Welcome to a slightly more timely update on what’s new in Coggle (has it really been only a few months since the last one!).

Sign in By Email

First, at coggle.it/login you’ll notice a brand new option to ‘Sign in by Email Address’. Until now we’ve only supported social sign-ins, but now you’ve got an even more convenient option to create mindmaps, without needing a google/microsoft/apple account.

The email sign-in will send a secure code to your email address for each log-in (there’s no password). We’ve opted for a 12 digit code, along with some other security enhancements over the 6-digit email sign-in codes you might have seen on other sites, to make sure this option is secure.

Enhanced Security Settings

And on the subject of security you’ll also notice a new security section of your settings page:

This allows you to add passkeys for seamless and phishing-proof login. Passkeys are stored by your browser or device, can be secured by biometrics, and are both the fastest and the most secure way to sign in. (That’s the kind of security we like!)

To use a passkey to sign in click on 'sign in by email’ on the login page. Your browser will offer to use your passkey, and then once you’ve authorised it (using fingerprint / faceID depending on your device) you’ll be instantly signed in, without needing to leave the page or find an email code.

Share by QR Code

Our second update is also about making using Coggle easier, anywhere. We’ve always supported sharing Coggle diagrams using links, but sometimes a long link is cumbersome and difficult to use, requiring copying and pasting or sharing into an email or message. If you’re in the same room as whoever you want to share your mindmap with, then there’s now a much easier way:

In the revamped sharing menu click 'Create QR Code’: anyone can scan this with their camera app, to instantly get access!

Just like links, QR codes also allow editing with our awesome plan, so they’re a really fast way to get an in-person brainstorming session up and running!

What’s next?

Aside from all our other normal bug fixes and snappy speed improvements, that’s all for now.

But we’ve got another big update to make Coggle the most powerful mindmapping app out there coming soon, so stay tuned!

As always if you have any feedback or suggestions about updates, just drop us a message at [email protected].

Posted by James, January 14th 2026.

We’ve seen a couple of larger changes to Coggle’s infrastructure lately, which you might notice especially if you’re an obsessive Coggle user (like me!) with huuuge diagrams, or if you use Coggle in a different language.

PDF and image downloads are massively upgraded, with support for the biggest PDF files you can imagine (seriously, we haven’t been able to make a sensible Coggle diagram big enough to break the new pdf renderer yet, unlike the old one which could fall over with merely an A0-paper-size diagram).

The longest-lived bug that we’ve ever had – links in PDF files could sometimes not be clickable – is also finally, finally, finally, fixed! This bug was nearly as old as PDF exports in Coggle, and rapidly approaching its 10th birthday.

PNG image downloads are now also supported up to tens of thousands of pixels in size. These can take a while to generate, and for larger diagrams PDF files will be both smaller and higher quality, but if you need a raster image of your biggest diagrams for any reason you can now get one much more easily.

The new rendering engine is a huge quality and reliability improvement, and it also makes our ongoing maintenance much easier. We now have the capability to use fonts for many more languages when creating the downloaded files. If you see text in your language which is not being displayed properly in a downloaded file please let us know! If the font we’re using for your language looks ugly and could be improved then let us know too :)

Translations now use Fluent: Our public translations project for Coggle now uses the more modern .ftl Fluent translations syntax. We’ve ported over most of the old translations (and thank you to all the people who have helped!), but if you’re a technically minded native speaker of a language we don’t support yet then it’s easier than it ever to translate Coggle.

Posted by James, September 20th 2024.