AI import
Photograph the whiteboard.
Get an editable map.
Atlas Red reads the photo — branches, clusters, handwriting — and rebuilds it as a real mind map you can keep working on.
Use it free — no card, no trial →
- Free forever — not a trial
- Up to 10 maps, kept for good
- Every export included
- $1 AI credit to start
Free has no end date — upgrade only if you outgrow 10 maps. Your first hundred or so whiteboard photos come out of the $1 of AI credit every account starts with.
Point your camera at it. On your phone the camera opens right from Import — photograph the board before it's erased, or pick a photo from your library.
AI rebuilds the structure. What connects to what — branches, clusters, the hierarchy those hasty arrows implied — as a real map, not extracted text.
Your first hundred photos are covered. Every account starts with $1 of AI credit, no card — a board costs about a cent. Top-ups are prepaid and never expire.
Questions people ask
Is the image to mind map conversion free?
Every new account starts with $1 of AI trial credit (valid 30 days) — no credit card needed — which typically covers your first imports. After that, buy a prepaid pack (no subscription, no expiry), or with a Pro license connect your own API key — OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and more, pick a model that accepts image input — and pay only your provider, with no markup, ever. Failed jobs are never charged. Photo and PDF import is the only AI in Atlas Red that ever costs anything, and only if you use it.
What does a photo import cost, exactly?
A typical photo or whiteboard import costs about a cent — the $1 trial credit is good for roughly 100 of them. Documents and transcripts are much bigger jobs and cost more; the app shows the exact cost of every job before it runs, and failed jobs are never charged.
Does it read handwriting and hand-drawn sketches?
Yes — hand-drawn sketches and handwritten whiteboards are exactly what the import is for. The AI reads the image the way a colleague would and recovers the structure: branches, groupings, hierarchy. It's read for structure, not pixel-perfect transcription — the clearer the writing, the better the result.
What kind of photo does it need?
A normal phone photo works. Shoot roughly straight-on with the whole board or page in frame; large photos are downscaled automatically before upload. On your phone, the camera opens right from Import.
Is the result actually editable?
Yes — every topic is real. A photo preserves the pixels and loses the point: you can't move a branch or rename a topic inside a JPEG, and tools that promise "image to mind map" usually stop at OCR — text extracted, structure gone. Atlas Red hands you a native mind map in your workspace: rename, move, restructure and extend it exactly as if you'd built it by hand, merge it with other maps, hand it to your AI assistant, or export it anywhere.
Do I have to wait while it converts?
No. Imports run in the background — close the tab and come back; your finished result is waiting, one click from a map. Failed jobs are never charged.
What can I export the mind map to afterwards?
Every supported format, on every tier: JSON, Markdown, plain text, OPML, XMindMark, web page, OpenDeck slides, PNG, JPEG, SVG and PDF — plus print, with or without an outline.