Often, you’ll see posts about mind mapping software for Macs.  Sometimes the author will mention surprise at how many there are.  I came across an example at Mike’s Silver Mac blog and thought it would be useful to pull together a master list, and here it is:

BrainMine  –  http://www.neuralmatters.com/
Compendium  –  http://www.compendiuminstitute.org    concept maps
ConceptDraw  –  http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/mindmap/main.php
Conception  –  http://www.parlog.com/en/index.html    concept maps
Consideo  –  http://www.consideo.com/index.html
Conzilla  –  http://www.conzilla.org/wiki/Overview/Main    concept maps
Curio  –  http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/
DeepaMehta  –  http://www.deepamehta.de/
Flying Logic  –  http://flyinglogic.com/
FreeMind  –  http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
GraphViz  –  http://www.graphviz.org/   concept maps
i2Brain  –  http://www.i2brain.com/
Incubator  –  http://www.mindcad.com/
Insight   –  http://www.ceryph.com/    concept maps, commercial version of Cmap
Inspiration  –  http://www.inspiration.com/productinfo/kidspiration/index.cfm    (and Kidspiration)
JUDE/Think!  –  http://jude-users.com/en/modules/news/article.php?storyid=14
Life Map  –  http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/mlrgtools.html    concept maps
MindManager  –  http://www.mindjet.com/
MindNode  –  http://www.mindnode.com/
MyMind  –  http://www.sebastian-krauss.de/software/
Novamind  –  http://www.nova-mind.com/
PersonalBrain  –  http://www.thebrain.com/
Pimki  –  http://pimki.rubyforge.org/    (Personal wiki with a Mind Map feature)
Prefuse  –  http://prefuse.org/
Protege-OWL  –  http://protege.stanford.edu/overview/protege-owl.html
Semantica SE  –  http://www.semanticresearch.com/
Shared space  –  http://www.shared-space.net/
SMART Ideas  –  http://www.smarttech.com/products/smartideas/index.asp    concept maps
Spark-Space  –  http://www.spark-space.com/business.htm
Tinderbox  –  http://www.eastgate.com/
VUE  –  http://vue.uit.tufts.edu/index.cfm    concept maps
VYM  –  http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/
Xebece  –  http://freshmeat.net/projects/xebece/
Xmind  –  http://www.xmind.org/

You can find this at the site with screenshots and other details, by selecting Mac and Mac (OS9) from the “Refine software list” tab at top right.

Oh, and don’t forget all the browser-based mind mapping and concept mapping web services.  In principle, all of these should be runnable on a Mac, but I have no information on how Safari-friendly they are.  If any Mac users would care to share their experience running these, please comment here.  Four pages giving all the details for web-based ones are here: http://www.mind-mapping.org/web-based-mindmappers/

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