Developer(s) Coggle Available in English | Written in JavaScript Type Collaborative software | |
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Platform Internet Explorer 9+, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera License Freeware software as a service | ||
Coggle is a freeware mind-mapping web application. Like other mind-mapping software, Coggle produces hierarchically structured documents, like a branching tree. This contrasts with conventional collaborative editors, like Google Docs, which provide either linear (text document), or tabular (spreadsheet) document formats.
Contents
Its authors promise that it will be "free forever".
Features
Some of Coggle's notable features:
Supported file formats
Coggle supports export to PNG image and vector PDF formats, and import from plain-text outlines. There is also support for importing or exporting to the common FreeMind file format.
Reception
Coggle was voted amongst the top-5 mind-mapping applications by the readers of Lifehacker in April 2013, three months after the website was first registered.
Coggle has had a strong reception amongst the education community, praised for its simplicity and ease of use compared to other mind-mapping software.
PC World has criticized the visually simple user-interface for hiding too many elements, making advanced feature discovery difficult.