Mapify
Mapify turns PDFs, YouTube videos, web pages, podcasts, meeting recordings and images into editable AI mind maps in seconds. It also runs cited deep research, chats across multiple files and exports maps as slides.
What is Mapify?
Mapify is an AI mind map summariser published by SUPERMIND PTE. LIMITED, a Singapore company; its own FAQ describes the product as developed by Xmind. The premise is simple: hand it a piece of content in almost any format and it returns a structured, editable mind map in seconds.
The range of accepted inputs is what sets it apart. PDFs and office documents, YouTube videos, web page URLs, podcasts, audio files and meeting recordings, long pasted text, photographs, charts and scanned notes, PowerPoint decks, Excel files and Markdown all go in the same way. Sixteen dedicated summarisers sit in the footer, from a research paper summariser and a ChatPDF to a book summariser and a YouTube-to-transcript tool.
Two modes go beyond straight summarising. Deep Research is a multi-agent system that plans a query, searches across the web, cross-verifies claims and flags conflicts, then delivers two synchronised outputs side by side: a report with numbered citations and a full source list, and an editable mind map mirroring its outline. Its four stages, planning, searching, analysing and reasoning, then reporting and mapping, are shown as they run. Ask Anything handles multi-file chat: upload several documents and images, question them in a single conversation, and open the original file at the exact page an answer came from before turning the result into a map.
Generation is tunable. You pick the output language, an Instant model for speed and credit efficiency or a Powerful model for depth, step-by-step or all-at-once building, a level of detail, a template, and whether web search enriches the map at extra credit cost. Maps are edited with keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, notes and tags, then presented as slides or exported to PDF, image, SVG, Markdown or XMind, or shared as a read-only link. An image generator illustrates branches on demand.
Everything runs on a monthly credit allowance whose cost varies with the model and the word count. Mapify works on the web, through a Chrome and Edge extension, and through iOS, Android, iPadOS and macOS apps, all covered by one subscription. The homepage claims more than five million users, a 4.8 out of 5 App Store rating and third place on Product Hunt.
What it does
- Summarise a PDF or an office document into an editable mind map
- Summarise a YouTube video, with clickable timestamps and an automatic transcript
- Summarise a web page or an article, including straight from the browser extension
- Run a multi-agent deep research task and get a cited report next to a synced mind map
- Chat across several uploaded files and get answers that link back to the exact source page
- Summarise audio files, podcasts and meeting recordings
- Translate and summarise foreign-language documents in more than 30 languages
When to use Mapify / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Mapify is the right fit.
When to use Mapify
- Students and exam candidates condensing lecture notes, textbooks and research papers into revision-ready maps
- Teachers, lecturers and instructional designers building course outlines, lesson plans and assessment feedback, with a 30% education discount
- Researchers and analysts producing literature reviews or market scans that have to carry numbered citations
- Consultants, product managers and operations leads turning meeting recordings, regulations and competitor material into actionable plans
- Content creators, bloggers and newsletter writers who process large volumes of video, podcast and article material every week
When not to use Mapify
- Developers and automation teams: Mapify publishes no API and no developer documentation
- Businesses that need a commercial licence, since the terms grant a personal, non-commercial use only
- Regulated or security-reviewed organisations: no DPA, no subprocessor list and no published data residency
- Teams looking for single sign-on, admin consoles, shared workspaces or seat management, none of which the site mentions
- Users in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, Vietnam and roughly thirty other territories left off the supported-country list
How to use Mapify
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account from the Start for free button; no credit card is required for the free tier
- Collect the 30 one-off AI credits granted on sign-up
- Choose your source: upload a file, paste a URL or a block of text, or drop an audio file or an image
- Set the generation options: output language, Instant or Powerful model, step-by-step or all-at-once, level of detail, template and web search
- Run the generation and wait a few seconds for the map to appear
- Refine the result: expand any branch in one click, chat with the document, rephrase nodes, add notes and tags
- Format the map with keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, colours and layout options
- Present the map as slides directly from Mapify
- Export to PDF, image, SVG, Markdown or XMind, or share a read-only link
- Install the browser extension and the iOS, Android, iPadOS or macOS apps, all covered by one subscription, and manage your three bound devices under Settings then Devices
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Unusually broad input coverage: PDFs, documents, YouTube, URLs, audio, podcasts, images, PowerPoint, Excel and Markdown
- Deep Research returns two synchronised outputs, a numbered-citation report and a mind map, with one-click access to the originals
- Source traceability: Clarify Source reopens the original file at the exact page a summary came from
- A single subscription covers the web app, the browser extension and the iOS, Android, iPadOS and macOS apps
- A permanent free tier with 30 credits and no credit card, plus 40% off annually and 30% off for students and teachers
- The FAQ states plainly that no customer data is used to train models
- Interface published in 19 languages, processing announced in more than 30, with exports to open formats
Cons
- No public API and no developer documentation, so nothing can be plugged into an automated workflow
- The terms restrict use to personal, non-commercial use only, and assign every Submission you send to the publisher
- No refunds on subscriptions, credits that reset monthly without carrying over, and automatic renewal
- The Unlimited plan is governed by a Fair Use Policy allowing throttling, model downgrades and feature limits
- Nothing is published about data residency: no hosting country, no region, no DPA, no subprocessor list, no Article 27 representative
- Access is limited to a closed list of 162 territories; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and Vietnam are absent even though the interface exists in their languages
- Team pricing is not published, and no full postal address is disclosed beyond the word Singapore
Pricing & Plans
Mapify operates a permanent free plan priced at USD 0, granting 30 one-off AI credits and requiring no credit card. The cheapest paid tier is the Basic plan at USD 9.99 per month; an annual commitment applies a 40% discount and brings it down to USD 5.99 per month. All payments are taken in United States dollars, by Visa, Mastercard or American Express, and subscriptions renew automatically. Refunds are not available.
- 30 one-off AI credits
- 5 PDF or document maps
- 5 YouTube video maps
- prompt and Markdown input
- YouTube transcript access
- map editing
- 1
- 000 AI credits per month
- Instant model
- document and YouTube summarisation
- editing and customisation
- export to PDF
- Markdown and SVG
- 2
- 000 AI credits per month
- everything in Basic plus the Powerful model
- audio and image summarisation
- Deep Research
- files up to 10 million words
- audio and video timestamps
- image generation and AI chat with your content
- unlimited AI credits subject to the Fair Use Policy
- everything in Pro plus priority access to new features
- collaborative product development
- a members-only community
- exclusive activities and priority support
- handled through the Contact Sales form or by email to hi@mapify.so
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Mapify handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy notice, last updated 24 January 2025, devotes a dedicated section to users in the EU and the UK and names the legal bases it relies on under the GDPR and UK GDPR: consent, legitimate interests, legal obligations and vital interests. It lists rights of access and copy, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, the right to withdraw consent, and the right to complain to a member state supervisory authority, the UK ICO or the Swiss federal commissioner. Concrete gaps remain: no Article 27 EU representative is designated, no data protection officer is named, hi@mapify.so is the only contact, and there is no DPA, no subprocessor list, no standard contractual clauses and no statement on international transfers. The pricing page claims ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. The site never uses the words GDPR compliant.
Who owns the data?
Under the Terms of Use, SUPERMIND PTE. LIMITED owns or licenses everything that makes up the service: source code, databases, designs, text, graphics, trademarks and logos. Anything you send the company as a question, suggestion, idea or piece of feedback, which the terms call a Submission, is assigned to it outright, for unrestricted use and without compensation. Content you post through the service, called a Contribution, carries a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and sublicensable licence extending to your name, image and voice. Section 19 keeps some transmitted data for performance management while leaving you solely responsible for it. Notably, the terms never state that you keep ownership of the files you upload or of the mind maps generated from them.
Reuse rights
The licence granted to you is narrow: non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable, covering access to the service and the download or printing of portions of its content, solely for personal, non-commercial use. Anything beyond that, whether copying, reproducing, aggregating, republishing, publicly displaying, translating, distributing, selling or licensing any part of the service, its content or its marks, requires the express prior written permission of SUPERMIND PTE. LIMITED, and where permission is granted you must credit the company as owner or licensor and keep its copyright notice visible. Nothing in the terms restricts what you do with the mind maps you build from your own files: the product itself invites export to PDF, image, SVG, Markdown, XMind and slides, together with read-only link sharing.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Mapify publishes nothing about where user data is stored. Neither the privacy notice, nor the terms, nor the pricing page names a hosting country, a region or a cloud provider, and there is no trust or security page. The publisher, SUPERMIND PTE. LIMITED, gives Singapore as its postal contact, which places the controller under Singapore law but says nothing about where processing happens. Two processors are named in passing rather than in a formal list: Stripe holds all payment data, and OpenAI and Anthropic supply the language models used to deliver requested features. The privacy notice commits only to appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational measures, with the usual caveat that no transmission can be guaranteed secure, while the pricing page claims ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification without naming a certification body. No data processing agreement, no subprocessor list, no standard contractual clauses and no international transfer statement are published. As a technical observation with no contractual value, the domain resolves to an Amazon Web Services node in Tokyo, Japan, which is an infrastructure fact rather than a residency commitment.
Where Mapify works
Country-level availability.
Available in
Not available in
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Mapify.
- Summarising is not understanding: a clean map can create a feeling of mastery over a document you never actually read
- Mapify says so itself, no research tool is fully accurate, and its Deep Research page tells you to open the linked pages before any high-stakes decision
- Leaning on a synthesis tool daily can erode the stamina to read long and the habit of structuring your own thinking
- The terms assign every Submission you send to the publisher and take a perpetual, irrevocable licence over Contributions, including your name, image and voice
- Confidential documents are passed to third-party language model providers with no published hosting country, no processing agreement and no subprocessor list
- Monthly credits never roll over, which quietly pushes you to spend them or lose them, while subscriptions renew automatically and carry no refund
- Numbered citations make a report look authoritative; the sources still need checking, and account sharing or exceeding the Fair Use Policy can get an account suspended
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Setup is effortless. You sign up with an email address or a social account and the web app is usable immediately: no installation, no configuration, no API key, no code. The browser extension installs in one click from the Chrome Web Store and works in Chrome and Edge, while the iOS, Android, iPadOS and macOS apps are covered by the same subscription. The only setting that ever needs attention is device management: an account binds to three personal devices at a time, unbound and rebound under Settings then Devices.
Deployment
Apps stores
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind Mapify
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Resources
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Frequently asked questions
What can Mapify take as input?
Is there a free plan or a free trial?
How do the credits work?
Does Mapify train AI models on my data?
How many devices can I use?
Does Mapify offer an API?
Where is Mapify available?
Can I export and share my mind maps?
Can I get a refund?
Is there a discount for students and teachers?
Should you pick Mapify?
Mapify is one of the most generalist summarisers on the market, and its strength is the sheer width of its entrance: PDFs, documents, YouTube videos, URLs, podcasts, meeting recordings, images, spreadsheets and slide decks all reach the same place, an editable mind map produced in seconds. Deep Research and Ask Anything push it past summarising into sourced research, with numbered citations, a full source list and a one-click path back to the original page. That traceability is the feature most worth having.
Commercially the offer is legible. A permanent free tier costs nothing and requires no card, the entry paid plan is USD 9.99 a month, an annual commitment removes 40%, and students and educators get a further 30%. The FAQ takes a clear position on the question that matters most to anyone uploading a document: no customer data is used to train models, with OpenAI and Anthropic acting only as delivery infrastructure.
The reservations are real and mostly contractual. There is no API. The terms confine you to personal, non-commercial use, assign outright anything you send as feedback, and rule out refunds. Nothing is published about where data is hosted: no country, no region, no processing agreement, no subprocessor list, no EU representative. The ISO/IEC 27001:2022 claim on the pricing page names no certification body. Availability is a closed list of 162 territories, and the absence of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and Vietnam sits oddly beside an interface published in those very languages.
For personal study, teaching and individual knowledge work, Mapify is an easy recommendation. For confidential corporate material or anything requiring a procurement review, the missing paperwork is the deciding factor.
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