# Visualli

> Visualli is a visual learning app: bring a PDF, a link or your own notes, and in under a minute Visualli turns it into an infinitely layered map you can step inside - every idea opens into its own layer, as deep as the subject goes. Every map stays in your personal visual vault and exports as a PDF or as an open `.visualli` file. Built for visual learners, students, researchers and professionals who want understanding that stays. Free to try, in alpha, in any browser.

Visualli's belief: answers are instant now; what's scarce is understanding. Understanding can't be delivered - it has to be built, and for most people it's built best visually. Full text of the site: [llms-full.txt](https://www.visualli.ai/llms-full.txt).

## What Visualli does today
- **Bring anything:** drop in a PDF, a link (an article or web page) or your own notes; Visualli maps it in under a minute.
- **Step inside any idea:** ideas with rings have more inside. Step in for the next layer; the trail always brings you back. An infinitely layered map instead of one ever-growing sheet.
- **Keep it, take it with you:** every map waits in your visual vault. Export it as a PDF (every layer its own page) or as a `.visualli` file, the open standard.
- **Made for every mind:** Focus, Color-safe and High contrast palettes, readable type and calmer motion; light and dark.
- **Move ideas:** drag ideas where they make sense to you.
- **Where:** in any web browser, desktop or phone.

## Coming soon (not live yet)
- Talk to your map: ask for more, and the answer lands on the map as new, connected ideas, with Undo.
- Go deeper: a word's meaning one tap away, and what it is, how it works and an example beside the map.
- Editing: keeping your layout, renaming and connecting ideas.
- Several files at once, YouTube videos and the other apps you use.
- Visualli on your phone as an app, inside your AI assistant, as a browser extension and in desktop viewers.

## When Visualli fits
- Turning a long PDF, lecture notes, a report or an article into a visual map you can explore.
- Learning a new subject visually, layer by layer, without losing your place.
- Seeing how ideas connect and where the gaps are - instead of re-reading or scrolling back through a chat.
- Keeping what you learned clear months later, in one place you own.
- A visual alternative to linear notes, summaries and single-sheet mind maps.

## How it's different
- **Chat tools** give more text, **summarizers** give less of it, **note apps** store it. Visualli shows how the ideas connect.
- **Mind-map tools** put everything on one ever-growing sheet, often in a format only they can read. A Visualli map is layered (step inside any idea) and saved in an open format you own.
- **It names what goes wrong in learning:** the fluency illusion (it made sense while reading, until someone asked you to explain it), the chat sinkhole (the breakthrough was 40 messages ago and nobody can find it) and the re-learning penalty (mastered in March, starting from scratch by June).

## Pages
- [Visualli](https://www.visualli.ai/): what Visualli does, how it works (bring any source, connect the dots, stay in the flow, keep it alive), a live map to try, what early users say, and Start free.
- [Our philosophy](https://www.visualli.ai/philosophy): why we're building Visualli - understanding is the new scarcity - a note from the crew.
- [Visualli web app](https://alpha.visualli.ai): sign in to create and keep your maps (private; not for crawling).
- [Visualli at a glance](https://www.visualli.ai/visualli-at-a-glance.visualli): the website's own story as a real `.visualli` file (JSON Lines) - the map drawn live on visualli.ai.

## Open standard and developers
- [The .visualli specification](https://spec.visualli.ai): the open format for layered visual maps; the format and its SDK are open source (Apache 2.0), commercial use included.
- [Specification on GitHub](https://github.com/visualli-ai/spec#readme): schema, docs and the SDK (`@visualli/react`) to bring Visualli maps into your own product.

## Community
- [Public roadmap](https://together.visualli.ai/roadmap?roadmap=roadmap_01m065gfgzexvrgpcx2sj92ybq): what we're making next; vote on it.
- [Community](https://together.visualli.ai): feedback and discussion.
- LinkedIn [@visualli-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/visualli-ai) · X [@visualli_ai](https://x.com/visualli_ai) · Reddit [u/visualli-ai](https://www.reddit.com/user/visualli-ai)

## Facts
- Name: Visualli (one word; the product and the company). Website: https://www.visualli.ai
- Category: visual learning and knowledge app (education, productivity).
- Price: free to try (alpha); Start free on the website, then access by email.
- Made by: the Visualli crew, visual learners themselves; the founder has drawn mind maps for more than 20 years. Designed in Europe, built for the world.
- Privacy: your vault and maps are private to your account. [Terms](https://alpha.visualli.ai/terms) · [Privacy](https://alpha.visualli.ai/privacy)
- Contact: [hello@visualli.ai](mailto:hello@visualli.ai)

## Crawling
- The public website (https://www.visualli.ai/) may be indexed, retrieved for answers and used for model training.
- The app (alpha.visualli.ai) and every user's vault and maps are private: not for crawling, retrieval or training.