Text to flowchart
Describe the process. Get the flowchart — swim lanes included.
Paste how a process works — an approval, a release, an onboarding — and get the steps, the decisions and the loops back as a flowchart. When different people own different steps, it draws swim lanes.
- Price
- Free account · no watermark
- Runs in
- Your browser — nothing to install
- AI
- Your text goes to the model only when you click Generate
Runs on the MindMax web editor →All online tools
An employee submits an expense claim, and their manager approves it. Claims over $500 also need a review by the finance director. Finance then checks the receipts: if any are missing, the claim goes back to the employee; if they are complete, the cashier pays out and the process ends.
Four steps
Paste the process
Paste the description as you would explain it to a colleague.
Pick Flowchart and generate
Steps become boxes, decisions become diamonds with yes/no branches; roles become lanes.
Check and adjust
Click a step to see its sentence; “split the review into two steps” revises it.
Export
Word, PDF, PNG or SVG — or copy it straight into a slide.
Check every node against your text
AI diagram tools draw something plausible. This one keeps the receipts: each box carries the sentence it came from.
- Turn on Check and click a node — the editor jumps to the sentence it came from and highlights it. Nodes with no supporting sentence are drawn dashed.
- Ask for a change in one sentence — “split step 3 into two”, “only keep the key steps”, “make it a mind map” — and review the new diagram before it replaces the old one.
- Export Word or PDF and the diagram goes in as a picture, in the same font and colours as the text around it. Download PNG or SVG, or copy it as an image.
Where it gets hard
- Generating needs a free account
Pasting, editing and exporting need no account. The AI step does: sign in with a free account to generate or revise a diagram.
- It draws only from what you paste
The web editor works from the text in front of it. It does not search the web or read your other files.
- Complex diagrams may need a second pass
Diagrams are Mermaid underneath. A tangled process can come out busier than you want — one sentence of revision usually fixes it.
- Your text goes to the model when you click Generate
Otherwise the document stays in this browser. Clearing site data or switching browsers means it is not there — export what you want to keep.
Common questions
Does it make swimlane diagrams?
Yes. When the text says which role or department does which step, the flowchart is drawn in lanes, one per role.
Can I edit the flowchart by hand?
Yes. Underneath it is Mermaid code; click the code icon and edit a label or an arrow, and the drawing follows.
Is it free?
Editing and exporting are free with no account. Generating needs a free account.
Describe the process. Get the flowchart — swim lanes included.
Free account for the AI step; no watermark on anything you export.