MindMeister is an online mind mapping application that allows its users to visualize, share and present their thoughts via the cloud.

[4] MindMeister is based on a freemium model, with a basic account available free of charge, providing limited functionality.

MindMeister allows users to share and edit mind maps, leave comments and feedback, attach files, images, videos, and link to external, as well as internal sources, via embedded URLs.

The idea behind MindMeister was first devised when the two founders, Michael Hollauf and Till Vollmer, were working together using Writely, which had been recently acquired by Google Docs,[7] and the mind mapping tool MindManager.

While using Google Docs and MindManager together, the idea was born to combine the two, forming a collaborative online mind mapping tool which could be easily shared and edited, via the cloud.