Freeplane is available for differents Operating Systems. All Freeplane setup files are available for download here.

Please find below recommendations to choose which file to download before installing Freeplane on your computer.

Distributions for Microsoft Windows

  • Freeplane-Setup-with-Java-xxx.exe: Windows installer with embedded Java.
  • Freeplane-Setup-xxx.exe: Windows installer which requires Java 11 to 17 to be installed independently. To use this version set environment variable path FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME.
  • FreeplanePortable-xxx.paf.exe: runs on Windows using Portable Apps launcher. Requires Open JDK JRE64 portable java version 15 to be installed on your portable app device. It saves user configuration files on the same device.
  • freeplane_bin-xxx.zip: archive without installer. It requires Java 11 to 17 to be installed. To use this version set environment variable path FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME.

Distributions for Apple macOS

  • Freeplane-xxx-intel.dmg: distribution with embedded java for macOS with intel or m1 processor. This distribution includes adaptive Look and Feel VAqua.
  • Freeplane-xxx-apple.dmg: distribution with embedded java for macOS with m1 processor. This distribution does not include adaptive Look and Feel VAqua.

Distributions for Linux

  • freeplane_xxx~upstream-1_all.deb: Debian installer compliant with differents Linux derivatives.
  • freeplane_bin-xxx.zip: archive without installer.

They both requires Java 11 to 17 to be installed. To use them, set environment variable path FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME.