Ease of use with inline- and dialog editors, object-oriented main menu, context menu’s, multi-language support, spell checker, properties panel, drag& drop functionality, hot keys, options for batch execution, publishing, sharing and selectable preferences.
Password protecting of whole map and of individual nodes with DES encryption.
Changing views by hiding content (folding branches, filtering, roll-up of details and hiding extensions in a tooltip), finding, scrolling and navigating.
Structuring nodes in terms of content (text, scientific formula, calculation, icon, image and hyperlink) and presentation area (core, details, notes, attributes, images, and tooltip).
Automatically styling nodes (with a bubble, color, edge type, etc.) according to hierarchical level and content (conditional styles, automatic edge color, level styles).
Connecting nodes with dynamic links, free lines (connectors) and labels.
Grouping nodes with visual containers (clouds) and accolade (summary node).
Classifying nodes with metadata (attributes) and style types (system styles, user-defined styles, level styles).
Ordering ideas (nodes) into a hierarchy connected by lines (edges).
Note-taking with freely positionable, unconnected nodes (post-it’s).
It can be run locally or portably from removable storage like a USB drive. Freeplane for macOS runs on any operating system that has a current version of Java installed. The software can be used for mind mapping and analyzing the information contained in mind maps. Freeplane for Mac is a free and open-source software application that supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done at work, in school, and at home.