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Minder

Create, develop and visualize your ideas.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Minder is a diagramming program, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Minder provides a mindmap creation and exploration environment that focuses on a clean interface with smooth animations and rich, expressive elements to help capture and organize your ideas quickly and stay in the…” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Support for Markdown formatting.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Minder is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Use the power of mind-mapping to make your ideas come to life. Minder provides a mindmap creation and exploration environment that focuses on a clean interface with smooth animations and rich, expressive elements to help capture and organize your ideas quickly and stay in the your flow. Quickly create visual mind-maps using the keyboard and automatic layout. Choose from many tree layout choices. Support for Markdown formatting. Support for insertion of Unicode characters. Add notes, tasks, and images to your nodes. Add node-to-node connections with optional text and notes. Stylize nodes, callouts, links and connections to add more meaning and improve readability. Save and reuse style settings within and across open mindmaps. Add stickers, tags, callouts and node groups to call out and visibly organize information. Quick search of node and connection titles and notes, including filtering options. Zoom in or enable focus mode to focus on certain ideas or zoom out to see the bigger picture. Enter focus mode to better view and understand portions of the map. Quickly brainstorm ideas with the brainstorming interface and worry about where those ideas belong in the mindmap later. Unlimited undo/redo of any change. Automatically and manual saving supported. Colorized node branches. Open multiple mindmaps with the use of tabs. Built-in and customizable theming. Gorgeous animations. Import from OPML, FreeMind, Freeplane, PlainText/Markdown (formatted), Outliner, Portable Minder, filesystem and XMind formats. Export to CSV, FreeMind, Freeplane, JPEG, BMP, SVG, WebP, Markdown, Mermaid, Mermaid Mindmap, OPML, Org-Mode, Outliner, PDF, PNG, PlainText, filesystem, XMind and yEd formats. Printer support.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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