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Curio for Mac

Brainstorming and project-management app.

$89.99
In English
4.4
Based on 8 user rates

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 33.0.1

Fixes
  • Curio 33.0.1 fixes issues with markdown rendering, search performance, list item resize handles, and index card collapse widgets.
New features
  • Markdown math equations: One of our most popular requests is finally here! You can now enter math equations directly into Curio's markdown text figures! Block equations ($$⏎...⏎$$), inline equations (\(... \), $...$), and math code blocks (```math⏎...⏎```) are all supported.
  • Equation editor: The Insert > Equation editor with live preview has been completely rewritten to use our new MathJax subsystem. This means MathJax v3 (up from v2), additional bundled packages like mhchem and physics, support for offline rendering, accurate baseline calculations directly from the renderer, and no workarounds necessary to handle a mix of Retina and non-Retina monitors.
  • Mermaid figures [pro]: Curio Pro now supports Mermaid, a popular and extensible diagramming format! You can drag in Mermaid files or Paste As > Mermaid Diagram to instantly see a rendered diagram. The generated pdf image has a transparent background and will resize, zoom, and print perfectly.
  • Mermaid markdown code blocks [pro]: Curio Pro expands its markdown support with the ability to render Mermaid code blocks! You can construct your Mermaid code block with either backticks (```mermaid⏎...⏎```) or tildes (~~~mermaid⏎...⏎~~~).
  • Mermaid organizer documents [pro]: Curio Pro also supports Mermaid files in the Organizer!
  • Markdown language code blocks [pro]: Curio Pro now supports language-specific syntax coloring within ```language⏎...⏎``` or ~~~language⏎...⏎~~~ code blocks, where language is the language of your code block. Curio uses the popular Highlight library for syntax coloring.
  • Markdown horizontal rules: Curio now supports markdown horizontal rules via the CommonMark-standard ***, ---, or ___ syntax.
  • Markdown block quotes and callouts: Markdown block quotes now support callouts! Plus they have been significantly enhanced with support for padding, border, and inserted blank lines before/after the block.
Major improvements
  • Smarter importing: Major rewrite of import code to classify groups of similar dropped files so we can support a use for all similar files in this drop checkbox. If Option held when dropping, indicating aliases to files, then you can also choose the file-sync direction (bidirectional, export only, import only).
  • Select options: It's now much easier to select only figures or only scribbles. Just click and hold on the select tool to choose a specific option. No more magic modifier key incantations.
  • Glow options: Sometimes it's hard to tweak your figure borders and colors and make minor positioning adjustments when selection glows and grab handles are in the way. Now you can tap W to toggle off glow and ⇧W to toggle off handles making it easier to see what you're doing while the figures remain selected. Tap the keys again to toggle them back on. These are temporary overrides just for the current idea space viewing.
  • Async url figure meta and previews: When dragging an url into Curio all website meta data, including icon and preview images, are now loaded asynchronously (in the background) using a hybrid of Apple's native LinkPresentation framework plus a custom website OpenGraph description parser, instead of synchronously retrieving and parsing all meta info using custom code.
  • 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.
Additional updates
  • A ton of requested feature enhancements.
  • A bunch of bug fixes.
  • Technical updates.
Notes for upgraders
  • As the toolbar is getting a bit long for laptops it has been simplified with just an Insert button. Right-click on the toolbar and choose Customize Toolbar if you'd like to re-add specific collection buttons such as list, mind map, table, etc.
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Curio for Mac

$89.99
In English
Version 33.0.1
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3.0
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4.0
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4.0
Reliability
5.0
Customer support
3.0

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4.4

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Maclover1-1
Maclover1-1
Apr 10 2025
31.0.2
3.0
Apr 10 2025
3.0
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 $80 per year. And it really has not modernized for years when it comes to its content appearance (cards, listings, flowcharts etc look very outdated, so not even good to make modern presentations, feels very old school Powerpoint). When it comes to creating visual boards (which was what first attracted me to Curio) Apple's Freeform is quite capable.
Tim27
Tim27
Oct 11 2024
30.0
0.0
Oct 11 2024
0.0
Version: 30.0
There is no iOS app for this?
CheepnisAroma
CheepnisAroma
Feb 22 2024
28.0
0.0
Feb 22 2024
0.0
Version: 28.0
A minor update is available: 28.0.1
stephpi
stephpi
May 12 2021
15.0
2.0
May 12 2021
2.0
Version: 15.0
Bought the 14.4 pro version three month ago… The app got updated to version 15 with a very short list of 7 additional features which are either minor, or should already have been included in the pro version (like markdown images in text figure - what kind of app support markdown without image ?) and now it ask me to pay an additional whopping 69€ for the upgrade to the 99$ 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.
Macbookpro
Macbookpro
Apr 29 2021
14.4
5.0
Apr 29 2021
5.0
Version: 14.4
Version 15 is out...
Maclover1-1
Maclover1-1
Apr 10 2025
31.0.2
3.0
Apr 10 2025
3.0
Version: 31.0.2
stephpi
stephpi
May 12 2021
15.0
2.0
May 12 2021
2.0
Version: 15.0
Macbookpro
Macbookpro
May 25 2020
5.0
May 25 2020
5.0
Version: null
Haevuus
Haevuus
Apr 24 2020
5.0
Apr 24 2020
5.0
Version: null
sinbaddo
sinbaddo
Apr 23 2020
5.0
Apr 23 2020
5.0
Version: null
mzbe
mzbe
Apr 20 2019
5.0
Apr 20 2019
5.0
Version: null
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Jul 16 2018
5.0
Jul 16 2018
5.0
Version: null
szeoli-1
szeoli-1
Apr 26 2018
5.0
Apr 26 2018
5.0
Version: null