New to DocuShark
Start at the very beginning — what DocuShark is, how to install it, and a five-minute tour to your first diagram.
Skip to content
Build docs
DocuShark Help & Guides
Everything you need to draw, write, and think it through.
Step-by-step guides for getting the most out of DocuShark — writing, diagrams, and files together in one document. From your first page to work you build with a whole team, no jargon.
Find your way around
Where would you like to start?
Jump straight to whatever you came here to do.
Draw & diagram
Get hands-on with the canvas — drawing tools, smart connectors, and ready-made shape libraries for any kind of diagram.
Write & collaborate
Mix rich text with your diagrams, invite your team to edit live, and send the finished thing anywhere you need it.
Why people love it
A canvas that bends around how you think
Words and drawings live on one page, and the workspace reshapes itself around whatever you're doing right now.
Docs and diagrams, one page
Write a how-to and sketch its diagram right beside it — your notes and an endless drawing canvas in the same document. No jumping between apps, no screenshots that go stale.
One document, no tool-switchingA workspace that flexes
Four ready-made layouts reshape the screen around the task — a calm, clean page for a quick note, or a full diagramming cockpit when you're mapping out something big.
Four ready-made layoutsBring your own AI
DocuShark exposes a precise, high-performance toolset over the open MCP standard — so whatever agent harness you already use, from Claude.ai to Codex to Cursor, can read and build real documents: prose, diagrams, and references, surgically, right on the live canvas.
Works with any MCP agentIn the box
Everything you'd expect, and the parts no one else ships
Real-time collaboration
Work on the same diagram together, live. See everyone's cursors as they move, and share with a single link.
Offline-first desktop
A desktop app that works with no internet at all — your documents live on your own computer, ready whenever you are. Free, forever.
Files live with your docs
Embed PDFs, spreadsheets, and datasets right next to the canvas, pinned wherever you want them.
Shape libraries
Flowchart, UML, ERD, and cloud shapes out of the box — plus custom libraries you build, share, or import.
Stays fast on huge diagrams
Thousands of shapes stay smooth and responsive. DocuShark keeps up even when your diagram grows enormous.
Collections
Group related documents into named, colour-coded collections — your whole library, organised the way you think about it.
Import & export
Bring diagrams in from Mermaid, draw.io, and Excalidraw. Send them out as PNG, SVG, PDF, or Markdown bundles.
Building on DocuShark?
Set up the repo, get oriented, and create your own shapes, tools, and UI features — or build a client on the public API.