Current Collaborative Mind-Mapping Contenders

by Pier Marton | Jan 17, 2010 | Ideas, Idées, Software | 2 comments

To my knowledge, these are some of the current contenders:
Creately MindMeister Bubbl.us Mind42 MyWebInspiration SpinScape Gliffy LucidChart XMind SpicyNodes MindJet CoMapping

Any suggestions as to which work best? I would value ease of use and clarity, and the possibility of relinking items as well as letting others know who authored a particular branch.

2 Comments

RoyGrubb on January 17, 2010 at 9:24 pm

Ease of use and clarity (and free): Bubbl.us

Track who made changes: Mindmeister

Spicy nodes seems limited to website navigation.

You could add WiseMapping (free) to the list, and Mindomo (not free).

Roy
Mark on January 20, 2010 at 3:19 pm

Check out Spinscape…there is a new version kicking off on Monday that has a ton of new collaboration, presentation, screen sharing, and something called autodiscovery that lets you search from within the application and automatically pull information into the map. There’s an iphone version coming too.

http://www.spinscape.com

There are free and pay versions.

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