ease of use makes up for the premium pricing. Similar levelMindMapping packages are iMindMap which is unique in its rich formatting capability that most closely follows Tony Buzzan's original Mind Mapping concepts and Mind Genius with a unique project focus. Pros Ease of use and high resolution of text, excellent integration with MS Office apps, Zappier integration possibilities, built in browser pane for fast context based research Cons Some advanced features are hard to find in menu structure if you are unfamiliar Review Source LK Logan K. BA Accounting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent Brainstorming tool and Mind Manager is the easiest to use and most powerful tool yet" August 10, 2020 5.0 Excellent experience. It is a powerful mind mapping, brainstorming tool that I recommend to anyone who has some hard thinking to do. Pros This tool is very intuitive to use, meaning that I can worry only about brainstorming and not about layout. Cons The filters are very powerful as they allow you to rapidly hide branches that don't meet your search criteria. I wish you could save your favourite filters instead of remaking them each time. I wish there was a more powerful app that allowed me to edit maps on mobile devices Review Source Alfredo M. Gerente de Comunicaciones Internas Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Efficient meetings" January 9, 2019 5.0 Pros In my work, it is customary to meet to discuss ideas at the beginning of a project or an activity and a tool that helps in our performance is MindManager to perform the brainstorm, since it allows us to quickly have the ideas captured on the screen in a way Organized, clean and not on paper, it also allows to include images, shapes or icons and the final result is much more pleasing to the eye and for the presentation, it is also very useful because it serves as a meeting minute, it is very easy to use this tool. Cons One would like to have more functions to complement the work and make it even more attractive. There is little documentation and information on the web. It is a tool only to be used in windows operating system. Review Source WK Wojciech K. Owner Professional Training & Coaching Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I use Mindjet MindManager to manage information in visual way, ready to share in many other formats." February 6, 2018 5.0 time saver, great ToDo dashboard supporter, excellent visual management supporter during meetings Pros What I love in MindManager is: contextual information management (tags, group of tags, icons, attachments, links, notes). In controlling area, great is calculation option - easy way to write functions. There is great integration w/ MS Office (Outlook, Excel). Excellent views of 1 document: Gantt chart, Schedule, Outline, Map, Priorities. Interesting thing is to use conditional formatting to present important topics with specific data. Cons I hope to see more options in reporting area - to export map as more specific document, to share information with others. Review Source Ari P. Manager Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A Great Tool for Brainstorming Sessions" November 8, 2019 5.0 We regularly hold a brainstorming session, at least once a week, to explore new concepts for our English clubs. While we can do it manually, after we are using MindManager, I found that our brainstorming sessions have become more focused. We used to get side-tracked during the discussion but MindManager helps us to stay in track. Pros MindManager is very easy to use. Just type on it and then connect the various idea into one mindmap. I also like it that MindManager allows users to link various types of documents to its mindmap. This makes it very convenient for us to elaborate our idea using other software such as Word, PowerPoint or Excel. Cons Nothing that I dislike from this software. MindManager is very user-friendly and able to help us in sorting our idea in easy steps. Review Source PW Peter W. Web Developer Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Create beautiful mind maps with ease" January 10, 2020 5.0 Our team can easily create reports on web use and information architectures using MindManager. We use these maps to showcase new websites and convey architecture changes to clients. Pros The user interface of MindManager is very clear and works well across a number of different devices. You can easily expand and hide sub-maps if yours becomes incredibly large and complex. There are various formatting options available so as to easily identify different parts of the map and create an easy-to-read key. Cons The sheer size of the program is a bit of a problem, install times are long and on older machines the application can be very slow to load, if not fail altogether. Upon first use MindManager may seem a bit daunting, there are a lot of features to get your head around and some can be hard to use. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Deskside Support Specialist - Teamlead Legal Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Strong Visual Management Tool" December 30, 2018 4.0 Pros MindManager helps visualize complex workflows and tasks and offers a high-level view of a project and operational work. I use this tool to help organize project information and provide it to managers for presentations. The application comes built with various templates and excellent, hands on tutorials to learn the program in a quick manner. Mindmanager has a strong interoperbility with other software and forms can be exported into various Microsoft programs, PDF, etc. Cons This tool is not scalable. In order to take advantage of all of its features requires extensive use by the end user. It's really a tool for a specific view in an organization. Review Source BD Brian D. it Support Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Software for mapping idea" March 13, 2018 5.0 Pros Easy to use, when you want to put your idea you dont need to search how to do it, it's really a must for this category of software, top of the game ! Cons If you want a update , you need to repay each year, it's on promise but if you dont paid the next year you dont get the new feature. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Specialist, underviser og foredragsholder Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best mindmapping for business purposes - ever!" December 4, 2018 5.0 I use it for almost everything in my business. Brainstorms, planning, delegation, project management, blog posts Pros The intuitive ease of use - the sync with almost everything - the new business interfaces Cons nothing really - it's just perfect to me Review Source VR Verified Reviewer President Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for Windows users but on the expensive side." April 22, 2019 5.0 Pros I used Mindjet for more than a decade and was very happy with the software until I migrated to Mac OS. Mindjet was for years the best mind mapping software out there and they have a solid offering which is very mature on Windows. Cons The pricing options are on the expensive side and the mac edition is second-grade. I downloaded the mac edition and eventually just felt that the price is too high for a product which is not 100% on par with the windows version. I eventually moved to XMind and I am very happy with my choice. Review Source Eric M. manager Management Consulting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "great for thought processing" July 17, 2019 4.0 Pros great way to segment things out (projects, organizational charts, etc) that gave you a full picture of the job rather than a bulleted list Cons some employees couldn't follow the alternative way of the information flow Review Source aT anas T. CEO E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "evaluation Mindmanager" July 19, 2023 4.0 Pros la simplicité et l'érgonomie ainsi que la portabilité des résultats Cons honnêtement pas de point négatif pour le moment Review Source JB Jon B. VD&C Manager Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Helpful personal organizational tool" May 16, 2017 5.0 Pros It integrates with Microsoft products to help me setup meetings, track tasks and assignments. It allows me to easily visualize my work, ideas and organize thoughts quickly. Cons It's integration into sharepoint has taken a step backward from SP2013 to SPonline/2016. Maps are no longer editable from a browser. Review Source Evens S. Senior Digital Marketing Advisor Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I was looking for a tool that helps me connect my ideas and organize our brainstorming sessions" July 10, 2018 4.0 My ideas can easily speaks for themselves after entering them in Mindjet Mindmanager! Pros Very easy to use. You catch very fast how the software operates. Many different templates of organigrams and schemas are available. The cost model is not yearly. You pay one time and you get it for a lifetime. You only pay per years for the support and updates. Cons It is missing some functionnalities but the developpers at Mindjet seems open to create them for you. Sometimes, you will start a diagram 2 to 3 times before finding the right model to use. Review Source AK Andrew K. Financial Planner Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Mind mapping with lots of different features" May 19, 2019 5.0 Pros The software has lots of different templates that you can use which allows me to use different formats depending on how I am feeling and what I am using it for. For example, meeting notes get a different template to my brainstorming maps. Cons It takes some time to get my mind maps to print in the format that I like. I like it takes up the whole page when printed. Review Source NELSON G. Consultor SAP Business One - Inteligencia de Negocios Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I always use it when I have a Brainstorm meeting!" May 11, 2018 5.0 Use it, in each meeting! Pros Powerful tool when you have a struggle meeting, when you have a lot of ideas, it's easy to use applying template with differents themes. It's integrated with Microsoft Outlook Cons No cons for MindManager. It's my favorite tool when I have struggles meetings. Just deploy any template to catch any ideas. Review Source James G. Compliance and Quality Officer Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "null" July 14, 2016 5.0 Review Source RW Ron W. IT Manager Consumer Goods Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Nice software but too complex " August 24, 2021 3.0 Pros Some of the mind mapping features are solid and some of the flowcharting is good. Cons Thee are too many complexities for most users. Reason for choosing MindManager Lucid chart and Mindmeister Review Source Zac H. Product Development Engineer Food Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Pick up and run with it - a very simple mind map generator" December 3, 2019 5.0 Either creating the mind map in MindManager or transferring a brainstorm to the program, we capture much more of our thinking when it is in early stages. Pros Ease-of-use is key with mapping thoughts, and MindManager hits the nail on the head. Any competent PC user can dive right in to creating their mind maps. Cons Printing mind maps in MindManager could be optimized - we always find that they must be printed on A3 and still often come out with very small text. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.