MindMaple Lite

MindMaple Lite is a software application built specifically for helping you organize your ideas and enhance your creativity and productivity by creating a mindmap.
It proves to be quite useful especially when working with students or holding work meetings with your colleagues for generating brainstorming sessions.

Intuitive layout

Although it comes bundled with many dedicated parameters, MindMaple Lite reveals a clean feature lineup that offers support for a multi-tabbed interface.
Creating a central topic and embedding main and secondary ideas proves to be nothing but a child’s play as the operations can be carried out using “drag and drop” operations.

Editing capabilities

MindMaple Lite gives you the possibility to perform basic editing operations, such as copy, cut, or paste, insert topics, subtopics, floating topics, and callouts, add relationship lines (Bézier, straight, curved, or angled), embed images (e.g. BMP, JPG, PNG, ICO) and cliparts, as well as attach boundaries and change the form of the topic boxes.
Another notable characteristic worth mentioning is represented by the possibility to embed hyperlinks, attachments, bookmarks, labels, date stamps, personal notes, symbols, text markers, as well as various icons which are grouped by topic (task priorities, smileys, arrows, flags, single icons).

Formatting and exporting options

The program comes packed with several dedicated parameters developed to help you choose the growth direction, insert numbers, align topics, sort items, increase or decrease the subtopic position, as well as select between various themes that change the color of your topics.
What’s more, you can switch to a full screen mode, zoom in or out, and use a rich a set of configuration settings for helping you change the topic and branch style, customize the text in terms of font, font style, and color, as well as change the picture placement and callout shapes.
When it comes to exporting options, you can print or save the generated mindmap to HTML, TXT, DOC, XLS, PPT, JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, or TIF file format.

Bottom line

All in all, MindMaple Lite proves to be a reliable application that comes bundled with a powerful feature package for helping you create brainstorming maps.
If you are looking for advanced features, you can check out the professional version of the tool which offers support for PDF exporting options and encryption capabilities.