Questions, answered

A free, real-time editor for designing on pages: logos on a square artboard, wireframes framed by their device and photos edited in layers, presented page by page or exported as PDF, PNG or SVG. Every design is a stack of tabs, each holding its pages, and your team can work on any of them with you live.

No. Open the editor and start straight away, with no sign-up. Your work saves in your browser as you go, and pressing Share puts it online for others to join. Signing in (also free, with a liveworkspace account and an emailed code) keeps your designs with you across devices and unlocks teams, API tokens and the AI connection. See guest vs account.

Press Start and choose what you are making: a logo, a wireframe or a photo. Begin from a blank page or one of 15 templates, and a short tour offers to show you round.

It runs in any modern browser, with nothing to install. A laptop, desktop or tablet gives you the full editor. Small phone screens are best for reading, presenting and light edits. See supported devices.

Plenty. Cmd-Z (or Ctrl-Z) undoes and Cmd-Shift-Z redoes, Cmd-K opens search and commands, and single keys pick tools and add elements: V selects, H pans, K is the laser pointer, T adds text. The keyboard essentials guide lists the ones worth learning.

Yes. The canvas is a stop in the Tab order: move through its elements and edit them with the keyboard, and screen readers announce what is selected. See accessibility.

Yes. Choose Light, Dark or System from the Appearance button, and one choice covers the editor and the help centre alike. See dark mode.

Yes. Every feature is free for everyone, with no paid tier, no trial and no plan to introduce one. If we ship it, every user gets it.

Yes. The whole codebase is MIT-licensed and public on GitHub. You can read it, fork it, or contribute.

No. There are no "Pro" features and no billing anywhere in the code. Every feature is free for everyone.

Logos, wordmarks and brand marks, and wireframes for phone, tablet, watch and web apps and websites, each framed by its device, and photos edited in layers. Pages hold shapes, text, pictures, icons, tables and charts, and every page can be presented full screen.

15 starter templates across 3 categories, and twenty-four themes that recolour every page in one click, including dark and multi-colour schemes. On top of the templates, a logo page starts from one of 25 logo layouts. You can also build and save a colour scheme of your own.

Yes. Every page, from any tab, presents full screen in the order you set. Each page can carry presenter notes and a time budget, and a laser pointer and spotlight help you guide the room. Presenting happens on your screen only, so collaborators carry on working. See presenting.

Yes. A logo page is a square artboard with 25 logo layouts, construction guides, mirror drawing and wordmark type, and it exports a logo kit. Any page exports print-ready as PDF, PNG or SVG. See logo pages.

Yes. A wireframe page draws a phone, a tablet, a browser, a laptop or a watch round the screen you are planning, and starts from a ready-made screen. Five templates lay out whole flows, from a mobile app to a web dashboard. See wireframe pages.

Yes. A photo page edits a picture in layers, with masks, blend modes, adjustments, 44 filters and tools to select, paint and retouch. Open a PSD with its layers, and export PNG, JPEG, WebP or a layered PSD. See photo pages.

Yes. A design holds as many tabs as you need, which you can group into folders, and a Contents sidebar lists every page with a picture of it. Your designs live in nested folders in the Explorer, shown as a list, as cards or as a sortable Details table, with favourites and tags to find them again. Drag a design onto a folder to file it.

Yes. Upload an image once and reuse it from your gallery, or search Openverse for an openly licensed photo or illustration without leaving the editor. See images.

Yes. Add a table and paste cells straight in from a spreadsheet, or place a pie, bar or line chart, a progress bar, a rating or a timeline on a page. See data elements.

Yes. Press Cmd-Z (or Ctrl-Z) to step back your recent edits and Cmd-Shift-Z to bring one back; the buttons also sit in the bottom-right corner. Undo is personal, so it rewinds your own changes, not a teammate’s; if you both changed the same element, it puts that element back as you had it.

Deleted designs wait in the Trash for 30 days before they are removed for good, so you can restore them from the Trash in the Explorer or in Settings › Account. Team designs go to their team’s Trash.

Yes, that is the point. Share a link and teammates join the same design in real time, with live cursors, selection rings, presence on each tab, comments and a laser pointer. If you have not signed in, a new design starts in your browser, and the first Share syncs it in one step.

Every change shows up for everyone live. Edits to different elements merge cleanly. If two people change the same element at the same moment, the most recent change is the one that sticks.

Yes. Comment on anything on a page and reply in threads, then resolve them when they are done. You can also attach an action and assign it to a teammate, so the follow-ups stay with the design instead of getting lost.

Yes, once you sign in. Create a team from the Explorer, invite people by email, and everyone gets a shared library of designs. Teams have Admin and Member roles: admins manage membership, everyone else just gets to work.

Yes. Open Collaborators from the avatars on the tab bar and press Follow beside a teammate: your view goes wherever theirs goes, until you move away yourself. See following along.

Yes. Lock it from the tab’s menu and every page on it becomes read-only until someone unlocks it, with a padlock beside its name. You can also lock single elements or whole layers. See locking a tab.

Your Inbox gathers the actions and comment threads waiting on you across every design, and Home shows what other people did while you were away. Once you sign in, emails can tell you too, and you choose which in Settings. See the Inbox.

From a design you own, issue a pass with a role: Editor (designs with you), Participant (adds stickies, text and pictures but cannot reshape the pages) or Viewer (watches only). Anyone with the link can join in that role. Give a pass an expiry of a week, a month or six months so it stops working on its own, or revoke it at any time and it stops working immediately.

Yes. Add a password in the Share dialog and every link to that design asks for it before opening.

Yes. When a design has more than one tab, the Share dialog lets a link open a single tab, in any role, and the rest of the design stays private. See sharing one tab.

Yes. Any share link can be embedded as a live-updating iframe: an Editor pass embeds an editable design, and a Viewer or Participant pass a read-only one. Copy the snippet from the Share dialog and paste it into Notion, Confluence, a wiki or any page that allows iframes; it always shows the current state of the pages.

Yes. A live image is a plain image URL that follows your design, redrawn after each save, so a GitHub README or a doc always shows the current version. See live images.

Yes. livedesign runs an MCP server at mcp.livedesign.app. Connect a compatible AI tool and, after a one-time authorisation, it can find, read, create and edit the designs in your account, including designing logos and wireframing screens. Its changes appear live for anyone on the tab, outlined so you can see them and undo them. Build with AI walks you through connecting Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more.

Yes. Once you sign in, create an API token and call the REST API to read and manage your designs from scripts, CI or anything that can send a header. See the API overview.

Yes. Install it from npm as @livedesign/cli (or run it with npx). It signs in through your browser and can read, edit, create, share and export designs from your terminal, which makes it handy for scripts and coding agents.

Yes. Export pages as PNG, SVG or one print-ready PDF, a logo page as a logo kit, a photo as PNG, JPEG, WebP or a layered PSD, and any tab as a portable JSON file to import back with full fidelity. Hidden layers stay out of image exports unless you switch them on.

Designs saved to your account are stored in our database on Cloudflare, and designs in This Browser stay in your browser. There are no tracking pixels, no advertising and no third-party analytics. We do record anonymous, first-party usage (which features get used, never your content or name) and show it openly on our telemetry page. See the privacy policy for the details.

Yes. Offline Mode saves a design only in your browser, never on our servers. Until you sign in, new designs start that way; after, you can choose it when you create one. Either way you can switch later. See Offline Mode.

A design kept only in your browser goes with it, so share it or sign in first. Share syncs a design online in one step, and after you sign in livedesign offers to move every browser-only design into your account. Designs saved to your account are never touched. See Offline Mode.

Yes. Every change saves on its own, with a status that shows saving, saved or a problem. Close the tab and reload, and your design comes back exactly as you left it.

Delete any design you own at any time, and delete your account and everything in it yourself from your account settings. See deleting your data.

Try reloading first. If it still will not open, the editor offers to repair this browser’s saved state without touching your designs. The troubleshooting guide walks through every step.

The liveworkspace status page checks each of livedesign’s services from your browser while you watch, beside the services every app shares.

It is built in the open by Tom McClean and Webber, with contributions welcome on GitHub.

Use the contact page, or send us a message through the contact form. Bug reports and ideas are welcome on GitHub too.