This may not sound significant, but as your map grows, you’ll end up doing a fair amount of scrolling, or squeezing and pinching to navigate around the screen as the map expands well beyond what you can see. This marks iBlueSky’s first shortcoming-New branches added to your map are placed about an inch away from the bubble they’re linked to. You add new sub-ideas by selecting the bubble that you want your new idea to branch off of and then tapping the small (+) button that appears at the bottom right-hand side of the screen. When you type a title in that bubble, your project takes on the same name any time you edit the bubble, the name of your project will change as well.
IBlueSky’s the Limit: iBlueSky offers some nice features but no optimized version for the iPad. The app offers a limited set of features, but they work well and, with a few small exceptions, make creating your mind map an easy process. ’s iBlueSky is the only non-iPad app in the mix (in the sense that there's no iPad-optimized version), while you can run it in 2x-mode on your tablet, it doesn’t scale well. Of these three apps, only two offer native iPad versions- SimpleMind and iThoughtsHD-and neither of those apps is Universal, which means that if you want to use them on all your iOS devices you’ll have to purchase both versions. True, all three of the apps reviewed here are designed for the small screen, but the small size of the iPhone/iPod touch screen and the expanse that even a basic mind mapped brainstorming session can become are two things that don’t go great together. I’ll start this review with a small caveat: Mind-mapping on a small-screened iOS device is not much fun and best avoided.
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