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Freemind vs Freeplane
October 03, 2024 | Author: Adam Levine
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FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
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Freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done at work, in school and at home. The software can be used for mind mapping and analyzing the information contained in mind maps. Freeplane runs on any operating system that has a current version of Java installed. It can be run locally or portably from removable storage like a USB drive.
Freemind and Freeplane are both open-source mind mapping tools for Windows, Mac, Linux that offer basic map-drawing tools like nodes, branches and hyperlinks. Users can customize nodes with colors, icons and fonts. Both applications are written in Java. They support exporting maps to various formats such as PNG, PDF and HTML.
But Freemind (released in 2000) has more traditional user interface and contains less features. It’s development has slowed significantly and the updates are coming quite rarely.
Freeplane (2009) has more modern UI with additional features. It is actively developed with frequent updates and enhancements and has better compatibility with current versions of operating systems and Java.
See also: Top 10 Mind Mapping software
But Freemind (released in 2000) has more traditional user interface and contains less features. It’s development has slowed significantly and the updates are coming quite rarely.
Freeplane (2009) has more modern UI with additional features. It is actively developed with frequent updates and enhancements and has better compatibility with current versions of operating systems and Java.
See also: Top 10 Mind Mapping software
