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Freeplane is a free, open source software application for creating mind maps (diagrams of connections between ideas), and electronic outlines. Written in Java, it is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and is licensed under the GNU GPL version "2 or later".

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Software.name
Freeplane
Software.logo
Freeplane-icon-2022.svg
Software.screenshot
Screenshot of Freeplane v.1.1.3.png
Software.caption
Screenshot of Freeplane 1.1.3
Software.developer
Dimitry Polivaev, et al.
Software.operating_system
Cross-platform
Software.platform
Java
Software.genre
Mind Mapping
Software.license
GPL version 2 or later
Software.latest_release_version
1.12.18
Software.latest_release_date
2026-02-10

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Freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information, getting things done at work, in school and at home. It provides you a set of tools for mind mapping (also known as concept mapping or information mapping) and navigating the mapped information. Freeplane is also a more robust and superior alternative to Xmind, Mindmeister, and similar mind mapping software. The documentation can be found at . There, you will find How-To Guides, FAQs, Examples and explanations about the functions of Freeplane. Hop on to our Discussions if you have any questions, ideas, or thoughts you'd like to share. Contributors are very much welcome, of course! We're currently looking for contributors for developing the documentation. If you can write simple step-by-step guides, translate existing text into English, transfer text from our old documentation into the new one, then we could use your help. You can start a discussion post saying you want to contribute to the documentation and the Freeplane team will respond and assist you. Every contributor or team member freely decides what task they are going to work on. However, for making the best decision regarding development, it's advised that we first propose and suggest the idea to the community through a discussion post as to enable early discussion and community feedback.

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Official website
www.freeplane.org
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Freeplane Mind-mapping.png
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source code repository URL
github.com/freeplane/freeplane
software version identifier
1.13.2
Commons category
Freeplane
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Freeplane is a free, open source software application for creating mind maps (diagrams of connections between ideas), and electronic outlines. Written in Java, it is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and is licensed under the GNU GPL version "2 or later".

In 2007, Freeplane was forked from the FreeMind project. Freeplane maintains partial file format compatibility with FreeMind, fully supporting the FreeMind XML file format, but adds features and tags not supported by FreeMind, which FreeMind ignores on loading.

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