Statistics

Links to SourceForge statistics are here: SourceForge#Statistics.

Download statistics

Observations about FreeMind daily and monthly download statistics:

• The peak downloads were 350 000 per month, in May 2011.
• The downloads dwindled to about 50 000 per month in Jan 2020.
• The downloads since dwindled to about 1/10, 30 000 per month, e.g. Feb 2023.
• Possible explanation: absence of new releases fails to drive new downloads. Other FOSS competition drives the downloads down, e.g. XMind and Freeplane, but these two do not have hugely larger downloads than FreeMind. Needs a more careful look.
• OpenOffice daily download counts steadily surpass 50 000 per day, on the order of 50 times as many as FreeMind. OpenOffice is many times richer and fundamental product than FreeMind, so perhaps this is not so bad a relationship.

Total download per FreeMind release as of Nov 2023:

• FreeMind Release 1.0.1: over 6,010,000 times[1].
• FreeMind Release 0.9.0: over 5,450,000 times[2].
• FreeMind Release 0.8.1: over 4,880,000 times[3].
• FreeMind Release 0.8.0: over 3,245,000 times[4].
• FreeMind Release 0.7.1: over 1,000,000 times[5]. At the time of the release, all the previous releases in total were downloaded over 98,800 times[6].
• FreeMind Release 0.6.7: over 42,600 times[7].
• FreeMind Release 0.6.5: over 16,500 times[8].
• FreeMind Release 0.6.1: over 13,700 times[9].
• FreeMind Release 0.5: over 4,290 times[10]
• FreeMind Release 0.4: over 15,900 times[11]

For comparison, total downloads per release of OpenOffice via SourceForge mirrors, as of Nov 2023:

• OpenOffice 4.1.14: over 15,200,000 times[12]
• OpenOffice 4.1.13: over 15,200,000 times[13]
• OpenOffice 4.1.11: over 10,200,000 times[14].
• OpenOffice 4.1.7: over 24,300,000 times[15].
• OpenOffice 4.1.3: over 34,300,000 times[16]
• OpenOffice 4.1.2: over 39,600,000 times[17]
• OpenOffice 4.1.1: over 49,500,000 times[18].
• OpenOffice 4.1.0: over 14,100,000 times[19]
• OpenOffice 4.0.0: over 12,500,000 times[20]

Thus, if we take the maximum FreeMind downloads of 6,010,000 times and maximum OpenOffice downloads of 49,500,000 times, we get that OpenOffice was downloaded 8.2 times more often than FreeMind. That seems not too bad: FreeMind was developed by a handful of volunteers in their spare time whereas OpenOffice has the legacy of corporate development when it was still StarOffice and was further developed later with corporate support. The download-yield-to-development-cost ratio would seem to be more favorable for FreeMind than for OpenOffice.

Downloads of version without Java embedded and with Java embedded:

• FreeMind-Windows-Installer-1.0.1-max.exe is downloaded more often than FreeMind-Windows-Installer-1.0.1-max-java-installer-embedded.exe[21].

See also

• Releases

External links

• freemind/files/stats/timeline, sourceforge.net
• freemind/files/stats/timeline 2000-12-01 to 2023-03-01, sourceforge.net -- download statistics from 2000 to 2023
• freemind/1.0.1/stats/timeline 2010-12-24 to 2023-03-24, sourceforge.net -- stats for latest stable version 1.0.1 only
• freeplane/files/stats/timeline 2000-12-01 to 2023-03-01, sourceforge.net -- stats for freeplane for comparison
• xmind3/files/stats/timeline 2000-12-01 to 2023-03-01, sourceforge.net -- stats for xmind3 for comparison
• Apache OpenOffice Downloads, openoffice.org -- download statistics for comparison