From One Ideato Finished Work.
The AI that develops ideas.
One place to develop ideas — from first thought to finished work.
Capture, consolidate, and develop your ideas with AI — then turn them into articles, podcasts, videos, websites, and more, in a click.
Not a chat that forgets — a thinking machine that helps you consolidate many sources into coherent, developed thinking — refined over many passes, then published in whatever format you need.
A great idea isn't a single prompt.
It might take a hundred sources — articles, PDFs, videos, notes, textbooks — read, weighed, and merged into one outline before the essence comes into focus. Developing an idea is iterative: many passes, not one flash. IdeaM is built for that work.
Watch IdeaM turn one idea into finished work
Everything feeds the same process — even an interruption like a new email flows right in, gets developed over many passes, and comes out as finished work.
Read widely, merge into one outline, refine the essence — then publish it in any format. That's idea development, not a one-shot answer.
See it in action.
Real screens from IdeaM — every one produced from a plain-English prompt, an imported file, or a pasted link.
Mind map, from a prompt
Turn a research outline into a colorful mind map with one plain-English request.
Idea to finished work
Many sources in, one idea developed, many finished formats out — drawn from a prompt.
A live spreadsheet
A real, editable, color-coded spreadsheet living right inside your outline.
Data as a chart
A table of results becomes an at-a-glance chart from a single prompt.
Your document, transformed
Import a document and turn it into finished, structured, visual work.
Embed a live source
Pull a YouTube source into your notes and watch it in place while you work.
Three kinds of tools. Only one thinks with you.
A query box answers. A filing cabinet stores. IdeaM develops — the difference between a moment and a process.
You ask, it answers — then the thinking evaporates. No structure, no growing memory, no body of work. A moment, not a process.
A place to store what you already figured out. It holds your notes, but won't help you develop them, connect them, or turn them into anything.
The only one that works with you to develop an idea over time: capture, structure, enrich from the web and AI, consolidate it into real understanding — then produce finished work.
Reorganizing your thinking is understanding it. That consolidation — everything you know, connected and reusable — is what a query box and a filing cabinet can never give you.
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/ vault
Powerful on the computer you already have.
IdeaM does your core work on-device — fast, private, no server round-trip. Here's what we detected on your machine, right now.
Stress-tested past one million nodes in a single outline — big enough for your biggest idea, project, or book. Not a toy. No artificial limits — scale until your hardware says stop.
Run the live benchmark on your computerEverything IdeaM can do.
From raw sources to finished, published work — the whole toolkit, from first spark to shipped. See it all on one page.
Generate PowerPoint & Keynote decks straight from your outline
One outline becomes a branded slide deck that opens in PowerPoint and Keynote — with your data auto-charted.
Fresh powers, honestly labeled.
The newest ways to move from idea to finished work — each marked with exactly where it stands today. No hype, no surprises.
Post to social in your own voice
Turn any part of your outline into ready-to-post content for X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more — written in your own voice. You review every word and post it yourself; IdeaM never posts for you.
Turn email into outlines — and draft replies
Drop in an email and IdeaM organizes it into a clean outline of key points, decisions, and action items. Turn any idea back into a polished email draft in your voice, ready to open in Gmail or Mail and send. Off by default — you switch it on.
Organize your work with tags
Tag anything across your outlines, then filter to just what matters with a single click. Status tags — to-do, in progress, done — are landing next.
Understand your drive
Point IdeaM at a folder and it sorts your files by meaning, not filename — turning a messy drive into an organized outline you can actually navigate. On the roadmap, arriving after launch.
See real people win with it.
A fast trailer of three real workflows — from first spark to published work. Hit play.
Seeing is believing.
Real screens from IdeaM. Point it at an idea — and watch it become finished, beautiful work.
Turn scattered thinking into a clear visual plan.
Drop in your ideas and watch them become a structured outline — complete with an AI-generated mind-map you can actually follow.
One window. Every kind of content.
Text, videos, a flowchart, and a table — all living together in a single page. No tab-hopping, no scattered files.
Ask for a spreadsheet.
Get one — filled in.
Describe the numbers you need. IdeaM builds a real, editable spreadsheet — with the data already in the cells.
Organize and track anything, beautifully.
Color-coded status boards keep every workstream, owner, and deadline in view — so nothing slips and progress is obvious at a glance.
Let AI develop, expand, and structure your ideas.
One click to generate from context, expand a single thought, or build out every branch at once — the thinking grows with you.
Generate mind-maps, flowcharts, and diagrams on command.
Turn any branch of your outline into a diagram — instantly, from what you've already written. No drawing, no dragging boxes.
Docs, sheets, videos, and more — together.
Embed Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, YouTube, maps and more. Your whole workspace lives inside one living outline.
Work and publish in 21 languages.
Capture, develop, and produce finished work in the language you think in — IdeaM speaks 21 languages, so your ideas aren't limited by where you're from.
Not a filing cabinet. Not a vending machine.
Everyone else stores the thinking you already did, or vends a one-shot output. We do the thinking with you — and hand back finished work, iteratively, in your voice.
Obsidian / Logseq
A beautiful filing cabinet — you write every note and link by hand.
An AI partner that generates, expands, merges, and produces the finished thing.
Notion
A blank container you must architect and babysit; AI is a bolt-on.
Start from one idea; the structure and the output grow for you.
Roam / Tana
Brilliant, steep, cult-ish — great for people who live in it.
Outline-native too, but built for doers who want a book, site, or plan out the door.
Gamma / Napkin / Mem
Ask, get a one-shot output — you can’t deeply steer or grow it.
Iterative and author-controlled, in your voice — a living document.
ChatGPT / Claude (raw chat)
A brilliant conversation that scrolls away; no structure, no home for your work.
The same intelligence, anchored to a structure that persists, grows, and becomes deliverables you own.
Workflowy / classic outliners
Clean bullets and nothing more; no partner, no production.
True outlining plus an AI partner plus multilingual, multimedia output.
Real stories, start to finish.
Watch a single idea grow into finished work — real journeys, from first capture to final export.
Dinesh — a living career plan
Dinesh finished his degree with no idea what came next — and a quiet fear that AI would leave no career for him. One outline became a living plan he could reshape as the ground shifted.
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Sam — a science project
Sam is eleven, taking on cold fusion for the science fair with a scholarship on the line. One question grew into a finished report, poster, talk, website, and video.
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Features
Multi-source synthesis, one outline to many outputs, privacy-first — the full capability tour.
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From trial prep to literature reviews to investigative reporting — pick the work you do.
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Three quick steps from thinking bigger. Get the app, turn on free on-device AI, and start building — no credit card, no setup.
Download IdeaM
Get it on Mac, iPhone & iPad, or run it right in your web browser. Your work syncs with you.
Add Google Gemma
Turn on free on-device AI — no API key, no cost, and your notes never leave your device. Want premium cloud AI? Bring your own key anytime.
Start creating
Capture ideas, organize them, consolidate the best thinking, and publish — outlines, videos, podcasts, and more.
Start now, on any device
Native apps on Apple. Everywhere else, the free web version runs instantly — nothing to install.
Apple — native apps
The full native experience, downloaded and installed on your Apple devices.
Web — any device
Nothing to install. Open it in any modern browser and start right now — the free web version runs instantly, everywhere.
Watch it come together
A two-minute walkthrough — from a blank page to a published idea.
Getting Started walkthrough
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- On-device AI with Google Gemma
- Full outlining & Second Brain
- Capture, organize & consolidate
- Your data stays on your device
Professional
First month free · on web & Mac. iPhone & iPad via the App Store.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Premium cloud AI models
- Video & podcast generation
- All export formats
- Priority support
Student
Half price · verify with your .edu email. iPhone & iPad via the App Store.
- Everything in Professional
- Special student discount
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- Built for coursework & research
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Performance Notes
*Node Capacity Testing: 1,000,000+ nodes tested on Apple M4 MacBook Air (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) running macOS. Generation time: 4.2s, save time: 1.8s, load time: 1.3s, file size: 98MB. Performance varies by hardware configuration.
Platform Considerations:
- Desktop (macOS/Windows/Linux): Full system RAM available. Recommended for outlines exceeding 100,000 nodes.
- Web Browser: Limited to browser memory allocation (typically 2-4GB). Chrome/Edge perform best. Recommended limit: 200,000 nodes.
- Mobile (iOS/Android): More constrained memory. For optimal performance, keep outlines under 50,000 nodes.
Storage: Outline files (.idm) are JSON-based. A 100,000-node outline is approximately 20MB. Local storage has no practical limit; web browser IndexedDB supports gigabytes of storage.