iPad lovers can finally enjoy their favorite mind mapping application for free. After great customer feedback on DropMind for iPad, we decided to surprise our users with the Lite version which has been officially released at the beginning of December 2011.

A wide range of features will help you enjoy mapping your personal and professional tasks and ideas.

What is great about DropMind Lite?

• It is free of charge;
• Allows 3 different views such: list, thumbnail and full screen view.
• Mind maps can be easily created and shared as email attachment in the following formats: .dmmx file, as an image and as PDF file.
• Facebook and Twitter integration are also available.
• You can also select more than one map and apply one action on all selected tasks. This allows you to complete tasks more quickly.

With more than 5000 downloads for just one month DropMind Lite is establishing its position and credibility in the mind mapping world. This fact is great motivation for our team to work harder in order to provide excellent mind mapping environment and set DropMind as one of yours must have applications.

Just wanted to share a recent post for DropMind iPad version. The text was originally wrote by Jan Schultink on http://blog.ideatransplant.com

Triggered by the iPad touch interface, I started to use mindmapping for the first time in presentation design. Mindmapping is a process in which you jot down ideas and the connections between them quickly, and edit, clean up, and move things around later to get a more organized picture. I must say, it works a lot better than my previous approach: the pencil and a piece of paper. Especially since it is a lot harder to lose that piece of paper with your notes on it.

I purchased 2 iPad apps: iThoughtsHD and DropMind. iThoughtsHD was designed specifically for the iPad, and is the cheaper of the 2 ($10 versus $50 for DropMind). The DropMind app is an extension from an existing suite of desktop and web applications. The latter probably explains why it took a relatively long time for DropMind to come out with the app, a working iOS 4.2 version only appeared last week in the app store.

When reading my impressions remember that I am a light-weight mind mapper, just using it to structure ideas for a presentation. Reading around on the Internet it looks like mindmapping is a whole design approach taking things much further than I do.

For the purpose I use it for, iThoughtsHD works perfectly fine. The interface is straightforward and clean, and it is every easy to export mindmaps to PDF or sync them using a Dropbox account.

DropMind’s user interface looks a little bit more sophisticated with more graphical options. When you buy the iPad app, they also offer a perpetual license for the desktop client, and the web app. You can exchange mindmaps between the applications. There is a wide arsenal of tools available that I did not yet have time for to explore. The one drawback I found is that when you export a map to PDF or JPG, the resolution seems to be very low (not an issue with iThoughtsHD). I think this is a bug, or maybe I did not configure the settings correctly).

The bottom line. For basic presentation outline scribbles, iThoughtsHD works just fine and costs a lot less than DropMind. Personally, I tend to favor the DropMind app, because of the cross-platform integration and the ability to start using some of the more sophisticated tools available once I have come up the learning curve (on the condition that they fix the resolution of the exported images).