As of December 2015[update], Mindjet had approximately two million users,[3] including notable customers such as Coca-Cola, Disney, IBM, and Wal-Mart.

[5] MindManager also has features that allow budget calculations and formulas, Gantt chart views of project timelines, and guided brainstorming.

Links, images, and notes can also be added to mind map topics and viewed and searched in a side panel.

The software that became MindManager was originally developed by Mike Jetter in the mid-1990s while he was recovering from a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia.

Jetter's goal was to develop a program that would overcome the limitations of creating mind maps with pen and paper, such as the inability to easily move items around.

[13][14] Later that year, the company acquired Thinking Space, an Android-based information mapping application,[15] and Cohuman, a social task management service,[16] which the company developed into a collaborative, cloud-based service to complement MindManager called Mindjet Connect or Project Director.