Free AI Mind Map Generator —
Turn Anything into a Mind Map
Paste text or a link.Get a mind map you can navigate and edit, not a wall of text.
MindLM is a free AI mind map generator, and you can try it without signing up.
Without an account: 3 tries with text, a webpage or a file up to 4 MB (PDFs up to 20 pages), reading the first 5,000 characters. On top of that, 1 YouTube video up to 20 minutes, which doesn't use the 3 tries.
Free account: 10 credits + 1 a day, no card.
What you put in, and what you get back
5 inputs, each turned into a mind map by MindLM with no manual edits. Pick one.
Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al., 2017) introduces the Transformer, a sequence transduction model built entirely on attention mechanisms, with no recurrence or convolutions.
What you add
1706.03762v7.pdf
PDF · 15 pages
15 pages · ~6,100 words becomes 77 nodes
MindLM gives you
77 nodes · View full map
Loading the interactive mind map…Drag to move, click a node to fold it.
What is an AI mind map generator?
An AI mind map generator reads a long source, such as a PDF, a lecture, an article or your own notes, and returns its ideas as a tree: the main topics become branches and the details sit underneath them. You see the shape of the argument first and open a branch only when you need the detail.
That is the difference from pasting the same text into a chatbot. A chat summary flattens everything into a few paragraphs, so the hierarchy is gone and you have to reread to find a point. MindLM keeps the author's structure: chapter headings stay chapters, a methods section stays apart from the results, and every node is plain text you can rename, fold, or export to Markdown and XMind.
It helps most when a source is too long to hold in your head at once, when you will come back to it for review, or when you want notes that keep their outline in Obsidian, Notion or XMind.
How the AI mind map generator works
Paste text or a link
Drop in an article, notes, a webpage URL or a small PDF, no account needed. Sign in to upload eBooks and larger files.
Get the map in 1–3 minutes
AI reads the content, keeps its structure and lays it out as branches you can open one at a time.
Navigate, edit, export
Collapse and expand branches, rename nodes, then export as PNG, Markdown, or XMind to use anywhere.
What the AI mind map generator can convert
Videos, podcasts, webpages, documents, images, social media, plain text. All supported.
Outline readable captions. Try 1 video up to 20 minutes without signing up; a free account adds 1 more.
Each episode's show notes become a list of topics you can scan before you press play.
Recordings are transcribed first, then the transcript is organized by topic.
Paste an article URL and get its argument as branches, without the page clutter.
Turn extracted PDF text into an outline, then compare the branches with the source.
Review an academic outline against the paper, then export Markdown for literature notes.
A whole eBook or a long report comes back as one outline you can fold chapter by chapter.
Printed text in screenshots and slides is read with OCR; handwriting is not supported.
A long X thread comes back as a handful of ideas instead of dozens of separate posts.
Paste up to 5,000 characters and try it right at the top of this page, no account needed.
Choose a tool, then put the map to work
Compare free plans, check a PDF outline, or save Markdown in your notes. Start with the task in front of you.
PDF input and Markdown export are available on MindLM Free. Mapify currently lists Markdown export on Basic and above. Video timestamps and cross-device use are separate considerations.
Free access has limits. MindLM grants 10 signup credits and 1 per daily login, with at most 3 generations a day; each run still needs sufficient credits.
Frequently Asked Questions
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