Napkin AI
Verified Oct 29, 2026 ActiveTurns pasted or imported text into editable diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps, infographics and charts, with no prompt to write.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $9/seat/mo
- Billing
- Per seat, monthly
Free gives 500 AI credits a week with Napkin branding on visuals and PNG/PDF export; Plus is $9 per person/month billed yearly ($12 monthly) with 10,000 credits, Pro $22 yearly ($30 monthly) with 30,000. Each team member who joins a paid teamspace is billed as a seat.
Use tool ↗About Napkin AI
Napkin AI works from text you already have: paste or import a document, select a passage, and it proposes several visuals - diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps, infographics or data charts - that you pick from and then edit freely, down to colours, fonts and individual elements. Results export as PNG, PDF, SVG or PowerPoint for slides, blogs, docs and social posts. Napkin Slides (beta) builds whole decks, and an API generates brand-matched visuals from text inside other products. Usage is metered in AI credits at roughly one credit per word selected. It was built by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler, the founders of Osmo, and launched out of stealth in 2024.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 29, 2026
Verified sources
- Free 500 credits/week; Plus $9 and Pro $22 per person yearly, $12 and $30 monthly; credit rules and seat billingnapkin.ai ↗
- Text to diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps, charts; PPT/PNG/PDF/SVG export; Napkin Slidesnapkin.ai ↗
- Napkin API for generating visuals from textnapkin.ai ↗
- Founders Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler; launched out of stealth August 2024 with $10M from Accel and CRV; Los Altos-basedtechcrunch.com ↗
Is Napkin AI legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Jan 17, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 29, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 29, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2024The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Napkin AI, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 29, 2026
Pros & cons of Napkin AI
Napkin is a quick way for writers, teachers and consultants to add a clear diagram to a slide or post without opening a design tool. Designers who need pixel-level layout control or long, data-heavy charts will outgrow it.
Pros
- Works from existing text instead of prompts
- Every generated element stays editable
- Exports to PPT and SVG on paid plans, PNG and PDF on Free
- Free weekly credits cover light use
Cons
- Free visuals carry Napkin branding
- Credits scale with words selected, so long passages burn through them
- No student or non-profit discounts
Best for
- Consultants and managers turning bullet points into slide diagrams
- Bloggers and teachers adding explanatory visuals to text
- Products that need visuals generated from text via API
Not for
- Designers wanting full layout control from a blank canvas
- Analysts building large, data-driven charts
Watch out: Headline prices are per seat on yearly billing; month-to-month is $12 and $30, and every member who accepts a teamspace invite adds a paid seat.
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