A lightweight, minimal, and customizable mind map
- Lightweight — Tauri 2 on the system WebView: 10 MB on macOS, ~70 MB RAM idle.
- Local-first — documents are plain
.xmindfiles on disk, no account, nothing uploaded. - Real folders — organise documents in folders under
~/Documents/Mind, so the file manager and the app always agree. - Two views of one document — a classic mind map, or a Mermaid
mindmapsource with live preview. - Full editor — 14 layouts, 50+ themes, dark mode, rich text, notes, tags, images, formulas and an outline view.
- AI assisted — generate a diagram from a prompt through your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Prebuilt builds are on Releases.
| System | File |
|---|---|
| Windows 10 / 11 (x64) | Mind_<version>_x64-setup.exe |
| Ubuntu 22.04+ / Debian 12+ (x64) | Mind_<version>_amd64.deb |
| Any distro with WebKitGTK 4.1 | Mind_<version>_amd64.AppImage |
The Windows build is unsigned, so the first launch needs More info → Run anyway. Linux builds use the system WebKitGTK 4.1 (Ubuntu 20.04 will not start), and the AppImage also needs libfuse2.
macOS — no prebuilt binary, build it locally:
makeInstalled builds update themselves in place; builds from before 0.1.3 need one manual reinstall first. The .deb package is the exception — download a newer one from Releases.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Requires | Xcode Command Line Tools — xcode-select --install |
| Toolchain | scripts/bootstrap.sh installs Node, Bun and Rust if missing |
| Install | make; Mind.app ends up in ~/Applications |
| Documents | ~/Documents/Mind |
make open # launch the installed app
make desktop # build only
make dev # run against the local dev server
make bootstrap # toolchain onlyAI generation reads baseUrl, model and apiKey from ai.json in the app config folder.
Issues and pull requests follow CONTRIBUTING.md: use the issue forms, keep one concern per change, and run the checks listed there. Security problems should go through SECURITY.md rather than the public tracker.
- Built on SimpleMindMap by wanglin2 — MIT, notice kept in LICENSE.
- From upstream: the editor, the
simple-mind-map/engine, the themes and most icons. - Added by this fork: the Tauri shell, dark mode, Mermaid authoring, AI generation and a local file library.