One payment. Not a subscription.
Last updated 27 September 2026
Thoughtline is free to download, and the free version can finish a job: build a mind map, add notes, search it, and export a PDF — without paying anything. Thoughtline Pro is $14.99, once.
What is free
- Unlimited maps and unlimited topics
- Canvas and outline views of the same map
- Quick capture and paste-a-list-as-a-map
- Notes on any topic
- Search across every map, including inside notes
- Folders
- 120 icons
- 12 map themes, plus light, dark and AMOLED black
- Checkboxes with progress
- Four layouts, from free-form to top-down
- Export to PDF, PNG, SVG, Markdown and plain text
- Import from SimpleMind, FreeMind, OPML, Markdown and plain text
- Backup of every map to one file
What Thoughtline Pro adds
- Images on topics
- Crosslinks between topics anywhere in the map
- Two more layouts: List and Radial
- Export to OPML and FreeMind
- A notes appendix and a checklist page in your PDF
- A search filter for every unchecked item across your maps
Is Thoughtline a subscription?
No. There is no monthly price, no yearly price and no trial that runs out. Pro is a single in-app purchase that covers every future version through 3.x. There is nothing to cancel.
Will something free become Pro later?
No. A feature that is free today stays free. New Pro features may be added; nothing moves from the free list to the Pro list.
Does one purchase cover all my devices?
Within one store, yes: Pro on Google Play covers every Android phone and tablet on that Google account, and Pro on the App Store covers your iPhone and iPad on the same Apple Account, with Family Sharing. The two stores cannot share a purchase, so the iPhone and Android apps are bought separately. We would rather say that plainly than imply otherwise.
Are there ads, or an account?
Neither. There are no ads, ever, and no account to make. Your maps stay on your device — see the privacy policy.
Coming from another mind map app?
Thoughtline opens SimpleMind, FreeMind and OPML files, free. See which formats carry over, or the guides for SimpleMind and iThoughts.