Concept map generator — turn any topic into a concept map in seconds

Anything — a single topic name, a lecture outline, a reading assignment, or your own study notes. Paste your material or just type a subject and Scholarly maps the key concepts and how they relate.

Yes, you can start for free with no credit card. Sign up to save your concept maps, generate more of them, and unlock advanced study tools across the workspace.

Yes. Pick a complexity level and a layout style — hierarchical, radial/mind map, process flowchart, or network diagram — so the map matches how you think about the subject.

Copy it into your notes, or take the same source further inside Scholarly — turn it into flashcards, a study guide, or a practice test so the connections you mapped become the things you actually remember.

Yes. Paste your lecture notes, a reading, or any text and the AI concept map generator reads it, finds the key concepts, and draws the labeled relationships between them — so you get a concept map built from your own material, not a generic template.

Yes — it's a free concept map creator with no credit card to start. Generate a concept map on the page, then create a free account to save your maps, make more of them, and turn the same source into notes, flashcards, or a practice test.

Yes. Paste the text from your PDF — a lecture handout, a textbook chapter, or a paper — into the content field and the AI builds the concept map from your own material. Inside the full Scholarly workspace you can also upload the PDF itself and turn the same file into concept maps, notes, flashcards, and practice tests.

A mind map branches loosely associated ideas out from one central topic, while a concept map labels the relationship on every link — causes, produces, requires — so it shows how a subject actually works, not just which ideas belong together. If you want a free-form idea map instead, try the free AI Mind Map Generator.