The software supports importing and exporting maps in the Freemind file format.
A project to support high schools to integrate ICTs with teaching-learning has been launched with the education department, this includes use of free and open source applications like Geogebra, Phet, Freemind etc.
Docear is the successor of SciPlore MindMapping (aka FreeMind Scholar) which was originally developed by Joeran Beel and Bela Gipp as part of their PhD projects in 2009 at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and University of California, Berkeley.