• Images
• Videos
• Documents
• Books
• Articles

Features

Release 1.1

New features of Freeplane stable release (June 2010) include:

• Export to PNG, JPEG, SVG (in addition to HTML / XHTML and PDF)
• Find / Replace in all open maps
• Paste HTML as node structure
• Outline mode
• Portable version (run from a USB flash drive)
• Scripting via Groovy
• Spell checker

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:

• Text-processor-like node styles²
• Conditional node styles³
• Map templates for new maps⁴
• Formatting panel
• Add-ons: Installable enhancements⁵
• Hyperlinks for menu items
• Keyboard shortcut documentation: Map and HTML table generation added for the documentation map
• Check for newer auto save files on opening of a map
• Single instance mode: open files in existing program instance instead of opening a new one.
• Node level dependent filters
• Improvement in search and replace functions
• Different cloud shapes
• New icons for rating
• Automatic Edge Color
• "Grid" for moving of nodes (Preferences->Behaviour->Grid gap size)
• Copy and paste attributes
• Named filter conditions
• Different shapes, line types, width and transparency for connectors
• Freeplane portable version (download and install file named FreeplanePortable_xxx.paf.exe)
• File -> Properties... dialog showing facts about the map such as total nodes, branches and leaf nodes
• New icons added to facilitate speedy use of main and contextual menus
• Formulas: Use of formulas as node text and attributes (like in spread sheet processors)⁶
• Node numbering and Formats/templates as style attributes
• Added progress icons to show incremental completion in 10% or 25% steps
• Summaries: Create graphical and textual summaries by "bracketing" nodes. See example map⁷
• Menu and command structure⁸ refactored both to integrate new features and to make Freeplane more intuitive and easier to learn
• Dates and numbers: Parsing and formatting improved⁹
• Digital post-its: free positionable and free floating nodes.¹⁰
• Dates and numbers: Improved scripting support¹¹

Release 1.3.x

Version 1.3 was published ((date)). New features of 1.3.x included:

• Expand LaTeX feature to both formulae and text¹²
• Integration of OpenStreetMap¹³

Release 1.5.x

New features of Freeplane 1.5 include:

• New options for creating mind maps with high homogeneity and symmetry¹⁴
• Clones¹⁵
• Init scripts¹⁶
• Background images¹⁷

Release 1.6.x

• References to other mind maps from formulas and scripts
• PDF and SVG exports enhancements
• Java 9 support
• JLatexMath update
• Bug fixes

Release 1.7.x

• Dark UI mode support (Look and feel and map template "Darcula")
• User interface enhancements
• Nodes and aliases enhancements
• Java 13 support, Java 11 compatibility, Java 7 support dropped, Java 8 is required
• Bug fixes

Release 1.12.x

The latest stable release is 1.11.14 (May 14, 2024; 10 months ago (2024-05-14)) [±].

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 :

• GTD support ¹⁸
• Study planner
• Versioning and collaborative work ¹⁹

See also

• Free and open-source software portal
• Computer programming portal

• Mind map
• List of mind mapping software

External links

• Official website
• Freeplane on SourceForge
• (in French) FreeMind By Example covers usage of FreeMind and Freeplane

References

1. June 2014, Project of the Month – Freeplane sourceforge.net interview with Dimitry Polivaev http://sourceforge.net/blog/june-2014-project-of-the-month-freeplane/ ↩

2. Node styles http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Node_styles ↩

3. Conditional node styles http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Conditional_node_styles ↩

4. Map templates http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Map_templates ↩

5. Add-ons such as Freeplane|GTD. Study Planner and Add-on Developer Tools. http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Add-ons ↩

6. Formulas http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Formulas ↩

7. Example map of nodes summarized by "bracketing" http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/extensions/Freeplane/appletwindow.php?browsemode_initial_map=http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/images/8/88/Example-SummaryNodes.mm&mm_title=Example-SummaryNodes.mm ↩

8. Menus and commands http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Menus_and_commands ↩

9. Input & format of dates and numbers http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/forums/forum/758437/topic/4531417 ↩

10. Free positionable and free floating nodes http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Tutorial_Freeplane#Floating_nodes ↩

11. Input & format of dates and numbers http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/forums/forum/758437/topic/4531417 ↩

12. LaTeX in Freeplane http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LaTeX_in_Freeplane#LaTeX_Text.2BFormulae_in_Freeplane_.3E.3D_1.3.1 ↩

13. OpenStreetMap Plugin http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Open_Street_Map_Plugin ↩

14. Jonas Batista Freeplane Version Announcement https://sourceforge.net/p/freeplane/discussion/758437/thread/b5ad5263/?limit=25&page=0 ↩

15. Clones http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Scripting#Clones_.28since_1.5.5.29 ↩

16. Init scripts http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Init_scripts ↩

17. Application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge and Project Management http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20preview/history_en-1.5.8-beta-pre01.txt/download ↩

18. "use freeplane for GTD". Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2013-10-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20140301005046/http://auxilus.com/blog/freeplanegtd ↩

19. collaborative mind-mapping and map versioning http://freeplanecollab.sourceforge.net/ ↩