Wait, was it always like that?

It’s been far too long (once again) since the last update to let you know what’s new with Coggle, and as always lots of things have changed and we haven’t put a single pleep out on socials.

So that you’re not left forever wondering if you’re losing your mind with questions like “did the buttons always work like that?” or “I don’t remember seeing that option before?” here’s your very occasional update on some of the new things in Coggle!

Big things first. Coggle now has a native dark mode for night owls and other dark aesthetes. The dark mode will follow your browser or system preference, or you can toggle it in your settings.

We’ve also made some dramatic improvements for editing on touch-screen devices. We have an installable progressive web app that you can save to your home screen, and we’ve updated our icon branding across Coggle to match. On all touch-screen devices there’s now a new editing toolbar at the bottom of the screen, with shortcuts to open menus, create and delete branches, copy, and Cogglify:

For mouse-users as well as touch screens our beautiful radial menus have been re-engineered and now support new ways of interaction, including dragging to select menu items without lifting your click/finger.

Did you know there are over 26 different ways to add new items to a Coggle mind map! That’s all the different menus, gestures, keyboard shortcuts and toolbars that people use on different kinds of devices. We’re not completely sure that that’s a good thing, but it shows how much complexity goes into keeping Coggle simple on the surface.

For the folders in your documents list we’ve added a little menu with big new options to organise and sort your diagrams.

You might also have noticed new information and hints in the ‘saving…’ status bar in the bottom left corner, an improved help menu, better conflict resolution for simultaneous editing on laggy connections, improved hovering and nearby-display logic for add-node buttons, translations for 5 new languages, ultra buttery smooth adjustment of control points, our new shortcut to count words, and improved fonts across the user interface.

Cogglify is now faster, more robust, and links to other mind maps display the Coggle logo so you can quickly identify them (Although we have fixed a bug where cogglify allowed you to exceed the private diagrams limit… sorry!).

We’ve made diagram navigation even smoother, with better zooming in large diagrams. Dramatically improved the documents list performance in Safari, and improved loading performance everywhere with much more optimised javascript bundling.

If you try to use a 'select all’ shortcut we’ve got a new menu that might help you. But you still can’t select items in Coggle (and we don’t have any plans to change that).

Finally there have also been far too many other little bug fixes and quality improvements to list them all.

It’s been a busy year.

What hasn’t changed? Auto-arrange. Sorry. We know you want your Coggle mind maps to automatically arrange themselves beautifully, but we promise it’s really worth the time to carefully position things yourself. It creates diagrams that are so much more memorable and characterful than a rigid auto-arrange ever could.

We did change our minds about dark mode this year, so it is possible we’ll do the same for auto-arrange in the future though…

Enjoy Coggling your thoughts with the new updates! and if you have any comments or suggestions just drop us an email at hello@coggle.it

Posted by James, October 3rd 2025.

What’s new in Coggle recently? Here’s your occasional update in what we’ve been working on!

We love green, but, we finally decided that the old homepage was, perhaps, just a tiny bit too green, so you might have noticed our refreshed home page and documents list:

Hope you like the new design - if you have any comments we love to hear them!

There have been some much less visible updates too - in particular, we’ve been working on improving the quality of the diagrams you find when you search for public diagrams on Coggle, by removing and hiding published diagrams that have been created for spam, and that don’t contain any useful content.

We’re not really sure why anyone bothers to try create spam on Coggle, because we’ve always had a number of ways in which we’ve suppressed it, and limited the ways that Coggle diagrams can be used to boost other sites.

For some reason though, people still try (and try quite a lot!), which can cause problems if these diagrams appear in search results instead of other useful content. So, we’ve been improving our detection, flagging, and removal of spammy diagrams, and the accounts that create them, with an even more robust system.

Hopefully you will notice an increase in the quality of public diagrams you find when searching, but if you ever come across public content which shouldn’t be on Coggle, then please email us at hello@coggle.it with a link to the page, so we can review it.

Of course as always there have been lots of other little fixes and improvements too, to make using Coggle just a little bit smoother, like improvements to the ways that buttons for adding branches in diagrams work, and improvements to text rendering in Safari.

That’s all for now! As always, if you have any comments or feedback we always appreciate them, just drop us an email at hello@coggle.it.

Posted by James, October 26th 2021.

Noticed a message saying to refresh the page to get the latest version, and wondering what’s changed? Here’s your occasional update on what’s new in Coggle recently!

• The Coggle servers now respond 40% faster on average to requests! - watch out for a separate post with the technical details of this soon.
• Large diagrams also load substantially faster (yet again) - we’ve really been on a performance optimisation binge recently.
• new keyboard shortcuts to paste style, modifying the colour, shape, etc of some items to match the copied one. Check out the knowledge base article for details.
• SAML single sign on users can now seamlessly re-join an organisation after being removed (as long as they are still provisioned in your single sign-on system). This makes it easier to manage your costs for a Coggle Organisation by temporarily removing inactive members from the Organisation dashboard, as the people you remove can easily re-join when they need to use Coggle again.
• Changed diagrams are indexed more quickly, especially for users with large numbers of diagrams.
• Improved handling of slightly malformed URLs due to typos and copy+paste errors (like additional trailing slashes, or partial URL titles), so it’ll now be harder to accidentally end up with ‘diagram not found’ when copying a link someone has sent you for a diagram.

Other little bugfixes also included fixes for an issue where the size of icons would not always be calculated correctly, where the back button from the diagram sometimes wouldn’t take you to the right folder, and for an annoying bug in Safari where sometimes the first click after a page was loaded would be ignored.

That’s all for now! As always, if you have any comments or feedback we always appreciate them, just drop us an email at hello@coggle.it.

Posted by James, June 1st 2021.

Noticed a banner telling you to refresh to update to the latest version of Coggle recently? Here’s a roundup of what’s new!

• Faster Documents List For people with lots of diagrams, we’ve significantly improved the speed that the diagram list pages load: we no longer count all of your private diagrams before showing the page (you’ll notice the private diagrams counter in the top left of the page now stops at >10, instead of showing an exact count). When you have thousands of diagrams even just counting them all takes quite a long time!
• Organisation Admin Panel The organisation admin panel is now faster and more responsive, especially for Organisations with large numbers of diagrams and members, and it also now includes the guest’s email address as a tooltip for guest members.
• Improved ShortcutsYou can now use control + backspace to delete single words again, instead of this deleting the whole item. Use control + shift + backspace to delete the whole item. Thanks for all of your feedback about this!
• Better email address handling Several commonly used email address formats were being rejected by our email inputs – now you should be able to copy and paste addresses from more applications without having to edit them first or re-type them.
• Presentation Mode Links can now configure which level of a diagram embedded or linked in presentation more should be expanded by default, with the ?expand_level=2 query parameter.
• Improved search Improved search indexing of recently modified diagrams, and for users with large numbers of diagrams.

As always we’ve also been fixing little bugs, including issues sorting and filtering guest members in an Organisation, an issue where it sometimes wasn’t possible to change the order of diagrams in a folder, improvements to the Microsoft Visio export format, and some cases where our on/off switches weren’t switching as easily as they should.

That’s all for now!

Posted by James, November 16th 2020.

As well as introducing Sign in With Apple for privacy-discerning Cogglers, we’ve added some more new things recently which you might have missed! Here’s a roundup:

• Profile Images since Apple (and Organisation SAML Single Sign On) do not provide user profile pictures, we’ve added some built-in profile icons to choose from in Coggle, so you don’t have to be an anonymous silhouette. Find them in the Profile tab of your settings page.
• Sharing Your Awesome If you have a Coggle Awesome subscription, people you’re editing diagrams with can now use most of the Awesome features too.
• ID-provider initiated sign-on support for SAML authentication for Coggle Organisation single sign-on.
• Updated Emoji Support: Now supporting all the latest emoji (that’s Emoji version 13.0).
• Improved Shortcuts: You can now delete items using the [control] + [backspace] shortcut (or [command] + [backspace] on Mac), and when you delete an item using a keyboard shortcut, we’ve improved the way the next item is selected.

As always we’ve also been fixing little bugs, including one which would prevent some .mm freemind files from being imported correctly, where pasting images wouldn’t always work correctly, and also made some performance improvements.

That’s all for now!

Posted by James, June 25th 2020.

Coggle has seen a significant increase in use in the last few months as more people then ever are working and collaborating from home. We’ve spent lots of time making sure things work smoothly, and other behind the scenes improvements, but we’ve also made some visible changes you might have noticed:

• Keyboard navigation: Keyboard navigation now uses [ctrl] + [alt] + [shift] + arrow keys, and [shift] + [alt] + arrows can be used for selecting words, [command] + [enter] is now also supported for adding new lines in a single item on Macs. The logic for selecting items when navigating with the keyboard has also been spruced up.
• Improved error pages: If you click on an invitation email but the diagram cannot be shown, the error page now explains why. Possibly reasons include being logged in with the wrong account, your access having been removed, or the invitation being cancelled before it was accepted.
• Improved invitations: When a new user accepts an invitation to edit a diagram they can now easily sign in with a Microsoft account, or any new login method we add in the future ;)
• Improved Organisation Members List: The Organisation members list now highlights which users are using Single Sign On, and makes it easier to see the primary email address of members.
• Updated Translations: We’ve added improved community-contributed translations for French and German (thanks Alexandre and Johannes!)
• Image uploads: Image types which aren’t supported will now be converted to a supported type before uploading, where possible.

As always we’ve also been fixing little bugs, including one which could prevent changes from being displayed correctly in history mode for diagrams created from templates, and one where sometimes clicking back from a diagram wouldn’t take you to the right folder. To help us deal more efficiently with an increased number of support requests we’ve also stopped providing support via facebook messages – please email us at hello@coggle.it if you need assistance with your account.

That’s all for now!

Posted by James, May 8th 2020.

We’ve been busy! We’ve actually been working on some big behind the scenes upgrades to the way Coggle works - Stay tuned for an update on those once we’ve finished.

That hasn’t stopped us making some other little improvements around the site though. Here’s a roundup of what’s changed recently:

• New and improved payments: We’ve upgraded our payment pages to use the latest functionality from Stripe (the company we use to handle payments). We can now handle all the requirements for the latest SCA regulations (that’s where your card company sends you a second code to authenticate payments), and this should make it easier for us to support other payment methods in the future, as well as making things even more secure.
• Improved Diagram Search results: When you search your diagrams, the search results will now take you directly to the part item in the diagram that matches your search terms (if there is one).
• Linking to Presentation Mode: You can now link directly to diagrams in presentation mode. Copy the URL while in presentation mode, or add ?present=1 onto the link’s url. This works with embedded diagrams too!
• Improved image zoom: Image zoom is now availble for large images in comments and chat, as well as for images in the diagram.
• Faster diagram loading: We’ve improved caching, and reduced the number of resources and work done on diagram page loads, to make them even even snappier.

We’ve also fixed lots of little bugs, including one where a warning might be incorrectly shown if your computer clock was set differently than our servers.