Start mind mapping your ideas with Focusplan
Focusplan helps you to capture, develop, and share your ideas, turning them into a stunning mind map.
Requires macOS 13 Ventura, iOS 16 or later — Release Notes
Free trial on all devices.
A professional and creative-grade feature set brings mind mapping to the next level
Focusplan makes mind mapping easy, fast, and stunning. Our most powerful take on mind mapping feature set lets you capture what's on your mind quickly and easy.
Flexible Mind Maps
Focusplan lets you easily configure styles and formatting of every element of the mind map, like borders, branches, fonts, and colors by the inspector panel.
Creative Stickers
Focusplan includes 200+ colorful artisanal crafted stickers to help you to create expressive and stunning mind maps.
Efficient Note Taking
Annotate essential information on every topic. You can easily create new notes and format existing notes.
Stunning Themes
Choose one of our gorgeous themes or customize your mind map with various colors, styles, and formattings.
Import and Export
Import formatted text from other sources to turn it into a mind map. Export your expressive mind maps as text outlines with indents, OPML format, or export directly to images.
Share with Friends
Share your mind maps with friends, teachers, students and colleagues with easy and quick.
Just works on all your devices
Focusplan works seamlessly across your Mac, iPad and iPhone.
Fully integrated with your Mac
Focusplan is a beautiful, powerful, and easy to use mind mapping and brainstorming app. Featuring an elegant and streamlined document-window interface, it puts all the focus on the mind map you create. And with a sleek design that is completely integrated with your Mac, it feels immediately familiar from the moment you first open the app. So mind mapping becomes more straightforward and more enjoyable than ever.
Continuity Camera
Take a photo using your iOS device and have it instantly appear in your mind map.
Dark Mode
A dramatic new look for your Mac designed to make every element on the screen easier on your eyes.
iCloud Sync
Thanks to iCloud Drive, your documents will be in sync across your devices.
macOS Ventura
Focusplan is fully compatible with macOS Ventura, including support for Sidecar.
What Is Mind Mapping?
A Mind Map is a powerful visual thinking tool that helps you to visualize, brainstorming, exploring ideas, and presenting information in a uniquely visual way. Mind mapping encourages a free flow of ideas, which makes it the ideal format for brainstorming and creative problem-solving sessions.
Top Mind Mapping Uses
The purpose of mind maps is almost infinite. Students and teachers use mind maps to visualize complicated problems and drive engagement in the classroom, while companies mostly use mind maps for strategic planning, collaboration, and ideation.
Brainstorming
Mind mapping encourages a free flow of ideas and helps spark new thoughts through association. It's the perfect visual thinking tool for creative brainstorming.
Note Taking
Whether you're at a meeting, in a cafe, or in a lecture hall, taking notes in a mind map is not only more efficient but also easier to analyze and study.
Planning
You can use mind maps to outline project plans, create business strategies, organize events, and much more. Planning with mind maps is simple, visual, and creative.
Manage Meetings
Organize and share a stunning meeting agenda, create quick presentations, and take meeting minutes with easy within a single mind map.
Organize Ideas
With mind maps, you can generate, capture, and manage ideas easily. The popular mind map format promotes creativity and inspires you to come up with new ideas by association.
Knowledge Base
Mind maps enable companies to collect, manage, and share their knowledge base centrally and securely. Thanks to their intuitive and popular format, locating and updating information is a breeze.