The Built with Mindola badge

Every lens shows a small Built with Mindola badge to visitors, on every plan. On Pro and Premium you can switch it off per lens.

What visitors see

On a wide screen the badge is a small pill in the bottom left corner of your lens, next to the ask box. It shows the Mindola mark and the words “Built with Mindola”. When a visitor hovers over it, it opens up to offer “Create yours”.

On a phone or a narrow window the corner belongs to the ask box, so the badge moves into the small line of text under it instead. Same words, same link, less clutter.

Either way it is one line, it never covers your content, and it never interrupts a conversation. Clicking it opens mindola.ai in a new tab. Your visitor stays on your lens.

When someone clicks the badge, Mindola records that the click came from your lens and sets a cookie in that visitor’s browser for 30 days. If they go on to create their own account in that window, we can tell it started with your lens. We store the country and the page the click came from, never the visitor’s IP address.

The small x

Hovering the badge also shows a small x. It does not hide the badge. It opens a short note that says the owner can remove the badge with Pro or Premium, and links to the plans. Clicking the x again, or pressing Escape, closes the note and puts the badge back the way it was.

So anyone wondering what the badge is, or how to get rid of it, gets the answer in one click. Visitors cannot switch it off themselves.

Why it is there

The badge tells a visitor what they are talking to and where it came from. It is also how most people find Mindola in the first place: someone reads a lens, likes it, and makes their own. That is why it is on by default even when your plan allows you to remove it.

How to switch it off

You need Pro or Premium. The Pro trial counts too, so you can see the unbranded version before you decide.

1. Open Lens settings and go to Appearance.
2. Turn on Hide the Mindola badge.

The change saves on its own and your public page drops the badge right away. The setting is per lens, so you can leave it on the lens you use to bring people in and take it off a client facing one.

On the free plan the same switch is there but locked. Hovering it tells you which plans unlock it. See Plans and billing for what else each plan includes.

Good to know

• The badge follows your lens theme, so it sits quietly in both the light and the dark look.
• If you switch the badge off and later move back to the free plan, the badge comes back. Your setting is remembered, so upgrading again restores your choice.
• Removing the badge does not remove the small “Report” link. That one stays on every lens, on every plan, so visitors always have a way to flag a problem.
• A lens you made from the website and have not claimed yet always shows the badge, whatever plan you are on, until you claim it.