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What’s ArguMap, what does it do,
and what makes it unique?

ArguMap (and its paid-up-front version, ArguMap Pro) is the world’s first iOS / iPadOS / macOS app that is dedicated exclusively to the diagramming of arguments.  Just as ordinary maps help us to figure out where to go geographically, so argument maps guide us in constructing strong arguments.  By making it easy to visualize lines of reasoning, ArguMap helps its users to improve their critical thinking and reasoning skills.

Unique Features

While the App Store contains many mind-mapping apps, none of them are specifically or optimally designed for the mapping of the essential ingredients of lines of reasoning / arguments. ArguMap’s argument-mapping features include the following:

• Grouping, ungrouping, and connecting claims

  ArguMap allows its users easily to group claims together to show how they jointly (rather than independently) provide reasons in favor of a conclusion. ArguMap makes that grouping of claims as easy as dragging them onto each other. Claims can be ungrouped just as easily, by dragging them out of a group. With simple drags and taps, ArguMap users can also quickly connect or disconnect parts of a map. As a result, trying out different lines of reasoning is as easy as arranging cards on a table.

  

• Dedicated supporting / challenging connectors

  ArguMap users can make use of connecting arrows specifically tailored to depicting how certain claims either support (solid green line) or challenge (dotted red line) other claims.

  

• Connectors depicting reasons of differing strength

  With thicker or thinner connecting lines, ArguMap can show how some premises offer stronger or weaker reasons in favor of their argument’s conclusion.

  

Other Great Features

• Ability to comment on and share maps— ideal for education settings

  Individuals can provide feedback on the various parts of a map using collapsible notes. Commented-on maps can then be shared with their creators via email, AirDrop, text, or other sharing mechanisms. This is great, for instance, for teachers to provide feedback on student work and to help their students improve their critical thinking and reasoning skills. ArguMap can easily be used in conjunction with Apple’s Classroom app for teachers to distribute argument maps to students and to collect argument maps from them.

  

• Native integration with the iOS / iPadOS / macOS file systems and cloud storage / sync

  ArguMap allows its users to save and organize argument maps via the iOS / iPadOS / macOS file browsers. This integration makes available the option to save maps in the cloud using various cloud storage providers: for instance, iCloud or Dropbox.  Syncing via the cloud allows maps to be viewed and edited on a user’s multiple devices.

  

• Optimization for use with a keyboard

  iPad and Mac users can take advantage of keyboard shortcuts to quickly perform various common tasks in argument map creation.

  

• Easy importing of text into the app

  • All versions of the app can import text via regular copy-and-paste operations.

  • On iPad, argument maps can be opened side-by-side in split-screen mode, or an argument map can be opened side-by-side with another app. This facilitates the dragging of text from the other app or map directly into an ArguMap map.

  • On Mac, text from other apps can also be dragged-and-dropped into maps.

  • For devices running iOS 16 and iPadOS 16: text for claim bubbles can be scanned in from the camera or images in the Photos library.

  
  

  

• First-class citizenship on the Mac

  The Mac version of the app has all the amenities Mac users have come to expect, including tabbed windows, a modern toolbar that puts common actions just a click away, and easy-to-find menu commands.

  
  

  

App Preview Video

(with links to the iPhone and iPad-specific versions of the app preview video at the end of this Mac version of the app preview video)