# MindGenius review (2026): is it worth $160 a year per seat? > Mind mapping that turns into tasks, boards and timelines Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. MindGenius Online is a browser-based mind mapping tool that also lays a project out as a task board and a timeline. It is sold per seat, with one subscription covering every feature. The company describes it as a place to test goals, assumptions and risks before a project starts. - **Category:** Whiteboards & Mind Maps - **Made by:** MindGenius Limited - **Website:** https://www.mindgenius.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you are one person, at $160 a year against the category's usual yearly price. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, MindGenius is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $160 per seat / year, billed annually ($16 per seat billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no card needed; afterward the account drops to a single-project plan. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Subscription | $160 per seat / year, billed annually ($16 billed monthly) | Unlimited projects and views, Needs Attention overview, Microsoft Teams integration and guest access. | | Enterprise | Custom | For 25+ seats with volume pricing, deployment guidance and a named contact. Sold through sales. | Read from https://www.mindgenius.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MindGenius before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **About 17% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Annual billing costs about 17% less per seat than paying monthly; the page puts the difference at $32 a seat. Source: https://www.mindgenius.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Mind maps:** Ideas, assumptions, risks and open questions are laid out as a map before any work is committed. - **Taskboard and Timeline views:** The same project can be shown as a map, a task board or a timeline, and all three are part of the single subscription. - **Needs Attention:** A cross-project view that collects whatever is slipping across all projects. The vendor lists it as Online-only. - **Microsoft Teams and guests:** A Microsoft Teams integration and guest access let people outside the account take part in a project. - **Volume pricing:** Annual plans drop to $144 per seat at 11 to 25 seats, $120 at 26 to 50 and $80 at 51 to 100. ## Good for - Teams that want to plan and assign work from a mind map - Small groups buying a few seats on one flat price ## Worth knowing - After the 14-day trial the account becomes a single-project plan unless a subscription is bought. - MindGenius Desktop is a separate Windows-only product with its own licensing; these prices cover Online only. - Volume pricing applies only to annual billing from 11 seats up. - Dollar prices come from the page's USD currency switch; the page opens in pounds. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. MindGenius Online shows one project as a mind map, a task board or a timeline. It is $160 a seat a year, the trial falls back to a single-project plan, and the Windows desktop version is a separate product with its own price. - **Value for money: C.** $160 a seat a year, about $13.30 a month, sits above the category's dearer-quarter start of $9.99 but well below its dearest tenth. Monthly billing is $16 a seat. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial needs no card, after which the account drops to a single-project plan. - **Features: C.** Map, task board and timeline views in one subscription. Gap the listing shows: the cross-project Needs Attention view is online only, and the desktop product is separate. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build the project structure yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with Microsoft Teams as the one listed integration. The desktop version is separate. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from MindGenius's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among whiteboard and mind map tools - MindGenius's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 4 of the 61 other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, and level with 7. - Its paid plans start at $13.33 a month when paid by the year for each person, against a middle price of $7.49 for the category: 40 of the 44 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 38 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/whiteboards ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** A whiteboard at its plainest is boxes and arrows on a canvas. You could make the core of MindGenius for yourself: mind mapping and tasks. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $160 a year. - You could make: Mind mapping and tasks: an app builder makes these well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Microsoft Teams **Tags:** Mind mapping, Tasks ## Alternatives - [Xmind](https://toolgpa.com/tools/xmind): Mind mapping app with AI, Gantt charts and a presentation mode. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mindgenius-vs-xmind) - [MindMeister](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mindmeister): Browser-based mind mapping with real-time collaboration. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mindgenius-vs-mindmeister) - [MindManager](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mindmanager): Mind mapping and diagramming software with Gantt charts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mindgenius-vs-mindmanager) - [Mindomo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mindomo): Mind maps, outlines and Gantt charts with real-time editing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mindgenius-vs-mindomo) - [Coggle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/coggle): Collaborative mind maps and flowcharts in the browser. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coggle-vs-mindgenius) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.mindgenius.com/pricing/ - https://www.mindgenius.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mindgenius Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).