AI Mind Map Generator

You can use PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and text files — uploaded directly, pulled from your Scholarly library, or imported from Google Drive. This works for textbooks and lecture notes as well as research papers, work reports, meeting docs, and business plans. You can also skip files entirely and type a prompt, and combine up to 3 sources in a single map, including a mix of files and a prompt.

Generation runs asynchronously and typically completes in under a minute, depending on how much source material you include. Because it runs in the background, you can't preview the map before it's created.

Each map is a one-page SVG image with a central concept and branching sub-concepts connected by labeled relationships, rendered in the visual style you chose. It's saved as an image component on a page in your workspace, where students, professionals, and teams can open it, view it full-page, or share it — and paid plans can download it to drop into slides and reports.

There are 4 styles: Radial Map, Concept Map, Sketchnote, and Freestyle. Pick the one that fits your topic, or let the AI auto-select the best one for your material.

Yes. Alongside the visual style, you can add custom instructions in plain text (up to 500 characters) to steer the layout, emphasis, or label length — for example, asking it to focus on a particular section or keep labels concise. Note that some instructions may be overridden by the chosen AI model. Custom Designs lets you save your own design profile — standing instructions and reference images — that's applied to every mind map you generate.

Yes, it's free to start. The free plan uses the default AI model and includes a limited number of AI creations so you can try it out. Paid plans unlock additional AI model options and ongoing generation.

The output is a single static SVG image, so you can't drag nodes or rewire connections after generation like an editable graph. If a map misses the mark, you generate a new one with different sources, a different style, or new custom instructions — each generation creates a new artifact rather than replacing the old one.

The Concept Map Generator is a fast, free public browser tool that outputs plain text, markdown, or Mermaid from a typed topic — handy for a quick outline. Mind Maps instead render an interactive visual artifact grounded in your uploaded PDFs and files, and save it into your workspace alongside your other study material.

Yes. Just type a prompt — for example, "Mind map photosynthesis with light and dark reactions" or "Mind map our go-to-market strategy" — and Scholarly builds the map from that prompt. Students, professionals, and researchers can also combine a prompt with up to two uploaded files in the same request.

Yes. Scholarly can read relevant PDF pages as images, so scanned documents and clear handwriting can be used even when there is no selectable text. Image quality and legibility still affect the result.