I'm a little baffled that nobody has left some praise for iThoughsX, so I guess I'll have to jump in.

Great app, super feature set, very responsive developer. And now, just over a year later, the app has flown through v1 and v2 to reach v3.

That might have been how v1.0 entered the world, but it was not what I found in v.1.11, for it was far more capable and stable than I'd dared to hope. My expectations were low: I was hoping for a stable viewer of my iPad mind maps with basic editing capability. 1.11 on 1/6/15, to support and encourage the developer. So great was my delight when at length I discover a Mac version had come on the scene, simply because it promised to increase the utility of my iPad version manyfold. Its utility was harshly limited, though, in that there was no corresponding Mac application. I first met iThoughts as an iPad app where it shined brightly amongst the competition, and it helped me focus my thoughts on many occasions. It's fast, easy to use, feature-rich, but those features remain out of my way unless I need them I need. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.This is an outstanding mind-mapping application. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.

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