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Paste text or a link.Get a mind map you can navigate and edit, not a wall of text.

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Free to try: 3 maps without an account, up to 5,000 characters each. Sign up for 10 more credits, no card needed.

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

Excerpt from the original: Attention Is All You Need Abstract The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

Attention Is All You Need

Vaswani et al., arXiv:1706.03762

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MindLM gives you

77 nodes · View full map
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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

  1. Paste text or a link

    Drop in an article, notes or a webpage URL. Once signed in, upload a PDF or eBook.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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Comparing MindLM to Mapify?

We put 7 AI mind map tools side by side on free quota, price and sign-up requirements. 6 of the 7 have a permanent free plan; only two let you generate without an account.

The short version: Mapify is the broader suite, with web, mobile and browser-extension apps, YouTube timestamps, chat with your maps and a slides mode. MindLM is a focused web tool that keeps a document's chapter hierarchy and exports Markdown and XMind that drop straight into Obsidian or Notion.

On price, MindLM Pro is $4.99 a month for 200 credits and Mapify Basic is $9.99 for 1,000, so the cheaper plan is not automatically the one with more room. MindLM's Free plan adds a credit for each day you sign in; Mapify's 30 free credits are one-time. Choose Mapify if you study from video lectures or present from your maps. Choose MindLM if you mostly map PDFs and papers and keep the result in your notes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Paste text or a webpage URL and start right away, no account needed. With a free account you can also upload PDFs and eBooks and try one YouTube video (up to 20 minutes); Pro plans unlock unlimited YouTube, podcasts and audio. The AI reads the content, keeps its structure and builds the mind map in about 1–3 minutes.

Yes. You can try it 3 times without an account, and signing up adds 10 free credits — no credit card required. Text, PDFs, webpages, images, and eBooks are all on the Free plan, plus one free YouTube video (up to 20 minutes).

Text, PDF documents, web pages, YouTube videos, podcasts, audio files, images, eBooks, and social media threads.

All data is encrypted at rest. We never use your content to train AI models, and you can export or delete your data anytime.

Yes — export as Markdown, a PNG image, or an XMind file on every plan, plus SVG on Pro and Max. No vendor lock-in.

Absolutely. You can input Markdown text and also export mind maps as Markdown outlines.

By default the map is written in the same language as your source. You can also pick one of 9 output languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Russian. The interface is available in English and Chinese.

Without an account, each try takes up to 5,000 characters. Signed in, the Free plan reads up to 100,000 characters of text or a document per map and 10,000 per webpage. Pro raises that to 300,000 and 100,000, and Max to 600,000 and 300,000.

A chatbot gives you paragraphs; MindLM gives you a structure. Topics become branches you can fold and rename, the result exports to Markdown or XMind instead of staying in a chat log, and you can hand it a PDF, an eBook or a link directly instead of pasting pages of text into a chat box.

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