Operating system | Platform Java | |
Developer(s) Dimitry Polivaev, et al. Stable release 1.5.18 (December 7, 2016; 3 months ago (2016-12-07)) [±] Preview release 1.6.12 (February 27, 2017; 11 days ago (2017-02-27)) [±] Repository github.com/freeplane/freeplane/ | ||
Freeplane is a free, open source software application for creating mind maps (diagrams of connections between ideas), and electronic outlines. Written in Java, Freeplane is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and is licensed under the GNU GPL version "2 or later".
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In 2007, Freeplane was forked from the FreeMind project. Freeplane maintains partial file format compatibility with FreeMind - Freeplane fully supports the FreeMind file format, but adds features and tags not supported by FreeMind which are ignored on loading.
Release 1.1
New features of Freeplane stable release (June, 2010) include:
Release 1.2.x
The first stable Freeplane 1.2.x was 1.2.20 released on October 20, 2012. It includes the following new features:
Release 1.3.x
Version 1.3 was published ((date)). New features of 1.3.x included:
Release 1.5.x
The latest release is 1.6.12 (February 27, 2017 (2017-02-27)) [±]. New features of Freeplane 1.5 include:
Add-ons
One feature of Freeplane is the support for installable enhancements. Add-ons are a way to extend and customize Freeplane similar to how plug-ins and extensions can be used to extend and customize well-known applications like Firefox or LibreOffice. Freeplane add-ons can be used to provide a single function, a bundle of multiple functions, bind those functions to a menu item, etc.
Available add-ons include :
See more on the add-ons page.