This page is about one specific interchange - swapping FreeMind and MindManager mind
map files: .mmap and .mm. The FreeMind format is the one most commonly accepted for
import and provided for export by other mind mapping software. MindManager is the
second most common.

Interchange between them is complicated by the fact that there is more than one
FreeMind schema in regular use: The present 'live' version of FreeMind (0.8.0) has a
somewhat different schema from that of the Beta (0.9.0), which is in wide use in the
FreeMind community. And then that there is more than one MindManager format -
though this has been stable since version 5: 5, 6 and 7 are equivalent to the best of my
knowledge ... correct me if I'm wrong.

Here is a link to MindManager's Freemind Importer (Import FreeMind files into MindManager
Pro 6 on Windows). It works for MM6 only, unfortunately, and its import capability is limited
to older features.

I am collecting information on which software claiming to export or import FreeMind
files works with which versions, and what the limitations of using non-supported
versions are. Please let Vic know if you can provide more information on FreeMind
or MindManager versions supported by specific software.

One means of transfer between these two packages would be via web-based mind mapping
software (Mind42, MindMeister, Mindomo, etc.) that supports both. There will be limitations,
principally in the metadata recorded against each node, for example, FreeMind's "Attributes"
or MindManager project management data.

  XML schema or file format description file: