10 Creative Brainstorming Apps for Better Ideas
- Productivity
Zach- 20 minutes read
There are many ways to boost brainstorming, from meditation to other unique techniques. Here are 10 creative brainstorming apps for better ideas.
How do you get your best ideas? There are many ways to boost brainstorming for better ideas, including these 3 unique meditations. However, sometimes the best method is classic mind-mapping and other brainstorming techniques, but it can still be hard to manage. With these creative brainstorming apps, not only can you support normal brainstorming sessions, but you can also learn some unique ways to find ideas, from creative living to AI chats.
Mindmeister
MindMeister is a mind-mapping and creative brainstorming tool to help you organize your ideas, take notes, plan projects, and more. Seamlessly sync across platforms and customize your sessions with different icons, colors, and styles. Either on your own or collaborating in real-time with others, this creative brainstorming tool has won awards and is praised by many creative minds and creative industries.
Pricing
- Basic plan: Free
- Personal plan: $4.99/Month
- Pro plan: $8.25/Month
- Business plan: $12.49/Month
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Coggle
Coggle is a simple online software for creating and sharing mindmaps and flowcharts. This budget-friendly mind-mapping app is great for creative brainstorming and can help you produce ideas quickly and share them with friends and colleagues to work on your ideas together.
Pricing
- Free Forever Plan: Free
- Awesome Plan: $5/Month
- Organization Plan: $8/Month
Microsoft Whiteboard
Microsoft Whiteboard is a visual collaboration canvas in Microsoft 365 for hybrid work and learning. This Microsoft app provides a freeform, intelligent canvas to support creative collaboration, brainstorming, enhance meetings, visualize ideas, support visual learning, and more.
Pricing
- Free
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MindNode
MindNode is an iPhone and Mac brainstorming app to help you capture your thoughts and create a clear picture of your idea. Whether it’s on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, with MindNode, you can stay productive and creative wherever you are. Capture your thoughts in words, images, links, tasks, or notes, and support your brainstorming session further with the MindNode focus mode.
Pricing
- Free Plan
- MindNode Plus: $2.49/Month / $19.99/Year
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Trello
Trello is an incredible tool for creativity. From brainstorming to project planning, this visual tool can help you organize your creative work and life in many ways. Easily write down and organize ideas in Trello’s boards, cards and checklists. Collaborate with others and make templates (Free Creative Enso Templates) to fit your creative needs with a seemingly endless list of features and Power-Up widgets.
Pricing
- Free
- Standard: $5/Month
- Premium: $10/Month
- Enterprise: $17.50/Month
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Historical Figures Chat
Historical Figures Chat is a unique A.I. technology that allows users to have conversations with over 20,000 historical figures from the past.
Brainstorming with others is a great way to gain new perspectives and heighten ideas. What if you could brainstorm with Nikola Tesla, Socrates, and other famous creative minds?
Use this app to learn about the lives of famous creative minds and their works, and ask questions to support your brainstorming in a realistic conversation experience.
Pricing
- Free: Many free historical figures to talk with
- Coins: $3.99 = 100 Coins (50 coins unlock historical figures)
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Chat GPT is a popular Ai-based program that users can interact with conversationally. This chatbot uses a language-based model that is primarily designed for customer service. However, people can use it for other creative purposes, like asking brainstorming questions.
Pricing
- Free
Post-it® is a great way to capture and upload your notes from brainstorming sessions, especially if you use post-it notes on a wall.
This creative brainstorming app brings the simplicity of Post-it® Notes to your smartphone, tablet, Mac, and Chromebook. Capture your analog notes with your camera or create digital ideas on your device. Arrange, refine and organize ideas in any way you see fit. Collaborate and share notes with co-workers, teachers, and friends, or export to your favorite apps and cloud services—including Miro, Trello, Dropbox, iCloud, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, and more.
Pricing
- Free
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Simplemind is a minimal and easy-to-use mind-mapping tool to help you organize your thoughts, remember things, and generate new ideas. This cross-platform intuitive can help you brainstorm wherever you are and whenever you want.
Pricing
- Free Edition
- Pro Edition: $10.99
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Do you get stuck when trying to expand upon an idea? Mind mapping and brainstorming require associative thinking, and this skill can take some practice and time to strengthen.
Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus is a useful creative brainstorming tool to enhance your associative thinking and find related terms to speed up your mind mapping and brainstorming sessions. Find similar words to expand on ideas and inspire new ways of thinking and connecting thoughts.
Zach is an international writer, photographer, filmmaker, martial artist, and creator of Creative Enso, the Zen art of creative living. His goal is to empower and inspire creatives to live healthier, happier, and more creative lifestyles.
