It is the week before the exam and your notes run to sixty pages. You can answer any single question on them. Then someone asks how the second half of the course connects to the first, and you realise you have been learning a list rather than a subject.
Studyflash has an AI mind map generator that works from material you have already put in. Pick a deck and you get the central theme branching out into topics, subtopics and the detail under them, with every concept still attached to the cards it came from.
What the map is built from
Slides, scripts and your own notes
Upload the PDF your lecturer posted, a chapter you scanned, or a photo of handwritten notes. Studyflash turns that into a deck, and the map comes from there.
A lecture you recorded
Record the class on your laptop or your phone. The transcript becomes flashcards, a summary and a quiz, and that deck can be mapped too.
Cards you already have
Anki decks come across as an export file, images included, and map like any other.
Why an AI mind map helps before you memorise anything
Seeing the shape of a topic gives the detail somewhere to sit. An analysis of 142 separate comparisons, covering around 11,800 learners, found that studying with concept maps beat reading and re-reading the same material.
That work carries a catch worth knowing: building a map helps roughly twice as much as looking at one, which is why this map sends you back into the material. Click a concept and an explanation panel opens with links to the flashcards it came from, so the branch you cannot explain out loud sits one click from the cards that fix it.
On the screen and in your pocket
Open the branch you are unsure about, fold away the parts you already know, and colour-group the themes so the map matches how you hold the subject in your head. Once generated, a map opens in the phone apps with no connection.
Three points in the term where it pays off
At the start of a block, when the lecturer has named twenty terms and nothing connects yet. In the week before a resit, where the paper draws on a whole semester at once. And in subjects that are mostly relationships: physiology, constitutional law, macroeconomics.
Two things the map does not do
Looking at a map is not studying. Structure sticks once you are tested on it, which is what the cards and the quiz are for.
A map is generated from a deck, so the deck comes first. With nothing uploaded and nothing recorded, there is nothing to map.
Free to start
Mind maps are part of the free plan, which comes with a monthly allowance of AI generations. You can read what each plan includes, and prices are set per country and shown at checkout.
Questions and answers
Yes. Maps generate on the free plan, inside its monthly allowance of AI generations, and signing up asks for no card. Premium lifts the allowance.
Once generated, a map stays in the phone apps offline, next to your flashcards, quizzes and summaries. Generating a new one needs a connection.
Maps are generated per deck and at course level, so a module split across six decks can be seen as one picture. Open the course map when you are looking for where two topics meet.
You can expand branches, collapse them and colour-group themes. The wording comes from your own material, so a branch that looks thin is usually thin in the deck: add the missing source and generate again.
Max, the tutor, has read your decks and makes a map when you ask in chat. Chatting with Max is unlimited on every plan, the free one included; having Max generate material is part of Premium.