Allume (formerly Muse) is a cozy space for deep thinking.
Let your ideas branch and grow inside nested boards.
Download for iPad & iPhone.
Download for iPad & iPhone.
Also available on Mac.
Download for Mac.
Each Allume board is like a whiteboard that can hold even more whiteboards. Stay in the ideation flow, worry about organizing later. Your boards grow organically over time, as you develop an idea or work on a project.
Allume feels cozy and comfortable, whether you prefer the warmth of light mode or the focus of dark mode. A distraction-free environment designed to flow with your mind.
Developing an idea starts with collecting inspiration and stray thoughts. Allume lets you put everything on a single canvas: writing, scribbles, notes, images, videos, PDFs, web links, and any other files. Lay out all the raw materials, then connect the dots with ease.
Thoughts don't march in straight lines — they leap, spiral, and discover. Your cards can follow along, tucked into the Inbox at the left edge of your creative space.
Add collaborators to an Allume workspace to plan and strategize your next steps together. They'll feel right at home with live cursors, comments, following, and templates.
Allume is about putting down the broad strokes of an idea. Details must wait. Some features you might know from other tools are intentionally not part of Allume.
Synthesize user research, sketch low-fidelity mockups, and explore workflows.
Annotate and excerpt from the literature.
Make sense of opportunities and risks in your business.
Sketch out and iterate on your story.
Use Allume for any thinking, problem-solving, or brainstorming in your work and life.
No UI clutter
The app's design tools are simple enough that I have no thinking overhead about HOW to express myself on Muse [now Allume], I can just focus on my ideas instead.
The Muse [now Allume] app is like an app from far in the future.
I own and use pretty much every note taking and productivity app and there is nothing like Muse [now Allume]. It's like an app from the future. There is no friction to Maserati paced creativity.
Nested boards make all the difference
The magic trick here is that you can put a canvas inside a canvas inside a canvas and so forth and link any of them to the any of the previous ones, allowing for complex and unordered relationships.
"When something can be like work or like play, never make it work"
Thinking things through, sketching, storyboarding, reading, annotating, planning with Muse [now Allume] never feels like work. It's more fun than the text-first apps, more fluid than all the other canvas apps.
Muse [now Allume]'s superpower
What sold me on Muse [now Allume] was a) the tools are carefully chosen to help you think and not get stuck polishing a prototype, b) it takes iPad pencil support really seriously, c) boards can be nested and put anywhere so you organize however your mind groups your thoughts.
I can't imagine living without it now
If you're an intuitive thinker and despise linear tools like Notion, you will fall in love with Muse [now Allume].
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Students and teachers can contact us at hello@allume.com for an education discount.
*Mac device is required for Setapp; iPad and iPhone are optional.
Give yourself a quiet hideaway to collect and organize your thoughts.
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App Store Editors' Notes
"Brutal minimalism, be damned: Muse [now Allume]'s organized chaos wrangles your files, photos, drawings, and text to provide a perfect brainstorming workspace."