# Shiko

> Shiko is a collaborative mind map your whole team edits at once, live. Start with one idea, bring everyone in, and leave the meeting with a plan everyone built.

## What it does

- Mind maps your whole team edits at the same time, with live cursors
- Invite people to a map with a room code
- Write nodes in plain text: task lists, questions with choices, Markdown notes, tags and due dates
- AI that expands ideas and finds connections, with suggestions that wait until someone accepts them (Pro)
- Recipes: saved AI instructions you can read in full and run on any idea (Pro)
- Plugins for Kanban boards, metrics with targets, countdowns and decision matrices
- PNG and SVG export for everyone; PDF and JSON on Pro
- Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP apps can read and edit your maps

## Pricing

Free, or Pro at $12 a month or $120 a year.

## Questions

### What is Shiko?

Shiko is a collaborative mind-mapping app for small teams. Ideas sit on a shared canvas as connected nodes, your team edits the map together in real time, and it turns into a plan with tasks and dates.

### Who is Shiko for?

Small teams that plan work together: launch plans, workshops, research, kickoffs, retros and roadmaps. It works for one person too, and you can invite people when the plan needs them.

### How much does Shiko cost?

There is a free plan with 3 mind maps, 50 nodes per map and up to 3 collaborators per map. Pro is $12 a month or $120 a year, with unlimited maps, nodes and collaborators and 100 AI actions a month. During the closed beta, join the wishlist to get a spot.

### How do I get my team in?

Share a room code with your team. While Shiko is in closed beta, each teammate needs an invited account to join; once they're in, every edit syncs live.

### Does Shiko have AI?

Yes, on Pro. AI can expand an idea or find connections, and its suggestions wait on the canvas until someone accepts them. You can also save an instruction as a recipe and run it on any idea.

### Is my data private?

Yes. Maps are private by default. Only you and the people you invite can see them. A plugin that connects to another site only does so when someone editing the map adds or refreshes it, and it sends only what's typed into it to the site it names. We don't train AI on your data.

### Can I export our maps?

Yes. PNG and SVG export is free for everyone; Pro adds PDF and JSON. You can also download a full copy of your account data at any time.

### Can I use Shiko from Claude or other AI apps?

Yes. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other apps that support MCP can read your maps and edit the ones you can edit. Every change they make shows up in the map's History. You connect an app from Settings › Connections, where the address and the steps for each app are. Free includes 50 edits a month and Pro is unlimited.

## Links

- [Home](https://www.shiko.app)
- [Join the beta](https://www.shiko.app/beta): Shiko is in closed beta; join the wishlist for a spot
- [Pricing](https://www.shiko.app/#pricing)
- [Workshops](https://www.shiko.app/use-cases/workshops): Run a workshop on one shared mind map: everyone adds ideas at once, you score the options together, and the session ends with tasks, owners and dates.
- [Retros](https://www.shiko.app/use-cases/retros): A sprint retrospective template on a live mind map, with a 45-minute agenda, and why retro actions get lost unless they stay on screen for the next retro.
- [Launch planning](https://www.shiko.app/use-cases/launch-planning): Plan a product launch on one live mind map: every workstream, task, owner and date in one place, with a countdown, budget and progress right beside the plan.
- [AI agents](https://www.shiko.app/use-cases/ai-agents): Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code to Shiko over MCP. Your AI app can read and edit your mind maps, and every change can be undone from History.
- [Shiko vs MindMeister](https://www.shiko.app/compare/mindmeister): Compare Shiko and MindMeister: tasks and boards on the map, AI suggestions you approve, MCP for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, plus plans and prices.
- [Shiko vs Miro](https://www.shiko.app/compare/miro): Compare Shiko and Miro for mind mapping: a tool built around the map, tasks and plugins on it, private maps on the free plan, MCP, plans and prices.
- [How agents edit a live map](https://www.shiko.app/articles/how-agents-edit-a-live-map): What happens between an AI app calling a tool and every open canvas updating: a plain-text format, all-or-nothing edits, one transaction and a Yjs room.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.shiko.app/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.shiko.app/terms)
- [Subprocessors](https://www.shiko.app/subprocessors)