Curio for Mac
Brainstorming and project-management app.
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Curio overview
Curio is the premier brainstorming and project-management application designed to promote visual thinking. Using Curio's innovative freeform interface and tools, you can intuitively gather, associate, and recall your ideas, while easily managing all the notes and documents associated with your project.
The heart of Curio is the idea space. Think of idea spaces as your whiteboard, notebook, and sketchpad all wrapped up into one. Within a Curio project, you can create an unlimited number of idea spaces where you can place anything anywhere on the page. Brainstorm or organize your notes with freeform collages of text, images, URLs, documents, Mail messages, movies, and sounds. Give the idea space a note paper or graph paper style, or perhaps a linen paper texture. This is your idea space, with your notes and ideas. Make it the way you want it to look.
Curio is available in three different editions: Professional, Standard, and Core so customers can purchase based on their feature needs. Pricing information can be found here.
What’s new in version 33.0.2
Improvements
- Status Shelf: The Status shelf and code related to the background retrieval of tasks in opened and unopened projects has been significantly refactored to make it much robust and prevent race conditions, potential deadlocks, and synchronization issues.
- Better Backups: If you've enabled Curio's built-in automatic backups, Curio will now store a zipped version of your project, instead of a simple copy, in the specified Backups folder. This saves space, makes backups faster with cloud-synced backup folders, and backed-up projects won't be found by Spotlight meaning you won't accidentally open your backups instead of your real projects. The zipping happens asynchronously so won't slow project opening.
- Window > New Window: When you choose Window > New Window, Curio will now store the current project and session state (Organizer selection, etc) before opening the new window so it appears in the same state.
- Arrange > Lock Position: You are now able to add/remove/rearrange items within a collection/composition that has its position locked via Arrange > Lock Position.
- Figure Auto Spacing: The auto spacing algorithm is now more robust for figures that have Resizes should move figures closely underneath checked in the Geometry inspector panel.
- Smarter Project Link Resolution: The Project Mappings file (in Curio's app support folder) is now updated with the project ID → project URL mapping at every project open and save. This means curio:// links, which contain project ID's, will automatically work without resorting to an internal Spotlight search or asking the user to locate the project.
- Markdown Code Blocks Enhancements: Like the new language code blocks, regular code blocks now support padding, border, and inserted blank lines before/after the block.
- Markdown Code Blocks with Tildes: You can now use 3 tildes as an alternative to 3 backticks for a code block. This brings Curio into compliance with CommonMark and is easier to type than backticks on certain international keyboards.
- Markdown Master Style Font Sizes: For your master markdown styles you can now specify a font-size with a px suffix to indicate pixel units like 16px, as opposed to standard points (where 12pt=16px), or with a % suffix like 85% which specifies a font size as a percentage of the default or body font size. The latter is handy if you want your language code block to be a tad smaller than surrounding body text, like Github's 85% or ChatGPT's 87.5%.
Full list of changes available here
Curio for Mac
$89.99
In English
Version 33.0.2
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Apr 10 2025
Version: 31.0.2
The update/upgrade pricing is way too steep, I stopped upgrading at 29, don't even want to know how much this app cost me since I first got it, hundreds of dollars. It's an interesting app but not near as central to me as DevonThink (my hub for so many things).. and so much more expensive over the years; these days count about $80 per year. And it really has not modernized for years when it comes to its content appearance (cards, listings, flowcharts etc look very outdated, so not even good to make modern presentations, feels very old school Powerpoint). When it comes to creating visual boards (which was what first attracted me to Curio) Apple's Freeform is quite capable.
May 12 2021
Version: 15.0
Bought the 14.4 pro version three month ago…
The app got updated to version 15 with a very short list of 7 additional features which are either minor, or should already have been included in the pro version (like markdown images in text figure - what kind of app support markdown without image ?) and now it ask me to pay an additional whopping 69€ for the upgrade to the 99$ I already spend, while announcing a « great » update in the pricing model allowing a 1 year free update after every purchase instead of a yearly major version paid upgrade model (which happened to be in April every year) and a new « outstanding » subscription model in the Mac App Store for 76€/year.
The developer is one more **** to the growing list of greedy developers which ask you to pay every ****ing year for bug fix or simple update to the last apple API or minor additional features or cosmetic update.
