AI import
Drop in a PDF.
Get an editable mind map.
A 35-page report becomes one map: every section a branch, every point a topic you can move, rename and export.
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 imports come out of the $1 of AI credit every account starts with.
Drop it in. A report, a slide deck, a scan, a hand-drawn sketch — on your phone the camera opens right from Import.
AI rebuilds the structure. Sections, arguments, hierarchy — handed to you as a real mind map you can rename, move and restructure, not a picture of one.
Your first imports are covered. Every account starts with $1 of AI credit, no card — roughly 100 scanned pages, or several long reports. Top-ups are prepaid and never expire.
Questions people ask
Is the PDF 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 — and pay only your provider, with no markup, ever. Failed jobs are never charged. There is no AI subscription: PDF and photo import is the only AI in Atlas Red that ever costs anything, and only if you use it.
What does an import cost, exactly?
A scanned PDF, read as images, costs about a cent a page — the $1 trial credit is good for roughly 100 of those. A text PDF is read in full, so it's a bigger job: a long report or a full meeting transcript usually costs 10–30¢ at the Balanced setting; a page or two is a few cents, and Detailed costs more again. The app shows the exact cost of every job before it runs, and failed jobs are never charged.
Is the result actually editable?
Yes — every topic is real. Most PDF-to-mind-map tools hand you a static image or a one-shot summary in a radial layout, and the first edit you want to make is the moment they give up. Atlas Red treats import as the beginning of the work: rename, move, restructure and extend the map exactly as if you'd built it by hand, merge it with other maps, hand it to your AI assistant over MCP, or export it anywhere.
How long a PDF can it read?
It depends which kind you have. A PDF with a real text layer — anything exported from Word, Pages, a browser or a report generator — is read as text, in full, up to 200,000 characters. That's a long report or a short book, and there's no page limit. Only scanned PDFs, which have no text to extract, fall back to reading the pages as images, and that path takes the first 4 pages per import.
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.
Does it work on scans, photos and hand-drawn sketches?
Yes. The same AI import reads photos of whiteboards and hand-drawn sketches, so scanned pages are handled the same way as digital PDFs. On your phone, the camera opens right from Import.
What if my source is already an outline?
Then no AI is involved at all: XMind, FreeMind, OPML, Markdown, YAML and plain text import directly — free, instant, no credits.
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.