IdeaLab vs. MindMeister

IdeaLab

MindMeister

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IdeaLab	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	IdeaLab allows companies to build a collaborative community of feedback. The product can be used publicly to engage directly with customers and get their ideas, or internally to let everyone identify problems, solutions and opportunities. Locations can also serve as ideas, allowing customers to suggest store locations or giving local citizens the chance to identify areas of improvement. Features include: Instant Poll, which is a one-click email survey…	N/A
MindMeister	Score 3.5 out of 10	N/A	MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool that lets users share maps with an unlimited number of users and collaborate with them in real-time. MindMeister is used to brainstorm ideas, plan projects, take meeting minutes, develop business strategies, and create presentations. MindMeister runs in any standard web-browser as well as on iOS and Android devices, so users can access, edit and present their mind maps anytime, wherever they are. With MindMeister, users…	$45 per 6 months per user

Pricing

IdeaLab

MindMeister

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Personal: $45
per 6 months per user
Pro: $75
per 6 months per user
Business: $114
per 6 months per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IdeaLab	MindMeister
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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MindMeister offers 6-monthly and yearly subscriptions. Discounts for educational users and non-profit organizations are also available. Up to 22% discount for yearly pricing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	IdeaLab	MindMeister
Considered Both Products	IdeaLab No answer on this topic	MindMeister Verified User Anonymous Chose MindMeister I was unaware of ClickUp at the time. I thought MindMeister would be able to solve some story telling and automation challenges the team was facing. It failed to do that and the team disbanded as a result. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Firth LinkedIn Lead Generation Coach\|Inbound LinkedIn Leads\|LinkedIn Sales Coach\|Social Selling\|Closing Chose MindMeister Mindmiester is not good compared to miro Incentivized Helpful? Luciano Gardesani Marques Account Executive Chose MindMeister We found MindMeister as the most complete tool considering our needs and context of use. Other tools that we had the chance to test/evaluate offered similar features for brainstorming and log of information, but we felt MindMeister was very easy-to-use, especially thinking … Incentivized Helpful? Calum Maxwell Managing Director / Account Manager Chose MindMeister Whimsical and I highly recommend the software. Incentivized Helpful? Gary Shouldis Founder & CEO Chose MindMeister We chose MindMeister as the UI seemed easier to use. We were not able to take LucidChart for a full test drive due to the limited free plan so we opted for MindMeister in the end as it seemed to have what we needed, which it did. The collaboration features of MindMeister also … Incentivized Helpful? Miroslav Bobryshev 3D Asset Artist / 3D Generalist Chose MindMeister There are many similar programs, but I also use the Freemind open sourced program to work offline, but working collectively in it is not very convenient with this application, so we use the MindMeister. Incentivized Helpful? BM Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies Chose MindMeister Mindmeister has a good free plan compared with Lucidchart, and better Google Drive integration in my opinion. Draw.io has a better free plan than MindMeister, but I prefer MindMeister for mindmap creation still, while I prefer draw.io for other types of diagrams. XMind is … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Ciras Rousseau High School Special Educator Chose MindMeister I have also used LucidChart and Google Draw to create mind maps and concept maps in the past. I think that MindMeister is by far the cleanest and most user friendly of the three. Google Draw does not have anywhere near the same functionality. LucidChart tends to be clunky and … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Eduardo de Souza Co-founder & Manager Chose MindMeister I’ve tried Mindnode for Mac, but it’s a native app, so MindMeister is always accessible (as a web application) and has even more features. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Cruz CEO Chose MindMeister I really like the Mindmeister interface. Clean, beautiful and organized. One of the factors that made me choose Mindmeiter was the direct integration with Meistertask. It is absolutely amazing to delegate tasks to your team directly through the mind map. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MindMeister MindMeister has a better look than Freemind and is easier to use than Visio Incentivized Helpful? Chris Glandon Technical Specialist Chose MindMeister I've not used any other programs, I've been told about others, however I'm happy with MM and I always use it. Incentivized Helpful? Murilo Pinto, PMP® Product Design/Development Engineer Chose MindMeister I used to have FreeMind software, but it has very few resources compared to MindMeister. Incentivized Helpful? Chip Nowacek Founder and Lead Researcher Chose MindMeister As a full graph editor, yEd needs added structure to do tree structures as well as MindMeister. FreeMind is a great tool if you work alone. It allows all sorts of customization and scripting. It is Java-based. We don't work alone. Based on FreeMind, Freeplane adds it's own … Incentivized Helpful? James Carrington Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Chose MindMeister Just as mind maps are applicable to just about anybody in any field of work, MindMeister is probably the best piece of software on which to create them. SimpleMind for MC/PC is very good, if not better in terms of user experience, but it's not cloud based so sharing maps is a … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	IdeaLab	MindMeister
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Medium-sized Companies	Oracle Fusion Cloud PLM Score 7.8 out of 10	MindManager Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IdeaLab	MindMeister
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IdeaLab	MindMeister
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	This product is well suited for making mind maps and outlining projects and ideas from the start. It can be tough if you are trying to convert something you began in Docs. It allows for a lot of intuitive creation, making your work flow easily. It can get to be a bit clunky though if you make your map too large. Incentivized Sarah Ciras Rousseau High School Special Educator Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	The UI is well laid out and easy to use. The workflow makes perfect sense and makes creating tasks a breeze. The collaboration features make brainstorming not only easy but fun! Everyone enjoys using the tool, which was not the case with other collaboration software we used. I love being able to get all of my thoughts and ideas on the screen to see them and then be able to connect them in a logical way. Incentivized Gary Shouldis Founder & CEO Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	I wish collaborators could add comments without having to be given editor privileges. A "Reviewer" role would be helpful. I would like to be able to toggle note visibility on and off. If there is a way to do it now, I haven't found it. As it is, I have to hover or use the sidebar to see notes. Two or three times I have seen my nodes spontaneously reverse order in a big map (over their recommended limit). Even so, they are working on tracking the issue down. Chip Nowacek Founder and Lead Researcher Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Never had an issue with customer support, though we never really needed anything major as far as technical help. I do not believe they offer 24 hour customer support but we don't need it as MindMeister is not the type of tool we need need 24 hour a day support for. Overall, very happy with the level of support. Incentivized Gary Shouldis Founder & CEO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Mindmeister has a good free plan compared with Lucidchart, and better Google Drive integration in my opinion. draw.io has a better free plan than MindMeister, but I prefer MindMeister for mindmap creation still, while I prefer draw.io for other types of diagrams. Xmind is powerful, but bloated, and requires installation on every machine that needs to open the file. The fact that MindMeister is in the cloud is a huge bonus. Incentivized BM Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Our meetings became more productive (time saving /better outcome). Project management activities became more efficient (time-saving/increased quality/better collaboration). It became easier to create online repositories to share relevant and well-organized information to our teams (before it was dispersed, incomplete, and difficult to find/manage). Incentivized Luciano Gardesani Marques Account Executive Read full review
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