Best AI mind map apps that turn documents into mind maps

Top pick: Inspiration Dragon Edition — the only AI mind-mapping app I could price today. It builds maps from text and documents and pairs with Dragon speech recognition, so you can dictate a summary or a lecture and have it laid out as a map. Best for Windows users who also want to talk their notes in.

Who the others suit: the printable brain-dump templates are for people who'd rather sketch a map by hand from a PDF they've already read; the voice recorder suits capturing a lecture or meeting first and mapping it later.

I couldn't confirm a dedicated PDF-to-map app (like the AI summarizers that ingest a whole article) in today's listings — worth a second look if that's the core of what you need.