Names have histories , and sometimes they are not really logical . From 2008 we had an app called MindNode Pro and an app called MindNode Lite , which was a limited free version. They had version number 1 .

2012 we stopped offering MindNode Lite on the App Store and had a free Demo version on our Website. After that, we only offered an app called MindNode Pro, version number 1, but there wasn't an alternative not-Pro version and that caused some confusion.

In 2015 we updated MindNode to a new version number and name; MindNode 2 for Mac . This was our first paid upgrade.

Meanwhile, our iOS app MindNode for iOS went through all the version numbers from 1 to 4 .

As we were thinking about names for the next major upgrade version of MindNode, we really wanted it to be very similar for iOS and macOS , because the apps are very similar as well and the different version numbers always caused confusion . So we decided to skip version numbers 3 and 4 for Mac and went straight to version number 5 in 2017. Which then allowed us to continue the count with version numbers 6 (2019) and 7.

With the release of MindNode 7 in 2020, we also introduced our new cross-platform (iOS & Mac) subscription called MindNode Plus .

We noticed over the course of this year that our previous release versioning scheme no longer fits our new development cycle : We no longer want to ship major updates; instead, we want to focus on regular, incremental improvements . This is why we switched to a year-based version number . Going forward, our release numbers will be comprised of the current year, followed by the release number .